The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, August 9, 1889 Ludlow 8/9/1889 Geo. P. GALE and wife are sojourning in Saratoga. Miss Ellen ADAMS spent last week with friends in Pomfret. Ed MEHAN was up from Bellows Falls, the first of the week. Miss Nellie GOODRICH of Brattleboro is a guest at Judge WALKER's. Albert ALLISON is making his usual Summer visit with friends in town. Geo. W. BILLINGS has gone to Saratoga. Ira W. GALE and wife go to day. Miss Ella M. DURANT arrived at E. W. SMITH's, last week, for a brief sojourn. Miss Florence ADAMS, from Boston, Mass., is a guest at James PETTIGREW's. Charles S. PARKER has gone to Winchendon, Mass., to visit his brother Homer. The Misses HORAN and Misses KENWORTHY, from Rutland, were in town Tuesday. Mrs. Charles IDE and son Harry, from Newport, are guests at R. E. HATHORN's. Geo. BALLARD and wife, of Rutland, are spending a few days with Mrs. B.'s parents. Lewie PIERCE has been spending the past four weeks with B. G. THOMPSON, in Andover. Rev. H. B. HUDSON will occupy the pulpit at the Baptist church, next Sunday morning. Dr. A. F. MOORE, A. A. BALDWIN, and Charles A. MOORE, are spending the week in Boston. Geo. E. MITCHELL of Cambridge, Mass., spent a day or two at John LOMBARD's this week. Miss Alice LOCKWOOD has been sojourning for a week or more at A. T. MOORE's, Plymouth Notch. Misses Anna and Gertie GOULD are camping at Silver Lake, in Barnard, with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. ROBLIN and party. Mrs. Elmer BATES and Mrs. John BATES, of Leominster, Mass., have been late guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. GRAVES. Among the guests in town, the past week, were Mr. and Mrs. Clark MARSHALL and Miss Nellie BROWN, at A. K. GOULD's. Mrs. Sarah HEMENWAY and Mrs. Fred THOMPSON are spending a few days in West Windsor, Mrs. T.'s former home. About a dozen from this place took in the Providence Island excursion, Tuesday. The day was all that could be desired. Capt. E. A. HOWE and R. E. HATHORN went to St. Johnsbury, yesterday, to be present at the re-union of their old regiment. Prof. Geo, SHERMAN and brother-in-law, Mr. SWAN, have been in town this week, having drove over from New Hampshire. Sunday was a good hay-day, and many hereabouts improved it. Monday it rained again, but every day since has been fine. Mary PURCELL of Hillsboro Bridge, N. H., and John COLLINS and wife of Rutland, are here this week, called here by the death of their brother, Michael PURCELL. To the many friends who aided and sympathized with them in the hour of their bereavement, the widow and family of the late Michael PURCELL hereby return heartfelt thanks. Mrs. R. E. HATHORN and Mrs. J. H. HATHORN returned from Massachusetts, last Saturday. The latter is very much improved in health, and complete recovery is looked for. Harry F. TAYLOR of Boston has been calling on former friends and acquaintances here, the past week. He is passing his vacation, with his mother, at their old home in Proctorsville. The new academy bell arrived last week, and was put into position Tuesday. It weighs about 1,000 pounds, and is said to be a close imitation , in tone, of the old Baptist church bell before it was cracked. Timothy DALY has fallen into line of modernization, and has caused his front fence on Pleasant street to be removed. The cutting out of the sidewalk opposite also adds to the general improvement of the street. Herbert COFFYN of Windsor Locks, Conn., and A. S. COFFYN of New York, were guests of Miss Maddie BILLINGS two or three days, last week. They were en route to Highgate Springs, per the former's private conveyance. E. J. WHITCOMB has greatly improved the west end of High street by cutting out the sidewalk in front of his own, Mrs. WHITE's, Mrs. MORGAN's, Mrs. LEE's, and Patrick NEALON's residences; for which service the entire neighborhood, as well as those most directly benefited, should return thanks. The cow-pasture aspect of that thoroughfare might be eliminated by continuing the work; and the expense could not be great. F. C. PAFF has bought of A. J. BROWN the BARRETT house, on Pond street; consideration between $3,000 and $3,500. BROWN and family will occupy the vacant rooms in his block corner of Main and Depot streets, for the present. We observed the genial countenance of our former townsman, A. M. KENDALL, in the position of railway postal agent, his old route, last Saturday. He was bounced by Cleveland civil-service reform, several years ago, because he was too good a Republican. The Episcopalians have leased WHITCOMB & ATHERTON hall for one year, and will hold service every Sunday. Next Sunday, morning