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VOLUME XII. NO. 46. SFRmGFIELD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1889. Charlestown, S.

fl. STANDARD DIARIES FOR 1890 The Reporter. SPRINGFIELD. VT. In Sunny Climes.

A Visit to Birmingham, the Iron Center of the South. Geo. Olcott is absent for a few davs in Concord. We left the reader at Fort Payne Look at the beautiful hand crochet ESTABLISHED 1878 BY FRANK W. STILES.

PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. NOW ON SALE AT trimmings at Corbin's. Dr. Parker has returned and the First Clots Matter, entered at the Springfield PosUoffice for transmission for Second Class rates. dental office is open as usual.

M. D. FISHER GO'S. FRANK W. STILES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Parties from New York are tiling the chancel floor in St. Luke's church. James Finnigan is home from Mas last week. The excursionists remained there until Thursday, October 17, the guests of the Fort Payne Coal and Iron at the "De Kalb" and "Manitou" hotels. During their stay side excursions were made to the coal mines, iron mines, and Manitou cave which extends under Lookout Mountain over a mile.

On Thursday evening at seven o'clock the tourists said good-by to their Fort Payne friends, and started for Denison, Texas, a sachusetts and registered on the sick list. Mrs. Frank Snow has been called The anarchist memorial celebration at Chicago was very tame. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, in defiance of the police prohibition of red flags, hung one from the window of her residence on Milwaukee avenue early in the day, but a policeman pulled it down.

The day was dreary and cold and lack of enthusiasm was the most notable feature of the celebration at Waldheim cemetery. Lawrence F. Maguire, 19, a clerk in the station A branch of the Boston postoffice was arrested Friday for stealing letters from the mails. Maguire, who is a resident in East Boston, has been under suspicion for some time and the extent of his stealings is said to be very considerable. He was taken before Commissioner HaUett and was held in $2000.

The greater part of the letters were addressed to L. F. Crosby, agent for the Louisiana lottery, 265 Washington street, Boston. H. Remsen Whitehouse, United States charge d'affaires, returned to the city of Mexico Sunday, after haying climbed the extinct vclcano of Iztaccihuatl, 18,600 feet high.

The Terms. One Year, 1.50 Six Monti, .75 Three Months, 40 49-Fapers sent out of the State In single wrappers, $1.63 a year, in advance, and discontinued at the expiration of time paid for, unless special arrangement is made to the contrary. to Chelmsford, by the death of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, a sister. journey of about a thousand miles. The public telephone has been removed from the post office to the The Editorial Three.

Repaired in a workmanlike manner and warranted at PENCIL: Eagel Hotel. Geo. Call, employed at the Atwood I'm the stub of a Faber chair factory, had a finger crushed off well worn with labor That lasts from sun to sun. I toil with creation With ne'er a vacation; I'm the all important one. M.

D. FISHER CO'S. A party of eight, however, were desirous of visiting Birmingham, which was on the route to Denison, and so left Fort Payne seven hours ahead of the regular party. It was the writer's good fortune to be one of the eight. Leaving Fort Payno at about noon, we arrived in Birmingham before four o'clock.

We were met at the depot by A. R. Bowdon, general passenger agent of the K. C. while at work on Monday.

Miss E. L. Fletcher is just home PASTE: from market and her windows are gay with Christmas novelties. I'm made of flour And used every hour. I'm so very important you see, That no editor's table Has ever been able To prosper at all without me.

Perfection meat cutter at Corbin's feat has only once before been accomplished. Mr. Whitehouse was obliged SHEARS cuts your sausages, mince meat, and hash while you wait. See it. With a familiar clatter M.

B. R. J. D. Chichester and to cut over zOOO steps in solid ice in I've clipped the best matter That's come to this office for years, So when you have read it Please give me the credit; I'm the editorial shears.

Miss L. B. Harriss will make her order to ascend, and one night he camped in a cave at a height of feet. With the party was the German minister, Baron von Zedtwitz. J.

R. Bryan, prominent real estate men of the city, and under their escort were shown the points that could be covered during our stay, which, of next date at Corbin's store with mil If You Want a Good Cent Cigar GO TO M. D. FISHER CO'S. ALL: linery goods on Tuesday, Nov.

26. The expedition was undertaken at the request of the Alpine club. Thejuryinthe town vs. Belknap course, was brief as our special train we are three powers So important all hours We're the editorial three. No one is inferior But all are superior To the editorial "we." Al M.

