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The Landmark from White River Junction, Vermont • 7

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The Landmarki
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White River Junction, Vermont
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LOCAL NEWS. mm EiEADQElAQTEdtG 18 AND A Happy YesiQ9 To all our Customers, together with our Hearty Thanks for their liberal patronage given us this Norwich. The annual meeting of the Norwich Canning will be held in Union hall, Monday evening, January 2nd, at seven o'clock, for the election of officers and to do any other business proper to be done when met also payment will be made to patrons for their corn. Stockholders and all persons interested are requested to be present. John Brewster, a resident of some sixty years ago, now of Rutland, Is a guest of R.

S. Loyeland. Dr. S. H.

Currier, who has been quite sick the past week, is on the gain. Justin Pennock has moved from the village onto the Goodrich farm. Miss Lottie Converse is as usual spending the winter in an art studio in Boston. Miss Annie. Brigham, who has been for a few days under the paternal roof, has returned to Manchester, N.

where she has a position as teacher in a training school. Del Sproat, who Is learning the druggists business in Pittsfleld, is spending the holidays with his wife at this point. B. Frank Messenger died recently at his home in Upper Alton, 111., cause, heart disease, aged 50 years. He was born and brought up in this town as well as his wife, Helen Boardman.

They moved to Illinois some 25 or 28 years MSB! BHH' HLoliLcLeiv" When anything in Watches, Clocks, Jewely or Silverware is wanted, you will find us DOIN and ready to make you happy AT LOW j3 I BUSINESS Gates' Brick Block, White River Junction Vermont. beat mm lira iftdito it trmv th to .0 6.00 TO $3.00 8.00 TO 4,00 10.00 TO 5.00 Men's $12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Overcoats Ml for 10.00 ODD SUTS at just Half Price Yours respectfully, FOR Brags! lip! We also carry a nice line of STATIONERY! Cigars Tobaccos. Tenney Candies always in stock. A large stock of Lung Protectors At Wholesale Prices. fflitcoi Dp, GATES BLOCK, White River Junction, Vermont.

mm So we are ready to sell GO of all Pipr At prices that will be sure to close it all out. Will sell everything else in the PAPER LINE At correspondingly low prices so as to be out of the smash when the government goes to pieces. II ite River Paper Company White River Junction, Vt. LEVELAND lected AND- O.G. SAWYER will sell you Defiance Flour for $4.50 per barrel, Meal for $1.15 per hundred, and Granulated Sugar 5 1-2 cts.

per pound. CHRISTMAS GOODS in an endless variety of prices. O. C. SAWYER, SHARON, VERMONT.

We Have a Better Line Celluloid Novelties than i shown by any other Store in this section. Look at them. STOBRS ft HAPPY Mil Oil Hi: fa I. Clearing: Up Sale We have some Christmas and Staple Goods which we do not wish to cany over, and are offering at and below cost. Special Bargains in Albums, Toilet and Manicure CASES.

WILSOfJ PRO'S I The Best Barsai i YOU EVER SAW. Sites Bog -loin, jll. Sleighs and Bells, Black and Grey Jap Robes, Horse Blankets, Harness of all kinds. First come first served. i 0 0 HARTFORD W.

R. JUNCTION. mi HO STAIRS TO CLIMB NOV IF YOU WANT TO SEE US We have just fitted up a neat little sales room in French's Block which we have stocked with new fall patterns of airpet In Tapestries, Ingrains and Linoleuns, also Oil Cloths. Mattings, Bugs, Portiers, Lace Curtains, Window Shades, Fixtures, I the largest stock ot all kinds ol CASKETS, ROBES, And General Undertaking Goods. Having bad several years experience in Embalming, I feel competent to answer any call made upon me, day or eight, lor the purpose of embalming or laying out, which will be done in a satisfactory manner.

To any person from BJ unction, West ban on, Olcott, Norwich, or from any reasonable distance, who will purchase of me $10 worth ot any kind of goods 1 carry in stock, I will pay their car fare or team hire to and from my store. I Sell As Low as the Lowest! E. J. JOHrJSOTJ, HARTFORD, VT. Residence for Sale at Hanover, N.