service will commence at 11 o'clock and evening service at 5 o'clock; Rev. B. W. ATWELL officiating. All are cordially invited. H. C. HEMEWAY of Kansas City reached town Monday, having two months leave of absence for rest and recreation. Brother H. is one of the "salt of the earth," and we regret that the home of his childhood can offer him no desirable business opening and thus keep him among us. Judge HINES has caused the old barrel by the roadside near his residence to be replaced by a water-tank of boiler-iron, set on a solid base of masonry. It is quite an improvement, as well as public convenience. The village needs a similar one, and the triangle at the west end of the large bridge is just the place for it. Some urchins at the depot, Sunday, let off the brake of a flat car loaded with ties and let the car run off the rails upon the road-bed in front of the section tool-house. By unloading the car and hitching a yoke of oxen thereto, it was gotten back into place without much trouble. What the boy got, we did not hear; but he deserved spanking. B. F. WHELDEN's ice-cart horse ran away, the other day; or rather, his boy Frank cut the corner too short at the Bailey bridge and ran against the side-log, causing the trace-hooks to gibe way, the horse continuing on to the village without the load. Twenty-five cents repaired the damage done; and B. F. considers the experience to the boy was worth $25. The remains of a former "Ludlow boy," Michael PURCELL , were brought here for interment, Tuesday, being followed to the grave by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and his heart-broken bride of but two weeks. His death was caused by typhoid fever, followed by dysentery, and occurred last Sunday, at his home in Rutland. He was universally liked where known. BASE-BALL.--The past week has been prolific of local base-ball interest. Last Friday the boys went to Springfield and tackled the first nine there; and although it rained on the field the greater part of the day until 4 o'clock, a good game was put up. The Ludlows had engaged and expected to use the Bellows Falls battery, but the latter were not allowed to play in those positions, and RAYMOND, with a weak arm, was obliged to fill the pitcher's box. For six innings, however, he did fully as effective work as AIKEN for the opposing force, when the score stood 2 to 0 in favor of Springfield, the latter's scores being both made off fielding errors in the first inning. Both nines got a bit rattled, after that, the score at the end of the game standing 13 to 4. There was no conspicuously good playing except, perhaps, by PIERCE behind the bat for the Ludlows, who made two astonishing running-fly catches behind the catcher's fence, and was the subject of many laudatory comments by the spectators in general.--Saturday afternoon, a pick-up nine from Proctorsville came up here and engaged a similar team on the home grounds, with WARNER for pitcher and SOULE for catcher, for Ludlow; the PARKER brothers, Charles and George, in the points for the visitors. The score was 18 to 10 in favor of Ludlow.--Then Wednesday afternoon, a pick-up nine under generalship of Henry HOWE of Boston went to Proctorsville and engaged a similar company under leadership of Harry TAYLOR of Boston. This match was especially notable, first for the unusual good nature and friendliness of feeling (it is usually "for blood" when Proctorsville and Ludlow meet on the diamond, and the former have heretofore secured the lion's share), secondly for the unusual number of casualties. Rufus HEMENWAY was laid out by BATTY with a "ball" on the ear that at first looked like a death-blow and made the victim see visions for some time after; Charles PARKER got clipped on the fingers while at the bat; Chas. HOWARD was hit in the back while practicing before the game; the editorial "We" got winged in the right wrist by BATTY and retaliated by cracking POLLARD on the head by a backward swing of the bat. However, things held together for five innings, when the Ludlows were obliged to quit, a half hour having been wasted, before the start, in waiting for tardy Proctorsvillians. At that stage, the score was 14 to 10 in favor of Ludlow, the only "whitewash" being to the latter's credit. BATTY and POLLARD were the battery for the P.'s, and CLAYTON of Weston and SOULE for the L.'s. There is talk of a match here, the 24th inst., between the Ludlow and Proctorville teams, for $25. If it comes off, it will be an exciting game. (Base-ball fever hit the area for sure. I wonder if there were any pro leagues at that time? RHB) Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT