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    1. [VERMONT] Bridgewater 7/5/1889
    2. Ruth Barton
    3. The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, July 5, 1889 Bridgewater 7/5/1889 Mrs. L. E. WEYMOUTH and her two little daughters, of Boston, are visiting her parents--Mr. and Mrs. B. WOOD. Hyrum BAKER found his two-year-old heifer with a broken leg, one night recently. She had caught her foot between two rock. She was all the cow he had. There was a very slim gathering at the cemetery, the 29th. The last resting-place of our loved ones, with its sad memories, is not supposed to be a very delightful spot; but when we leave it to grow up to thorns and thistles, and if beautified at all must be done by stranger hands, it proves that we either are living in a very selfish time or our grief was like a summer shower--easily dried up. The school in district No. 11 (Daily Hollow), taught by Medora MALLOY, closed the 25th. those having no marks were--Flora BROWN, Lillie DAILY, Gertrude TOWNE, Lena DIMICK, Sadie PERKINS, and Warren HORTON; Guy M. DIMICK, absent one-half day. Lena DIMICK, nine years of age, has attended seven terms of school and has never had a demerit mark in the register, although living over a mile from the school-house. Let some of the village scholars ponder on that Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT

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