News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-18
STATE ITEMS,

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STATE ITEMS.
The Belvidere special mail service
and the regular service from Brattle-
boro to West Brattleboro, have been
ordered discontinued.
A portion of the Bennington wool
en- mill is to be started July 1.
A Woodstock man has given to
the Norman Williams public library
of that town a set of the session
laws of the State, beginning with
1899 and coming down to 1884. This
is said to be the most complete set
of the laws to be found in any one
collection outside of the State libra
ry at Montpelier.
At the annual meeting of the Ma
soEic Relief Association of Vermont
held at Mortified recently, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: Edwin
X. Jones, President; DR.. L. G. But
Ter, Vice President; j. X. Edgerton,
Secretary j. c. B. Thayer, Treas
urer. The present number was re-
ported as six hundred and three. The
balance in the treasury is $3,094.66.
Tue association laid eight assessments
during the past year and paid the
same number of death claims.
Senator Morrill, and his family have
arrived at their home in Strafford for
the summer.
Mrs. Page, who went from the
Tewksbury, Mass, almshouse two
weeks ago, to visit her brother, Chas.
Humphrey, in Waterbury, attempted
suicide last week by jumping into the
river. She was taken out and par
TALLY resuscitated and may recover.
W. C. Landon's $500 span of
horses ran away in Rutland week
ago last Sunday and both horses
were fatally injured.
A gun that was being fired by Ora
M. Rhodes, of Chester, burst, man
Cling his hand so as to necessitate am
putation,
The Champlain Association of
Universalists will hold its annual
meeting with the parish in Richmond
on Wednesday and Thursday, June
II and IS,
The Northern Association of Uni
versalists will hold two days con-
vention at St. Johnsbury June "a and
rs.
H. A. Caswelrs jewelry store at
Newport was robbed Tuesday night
of last week of $1,000 worth of watch
es and jewelry. There is no clue to
their identity.
The most brilliant social event St.
Adams has ever seen was the mar
riage of Miss Julia b., second daugh-
ter of Ex-Gov. j. Gregory Smith, to
Oliver Croker Stevens, Esq, of Bos-
ton, which took place last week Tues
day afternoon at the Congregational
church.
Cora, the only daughter of A. H.
Tuttle, of the Rutland Herald, was
recently married to F. A. Barnaby,
of New York, a real estate dealer.
The wedding was one of the largest
and most elaborate ever known in
that town.
The Lyndonville savings bank will
make its first semi-annual dividend
July /.
Joseph Battell has been commits
stoned as postmaster at Bread Loaf.
A Bennington firm made large
shipment Of fine quartz sand to Leip-
sic, Germany, recently.
A Brattlebora man has chicken
with only one leg and one eye, which,
nevertheless, manages to- hold its
own with its more favored fellows.
An observing and inquiring physi-
clan says consumption has declined in
Vermont from forty to fifty per cent.
since the lands were thoroughly
drained.
The Union Soapstone Company at
Chester is building foundation for a
new mill for saving and working their
stone into blocks near the old mill.
The late Hon. Luther w. Adams,
of Chester, by a codicil added two
weeks before his death to his will
made ten years ago, left the bulk of
his personal property to his son, and
the homestead, only, to his daughter. |
The original will divided the property
more evenly, and there will doubtless |
be hard contest to break the pro-
visions of the codicil. Tue property |
is estimated at between $4,000 and |
$25, 700.
At the meeting of the Grand Chap
ter of Royal Arch Masons of Vermont,
at Burlington June II, the following
officers were elected: Most Eminent |
Kittredge Haskins, of Brattleboro',
Grand High Priest; Eminent Marsh
0. Perkins, of Windsor, Deputy High |
Priest; Eminent George H. Kingsley,
OF Burlington, Grand King; Eminent |
George W. Wing, of Montpelier,
Grand Scribe; Eminent John A. But
Ter, of Jamaica, Grand Treasurer
Eminent William III. S. Whitcomb, of |
Burlington, Grand Secretary; Emf
nent Edwin O. Hibbard, of West Ran
dolph, Grand Captain of the Host.