The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-03-22

Work will be commenced on par
ish house for the Episcopal Church OF
Bratteboro, as soon as weather con
ditions are favorable.
Arthur Chafree, aged 16, has been
taken from Enosburg Falls to the in
dustrial school for opening postoffice
box and rifling the mail.
A flock of more than 20 evening
rrosbcaks on a lawn in North Ben
nington, Thursday, made very pref
tv sight to the eyes of bird lovers.
Ten thousand land-locked salmon
eggs have been received at the Vernon
fish hatchery from the government
hatchery at Grand Lake Stream, Me.
Since the outbreak Of an epidemic Of
spetic sore throat in st. Adams, 295
cases have been reported and it is
known many others were unreported,
Ernest Douglass, who lived with his
aunt, Mrs. Darius Perkins, in Gut
tingsville, and who had been missing
since March 9th, was found dead in
the highway the 18th inst,
While telling tree near his home
in Townshend recently, w. L. Moore
was thrown against barbed wire
fence, seriously tearing the flesh on
his hands and arms.
W. p. Fame, a Newfane grocer, has
been selling potatoes for $3.50 per
bushel all winter, as he said that was
all potatoes ought to be worth and he
would charge no more.
In the vicinity of Middlebury cattle
owners see ono hopeful condition in|
the fact that hay is SIS ton cheaper
now than last year at this time. Then
it was $40 and now it is SID.
Alfred Archer, while cutting wood
on the bank of river in Chester
missed his footing and fell onto the
broken ice Of the river, bruising him
self SO badly that he was confined to
the house for several days.
1t is said that in Middlebury the
STEADY thaw Of last week" took off
a large part of the snow and that al
though some of the roads are still
buried in three or four feet Of snow,
other roads are entirely bare.
The inn at Saxtors River has been
leased for term of years to A. N. W.
Smith of West Brookficld, Mass. Mr..
Smith was at one time manager Of the |
Van Ness House in Burlington and |
went from there to Gardner, Mass,
where for a number of years he was
of the Windsor House
William King, who died recently at
MS home in Berkshire at the age of IS
years, was the father Of 10 children
md is survived by ten, all Of whom
attended the funeral. There are also
10 grand children and 80 great grand
Mr.. and Mrs. King had been
married. rs years the third of lats No
-ember.
The machinery in the bottlirg works
# Frank Dorm in Burlington has been
and it is expected that the
oncern will begin business within a
week or two. The plant viii be one of {
he biggest soft drink concerns in the
ountry and has a refrigerator capac- {
-y of five carloads.
DR.. II. r. Jones Of Benson, recently '
old the timber, mostly pine, on $50
ores, which he bought few years t
90 for $500, for the sum Of $3.50. {
|e holds the land and tops. He sells r
Or nine times or more than he paid
nd retains the land.
H. f. Doyle, well known in hotel >
relies in Vermont, having been pro-
rector of the Lyndon House, and the
venue House in ST. Johnsbury, has I
ken the lease Of the Newport House h
ON Fred II. Sisco and has taken
ossession. This is the third time Mr.. i
oy'e has been in possession Of the
export House, the last time being
bout 10 years ago. The Siscos leave
scause of i'll health and have pur- d
iased house in Orleans. r.