For $2000 Less Than Cost, Has been built but a few years. Also a house and lot at Hartford, that rents for 12 per cent, of the required purchase monery. Two desirable farms well located, will be sold on favorable terms. Always a house to sell at W. R.

June, and other real estate in this yicinity. Would build a house to suit a purchaser. B. HAZEN, Real Estate Office with J. G.

Harvey, Gates Block, White River Junction, Tt. GO 070 Hartford. Vt. FOR YOUR Furniture, Carpets, Shades and Hammocks, Mattresses, Springs and a fall Line of First Class Furniture. All New, and Prices the Lowest in this Village.

We are Headquarters FOR Robes, and all Undertaking Goods. Embalming done by Best Methods, at prices to suit the times. GR ERIES We have a full Groceries, snd Salt, etc. vinced. Call Main Street.

and complete line of we are selling: Flour, To see is to be con at Our Old Stand on No stairs to climb to see us. MEW 892 93 Fkta hk I Bay GASKETS. West Lebanon. N. II.

Postmaster C. L. Itlx will receive subscriptions and renewals to the Landmark. There Is to be an adjourned school meeting at the school building next Monday evening at 7.30, to see If the district will make a contract with the Odd Fellows, who propose to furnish money to finish the hall and take their pay in rent. It would seem that a lull attendance of voters is desirable, as the enterprise is worthy of careful consideration.

Public schools closed Friday until after the holidays. William Turner 13 in Boston for a few weeks. Frank Nute and wife of Franklin are the Nutes. Whltcomb Church has recently been added to the list of sick. The body of Maud Eva, aged' 5 years 7 months, twin daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. E. N. Dutton of Northampton, was brought to town for burial last Friday. Engineer Hall of Lyndonville, has moved into one of O.

B. Pierce's tenements. Mrs Sarah Richardson and- brother started Saturday for her home In Indianapolis, Ind. J. Burbank spent Sunday at his former home In Claremont.

A Mr. Whltcomb of Felchyille, is the new clerk at the post office. II. B. Kimball and daughters went Friday to their city home in New York.

The B. M. R. R. spring of water fails to yield the expected supply thereby subjecting them to serious inconveniences.

II. Nute is Improving slowly from his serious railroad accident of three months ago, and David Tenney shows decided improvement from his illness. Plainfleld, N. H. Mrs.

F. Taylor was called, to Northampton, last week by the illness and death of her niece, Miss Maud E. Dutton. Mrs. Martha Holt Is visiting friends in Lyme.

Mattle Westgate and Elvvin Qulmby were married Dec. 14. Josiah Davis is teaching a singing school at the Plain. Mrs. F.

Jordan has been in Claremont for a little time. K. U. A. is having a short vacation.

G. A. Cole is sojourning at T. Avery's. Miss Newcomb from Norwich is teaching in district No.

and boarding at H. D. PI turner's. Vinnie Davis recentlv visited at C. D.

Colby's. Luther Woodard was bitten in the face by a horse recently. Ida Williams is quite sick with pneumonia. Morris and Sarah Colby came home from New London last Wednesday for a two weeks' vacation. Ed.

Milburii has moved to HUlsboro Bridge. i Mrs. Robert Chadbourne has been spending a little time at home. Leonard Hadley died of pneumonia Dec. 5, aged 69 years.

He was a soldier of the late rebellion. Laura Lewin, daughter of Erastus Lewin, died Dec. 19 ot pneumonia, aged 49 years. Charles Martin has received a pension of $1G0 and $12 a month under the new law. Ray Westgate has been very sick with crour but is better now.

May Hanchett spent Christmas at home returning to school Monday of thi3 week. There was a very pleasant gathering at the home of Dea. Earl Westgate, Dec. 17, when all of his children and grand children with Jhe exception of Sarah and Morris Colby, were present to celebrate his 84th birthday. Rey.

and Mrs. Trow were also there making 22 that enjoyed the occasion. We trust that many more years may be added to his long life of usefulness, so fraught with love and kindness to his family, church and neighbors. Union Village. The postmaster question is still unsettled and who is to be the lucky candidate is unknown.

Many think Mrs. Carpenter has the lead. The Sunday school was re-organized on Sunday with the following officers Superintendant, W. 11. Clogston; Assistant Superintendant, J.

II. Cloud; Secretary and Treasurer, A. V. Turner; Librarian, Luther Roberts. The Christmas concert Sunday evening was very good, but was a poor apology lor a Christmas.

The Susan Clough real estate is to be sold Saturday, by A. V. Turner, the administrator. The pew owners of the M. E.

Church will do well to remember that tte annual meeting comes Monday afternoon. Some important business is to come up and all should come out. Several pew taxes are still in the delinquent class. Fairlee. Col.

W. H. Gilmore's house caught lire on Saturday about 6 o'clock p. m. and the telephone brought the people from the village so quickly that the fire was extinguished before much damage was done.

Nat Rogers will commence cutting ice next Monday. Miss Minnie Closson ot Lebanon, Maine is keeping house for H. L. Rice this winter. W.

E. Gllson has moved in with Burt Davis and P. E. Emery has moved into the Nichols house. John Bearaan has 400 cords of wood cut ready to haul to the kiln.

Erving Smith and D. Moore are at Chelsea on jury this term. There is to be a singing school this winter commencing this week Thursday, taught by Geo. Worcester ofThetford Hill. An Invaluable Remedy for Colds.

SheriS Hardman of Tyler W. was almost prostrated with a cold when he began using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. In speaking of it he says: "It gave me almost Instant relief. I find it to be an Invaluable remedy for colds." For tale by Wilson Druggists. usual.

with nice, beautiful goods, PRICES. WESTON, with this crowd, for they are going CLOTHING STORE, where they First-Class Groceries as usual. WSBTHEM ago. Clen Slack from Rutland or vicinity spent Christmas with his best girl here. Mrs.

C. W. Brown, who has tuber-colis, is, we all regret to learn, failing. J. P.

Hutchinson went Wednesday to "Durham-by-the-sea. Seymour Knight, who travels for Swift, the beef and pork packers, Chicago, is at his old home for a few days. Mrs. Merrill is entertaining her daughter from California. Miss Nellie Partridge is with Manchester, N.

brothers. J. H. Wood spent Christmas with his sister in West Lebanon. Mrs.

M. A. Hazen has gone to her daughter's in South Royalton. John Chandler, who has been spending several months with his mother in Connecticut, has returned and is attending school at Norwich academy. Eben Sargent has just finished the job of hauling 380,000 feet of logs out of the river to be sawed at the steam mill.

It has been a cold job. The Christmas tree in the church Monday evening bore some choice fruit, which made many glad. Much credit is due the committee who well as those who took part in the literary exercises. The house was well filled Mrs. Thomas Crosby of Hanoyer eat Christmas turkey with her sister, Mrs.

M. L. Wood, also Mrs. Ellen Clark. Hartland.

Persons desiring to subscribe for the Landmark, or renew for '93, can hand their money to V. R. Sturtevant at the Post Office. The dancing school at H. P.

McClary's hall, Windsor, taught by L. A. Shedd, closed Saturday evening the 17th, inst. The class numbered about twenty beginners who made splendid progress during the term of 12 lessons. We learn that A.

E. Gilson, who lives near the "falls," is dealing extensively in furs and pelts of such animals as are caught in this section he is a good man to deal with, and we would advise all who have furs in the raw state to sell to see him before dealing with anyone else. We hear that there Is talk of repeating the dramatic entertainment which was given here recently mostly under the management of D. M. Barber and Mrs.

Nell Dickinson Merritt, at North Hart-land; probably not until good sleighing comes. A grand Christmas entertainment was held at Pavilion hall Friday evening of last week, consisting of singing Christmas music bv a seleet choir. rpp.itaHons and a virgin scene or march by five wise! ana nve roonsn virgins carrying lamps. The whole entertainment was a success. Mrs.

