Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-08-29
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State of Vermont.
IT. News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

DUStIlldnbCl az A>SW AAN'~AAs
Among the postmasters appointed /
last week was II. d. Ayers, West Wa
terford, vice CD. Carpenter, removed.
The postoffice department. at Wash
ington has made the annual allow
ances for clerk hire at Bennington
postoffice, $1,000.
1t is estimated that there are l,o0O
summer visitors on the shores OF Lake
Bomoseen in Castleton and Lake st.
Catherine in Wells.
The ladies Of Monkton are thinking
Of petitioning the votersto see-if there
are not enough pupils and money 10
establish graded school in town.
Clark Howell, editor OF the ATTAIN
ia. Ca, Constitution, and II. Weld
or. editor OF the Century magazine,
spent part Of last week in Bellows
| Falls.
The mill Of +. l.. Gordon OF New
ark. better known as the S. A. Nelson
mill. was destroyed by fire Aug. 10,
with $4,000 feet of lumber and
Quantity OF WOOD.
A subscription Of $4,000 was made
recently to the endowment fund OF
1 Craftsbury academy. This doubles
the present endowment. Friends
hope to raise it to $4,000.
| +. Opper, one Of Puck's comic ar
| lists, spent last week at Echo Lake
Farm, Hubbardton. His family and
two sisters are still there. One sister,
Miss Emma Opper, Isl contributor to
the Youths Companion.
The Vermont Granite company and
the Eclate Granite company OF Barre
have received from Badger Bros. OF
: Quincy. Mass, the order for two
Pennsylvania state monuments, which
are to be placed on the old battle
grounds of Chickamauga.
Last Tuesday afternoon there was a
fatal accident at West Rutland. One
Of VIM. ii. Hughes slate quarries
cayed in and buried Ned Jones. Seven
other quarrymen escaped with slight
injuries. 1t took seven hours to reach
Jones, who was dead when found.
, The Vermont Marble company's
: dam above the pump house and grist-
mill at Center Rutland has Just de-
veloped weaknesses that properly date
: from last April's floods. The com
pany took temporary measures satur'
day, the nth, and the work OF repair
ing has begun in earnest.
J A highly sensational sermon was
} delivered at the Hedding Methodist
church at Barre, Sunday, BY the pas
e tor. Rev. w. 4. Davenport. lie de
nounced Sunday papers; said that ed
itors do not have respect enough FOL
official positions and made too mucl
: Of the private affairs Of men, and de
= nounced Sunday trains.
The effort to organize Young
Mems Christian association in Below
Falls appears to be succeeding. 4
large number Of names has been sc
curcd and $3.50 have been subscribed
d besides $500 for membership fees. Tn
committee desires to raise $500 and
y that is done the association will prob
/ ably be organized next month.
a Charlie f. Perry, formerly OF Bel
- lows Falls, now of keene, has brongh
suit against the Vermont Farm Ma
chine company to recover $4,000 TO
personal injuries. Perry was an EN-
ploye of the company and lost part 9
three fingers on the right hand Sep
2,lss9, while using dye cutter whic
=. he claims was defective and unsafe
= The writ was filed in the count
clerks Office in Brattleboro, Tuesday
Aug. 20. The papers are retnrnabl
to the September term OF court.
The United States attorney for Vel
: mont has been asked by the depar
2 ment of justice to investigate and II
4 port as to the disposition Of celtai
! funds that were taken from the esta,
of Albert Sowles Of st. Adams sewers
!. years ago, Sowles having been sue
upon the bond Of one VIM. Doral
who had failed to appear and al
a swer to a charge Of contempt III
I funds were adjudged by the Unite
States court to the assigner of Dora
for the benefit of creditors, and it
On claimed that they have never reache
the assignee's hands.
a. AS Police Officer Dunn Of BenninI
! ton was on his way home Wednesda
- morning he discovered fire in Il
coal sheds of AlAnson Wilcox, ne;
the freight depot. He put it out an
= went home without giving the alarr
Two hours after general fire alar
M brought out the entire fire depal
ment. 1t was found that the she'
were again on fire, and this time thu
!, were burned. Two freight cars tn
u. were standing on side track near !
/. were burned SO much that they W
have to be rebuilt. About mont
ago the same sheds were set on fiji
but the night operator discovered
in time to extinguish the flames wit
inc out giving an alarm.
en-; The father and mother of CHAR
FL IL Brace, supposed to be an accompli
. Of Holmes, the alleged murderer, Ii
in Bellows Falls. Charles never liv