Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-23

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to become pastor of the Cong'l church
in Chester.
The Vermonters in Penacook, n
IT,. are to have a reunion on Ihurs'
day, the 23d.
The seventh annual northern Gale.
donna fair will be held at Lyndon
vile, September Il and Is next.
Hon. and Mrs. Il. B. Andrews OF
Richmond are to celebrate the 5Oth
anniversary of their wedding on June
LIST.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst Of New York
lectured at Rutland last week upon
the subject of "Municipal Govern
ment.' There was a large attendance.
The directors of the Brattleboro
electric road hopeto have the cars IN
operation by July 4th, and it may be
that the formal opening on that day
will be one of the marked local feat
ures Of the national holiday.
Zebulum Williams Of Lyndon was
Understanding yearling heifer, get
ting:it ready to lead out to pasture,
when in the struggle he was thrown to
the ground and his hip was broken.
Mr.. Williams is so years old. 1t will
90 hard with him.
The annual meeting Of the Windsor
Machine Co. was held at the office of
that company last week. The follow
ing officers were elected: Directors,
Gilbert A. Davis, Geo. I. Hazen,
Charles Tuxbury, James Conlin, Sam
uel E. Reed; president, Gilbert A.
Davis; superintendent, II. S. Wilson;
clerk, Miss Eta Fairman.
The Montpelier hardware company
is negotiating with other towns in
the state regarding the moving of its
business from Montpelier. The COM
pany considers itself unjustly taxed,
and other towns are offering it strong
inducements so far as taxation is con-
cerned. This company is one Of the
largest of its kind in the state.
A Cotswold buck, owned by Phillips
Bros, Derby, weighs 800 pounds, and
l6 10 pounds Of wool were sheared
from it last week. The clip of a year.
ling owned by them weighed Is
pounds, and the average from flock
of 80 was II pounds. A barn Of 42xl00
feet is being erected to provide ac-
commodation for these sturdy animals.
The barns Of 0. G. Woodruff Of
Newark were destroyed by fire about
| O'Clock Tuesday, May Z, with all
their contents, consisting of 3 horses
2 hogs, calves, carriages, harnesses,
farming tools and 10 tons Of hay.
The loss is about $4,000, with an in
surance of 81 200. Mr.. Woodruff had
d barn burned on the same site about
seven years ago.
In compliance with the petition of
a majority Of tho voters Of Hyde Park,
the selectmen OF the town have laid
out the village limits and in accord
ance with the power given them by
law in such cases, have declared the
village of Hyde Park incorporated
with all the rights and liabilities per-
tanning thereto. 1t is expected that a
village meeting will soon be called for
the election of village officers.
AT special meeting last week the
citizens Of Sutton, by majority Of
nearly to l., voted to exempt from
the Beckwith Marble compa-
ny for five years. The company owns
extensive marble deposits there. 1t
will put in at once a plant for making
liquefied carbonized acid gas fer soda
The company's headquar-
ters are in st. Johnsbury and it has
just increased its capital from $4,000
to $4,000.
An oil painting of Alanson w.
Beard, ex-collector Of the port of Bos-
on and native of Ludlow, was
placed in the collectors room in Bos-
on last week, having been accepted |
Dy Secretary Carlisle in il special let
er. 1t is Of three-quarter length and |
If life size. 1t is six feet high and /
'eprescnts ex-Collector Beard stand
ng in the familiar attitude in which
lie receives visitors, with his shout
lers slightly stopped, his head bent
lightly forward, while he twirls his
'yeglass in his right hand, which is
leld in front of his breast. The por-
raft is presented to the government by
number of gentlemen who were
'leased with Mr.. Boards record as d
ivil service reformer and is accompa-
lied by a letter of Commissioner
Roosevelt paying tribute to his zeal
nd efficiency in this respect.
Work on the Bennington and
Yoodford electric railway was begun
thursday Of last week, when prelimi-
airy surveys and measurements for
he different trestles were made. The
Id roadbed of the Glastonbury rail-
Dad is to be used, and this as well as
he bridges are in bad shape. Work
n putting the roadbed into proper
Dndition, taking up the old rails
sady to be restraightened, etc., and
Id ties will be begun as soon as the
,ols get there. Fifteen thousand new
es have been purchased and will be
ut in, in the four miles between Ben
in0tOn and Camn Comfort Most of