The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, July 26, 1889 Amsden 7/26/1889 Alfred STREETER is very sick with a kidney trouble, but at this writing he is thought to be a little better. Fred HOISINGTON has gone to Brattleboro in search of work. Willie MAHONEY has been up from Boston, taking a two weeks vacation with his parents. Blanche GOODWIN, from Lowell, Mass., is stopping a few weeks with her uncle, T. B. LANE. Miss Lizzie BISBEE, from Boston, is visiting her brother, M. E. BISBEE. J. C. FARWELL recently sold a horse to Geo. DAVIS, Esq., of Windsor, for three hundred dollars. Mr. D. has matched it, and now has a pair we hear he has refused twelve hundred dollars for. On Saturday, July 20th, the friends and relatives of Mrs. Nancy AMSDEN again assembled at the residence of her son, Charles, to celebrate her 99th birthday. She still retains her mental faculties very clearly, is able to be about the house, and bids fair to reach her 100th birthday. Among those present, numbering about twenty-five, were John WARD, Esq., of Detroit, Mich., Rollin AMSDEN and family from Windsor, Deane CABOT and wife from Woodstick, C. E. WOODRUFF and family from Woodstock, Ward HOWLAND from Detroit, Mich., and several grand and great-grand children. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT