Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-01-03
State of Vermont.
TIA News Condensed and Rewritten Tor
Our Readers.

Its News Condensed and Rewritten f0l
Our Readers.
A small tenement house in Rutland
was slightly damaged by fire Tuesday
morning Of last week.
Geo. S. Fisk, local editor Of thu
Burlington Daily Nears, was last week
married to Miss Alice Morgan OF thai
city.
Peter Frasier, the granite manufac
turer of Barre, whom we reported last
week as being seriously burned, mas
since died.
AT the johnson village meeting last
week, it was voted to put in 100 llghl
dynamos for the electric lights, instead
| Of 500, as previously voted.
It is claimed that more fruit Il
raised in Shelbume than in any town
in the state and that the Holmes or.
chard of 100 acres in Charlotte is the
largest in Vermont.
The Globe Manufacturing company
has taken a contract to supply 10000
pairs of white duck pants for the
Australian militia. This will keep a
large force of girls busy for three
months.
Arthur Robinson of Glen Sutton,
Que, aged 30 years, was struck by q
train while crossing the railway track
at East Richford last week Monday,
and received injuries from which he
died the next day.
A. 7. Alvord, farmer of Whining
ton, died last Wednesday at the age
of IA. He has been for several years
an agricultural writer and has held a
number of town offices. He leaves a
wife and five children.
The apple crop of Grand Isle coun-
| ty for 1894 is estimated at from
35. 900 to 10000 barrels, worth at the
market price between $4,000 and
$4,000. This sum would give SIS per
capita to the population.
w. p. Carroll, Westminster BOY
now of Cheyenne, N. u, leaves that
place Jan. 9Th for an extended trip
which may include New England and
Vermont. He has been holding court
for six years at Cheyenne, but it is
not impossible that he may now To-
cate elsewhere for the practice Of law.
Shaw university, Raleigh, N. c.,
has conferred the honorary degree of
doctor of divinity upon Rev. Josiah
Tyler of st. Johnsbury. DR.. Tyler
comes of distinguished family. His
father was for some time president Of
Dartmouth college. He is himself
well known throughout the United
States as the author of "Forty Years
among the Zulus." He is returned
missionary.
The docket for the general term OF
the supreme court which conyenes at
Montpelier, Jan. s, has made its APP
pearance. The total number of cases
is ll3, which are divided among the
counties as follows: Bennington, s;
Windham, 6; Franklin, 10; Orleans, g.;
Rutland, ID; Addison, A; Lamoille, s.;
Caledonia, Is; Windsor, IL; Orange,
3; Chittenden, s; Washington, "a.
The Goth annual meeting Of the
Western Vermont Masonic union will
take place at Fair Haven on the 9th
Of January, 1895. The business meet
ing will be called at 4:3O p. m. Grand
march at 3 o'clock and banquet at
the Park View House at IL o'clock.
Special rates on all railroads will be
obtained. A special train will leave
Fair Haven for Rutland at 3 o'clock
a. IN.
The calendar of the National Life
Insurance company of Montpelier, VT,
for 1895, is a beautiful thing. The
picture of the battle Of Bennington
and the heroic fight of the "Green
Mountain boys" on that heroic field, is
a happy thought, and yermonters
everywhere will be glad to possess this
testimonial, rendered them by strong
and conservative Vermont company,
which offers the "best insurance in the
world"
The tallest windmill tower is the
one Just raised for Erastus Baldwin
of Wells River. The tower was con-
structed on the ground to the length
of l35 feet and was raised bodily.
The upper part of 30 feet will be
added, making total height of 165
feet. This will be the tallest tower
ever constructed in the world solely
for windmill purposes. 1t is 80 feet
square at the base and is built Of
Southern pine on the spike frame
plan. The amount of lumber used
was $4,000 feet and the tower is esti-
mated to weigh 20 tons. The wind
mill surmountipg il is 30 feet in diam
eter, is built of wood and is nomi-
nal lS-horse power. The pump is 49,
inch stroke, ) 3-4 inch bore, with a.
capacity Of 10000 gallons per day.
The tank has capacity of 1900 gal
Ions and gives a pressure Of IS pounds
to the square inch, beside supplying
his premises with water for domestic
use. He has hydrant put in for fire
protection.
pr. Andrew E. Field of Barre is
said to be the oldest practicing ply
sician in northern Vermont, il not in