Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-05

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aud Shatton, escaped from the Reform
school at Vergennes, Sept. "a.
The work on the new Congrega-
tional church at ST. Albaus progresses
rather slowly, several vexatious delays
having occurred. The edifice will be
fine one, however, when completed.
1t is of hrick, and of a much more
convenient pattern than the old struct-
ure A cosy chapel is built in con-
nection with it, and in this the congre-
CATION hope to meet as soon as Janu-
AIRY /.
A prominent feature at the Corinth
and Ryegate fairs was the handsome
turnout of Chas. f. Smith OF West
Topsham. Mr. Smith, ia addition to
being the efficient high sheriff of Or
ange county, is the leading spirit in
the patent medicine enterprise at West
Topsham. Everyone speaks well of
the goods, and unless all signs fail,
the time is not far off when Orange
county will be heard from in this new
industry.
The mid-year convention of the New
England Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton is TO be held in the Unitarian
church at Burlington, Thursday and
Friday, October and 6. The prom
ineut features will be Address of
Welcome, Hon. Henry Ballard, Bur-
lington; response, Mrs. Mary A.
Liyermore, Melrose, Mass address,
Vermont Outlook, Miss Laura Moore,
Barnet and addresses BY W. p. Stat
ford, Esq, St. Johnsbury, and Mr..
II. B. Blackwell.
The Cooper Manufacturing compa.
ny of Bennington recently sold nearly
all of its stock of manufactured goods
and received large orders from job
bling house in Boston, Mass. The
other mills in the village are all run
ming on full time, and two-the mills
of Henry Campbell and George Rock
wood & Co.-have run on full time
with a full force all through the bust.
ness depression and five new resi-
dences have been started inside the
village limits. and more are being
planned.
William s. Streeter. formerly OF 81.
Johnsbury, vice president OF the col
lapsed Northwestern Guaranty Loan
Co. of Minneapolis. was again arrest
ed on Friday of last week charged
Jointly with Louis +. Menage, presi-
dent, with grand larceny ia the first
degree, by the grand jury which has
been investigating the affairs OF the de-
funct concern The amount named in
the indictment is sl63, 307 40. Meuage |
has deported himself to some other
cline, leaving Streeter to face the
music Bail was fixed by Judge Can
ty at $4,000.
The Hardwick Gazette is giving
the Democratic bosses in tlis State
some sharp punching these days, be-
cause they are parcelling out the feder-
al offices at their disposal to please
themselves aud not according to the
idea of the rank and file of the party.
1t thinks that too much attention is
given to the Haunarans, Monahans,
MEG ettricks aud Murphys. while the
Yankee portion of the party is only per-
mitted to see the procession pass by.
This may be true, John, but IN the
words of Tweed. Nv hat are you go
ing to do about it :"-Morrisville News
and Citizen.
From short history Of the Nation.
al Life Insurance company of Montpe-
lier. prepared by the actuary Of the
company, Joseph A. DeBoer, il is
learned that the late Hon. W. c. Kit
tredge OF Fair Haven was its first
president, serving them from lS4g to
1880. Its insurance has grown from
S4j2, $50 ct that time to SIS, G7G.3j3
in 1892, and its assets, from SS,644
TO sS.762.9jj. The showing made
by the company is most gratifying.
and il is all the more SO from being a
Vermont institution.
Arrangements are being made for
large mass meeting of workingmeu in
West Pawlet. The men are anxious
to organize aud have sent for District
Master Workman Drury of Rutland to
address them on the principles of the
order. He has consented to 90 as
soon as arrangements are made for the
This will be the opening of
the campaign for the weekly-payment
bill aud other labor measures which
the working people of the State win
push in 1894. A thorough canvass
Of the State will be made, and no stone
left unturued, to send representatives
to the next legislature, that will rep
resent labor. The labor leaders of
his section say that the hardest fight
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