Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-10-25

The annual meeting of the Vermont
| Teachers association will be held III
Rutland, Nov. 1924.
Rev. II. s. Fiske, until lately pastor
of st. Paul's Universalist church III
Rutland, has received a call to MethtI-
en-, Mass.
The st. Johnsbury people hope for
an amendment to the village charter,
empowering them 10 appropriate
money for the aid of the local band.
The first disturbance by the United
States troops at Fort Ethan Allen Is
ON record. A trooper was arrested
and fined for intoxication at Burling-
ton, Monday of last week.
Twenty-Five years ago Hon. John
Z. Rich, Republican candidate for gov
ernor in Michigan, was a prosperous
Addison county farmer at Shorehan,
largely interested in sheep raising.
Mr.. Scott, employed in Mitchell's
mill in Victory, recently had the mis-
fortune to lose one hand by its coming
in contact with saw. The doctor
dressed the injured arm and at last
accounts the member was doing well.
The oldest member of the legisla-
ture has been heard from. He is
Merritt Clark Of Poultney, a member
Of the House in 1882. Mr.. Clark Is
90 years old and as lively as cricket.
MAY he round out the full number Of
hundred wears.
Ham Brock Of Weston drove Gil
Curry, PAGER, two exhibition miles at
ST. Johnsbury last week. and If the
weather had been good Gil Curry
would have beaten his record. Brock
has been offered $40, 600 for the horse
by a Russian, and 1000 more if he
viii drive him three races in Russia
next spring.
Rev. DIR. james L Barton, who was
last week elected foreign secretary of
the American Board, was born in Chit
tenden county in 1855 and was gradu-
ated from Aiddlebury college in 1881.
His predecessor. Rev. DIR. \. G.Clark,
who had held the office since ls65,was
also Vermonter. lie was born in
Calais and was graduated from the
at Burlington in ls45.
Hosea Litchfield of Scituate, Mass.
whose boyhood was spent in Wealth
ersfield and vicinity and who has re-
Gently spent several weeks very pleas |
antly reyisiting scenes in Ner-
mont after an absence from the state
rs his home So years, although briefly |
iourneying through the region ten
years ago, went back last week feel
ing that at his present age of 81 years |
il may be his last glimpse Of hallowed |
Richard Rathburn, representing
he United States governments and DIR. |
William Wakeham, representing the
Canadian government. have been ia |
Vermont investigating the CONNER
,ial fisheries of Lake Champlain. |
State Fish and Game Commissioner
Titcomb accompanied them to the |
'eining ground OF Hog Island and
Albany, and they have been visiting
he sporfsmen at ST. Adams. Recon- |
based upon the informa-
ion thus obtained viii be made To
he state department at Washington,
Is well as to the Canadian govern
nent, with reference to future legis-
alton and uniform fishing laws COW
ring the entire waters Of the lake.
As John Larvee was working among
he logs in the boom above the village
# Mclndoes Falls recently, lac found
he badly decomposed body of man
loating in the water between the
ogs. The head was gone. as were also
10Th arms and feet. There was no
means of Identification, as the cloth
NJ was entirely gone. After finding
he body. Mr.. LGrvee went immedi-
tely to the selectmen of Monroe. and
n Wednesday morning the body
ras taken from the water and buried
n the bank OF the river ON the New
lempshirc side. The case i shrou led
a mystery and probably no light will
yer he shed upon il.
Gov. Woodbury. is SO. and. with one
RECEPTION, Is the oldest man who has
cen inaugurated governor since 1874.
he exception is Gov. Horace Fair
anks, who was also SO when inaugu-
ated. The average age at Inaugural
ION of all the governors of Vermont
Ince the organization of the state is
IL years, 50 that Gov. Woodbury.
Neeeds this average by only two and
ne-half years. The youngest govern
rs at Inauguration were Cornelius z.
an Ness, 1873, and John b. Page.
500, both being Il, although in 1870.
gorge W. Hcndee, lieutenant govern
+, at the age of IS became governor
the death of Gov. Washburn. The
dest man ever inaugurated governor
Vermont was Peter 4. Washburn