Harding and daughter Helen went to New Jersey last week to visit relatives and remain part of the winter. Several persons were baptized at the Methodist church last Sunday prior to being accepted as members of the church3. A splendid Christmas entertainment was held at the hall in North Hartland on Friday evening with recitations and singing and a large Christmas tree covered with a variety of beautiful presents. A dance followed which was well pat ronized. Another dramatic entertainment to be followed by a dance will be given at Pa vilion hall on Frulay evening of this week, mostly under the management of D.

Mi Barber, which is an assurance of success. Proceeds for the benefit of Mr. J. M. Short, an old worthy gentle man who is quite ill; let therebe a arood house.

A novel feature of the entertainment at Hartland on Christmas eve was an old fashioned fire-place, at the back side of tne piatiorm made ot red paste board boxes the size of bricks, each box containing presents of candy and other things; the boxes numbered nearly 100, ana were given to the children as they marcned around the hall, and were sent to children who were not nresent. This took the place of the Christmas tree. Mr. A. B.

Burk. who is nearlv 85 vears old, has been sick for a period of several weeks and seems to be srraduallv running down. Miss Martha Gardner is helninff- care for him. West Norwich. Mrs.

Abbie Lana: is visitlnsr at J. TG. Aldrich's. The Christmas entertainment was success in everv particular a arood time and lots of presents, and a good time generally. Miss M.

L. Slmonds spent Christmas witn ner cousin, Mrs. vv. Keynolds. Mrs.

Parrott has finished work at Wsr Hartford, and returned home. Mrs. Willey is careing for Mrs. L. Walbridge.

A Million Friends. A friend in need is a friend indeed, and not less than one million people have found just such a friend in Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. Cousrha and Colds. you have never used this Great Medicine, onetrial will nn- vince you that it has wonderful curative powers in all diseases of Throat, Chest and Lunars.

Each bottle is smTa.nt&f.rt to do all that is claimed or money will be refunded. Trial bottles free at Wilson Brothers' drug store. Large bottles 60c. and $1.00. CO WITH THE CROWD You will make no mistake if you keep to WHEELER GILBERT'S are offering Special Bargains in Overcoats, Single Pants, Boys' Suits; Also in Lamps, Crockery and Glassware, for the Holiday Trade.

Their "Triumph Brand" Old Government Java Coffee, HIGHEST OA.IDB -Send for trial lot. Full Line of Yours Respectfully, WHEELER GILBERT, White River Junction, Vt. Bargains Tor Cfinstmas and New Years UP ONE FLIGHT IN 3r. Woitlien's Blocfe 1000 short pieces Lowell extra super all, wool Carpeting, 40c per yd. Cotton and wool carpeting from 25c to 40c.

Oil clotb carpeting from 25 to 35c per yard. Roxfcury Tapestry 70c per yd. Smyrna Rugs $4 eaeb. Straw Matting I2c to 30c per yd. Thirty Ladies Cloaks from 1.00 to $3.00.

IFTXIR, COATS, KOBESr blajstkbts, Hats, Caps, Furs, Plated Ware, Clocks, Watches, Rifles, Revolvers, Single and Double Barrel Guns, at Manufacturers Pricesi MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 300 Ancient Italian Violins $10 to $100 each, It is a fact that Violins that were manufactured from 100 to 150 years since, have improved more by age than all the improvements made by manufacturers since, and it is the general opinion given by the best judges in the musical world, that age alone can impart that peculiar excellence of tone which the bid instruments only posess. Violins of modern manufacture, from $1 to $10 each. A good made Violin, good box, bow and Ideal Book, warranted to give satisfaction or money refunded in one year, for $5. A good Violin and box for $3.

German Arid French Accordeons For one half the price they can be bought for elsewhere in the state. Blow Accordeons from 25c to $1. Good Banjos or Guitars, from $3 up. Pianos and Organs at manufacturers prices. Good Uncolored Jap or Fomosa Tea, 40c per or 3 pounds for a $1.

Best Jap or Fomosa Tea, 45c a lb. Old Hyson Tea, 30c a pound. Lorillard Tobacco, chewing or! smoking, 40c a or 3 lbs. for $1. CASH PAID FOR FURS.

F. A. DEST LEBIjSo, N.I U. Lebanon, IT. Nov.

30, 1892. I BRALEY DAY,.

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