Sendee. was due at Birmingham at 10 p. m. case viewed the scene of the accident at North Charlestown on Tuesday. Andover.

The venerable Charles Willard is The rolling mills, where the steel rails spin out like fiery serpents, were a wonderful sight. Hundreds of coke ovens filled the air with their sul Miss Lila Kneeland is teaching in YARIOUvS EDITORIAL NOTES. the Puffer district. suffering from an attack of pneumonia but with prospects of recovery, at this Mr. and Mrs.

Abner Feltt attended new ballot law is a great phurous smoke. Dozens of furnaces writing. success in Massachusetts. the golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.

B. Puffer of Putney the first of the belched forth their fiery products. Mrs. M. Franklin has a well pre Each furnace had its own locomotive served copy of the Massachusetts Morrill has arrived in For BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY magazine and Monthly Museum published in Boston in 1789.

Washington and ia in good health. Dandelion blossoms and green to haul in cars of ore and return the manufactured products for shipment. We were treated to a ride around the city on the steam motor lines and visited the suburban parks, East Lake and Lakeside, where the people go for pleasure in the evenings. Bir snakes were picked here Noy. 8th, the first by Hiram Ellinwood and the BOwing to the late election in several states, the Republicans are in the "consommy." JUaT'A law has gone into effect in week.

Miss Carrie M. Feltt closed her school in Peaseville last Saturday by inviting her young friends to spend the evening at her home. Games, music and refreshments served to pass the time pleasantly and swiftly. At a late hour the party separated hoping for many such gatherings. The old John Adams homestead was burned about seven o'clock, October 27th.

The fire was first seen in the attic and soon the upper part of the house was in flames. Most of the goods were saved and the wind being in the southeast and a rainy morning, In fact everything kept in a first class store go to snake by Geo. L. Bond. The colored Kemp family -from mingham ten or twelve years ago was the sunny south" are billed to give an St.

Louis prohibiting dice, card M. D. FISHER CO'S, almost a wilderness. To-day it has forty or fifty thousand people, and we entertainment here on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 20th.

playing, chairs and tables in saloons. This kills St. Louis as a site for the World's Fair. were told that the daily profits of the The Briggs factory is shut down industries of the place were three SPRINGFIELD, VT. WOOLSON'S BLOCK, for a week to admit of placing a new hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

saved the large barns of hay. The 8Gen. Raum, the new Commis Over three million dollars was ex house was occupied and owned by granite foundation under the engine. Luthur Sanderson of Cornish has charge of the stone work. Samuel Farrar.

Insured for $650. pended the first eight months of the present year in improvements, such sioner of Pensions, although wounded in the war, has never applied for a pension. He ought to get one now R. Robertson, vice president Could Not Speak Aloud. Capt.

George Martin of Gloucester as buildings, public and private, manufacturing plants, etc. The without much difficulty. of the Connecticut R. R. national BgpThe Barre Enterprise, under says I had such a bad cold that I could not speak aloud for three days.

One-half a bottle of Barker's Young Cherry Balsam made a complete cure. bank, accompanied by Mrs. Louise M. Robertson, left here on Tuesday for a few weeks absence in Kansas City and Atlantic, Iowa. the management of L.

P. Thayer, has writer conversed with one man who went there six years ago, having borrowed money to pay his fare. To-day he is a millionaire. One piece of property on Main street pays him a become a semi-weekly and promises, Horace French, the genial whole BORN. if supported, to issue an evening daily within a year.

It is a handsome ground rent of $7,200 a year. This sale merchant, of White River Junc In Springfield, Oct. 26. a daughter to Mr. sheet.

and Mrs. Harry Roby. tion, who makes an occasional trip gentleman says that Fort Payne is "all right" and has as good advanta MARRIED. name of Hon. Fred G.

through this section has a most interesting war record. He was an aid on ges as Birmingham when they are developed. the staff of Gen. L. A.

Grant, was In South Reading, Nov. 11, at the residence of the bride's parents, by Rev. Royal Valle, Arthur Allen and Edna Round, both of Heading. But here is our "special" just puff Field of North Springfield has been mentioned as a possible candidate for Mr. Field has had a wide range of experience in the lower departments of the state, and ing into Birmingham station, and DIED.

with adieus to our Birmingham SLIPPERS. MEN'S SLIPPERS, BOY'S SLIPPERS, YOUTH'S SLIPPERS, Be sure and call in and see this line of Slippers before purchasing. It will pay you. LADIES' BEAVER SHOES In Button, Lace and Congress. These are shoes to keep the feet warm.

