Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-02-01
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

The annual dairy product OF YER
mont amounts to 81, 500,000.
The date of the State fair this year
will be September 4, ), 6 and I.
DIR. f. NJ Kent of Bristol, one of
the leading physicians of Vermont,
died Jan. %.
DIR. Erastus NJ. Kent of Bristol died
Thursday. He represented his town
in the legislature of 1890.
Bishop Coleman of Delaware will
preach the sermon at the conservation
of Bishop Hall, February End.
In spite of the talk about uncm-
ployed men, farmers are finding it
difficult to hire help for the summer.
The fourth annual reunion of the
| Vermont Association of Minnesota
will be held at the Hotel Nicollet,
Minneapolis, February Z.
Vermont has greater percentage
of improved land in proportion to its
area than other States, with the excep-
ton of New York and Illinois.
Winn Smith of Ripton, Is years
old, was crushed to death last Tues
day near Brooksville by load of lum-
Der which tipped over onto him.
A survey is being made by Civil
Engineer +. 0. Sinclair for railroad
from Essex 10 Hinesburgh, There
has been no company organized yet
The consumers of crackers have
| found out that Vermont Cream aud
Lamoille Crackers are the best ON the
market, and that's why everyone is
calling for them.
Arthur Fisher, a young man, SON
in-law of w. Ii. Rugg, and residing
on the road to Fairfield in the locality
known as St. Adams hill, drove TO St.
Adams, Tuesday morning and put up
his team at the Brown stable and then
mysteriously disappeared.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |. A.
White of Morrisville takes Wells Il
Richardson company's prize for the
handsomest baby born in 1892, and
brought up on lactated food. The Sc
lection was made out of 600 or more
photographs from all over the country.
Miss Mary E. wilkins makes new
departure in her latest story, which
forms the leading feature in the Feb
ruary issue of Romance. 1t is "A
ghost story, and the tiny but blood
chilling heroine announces her age, in
true graveyard parlance, as 6 years, 3
months and ) days.
The Park and Woolson Machine
Go. AT Springfield are running their
shops full handed. Business at the
foundry is good, and with a large or
der for galvanized castings from the
Farm Machine company of Bellows
Falls, the outlook is good for steady |
work for the winter.
The third annual banquet Of the
New York Alumni Association OF the
University of Vermont will he held
February 9th. Hon. John IL. Con-
verse of Philadelphia, member Of the
firm owning the Baldwin locomotive
works. and brother Of Charles Aeon
verse, will preside.
Fort PAYNE. Ala, has been sold by /
auction To T.. n. Cullom Of Bir1ning-
ham, for 100000. The property in
cludes about 10000 acres of land, p
600 town lots, and personality. Fort
Payne, il will be remembered, was
southern boom" town in which Yer
mont capital was largely invested
Homer Irish of Shelburne has "a Gu
rious egg laid by last springs pull
let Inside "A large shell, 9 by Z inches
in size. is a white and yolk and
another perfect egg with a good hard
shell, making an egg within an egg.
The size of the inside egg is 4 b by
inches. almost the size of a common
egg. Both eggs had perfect shells and
perfect yolks.
The Nebraska Sons of Vermont, an
organization less than two years old,
held its annual banquet at Lincoln,
Tuesday night. Covers We're laid for
200 guests. John NJ. Thurston of
Omaha presided, and addresses were
made by the following members: Pres
ident Thurston, Chancellor j. H.Can-
field of the University of Nebraska,
Rev. ID. w. Huntington, X. c. ).
Raymond. III. II. COrbett and Assist
ant District Attorney Somers.
The Central Vermont road inaugur
ated dining ear service between
Montreal and st. Adams. Wednesday,
when the Wagner Car company began
running one of their dining cars on
the New York sleeper leaving Mon
treal at 6 p. M, and returning TO
Montreal on the Chicago and Boston
express. There is no doubt but the
travelling public will fully appreciate
this progressive step of the road.
Road Commissioner Elisha DUNCAN
of Bradford met with very severe.
and what was at first thought to be a
fatal. accident ON January 22nd, while
at work logging on Fairlee mountain.
I'm some manner chain was caught
arot,nd a small free which when re-