The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, July 19, 1889 Springfield 7/19/1889 Last Saturday, Emerson E. WHITCOMB, while engaged at work upon the Fairbanks building, sustained a severe injury to his back and hip. The accident was caused by a timber falling and pushing him from the building. The same day, Amos GOULD had a fall down the elevator at the clothes-pin shop, which bids fair to lay him up for several weeks. We notice, by a Lowell, Mass., paper, that Mark A. ADAMS, a clerk in the Prescott Bank of that city, and L. H. RICE of Brookline, Mass., also a clerk, started at noon, last Friday, on their vacation, with their knapsacks strapped on their backs, taking the Foot & Walker line for Springfield. Monday evening they arrived at the residence of C. M. BALL, an uncle of Mr. ADAMS, having walked the whole distance besides having climbed to the summit of Mt. Monadnock. They staid night, at farm houses,and got their meals, also, at farmers'. This was a good trip, and the young men were apparently in good trim and probably not as much used up as they would have been in playing ball a few hours. W. H. H. SLACK has caught the improvement fever, and is building a piazza around his house and regrading his lawn in front. C. C. JOHNSON had green corn ready for boiling, the 14th. He has also some of his favorite No. 51 peas, the largest and best raised. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT