Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-01-03

maple sugar December l4bii'
i Charles r. Moore Of Newport ma
been awarded a patent for gaug
cock.
i The Vermont Bee Keepers hol'
their annual meeting at Middlebury
Jan. 30 and 81.
| Editor Arthur Ropes of the Mont
pelier Uatchmoa has been obliged T
90 back to the Burlington hospita
for another course of medical treat
mcnt.
AT the banquet Of the society OF GO
lonial Wars in Washington, Gen. WIN
G.. Veazey of Vermont, interstate com
MERGE commissioner, was one OF TN
invited guests.
/ 1t is reported that G. Z. Towne Q
Brandon has leased the Addison
House at Middlebury and the Noun
tain Spring Hotel at Lake Dunmor'
for the season of 1895.
Rev. p. S. Pratt of Dorset is thu
longest settled pastor in the Congre'
gational ministry of Vermont. II
January, he will complete 40 years o.
service with that church.
Samuel A. Lamb Of Greenfield
Mass, and native OF Guilford, has
resigned his office as savings bank com.
missioner of Massachusetts, and vii
devote himself to his law practice.
Two barrels of secondhand clothing
were recently sent by the ladies o.
Zion church of Manchester to the
drouth sufferers in Nebraska in re-
spouse to the appeal Of Bishop Graves
Rev. Samuel jackson, ID. d., Of
Kingston, Ont, has accepted the cal
of the Congregations society OF Barre
to become a permanent pastor and
will move his family to that city in
May.
The second annual exhibition Of
the Vermont Poultry and Pet Stock
association will be held in the ST.
Johnsbury town hall Jan. l6, IL and
Is. Entries for competition close
Jan. 18th.
John Miller of Dummerston found
what appeared to be meteoric stone
at the bottom of muck bed last fall.
II is about the size of four-quart
measure. Some portions look, like
dried plaster and others like nut candy.
Part of the roof in the old Central
Vac,, npt ,ouul hnuca at 81 A hans
went down under the immense
amount of snow upon the roof. For
tunately, but one of the three loco
motives which were underneath was
injured.
The annual midwinter meeting Of
the Nebraska Association Of the Sons
of Vermont, celebrating the one hum
dred and eighteenth anniversary Of
the declaration of independence by
the state, will be held at Hotel lin
coin, Lincoln, at p. M, January
18th, 1895.
Parker & Thrall's store in West
Rutland was broken into Monday
night OF last week and about S25 in
silver was taken from the safe, which
was unlocked. The thieves entered
through the back window. Nothing
else in the store was molested.
DIR. L. I. Page, assistant physician
at the Brattleboro Retreat, has bought
the practice Of DR.. "A. w. Rice OF
Wilmington and will take possession
Jan. LIST. DIR. Page is a graduate Of
the medical department Of the Uni
versity of Vermont and has been at
the Retreat about two years.
A cigarette factory is in operation
in Bellows Falls. Its conducted BY a
Syrian, and the better class Of the
community are much opposed to the
enterprise. AT Saxton's River, one Of
the academy students has been suffer-
ing intensely from the excessive use
Of cigarettes.
Seventeen car loads OF machinery
for the new cotton mill at Burlington
are on the siding near the mill build
ing and will be put in place within
the next few days. The big Corliss
engine started up Friday. The con-
struction of the cotton shed and office
building has been begun.
The South Congregational church
Of Middletown, Conn.,, has called to
its pastorate Rev. II. w. Greene of
West Andover. Mr.. Greene is ma
tive of Brattleboro and is a son of the
late Admiral Greene. He was gradu-
ated from Amherst college in the
class of 1882. He had preached at
West Andover for the past nine
years.
The value Of the output Of the min
eral industries of the state for 1898
was 1921, GAG. The capital invested
was $7,5l3,264. The number of men
was 5,627, who were paid
So, 049, 009 in wages. 1t is believed
that the production of minerals in
1894 will exceed in amount and value
that Of any previous year. Marble,
granite and slate furnish the bulk of
these statistics.
A. f. Kendrick of West Randolph.
who is on the road for the Willard
Manufacturing company Of st. AL
bans, reports business as picking up
in lively fashion. That concarn hoe