The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1916-03-23

! A contest TO remove Mrs Olga Ho-
gaboom as guardian of Mrs Hannah
rowle, Of Waterbury, aged Sc years,
IN which II witnesses testified boforu
Probate Judge Frank j Martin, end
ed in the court sustaining the guard
ian and dismissing the petition. Many
Of the witnesses were relatives.
Large quantities of hay are now be-
ing drawn daily from the country dis
tricts TO the railroad stations in Rut-
land and other towns in that part Of
the State for shipment 20 the city
markets, Boston, Worcester, and Prov
idenee taking the larger share ut
prices running from SIC to $2l per
ton.
Although W. h. Hutchinson, of
Woodstock, cut of the end Of one
thumb between the nail and the first
joint, physician stitched IL back on
and il now seems likely to adhere. The
acciden. occurred while MIR. Hutchin-
son was splitting hndling wood with
an axe.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. r. Wood of Fair
Haven, celebrated their Golden we'd
ding anniversary March lith. Mr..
Wood was member of the Fourteenth
Vermont Regiment in the Civil War
and is the only soldier who went from
Fair Haven that has lived TO celebrate
his 5Oth wedding anniversary.
Harry Lavalley, Of Rutland. has
brought suit in Rutland county court
against w. j. Swan Of Bridewater,
seeking to recover 81, 200 damages as
a result of an accident last fall when
an automobile containing Mr., Swan
and I. J. Byrne collicded head-on with
a horse driven by Mr. Lavalley,
DR.. John =, Osterhout, of Keene, N.
H., went to Rutland the past week and
has taken over the Office and practice
Of the late DR.. Grain, of that city.
DR.. Os.erhout will retain an office in
keene, returning there two days each
week. He has been "a prominent ply
sician in Cheshire county for II years.
A note from Stowe says that large
of snow buntings and prairie
horned larks are seen in the outside
roads. The larks are to be seen in the
main streets Of .he village. Chicka-
lees, nuthatchcs, and downy wood
Deckers have visited the stores Of food
for them regularly during
.he winter.
The body of Mrs. Laura G. Patter-
ION, of Barre, aged sc years, wife OF
he late John Patterson, was taken
o Craftsbury for burial. Mrs Pat
erson, the last of "A generation OF
,eople who settled in Craftsbury, IL
urvived by two grandchildren, Miss
Iazel Guyer Of Boston, and +. B.
iuyer.
A Central Vermont Railway ticket
hat is 55 years old has been brought
, light by A. T.. Sherman, Of Lud-
w. The ticket was issued at Jones'
lille, March 3, 1861, TO Mr.. Sherman's
ather, Guy Sherman, Of Huntington.
'ho rode to Richmond that day. This
lore than doubles The age on the
cket presented the other day on the
& Well River road, which
as q years old,
Vital statistics as registered at this
flee Of the Burlington city clerks
lice show that during the month OF
ebruary the deaths in Burlington ex-
,eded the births by one. The deaths
umbered 48, there being 20 females
nd Is males. OF the births there
ere q females and 2o males. The
des. person 10 die was woman S6
ears old One mother, who had her
5th child, was only 20 years old.
What can be accomplished by
nall but enthusiastic body Of work
's is well demonstrated by the La
es' Aid Society Of ST. Paul's Univer-
list Church at Rutland. This or
consisting of abou. 60
omen, pledges each year for the
pport Of the church, S400. Last year
c group had in some way fallen be-
nd about 500 and the members not
d ,, ,,,;J uH tha Jobt but rnigpd their