NEW LINE OF BOY'S SHOES. NEW LOT MEN'S LEATHER BOOTS warranted not to soak water. Remember we keep the best line of RUBBER BOOTS to be found, and prices always as low as the lowest. C. H.

PARKER, Brown's Block, Springfield, Vt. In Springfield, Oct. 1st, Fred A. Cutler, aired friends who urge us to "come again 32 years, 9 months, 16 days. would unquestionably be the right man in the right place.

and stay longer" we are soon en route to Denison, which will be treated of next week. Frank W. Stiles. Pacific Ocean contains 80,000,000 square miles. Atlantic Ocean con affl-Mr.

Thos. G. Shearman states tains 40,000,000 square miles. that "one-half of the wealth of this country is in the hands of 25,000 per North Springfield. Miss Ella Lord of Shewsbury is visiting here.

Schools closed on Friday last after sons, and the whole is practically wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of the Wilderness and in the ensuing year was confined in fifteen different prison pens including And-ersbnville. Notwithstanding the high order of the entertainment given by the Swedish Quartet and Miss Gleason here last week, the expenditures were in excess of the receipts. As the fate of a limited lecture course for the winter was involved in its pecuniary success, it is to be. deeply regretted, as in all probability we are now doomed to a long, dreary winter without literary entertainment other than afforded by the newspapers and the questionable mis-information afforded by tho orators of the herring box and cracker barrel rostrum in the village trade emporiums. We are indebted to Miss Jane owned by 250,000 persons, and yet a successful term of ten weeks.

the remaining 64,983,231 of our population manago to subsist, and many of them have a few cents laid by for a Union prayer meetings are being held nightly at the Advent church. Several of our citizens are improv raiDy day. ing the looks of their houses by a coat Georce W. Anderson, 10, of Brook lyn, attempted to dig oil the "plug" of paint. Wra.

D. Chandler butchered a seven months old pig that tipped the scales at 375 pounds. School in District No. 12 closed of what be supposed to be an empty shell Saturday evening. The shell, hi Mi war about five inches in diame ONE REASON and a great one, why Lumbermen's Boots do not give better satisfaction, they do not fit properly the wool boot or sock over which they are worn, then Isn't it Worth Something to have a perfect fitting pair? When you buy this fall just ask your dealer to let you try on a pair of the Wales then you can see how they feel on the foot and fit around the ankle.

Remember to ask for the Wales Goodyear, not Goodyear, when doing this. Look at this space next week. Darrah for a copy of the "Sullivan Mercury" published iu this town on Friday, January 22nd, 1830 by ter, exploded, badly lacerating the bov'a left hand. In a fence' in the THE EEP0ET1E Webber Bowman its motto "1 he honest freedom of the press is the rear of the yard where the explosion safety of the Commonwealth." The advertising matter is unique and contains in its business columns many occurred 17 leaden bullets wore lodged; The boy's escape from death October 25, after terra of eight weoks. Those having no marks during the term were Mollis Wright, Jesse Wright, Aida Paine, Edna Gould, Ida Gould.

Number of scholars 8. Average attendance 7.6. Abbie A. Fairbanks, teacher. A Sensible Man would use Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs.

It Is curing more oases of Coughs, Conk, Asthma, Bronchitis, Croup, and all throat and lung troubles than any other modi olno. The proprietor has authorised any drnimlKt to give you a sample bottle ret to convince you of the merit of this grout remedy. Large bottles Mo. and 1. UNTIL JANUARY 1891, was miraculous.

A Great Surprise names familiar to the present generation. The Boston Keene telegraph and despatch line announce to take passengers (eight only) through in twelve hours fare four dollars, no extra baggage taken on any consider-tion. See the paper at Corbin's. Is in store for all who use Kemp's Balsam for the Throat ami lone, the irreat jjuamntood remedy; Would you bolleve Unit ft Is soWl on Us merit and that any drumrlst nutlarttl by the proprietor of (his wojwtorftd In ICIVO you It uiiw iiiiwDiisvi fulls to olire acute or chronic oonghs. Lurtfo For Only $1.50 POIUMOVO.

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