Show SHORT SUMMER LESSENS MONTPELIER'S ERS ER'S HARVEST I i 11 Era Er 9 P d j 1 V I 1 this vicinity are wondering why there thero has lias been no summer this thia year car The Tho season reason has been so short and cold that crops are aro not nearly so 60 o good as had been hoped for Cor Tho The potato pota pota- to crop w will Ill on account of ot tho the severe severo frosts bo be very light and the quality will not be bo up to the tho high standard usually raised In this locality Harvesting and haying having been completed threshing is the order of or the day among tho the farmers tanners Improvement both public and private continues with unabated atell furnishing furnishing fur fur- nl employment to all an who seek seok It The attendance at the city schools Is Is' Is much better this year ear than that of ot the same period of last lost year Tho The teachers are all In the best of or health and spirits and are very enthusiastic over their work Supt Banghart Is making a strenuous effort to raise tho the standard of tho the schools and put them on a par with any In tho the west and to this end has asked the operation co-operation of ot the parents and guardians In the past teachers have o experienced I a scat geat deal of or annoyance and InconvenIence Inconvenience by many of ot the pupils being so 80 I Irregular In their attendance The Tho I board has had the matter under consideration consideration consideration con con- and has decided to enforce the truancy law to 10 the tho letter and the mayor and city council have been asked to make the police officers truant ofil- ofil cot cers to serve servo without pay and the as assurance assurance assurance as- as of or tho the council has been received that this would be bo done Tho The opening of oc the high school has again been hindered and deferred but It la is hoped that this branch of ot tho the schools will be opened soon Tho The present present pres pres- ent delay Is duo to the railroad or It its tailing falling to get goods over the tho road In an any reasonable time Dame Rumor has It that Cupid has been beon playing with the tho heart strings of ot several of ot our youth and maidens and I It Is whispered that as a result thero there will be several se weddings soon tho the first to take place the last of ot the present month when John A A. A Barrett manager of oC the Studebaker Bros company's compans branch of Montpelier and Miss Irene Thomas will be married Plummer and company representing representing representing rep rep- resenting eastern capitalists capitalist arrived yesterday esterday to Inspect th the mining Interests Interests Interests Inter Inter- ests of ot this locality and It Is asserted the they are high highly pleased with tho the prospects pros pros- poets peets and have hare already placed an order for tor machinery to be Installed at nt once Good health generally pr throughout the lIe community |