Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-16
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Gently seen on West Hill in Jamaica
. The True Blue Marble company
: new quarry at West Rutland is turn
ing out highly successful stone.
Col. II. L. Folsom has resigned hi
position as director of the Mer
/ chants bank of st. Johnsbury.
Henry w. Simonds, groeerymar
at Rutland, has made a voluntary as
signment Liabilities. about 81, 900
assets, 5000 to $1,000.
George Manor of Middlebury fell
from trestle into the river Nov.5 and
was drowned. The body has not been
discovered.
Robert Flynn, aged %. of Benning-
ton, was found dead in bed the morn
ing of Nov. >. An autopsy showed
that there was no poison, as was al
first feared.
A conservative inventory and APP
praisal of the Windsor Machine com
pany Of Windsor, made recently,
amounts to $4,000. The company
has been receiving some large orders
of late.
Among the nominations of presi-
dental postmasters sent to the Senate
but failed of confirmation was that of
Arthur c. Randall at 81. Johnsbury.
vice VIM. w. Sprague, removed. lie
was reappointed.
George Jamison. Seotchman, com
mi;tcd suicide By drowning Nov. 6,
caused by dependency. Ills aged
mother lives in the old country. He
was member Of the Cutters Union
and Masors took charge of the burial.
Dr. George f. Allison, who has
been appointed medical examiner at
East Providence, r.. l., by Governor
Brown, was born in ST. Johnsbury
and was educated in the academy in
that town and then entered Boston
University.
"Uncle" Asa b. Garland, after al
most AZ years of continuous service for
the Grand Trunk railway company,
and many years past popular con-
ductor on The express between Port
land and Island Pond. has retired
from the road.
Rev. James Gray and family. who
left st. Johnsbury. Thursday. viii
reach their home in Pretoria. South
African Republic, about the first of
next January. They sail from New
York. Nov. s, in the Majestic. and
will spend several weeks in England
before starting for Pretoria.
Lyman Allen, for four seasons past
first baseman of the L. V. Ms, has
been unanimously chosen captain Of
the next seasons team. Tom Hill,who
has been an Outfielder and later the
shortstop of the nine, and who has en-
tered the medical college, has conclud-
ed not to play another year.
II was announced in the chapel of
Middlebury college the morning of
Nov. 6.that Charles j. Starr, who died
in New York recently, bequeathed
$3.50, 900 to the institution. Last year
he had handed the college treasurer a
check for $4,000, and before that he
had given literally, so that his total
gifts have not been far from a quarter
of a million. He was native of this
town and had always taken a great
interest in its welfare.
At the annual meeting of the YER
mont Horse Breeders association held
at the Van Ness House, Burlington,
Wednesday, Nov. {, the following Of
ficers We're elected: president, George
w. Hooker, Brattleboro; vice presi-
dents, ii. 7. Cuts, Orwell, and G.. w.
Hendee, Morrisville; secretary. j. c.
Brown, Brandon; treasurer, c. A.
Chapman, Ferrisburgh. Notwithstand-
ing the poor weather at the last meet |
ing, there is over 81, in the treas
ury.
The Windham county board of fire
underwriters, at a special meeting at |
Bellows Falls, decided to defer action
on the question of increased rates on
farm property, recently promulgated
by the New England Exchange of
Boston, and to refer the matter to
State board of underwriters, which it
is proposed soon to organize either at
Rutland or Burlington, with the idea
of securing a uniform schedule of
rates throughout the State.
DIR. Chauncey VI. Hubert. one of
the oldest physicians of Barnstable
County, Mass, died suddenly Nov. 6.
AZ his home in South Dennis. He was
born in East Sheldon, VT, in lsls.was
a student with DIR. Horace Easton,
governor of Vermont, and graduated
at Woodstock, in 1874 He came to
South Dennis in 1852. where he has
since practiced. He has been presi-
dent of Barnstable County District So
ciety and for The past Is years, its
treasurer. He leaves a daughter. Mrs
Willis G. Myers of Portsmouth.
A mysterious case of housebreaking
is reported at Brattleboro. Mr.. and
Mrs. ii. G. French went Saturday
night, Nov. 4, TO Jamaica for visit. j