The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, July 26, 1889 Proctorsville 7/26/1889 Mrs. Addie BATTY of Leominster, Mass., and Laura SPAULDING of Gardner, Mass., are visiting their mother, Mrs. A. SPAULDING. George CHANDLER and family, from Fitchburg, Mass., are spending a few days with relatives on Twenty-Mile Stream. Will SALISBURY has closed his labors as clerk for the POLLARD Bros., and is succeeded by Will FULLER of Chester. Mr. SALISBURY has rented the store belonging to the estate of F. W. JOHNSON, and about the first of August will open a line of grocery goods. The warm weather, with frequent rains, have produced a wonderful growth in the gardens. A pumpkin leaf gathered in the garden of Henry BAILEY measured twenty-two and a half inches across and two yards and a half in circumference. Mrs. S. P. TODD has a dahlia stem on which are two fully developed blossoms standing back to back, with no division. Ninety teachers were in attendance at the public examination for county certificates, Tuesday. Only two entered for the first grade. Miss Lottie POLLARD of Nehawka, Nebrasda, is visiting at D. C. POLLARD's, the present week. Secretary of War PROCTOR was in town Wednesday. The W. C.T. U. will hold a public meeting in the Baptist church at Cavendish, at seven o'clock, Sunday evening, July 28th. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT