Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-08-30

will celebrate his fortieth anniversary
:, as practicing physician Dec. "A.
Twenty Swedes from Proctor tool
out second papers Of naturalization
= last week, and 80 took out first pa
: pers.
+ The total tax list of the town OF
3 Peacham is 50, 263. OF this amount,
/ 80, 2s4 is on real estate, 81 ,533, on
personal estate, and s446 is on 233
q polls.
: 1t isexpected that long-distance tel
ephone communication will be estab-
lished between St Adams and Mont
{ pelier before the session of the legisla-
: ture.
Ex-Congressman John w. Stewart
is chairman Of the delegation from
the Vermont Bar association TO the
annual meeting Of the American Bar
association, to be held at Saratoga.
The new Episcopal residence at
Rock Point, Burlington. will, proba-
bly,, be completed for Bishop Hall in
December. Mr.and Mrs Henry Wells
gave - 800 and Frederick II. Wells.
80, 500 toward its construction.
The annual Vermont lawn tennis
tournament will be held under the
auspices of the Lake Dunmore House
Tennis club at salisbury, Aug 29th.
Entries and all other communication
should be- addressed to Philip Man
chester, Lake Dunmore House. Sails
bury,
Samson's store at Georgia was en-
tered by burglars Tuesday night of /
last week. They gained entrance by !
removing a panel Of a back door and /
then unlocking the door The bur-
glars took about s75 worth of boots,
shoes, cigars and canned goods. No
clue has been found as 10 the identity
of the burglars.
Chief Dumas Of Burlington arrested
William Farmer, colored, Wednesday
Of last week on a charge Of entering
half dozen houses on North Prospect
street Farmer has served three
years sentence in states prison for
burglarizing Calico Limoges house
on North street, his sentence having !
expired about four months ago
Representative Cannon Of Illinois /
has prepared q statement In which he i
shows that the present congress has
S27 ,269. s5s more than I
the preceding congress, and that pen a
sions are cut down S29. 1890. 5O4. He +
also shows that it has cost =. 20. 677 :
more to carry on the government un- !
Ter Cleyeland's first fiscal year than q
was expended in the first fiscal year :,
lnder Harrison. :
A fire at O'Clock Aug. - NJ 81
Johnsbury destroyed J. Pinardrs box
hop and the threshing machine fac II
ory Of Il. F.Rollins. The fire caught !,
lround the boiler in Pinard'- shop. \
The tiremen had "A hard fight 10 keep 4
he flames from DESTROYING other T.
hops. Pinaui's loss was $40. 600: in -
uance, - 100 Rollins los, i $40 n
100: no insurance. Rollins expects TO N
'uild. Twenty-Five hands have been N
brown out OF employment s.
W l.. Bennett Of Wolcott ha- been y
)dged in the Lamoille county iail. a
harged with forging a note for S35. n
lie made il payable at the HYDE Park ~
ayings bank and signed the names
( II. b. Bundy and L. a. Tillot>on. ed
9th citizens of Wolcott. The note fr'
'as drawn To raise money TO nav To
ote FOR the same amount drawn on pi
he llardwick Savings bank three te'
lonths ago, on which Bennett had DO
$50 forged the same names. Al
Col. Elisha r Jennett died at his 49,
ONE in Montpelier, Aug 18th. lie ~,
a born in Lebanon. \. H.. % wears NJ
90, but Montpelier has been his y
ONE nearly all his life At the time ~.
his death, he was the oldest citizen ~.
that town. He was member of r.,
le firms of Hubbard 4 ,Iennett and :"
annett n Howes. He was one OF So
Ie promoters of the Central Vermont A..
ilroad and one of the organizers of rra
e Old Bank OF Montpelier. besides ~,
ling director of the bank for more ~,
IAN 30 years under its different !,
Iarters. lie was elected state treas so :,
'er in lS46, and a presidential elect u ut
in 1872, and at the Grant and Will ,ou
N election was chosen TO deliver the 81,
ectoral vote Of Vermont TO the go
nited States senate. suo
The number of pupils between the VIII
res of ; and 8, attending Burlington the
lblic schools in 1891 500; between hol
e ages Of and Ia, l,O36: between Hel
e ages of IA and 81, 500: making a
tai of 2,l90, of whom l.l9l are bows y
d zoos, girls. The average number Of D EGs'
Us on which schools were in session nv
Is ,l54; the average number of DAYS one
all nublic scbooIs 7oe. r. -. som
e attendance per day, l,525.s; the ton n
gregate number of DAYS on which com
, schools wera I'm seSe;on go bled