The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 29, 1886 Weston 1/29/1886 J. E. WINSHIP moves his hotel, this week, into the tenement formerly used for that purpose over SPRAGUE and RICHARDSON's store. The lumbermen have been improving the good sledding, and the mill-yards begin to look as though there was a prospect ahead for work. A. H. DRURY has bought the tannery property here, and also the house owned by H. W. BALL. DRURY talks of putting in a cab-shop, in place of the tannery. We sincerely hope it may prove something besides talk. The lower department of the village school closed last Friday. We think it has been a profitable term. This has been the sixth successive term taught by Mrs. STOODLEY in this same department. School No. 1, at the Island, closed Friday, Jan. 22d. Number of scholars, 25; average attendance, 23. Nell RICHARDSON, Hattie GRAVES, Cora, Jennie, Baby, Ned and Fred RICHARDSON, Eva RIDEOUT, George HARDY, and Walter CORY, were not absent or dismissed during the term; Fanny HARDY and Ernest RIDEOUT were absent only one-half day; Annie STEVENS absent one day. E. Minnie THOMPSON, teacher. School in No. 2 closed Friday, Jan. 22d. Whole number of pupils, 13; average attendance 12. Names of pupils not absent or tardy during the term--Flora PEASE, Stella PEASE, Martha TURNER, George RICHARDSON, Harry COBURN, Adolphus TURNER, Milo TURNER; pupils having no absent or tardy-marks during the year of twenty-four weeds--Martha TURNER, George RICHARDSON, Milo TURNER; not absent and only once tardy--Flora PEASE, Stella PEASE. Mary E. SPAULDING, teacher. Report of school No. 5, for the term ending Jan. 22d: Whole number of scholars, 29; average attendance per day 26. Names of pupils neither absent nor tardy--Fred BOLSTER, Myrtie FOSTER, Eva FOSTER, Vernon FOSTER, Cora FRENCH, Grace JAQUITH, Harlan JAQUITH, Maud JAQUITH, Arvis KILE, Ernest LAWTON, Wm. PEASE, Roy ROUNDS, Nellie SHEDD, Wayne SHEDD; absent one-half day--Minnie FRENCH, John KILE, Atwood LAWTON; absent one day, on account of sickness--Sammie PEASE; tardy but not absent, Hattie PEASE. Those having a clear record for the year are Eva FOSTER, Grace JAQUITH, Maud JAQUITH, Arvis KILE, Nellie SHEDD, Wayne SHEDD. Ernest LAWTON was tardy once during the year, and Harlan JAQUITH was dismissed twice on account of sickness. Absent one-half day during the year, John KILE; one and one-half days, Atwood LAWTON; two days, Myrite FOSTER and Vernon FOSTER. Lizzie E. COLBURN, teacher. The cracker peddler from this place has gone to Saxtons River, to visit her brother-in-law, Geo. M. CORY. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT