The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-01-18
MANCHESTER

The Monday Club VIII meet or @"n
Pad. AZ ESQ p. IA. with Mira Wyman.
q. s. Bennett; WIS 8, hiss homc over
Sunday. returning 70 Rupert On Mon
day morning
There Is quite good deal Of sick
ness in town. caused no doubt by TIC
varying weather.
The village was IN darkness last
Thursday night until the moon came
% to tighten things II was then
light enough.
Mr.. and Mrs. George orvis were up
from New York for q couple OF days
,hc first Of the week, returning on the
fIer Tuesday afternoon.
Carl Wiley Of South Londonderry.
was in Manchester Tuesday and We'd
nesday looking after the moving OF
his brothers family and effects.
Jos. ARGUS has commenced making
extensive improvements 10 his motion
pEctrre arcade, raising the roof, etc
Contractor II. NJ. Swift has the job.
A special village meeting has been
called for the 22nd inst. to elect a
president 10 take the place made va
cant by the resignation Of George
Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard l.. Maxim are
in Nassau. b. w. ]. for the balance OF
the winter. They will be able to keep
down their coal bill at any rate. we
wish them pleasant winter OF IT.
Reports from New York City are 10
the effect that Principal James Brooks
ia making a good recovery from his
recent operation and at present IS IN a
sanatarium resting and recuperatlng'
r. w. Beers of Landgrove, repre-
sentative to the General Assembly
from that town, was in town on busi-
ness with the Probate Court, stopping
on his way to his home from Mont
pclicr. r.,
= n Hemenway left Tuesday Tor
81 Adams to attend the annual exhlpl'
Of the Vermont State Poultry Assocl-
alton. He has SO entries in the exhl-
bition consisting of Black and Bun
Orpingtons and Anconas.
The Equinox Company have flnished
filling their large ice houses and I'll
dred has his filed also. 1t has been
great weather for getting in ice as the
weather has held cold enough so that
there has been fine sleighing all the
time. which is rather unusual.
The school trustees have recently
purchased new wagon to be used Tor
the conveyance Of the school children
on one of the routes. They arc very
neat locking wagons and are lettered
on the side Of the wagon, which has
good cover to it so that the little ones
may be protected from the inclemen'
weather
f. C. Williams, who has been II
Rutland for three days during the
foropart Of the week, has returned
home. He reports Chas, Campbell Is
getting along in good shape ard that
Leon Wiley, whom he visited a couple
of times at the hospital, is locking
very well, considering what he had
been through.
Miss Sarah N. Clcghorn's novel
"Tho spinater,' recently received adj
ded recognition ais to It's intrinsic
merits when II. w. Roynton, who was
recently asked BY The Bookman 70
select the ten novels Of the year just
closed which had left the strongest
impression upon his mind, named her
novel as one Of the ten.
The Seminary student body paper,
The Burtonian, has just been issued
and is a very commendable sheet OF ~
napcs and cover. The editor-in-chef
Is Hubbcl Lathrop, while Miss VIM
fred Manley is the managing editor
The business manager is Andrew VIII
cox. while there is a large corps OF
associate editors.
Charles Campbell, who was injured
from being hooked with pair OF ice
tonrs on ono day last week, was taken
suddenly i'll with an acute attack OF
apncndicitis last Saturday night and
was taken to the Rutland Hospital on
the sleeper Sunday night and oper-
ated on by DR.. Stickney at about .
a. m. He is doing nicely at the pres
cnt time. It is an old saying that
misfortunes never come singly. They
were doubled up this time certainly.
Manchester and vicinity has been
treated to a pretty swell variety OF
weather since the last issue Of the
Journal. 1t turned very cold last
Wednesday afternoon followed by
colder weather, IS degrees below on
Thursday and then to II and 20 belo"
on Friday. Then it commenced 70
case of and on Saturday it had mod
Grated 10 quite an extent and we had
a heavy snow on that night followed
by hard rain and wind Sunday morn
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