Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-02-06
The Orleans County court win be-

The Orleans County court will be-
gin Tuesday, Feb. 4.
Grout, Wyman & Cos. dressing
mill and chair factory at West Con-
cord have been burned. Loss, $40, 200
and insurance, $1,000.
The citizens of New Haven held a
meeting and appointed committee on
Monday night to plan for anew church
edifice on the site Of the one recently
burned.
The Northway Manufacturing Co.
of Pittsford has elected for board of
directors, ID. X. Hall, George Eayres,
w. f. Burditt of Rutland, Asher
Burditt and George Eayres.
The Chicago Dressed Beef Cos. ice
house at Newport is being rapidly
built and ice cutting begun, also sever
al other companies in town are filling
their ice houses-the ice in the lake
being about twenty-five inches thick
and very clear.
Newport is to have an opera house.
Mr.. William Tuck has purchased the
Beebe block and in the spring will
make ii over into tenements. A stock
company will be formed at the same
time to put up an opera house on the
lot adjoining the block.
The Colchester Merino Mills at
Winooski have been receiving extern
sive repairs whichs has compelled a
shut down of part of the plant. The
plant contains 10000 spindles and %
combers. Work viii probably be re-
sumed this week, as the repairs are
nearly completed. The mill runs on
cotton, merino and woolen hosiery
yarn.
The committee on the location of
the state fair held a meeting at Bur
lington Thursday night, and voted to
hold the fair at White River junction
in 1890, in connection with the new
agricultural society to be organized in
the Connecticut Valley, provided
railroad track be seasonably built to
connect the Woodstock railroad with
the proposed fair ground site, and pro-
vided further that the site be SO enlarg-
ed as to allow the construction of a.
one mile trotting track.
Evidently there is scamp abroad
and as he may come this way we copy
the following notice, by Mrs. J. Greg
ory Smith, President of the Board of
Managers of the Warner Home, at St.
Albans:
The managers of the Warner Home
for friendless children having been in
formed that some person in Rutland
county has been soliciting aid for that
institution, hereby notify the public
that such action is entirely without
their authority; and that while free
gifts are gratefully received, they have
never employed, and do not now em-
ploy, any agent for such a purpose.
i. b. Locke & Co. ofSaxton's Riv-
er have just shipped carload of ma
pie syrup to San Francisco and
smsller quantity to Liverpool, Eng.
They carried nearly 10000 gallons
last spring, all of which is hermetical-
ly sealed and viii keep in any climate.
Frank Relation of Mortified has
been arrested on complaint of Grand
Juror S. +. Judd, charged with burn
ing barns on the Joseph Mofiat estate,
Nov. %. After trial of three days
duration he was held in 5000 bail, in
default of which he is now in Jail at
Montpelier.
f. IL. Bascom of Montpelier is ne
gotiating with the Bryant Nail Co.
who were recently burned out at Lynn,
Mass. to induce them to locate in
Montpelier. The company is capital
lied at s250.000 and as Montpelier
exempts all new manufactures from
taxation for ten years, it is said that
the company will locate there if $40
600 worth Of stock will be taken by
residents.