Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-09-12
State of Vermont.
IT, News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

the pear crop is below the average.
The entire amount Of the Brattleboro
street railway stock, 1874, 900, has been
subscribed and paid into the treasury.
G. B. Weeks has resigned as assist
ant postmaster at st. Johnsbury and
Walter w. Husband has been ap-
pointed to fill the place.
The commission Of Carlos Q.Grimes
to be postmaster at West Derby, vice
DIN. Bisbee, resigned, has been signed
and issued by the postoffice depart
ment at Washington.
The Vermont tribes Of Red Men
have been released from the jurisdic-
ton Of the Massachusetts, Great Coun-
Gil, and will have council OF their
own, to be instituted next January.
Edwin Aldrich, North Shrews-
bury man, has flock of i sheep which
in January and February produced u
lambs and recently they have pro-
duced three more lambs, making "a
in all.
The Fall Mountain Paper c0mpa-
ny's annual drive OF logs has reached
Bellows Falls and been doomed there.
The drive this year amounted to l0,-
900, 900 feet, and for the latter part OF
the trip about 80 men were employed.
Rev. DR.. Enion G. Evans, gradu-
ate of Middlebury college in the class
of '76, has just become pastor OF
Emmanuel Cong1 church in Montreal.
He went there from Springfield, Mo-,
where he had been pastor since 1890
The Kings Daughters of st. AL
bans, becoming anxious for the well
fare of the young men Of the towns ARE
to raise funds to build a gymnasium
and reading room. Their method OF
raising money is to distribute blank
forms. asking for any sum that one is
willing to give.
Leonard L. Franklin, prominent
citizen OF Rutland, fell from ladder
at noon last Monday and broke his
neck. Mr.. Franklin was prominently
identified with the state society for
the prevention of cruelty to animals.
In his capacity as an officer Of that
association he was well known
throughout the state.
VIM. Bowen, a brakeman on the
Concord l. Montreal railroad, had his
right foot badly crushed Sunday
morning, Sept. !, while attempting to
board the south-bound train just as
it was pulling out Of the railroad yard
at Lyndonville, making amputation
necessary. The injured member was
taken off Just above the ankle.
| Z. Nj. Stevens, b. s., of Hyde Park,
a graduate of the University of Yer
mont. has been elected to the profess
orship in the new course OF electrical
engineering at Norwich University
Il Architect f. r. Austin has submitted
plans for the proposed drill hall and
gymnasium and there is a good pros.
pect that it will be built within the
coming year.
| Major Richard X. Sylvester, well.
known newspaper writer, died in
Washington, d. G., yesterday morn.
ing in his 63d year. Major Sylvester
was native of Vermont. He went
to Washington in 1877 and entered
the editorial rooms of Washington
post, with which journal he has since
been identified. Mr.. Sylvester was
editorial writer of the post.
Harry Dick, John Carswell and
| Arthur Cleghorn, three young men o.
i North Adams, Mass, drove to Powna
recently. At the Dugway, where tht
accident took place about month
ago, when four men were killed, theil
horse was frightened by train and
ran away. The young men were
thrown out and Clcghorn's shoulder
was dislocated, Carswell had his heat
cut and Dick suffered internal injur.
les.
Il VIM. G. Belchcr, who has been con
nected with the California bar for thu
i past 40 years, died in the Palace hote
, at San Francisco Sunday morning
, Sept. |. He was born in Stockbridg'
in 1921. He left three brothers, Judg,
Isaac H. Belcher of the supreme court
commission, Judge E. N. Belche
i |of the supreme court in Sal
Francisco, and James H. Belch
, er Of Pepperell, Mass, also two sisters
Mrs. Nathan Whitney Of Bennington
N. H., and Mrs. G. B. Taggart O
Stockbridge.
A barn belonging to Fred Mattisol
Of Bennington Center, and containing
considerable hay and grain, was to
t tally burned some time during Mon
day night. The loss is about $55O;in
surance, $500. The fire is supposed
to have been the work Of tramps, a
: some of them called at a neighborins
) house the previous evening and asked
: for matches, The barn is some littl'
! distance from the house, and the fir
failed to arouse Mr.. Madison or any
OF his neighbors. He knows of NJ
! unusual occurrence in his vicinity un
Z til he saw the ruins in the morning.
The work on the addition to thu
house of correction is progressing
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