Related West Rutland Varieties September 05, 1894 Argus and Patriot Work on the sidewalks is to be resumed. The People's bargain store has been closed. James Kennedy and family, of Boston, are in town. The schools opened for the fall term last Monday. The season at Clarendon Springs has been a light one. Mrs. Thomas Cooney died suddenly last Thursday night. Rev. C. O'Reilly visited New York and Saratoga last week. John O'Rourke had two horses die of spinal disease last week. George Brine has the contract for building the new sidewalk. The Methodist Sunday school went to the lake last Wednesday. The "hotel" has been reopened by J.P. Battles, its new owner. Policeman, W.B. Burke, of New York, visited his parents last week. Thomas Rice, conductor on the New York Central railroad, is in town. Thomas A. Devine has closed his engagement with P. O'Neill, druggist. Edward Lidden, who died in Castleton last week, kept a drug store in town for some time. Extensive repairs on the graded school building, district No. 7, were completed last week. The new electric railroad between the village and Rutland will be in working order by October 1. Mrs. E.D. Reardon, of Anderson, Ind., is visiting Mrs. J.E. Leonard, her sister, on Clarendon Ave. P.F. Borke has returned from New York.  He will enter a law office in Rutland for the study of that profession. Mrs. Reed and son, of Washington, D.C., family of Commander Reed, of the U.S. navy, spent the summer in town. A huge scale overhanging the covered quarry is giving much anxiety to the workmen there.  It is the same piece that thousands of tons fell two years ago, burying five men.  Everything is being done to dislodge the rock. A Republican club has been formed in town and a caucus for the nomination of representative and justices will be held Friday evening.  The Democratic town committee is moving very slowly, considering that West Rutland has been, so far, a Democratic strong-hold. Prospects are not bright for fall and winter trade in the marble business.  The Albertson Marble Company's employees work five days a week, and frequent discharges of men by two other companies indicate slack business.  Very fine marble is being quarried in the Clarendon deposit, owned by the Vermont Marble Company.  H.A. Smith, formerly with Sheldon & Sons, has opened a new quarry in Brandon, which is said to premise good results. A weary pedestrian from Tinmouth or thereabouts went to the circus in Rutland early in the month and remaining to see the last elephant shipped, turned his weary footsteps home 12 or 15 miles away.  This was at 3 O'clock A.M.  Spying a horse hitched to a post, near the store of E.D. Keyes, he quickly appropriated it, and did the distance in an easy leisurely manner. Two young men from the place, owners of the horse, also took in the circus, but remained too long away from their property.  On discovering their loss the whole sheriff force was advised and spent two whole days in discovering the "stolen" property, but the "weary pedestrian" has not been discovered and probably never will be, while another unfathomed mystery remains to be solved. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peek at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather