Local Lumps
State’s Attorney Shepard’s office last Monday morning took on the aspect of a regular juvenile court, when about 20 boys ranging in ages from seven or eight, to fifteen, were summoned to that place upon request of Mr. Shepard. The reason for this assembly was due to the fact that L. S. Robie, who happens to own the vacant house on the hill near the old baseball grounds, had found cause to enter complaint as to destruction of parts of that property, especially as to the wanton demolishing of doors on the interior. In fact, Mr. Robie went up there last Saturday afternoon and caught some of the youngsters in the act. He finally obtained the names of most of them and hence this hearing. While all the boys summoned were not implicated in the particular act of destruction, as charged, yet they were all there or had been there at one time and another and while the boys were allowed to go after a sharp reprimand, they should now realize that a repetition of this and like offense, will not go unpunished. It also developed at this hearing of another act that was even more serious than the one for which the hearing was called. It seems that Miss Paddleford, who is carrying on the E. H. Bridgman sugar place this season, has also suffered from depredations of some boys. The boys visited this sugar camp, put mud into the sap which had been gathered, tipped over buckets and caused a lot of damage in other ways, acts which it would seem common boys would not stoop to do. There is a great deal too much of this sort of depredations going on in and about the village most of the time and the time has come when a stop should be put to it.
Golf Club Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Abenaki Golf Club will be held at the Gazette office Wednesday evening, April 8th, at 8:00 o’clock, to elect officers for the ensuing year and hear reports of officers.
East Hardwick
Sugar parties seem to be the order of the day. Last Saturday afternoon the young people of the village were invited to Thomas Brochu’s and Tuesday afternoon, they were invited to Fred Batten’s.
Walden
A meeting was held at the Noyesville School-house Friday evening for a discussion of whether the town will build over the Noyesville schoolhouse for a two-room school, or open the Wiggins school-house, which has been closed for the last two or three years. The sentiment of the meeting seemed to be strongly in favor of using the Wiggins school-house, rather than build. A new building would be subject to the State inspection and would require considerable expense to meet the requirements.
South Walden
Dale Grow invited the neighbors to his sugar orchard Friday, where they enjoyed a sugar party.
Sugaring is early finished unless the weather changes.
Cabot
Saturday the roads were so bad to Marshfield that seven cars had to be pulled out near O.C. Pitkins’ house.
