Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-11-23

Dewey's mills at Quechee resumed
work ON Monday, after a vacation of
three months.
Arthur Spear of Hartland received
a severe hurt while loading a large tub
at Martins shop.
Windsor r. West was struck by a
piece of board in a mill in Windsor,
and died Nov. Is.
Jerome ID. Smith, a prominent man
of Burlington, died Thursday, from
complication of diseases.
The accounts of the Waldo Marble
Co., of Fair Haven, were recently sold
at public auction, and were bid in for
$40. They Amounted to over Sl5, 900.
The new st. Johns Catholic church
at Castleton stands upon the site of
the original church, which was the
second Catholic church TO be erected
in Vermont.
The West Virginia, South Virginia
and West Michigan Episcopal stand
ing committees have refused assent TO
the conservation of Father Hall as bish
OPP of Vermont.
A joint meeting Of the Vermont
State Dairymen's association and the
Vermont Maple Sugar Makers associ- !
alton win be held in Burlington in the
second week in January.
DIR W. Seward Webb's Eccles Won /
der took first prize at the Madison 1
Square Garden horse show in the \
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hands, hackney register in harness.
Arden Humphrey, who mysterious
ly disappeared from the asylum farm
at Brattleboro, four years ago, reap
peared at his old home in Rutland,
Tuesday morning. His inexplicable
disappearance caused great deal OF
excitement and even foul play was
suspected, the latter charge being in
vestigated by a legislative committee.
John c. Clair Of Bellows Falls, for
many years clerk in the division Office
of the Fitchburg railroad and well
known here, has resigned and Decem-
Der lst he will take the positionof tray-
cling freight agent for the Illinois Cen
trail road with headquarters in Boston,
and territory embracing the New Eng
land States and the provinces.
Dwight Bassett of Pittsford has
raised this season from eight acres,
LOIS bushels of ears of corn. Chas.
III. Mirandville raised from l12 rods, ,
l72 bushels Of ears of corn. 4. A.
Nichols raised two and one-half BUSH /,
els of popcorn and small pumpkins
from piece of ground two and one
half rods long and one rod wide.
Following is the health report of Bur- I
lington for the month of October: /
of marriages. Is; white, l6; :
colored, 2. The births number %, of i
which ii are male and Ia female. The i
deaths number Is, 3 male and female. a
OF these,5 were under one year of age, i
between and 20, 4 between 20 and 4
30, ) between 20 and so, and one over "A
so. The causes Of death are distributed d
rs follows: consumption, 2; pneumonia, t
4, and one each of other diseases q
Mrs. l.. I. Guernsey, wife of Rev.J. 5
W. Guernsey, died at her home in Rut- a
land on Tuesday, Nov. Z, from the ef- "
fects of a stroke of paralysis. She was ii
So years old. Mrs. Guernsey was prom il
nent among the Christian workers of "
Vermont She was the first secretary q
IF the Woman's Foreign Missionary Ii
society of the Vermont Methodist con-
ference, she had been president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance UNI is
on and was honorary president at the v
lime of her death. She leaves a son 81
md a daughter, Willis Guernsey of o .
Brooklyn, \. u, and Miss Alice NJ. la
Guernsey of Chicago. b.
The fly paper factory of the Fred o.
rick butcher Drug company was dis n,
overed on fire Saturday night at al
bout half past eleven. As there was VI
10 hydrant nearer than 900 feet, il 6
equired long line of hose. but the la
ire was soon extinguished, with small ST
oss. Immediately afterward there &C
vas another alarm, when the waste y, "
'aper storehouse eff the Central Yer
mont companywas found to be on fire. te
The firemen soon got the hose into "
lace and put out this fire also, with m
mall damage. Both of these fires are ct
bought to be of incendiary origin. and ht
,hief Leslie feels sure that there is r. =
ire bug in town. Hang him as soon TO
$ caught. SC
The State Inspector of Finance ex- Va
mined the condition of The Peoples ~
rust Co., and was thoroughly salts
ed that it was one of the strongest.
est, and most conservatively manage Dr
d financial savings institutions in a.
'ermont. John Branch, the treasur-
r, states that the inspection was very NJ
linute and thorough. The inspector o.
iscovered that during the life of the spl
lstitution it had not lost a dollar, ~, III
adj never foreclosed mortgage, had lsI
ne it no back interest, and did not g
ave loan which the officers Of the In In
ank were not ready, individually, to
lsh at any moment. This Is big a asl
nd for this institution at this time. de-
st Adams Messenger. sa'
mn