Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-12-21
State of Vermont.
Is News Con densed and Rewritten FOR
Our Readers.

- 10 ca Roeou thit hch oiuoilu
grange win soon be organized in Ben
nington county.
A brakeman by the name of Paro
recently had one arm badly crushed
between the hunters of two freight
cars at Wolcoft.
Hon. Erskine Warden has been re-
elected mayor of Waltham, Mass, by
some six hundred majority. He was
from Caledonia.
l.. X. Quimby of Lyndon has been
elected director OF the Merchants Ma
tional bank of ST. Johnsbury, to sue
coed Col. ii. L. Folsom.
Some prominent farmers in Frank
lin and Orleans counties are inquir-
ing about the grange. They can be
assured that it is all right.
The thirteenth annual banquet Of
the Commercial Travellers Associa-
ton of Burlington, viii be held in
that place Friday evening, Dec. Goth.
The Fairbanks Co. of st. Johns
bury is making huge scale of $50
tons capacity, for the United States
government to weigh the new naval
ordnance on.
Vergennes has a little postofiice con-
test Of her own, and certain factions
will have 10 be wooed and won before
a new and Democratic postmaster can
be installed there.
1t is reported from West Pawlet that
/ fha ul1nfn hftltttaun IN. h..54
not been so dull for years as il is now.
and large number of men are out of
work and are really suffering.
The Brattleboro Universalist parish
having voted to accept the resignation
of Rev. +. w. Spague, he will soon
remove to East Boston with his family |
where he will be settled over his new |
parish.
The Woodstock Standard has this
interesting item that deserves wide
publicity: "The man who said that
had turned my boy ont of the house
for the winter is the boss liar"
JOSEPH MAYO, Pomfret
At a recent meeting Of the Orwell
Congregational church, Rev Mr..
Swift, the pastor, and ;. II. Bascom,
as delegates, were appointed an ecclesi-
astical council at Leicester, December
10, to form a Congregational church
there, il found advisable.
Judge Russell $. Taft has begun an
interesting and valuable series Of arti-
cles in the Green Bag, upon the SUI
..t. |
cles will be profusely Illustrated and
will be a valuable contribution TO the
historical literature of Vermont.
Mr.. II. Edward Dyer of Rutland, {
Il graduate of the University OF YER I
mont, was married to Lillian Geof- '
frey, daughter of Mrs. Edward Has
ter of New York. Wednesday, Dec. 8. !
They will be at home at Dyer place. /
Rutland, December 20 and u.
Frank Chandler of the firm of
Chandler & Son of Chicago, formerly
Of Bellows Falls, has bought the Cey- !
on building on jackson Park for
q, 500. He win remove it to his sum-
mcr place at Geneva Lake. The build
ny was built with reference TO rcmov-
Il in sections, and cost $4,000.
Isaac b. Potter of Brooklyn. n. Y. ),
5 mentioned for park commissioner i
IF the ''City of Churches" under May -
IL Schicrcn. Mr.. Potter is senior i
PARTNER of the New York law firm OF y
Potter, Baldwin a Miner. the latter i
,eing well-remcmbered 81. Johns !,
Jury man. -
The Minnekahta State Bank Of So. \
Dakota, controlled and managed by G,
he Vermont investment Co, is in the n,
lands of receiver Ii is understood o.
hat a receiver will be asked for the
ferlnont Investment Go. itself. L.F.
lnglesby of Burlington is president Of Il,
10Th Institutions :,
a corporation to be known as the 10
Hyde Park Warehouse Company. iii
Nth capital of S25. 900. has recently III
een chartered by the Secretary OF fir
tate. The incorporators are: +. X. h,
'hild, T. III. Page, III. M. McFar- "
md, :. b. Waite and r. w. Hulburd. he
he concern will do warehouse bust w
ess in this place. W,
Interest in Grand Army circles in til
'ermont centers in the annual state bu
which is to be held on W.
anuary 80 and 81. The chief point oc
interest in relation to the encamp- WI
lent is the election of a commander. VI
nd quiet but lively canvass for this co
osition is even now in progress. The at
lost prominent candidates mentions in
| thus far are cX-Gov. L. J. Ormsbee W
Brandon and DIR. G. F. Branch of riC
export. bu
The Central Vermont railroad IN
announces that Christ ley
as and New Years holiday excur- ln'
ON tickets will be sold for fare one an
ny for the round trip, good between h'
| stations on the Central Vermont pl,
iiroad, in Vermont and New York. ~
hese tickets will be good going Dec. RS
Id, oath and 18th inclusive. and Dec. us