The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 4, 1889 Ascutneyville 1/4/1889 Charles UPHAM returned from Keene, one day last week. He has given up cutting shoes, for the present, on account of his arm. On the 26th of December frogs were heard to peep in a pond not far from here. At our spelling match, last Friday, Mrs. James ELLIS (nee Nellie BOYNTON) was the victor. After exhausting all there was in the spelling-book, it was necessary to open Webster's dictionary to produce the desired effect. Our sick-list is as follows: L. H. BAILEY on the gain; Miss Clara THRASHER about the same; John FARWELL on the decline. Mrs. L. H. BAILEY is in Boston visiting friends. D.W. C. THRASHER has sold his dry wood to C. M. BROWN of Claremont, and Mr. B. has commenced to draw the same. Miss L. E. NEWHALL, after spending her vacation at home, returned to her school at Rockville, Conn., Tuesday. E. F. BRISTOL discovered, Monday morning, on going to the mill to work, that some one had made several holes in his pen-stock. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT