The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, June 28, 1889 Springfield 6/28/1889 L. B. BARNEY has reopened his store, to close a few lines of goods that remain unsold. Charlie BLANCHARD made what he thought a very desirable horse trade, last week, in Whitehall, N. Y., but was detained by an officer at Proctorsville, on his way home, and made to give up the horse he had traded for, it being mortgaged to Whitehall parties. BLANCHARD went back to see if he can recover his own horse, and in the future will look out a little. The route contractors who bid off the mail route from Springfield to Charlestown, N. H., have sub-let the route to Fred G. ELLISON, for a sum considerably larger than the $570 for which it was bid off. The route from Manchester to Landgrove was bid off by the same parties, for $475, and the lowest bid they have received is $600. Temporary service has been engaged at the rate of $900 per year. They hve also got badly left on the line from West Claremont, N. H., to Weathersfield. Rev. G. W. BAILEY, in preaching the fiftieth anniversary of his commencement in the ministry, was greeted with a well-filled house. During his ministry he has preached 4,025 sermons and lectures, solemnized 325 marriages, and preached 616 funeral sermons. Starting out fifty years ago with all that hope and zeal of a young man, he has made his life-work the teaching of the gospel as he saw it, and now lays down the work at a ripe old age, with a competency sufficient for the needs of this life, loved and honored by all who know him. Schuyler C. JOHNSON has been obliged, through ill health, to take a vacation for a few weeks from his post office work, and sailed on the steamer Dorchester, from Boston, last Saturday, for Norfolk, Va., where he expects to spend about two weeks. It is hoped that his voyage and his stay in Norfolk Bay will be of benefit to his health. A. O. COBERN and daughter Etta started for the north of New York State, Wednesday, for a short vacation. Haying is commenced with prospects of an abundant crop. School-meetings were held Tuesday evening, throughout the town, under the new law; and it is hoped that the schools well soon be in running order. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT