The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, August 2, 1889 Springfield 8/2/1889 The potato crop in this vicinity bids fair to be a failure, this season. Oats are badly lodged, and many fields badly rusting. Haying is pretty well through with. Mrs. C. H. HOLDEN and son, of Leominster, Mass., are visiting in town for a few weeks. Quite a number of young ladies went to Proctorsville to attend the teachers' examination, last week. Rev. A. J. AUBREY will occupy the pulpit at the Universalist church here, next Sunday. The new FAIRBANKS block is almost ready for the roof. Three young men who would probably rather not have their names mentioned, hired a livery team, last Saturday evening, and drove to Charlestown, N. H. Having got pretty well filled with tangle foot, they started for home about 11:30 p. m., and it being quite dark, instead of driving on the regular road, they drove up the railroad, and at the high embankment just above Charlestown they tipped over down the bank about seventy feet, completely demolishing the carriage. The horse was not much injured, nor were the young men much hurt. One of them was found hooked to a barbed-wire fence; or, as he said when found, he had got the horse and he could not get away. Help was finally secured, and they were "recovered" and sent home. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT