Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-12-14
Henry M.Noyes has been appointed
at HYDE Park.

The Brattleboro savings bank has
voted its usual semi-annual dividend
of ID per cent, payable Jan. LIST.
The Dairy school at the experiment
station, Burlington, VT, opens Jan.
Sth, and will continue four weeks.
Farmers will do well to send fora cir
cular and learn what is offered them.
The lIolGes cotton mills and Slack )
sboddy mills at Springfield have start
ed up on full time, also the Proctors-
vile woollen mill which has been shut
down since September.
If Father Hall is confirmed u bishop
of the Episcopal diocese of Vermont,
the Boston Herald states that a num-
Der of his friends in that city have ar
ranged TO supply his robes and 90 up
to burlington to fit up his residence.
Frank j. Gould, aged 80, committed
suicide by shooting in barn at Put
ney, on sunday He had been mar
ried about month and was preparing
to move to a recently purchased West
minister farm. No cause is known for
the deed
Advices from Mr.. LAWN and Mrs.
Mary Howe LAWN Of Brattleboro, an
nounce that they are now singing in
Berlin. They have closed a contract
for concert tour in Russia during
the season of 1890, opening in St.
Petersburg. They will return for
their American tour in March.
Lewis Alnon Meaker, aged 80
years. died while confined in the State
prison at Windsor, Dec. 9Th. lie was,
with his mother, Lucy Emeline Mea-
ker, in 1880 convicted of the murder
of little Alice Meaker in Duxbury,
and sentenced TO death. His mother
was hanged March 30, 1883, and his
sentence was committed TO life impris-
The Barton Monitor says: On SatuI-
day last, while Martin Meehan was
g dirt from "A gravel pit in
front Of G. G.. Grows store, a very
heavy piece Of frozen earth and stone
fell, crushing him under it. Several
men attempted ut once to lift il off
the body, but not until it was raised
by means of screw could he be liber- |
ated. lie was alive, but Unconscious
when carried home. The doctors |
were called and found him very seri-
Dusly hurt, his back seeming to be bros
ken.
The total amount OF soft coal used |
in Brattleboro for all purposes does
not exceed | ,S00 tons. Pocahontas
coal, mined in Virginia, the best btu
minous coal known, can now be laid
down in Brattleboro for S465 Il ton
IN yearly contract. The lowest free
rade estimate is that Cape Breton
'oal, coming in free, could be laid
Town at the wharf in Boston at sl.25.
The cost delivered in Brattleboro
would be at least $3.50 for a coal of
much less steam-producing power
han the United states coal. The saw
ng in Brattleboro would therefore
lot exceed 5000 to 50, 800, which is
liberal estimate, giving the free ira
lers all their claims.
st. Johnsbury bids $4,000 for the
'lasonic temple. Ii remains to be
cen whether other towns, notably :,
and st. Adams, will raise
he bid. The prize is worth striving
or. 1t carries with il handsome
the annual meetings of all
he grand bodies, valuable library
which would be open to the public !
trough the year., and the appoint
nent Of some local citizen as secretary.
The structure is TO be erected by the
lasonie Temple association, which I
'as chartered by the last legislature.
Is capital stock is TO be $4,000, di- +
ided into 1000 shares of S25 each. !
he directors viii be l3 in number,
ne from each Masonic district in !
ne State.
At the last meeting OF the Vermont
'airymen's association it was agreed
18th the sugar makers organization
lat the latter should have a half day v
the meeting to devote to the maple
lgar interests. Accordingly this
rogram will be carried out at the an
nal meeting to be held at Burlington ii
Ie second week in January. It is p
to have three papers by sugar N
akers on that afternoon. One to be :
'livered by the president, Mr.. Ken
I'D, one by Mr.. Mudgett of Cam
idge, and the other by G. ID. Whit
an of Brattleboro, who so ably and
ithfully represented the sugar inter
Is at the Worlds fair. II is prob
lie that some good premiums for the
st exhibits of syrup and sugar will
offered by the association.
Hon. George w. Grandey Of Yer
nnes died in this city Monday even
g, aged 80 years. A widow and one
n survive him. The funeral services
re at the house on Thursday at
80. Mr.. Grandey was born in Pan
q, Feb. Ord, 1913, and had resided
FergenDes since 1880. lie was adj
tied to the Bsf n Addison county
is4O and soon afterwards to the su,
sme court Of Vermont. and TO the
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