Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-04
State of Vermont.
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House in Rutland was refused.
A large addition to the Berwicl
House in Rutland is to be erected.
M. Spence of Keene, N. H., is the
new secretary of the Montpelier Y.M
G. A.
C. A. Thompson of Rutland is soor
to build hennery capable Of keeping
100 fowls.
HI. "A. Vaughan has been appointed
postmaster at Bridgewater Corners
vice v. G. Babcock, resigned.
VIM. M. Cummings Of Westminster
found half dozen grasshoppers on
the snowbanks in Ira last week.
Wilmington, in special town meet
ing, voted, more than three to one,
not to accept the graded school sys-
tenn.
Twenty-six births occurred in
Woodstock during the year lS94--
ten males and sixteen females. There
were 3S deaths.
Rev. George II. Watts of Quincy,
Mass, has accepted call to the West
Rutland and Ira Baptist church, and
will begin his labor there April II.
The family of Senator Redfield
Proctor will soon sail from New York
for visit in Great Britain and on the
continent. Senator Proctor will re-
main at home.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott of Brook
lyn will be one of the speakers at the
meeting of the Congregational club of
Western Vermont to be held in Mid
dlebury, May IA.
C. M. Winslow, secretary of the
Board of Agriculture, has appointed
j. S. Button, the veterinary surgeon,
a deputy inspector to examine cattle
detained in quarantine in Windham
county.
Robert E. Lewis, formerly Y. M. G..
A. secretary at St.Johnsbury, has been
appointed college secretary by the
Boston City association, to look after
Y. M. G. A. interests in Boston's fif-
teen colleges and professional schools.
S. M. Allen of Burlington, who was
arrested some days ago on charge of
breaking seals on Central Vermont
railroad cars and stealing canned
goods, pleaded guilty Monday and was
sentenced to one year at hard labor in
States prison.
The comptroller of the currency
gave out last week the abstract of the
report of the condition of the national
banks of the state Of Vermont on
March 9th last. The assets amount to
S2l, 400, 1881. The average reserve
held is 1898 per cent.
The capital stock of the Brattleboro
electric road has been increased to
$40, 600 and personal canvass is to be
made for the sale Of stock. 1t is CIV
en- out as the intention of the directors
to begin operations just as soon as the
frost is out of the ground, provided
the necessary funds can be obtained.
The Central Vermont Railroad COM
pany won, recently, the first Of a series
of u suits brought by as many insur-
ance companies to recover their losses
by the destruction of grain in an Og-
densburg elevator by fire, in Septem-
Der, 1890. The total amount involved
in these cases was about $4,000, the
present suit involving $4,000.
At "a meeting of the Windham coun-
ty bar, held at the Office of the county
clerk at Newfane, March %, it was
unanimously voted to request the
court to establish rule restricting ar
guments Of counsel to two hours upon
each side, except in cases where leave
for more time is granted before argu-
ment begins.
Thomas Ward arrived at st. Johns
bury from States prison at Windsor
last week Tuesday, having been par
doned by Gov. Woodbury.. Ward was
convicted of arson at Walden in 1888
and sentenced to eight years in States
prison. He would have been a free
man next fall. Wards condition is
very critical and he can live but a
short time.
Secretary E. ID. Moore, of the State
Firemen's association, has been in
formed that George w. Fales of Bur-
lington intends to give the association
a handsome silver firemen's trumpet,t to
be competed for at the next tourna-
ment, under the same conditions as
were the contests for the gold badge
that he gave it a few years ago. The
gold badge is now in the possession of
the Knights of Fair Haven, they hay
ing won it at three tournaments.
Hannah Maria Mooney, who left
st. Adams 25 years ago and has not
been heard from since, is found to
have deposited in a bank at San Fran
cisco, ten thousand dollars in 1874,
which sum with interest remains I'M
claimed and no trace of the depositor
can be found. Several of her heirs,
nieces and nephews, are in st. Adams,
among them J. M. Mooney and Mrs.
II. j. Watson. The money cannot be
procured without an administrator,
whose appointment cannot be made
until proof of death is presented.
A Bennington paper has this local
IA week ago last Sunday two deer
we're seen coming down the mountain |