Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-03-21
State of Vermont.
lts News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.
Wolcott is building town hall.

cfal towns.
The new electric light system i;
now in full operation at Morrisville
The Fairbank Scale company of st
Johnsbury has reduced wages 10 pei
cent.
Over | 400 books have been added
to the st. Johnsbury library during
the year.
Judge Tyler of the Vermont Su.
premc court is seriously i'll at his
home in Brattleboro.
| Alexander Welch has sold the
Groton hotel to James Weed, who
takes possession the LIST of April.
| Rev. II. M. Douglass of the st.
Johnsbury Baptist church is issuing a
monthly paper, entitled "1he Study.'
| Lewis Calkins of Richford is dead,
aged 81 years. He had been town
grand juror and a justice of the peace
% years.
| Isle La Motto, which is one of the
island towns in Lake Champlain, is to
be connected with the mainland by
telephone.
| Rev. Thomas w. Illman, formerly
pastor of the Universalist church in
Brattleboro and later at Concord, N.
H., has been given unanimous call
to All Souls church at Grand Rapids,
Mich. He has gone to his new field.
| The postoffice department is max
ing. collection of the photographs
of old postmasters who have served
the government continuously for %
years or more. Vermont has 80 vet
Grams, some having served for half a
century.
The house, barn and other out
buildings belonging to Charles Brad
shaw, at East Lyndon, were burned
the other day. Part of the contents
were saved, but one horse persisted in
the flames. The property was insured
for 81, 400.
DR.. J. S. Dodge of Lincoln, owner
of the Bristol and Lincoln telephone
line, is to extend the line from Bristol
to Vergennes the coming season. A
| line is also to be constructed from
Bristol to Huntington by way of
Starksboro.
The St. Johnsbury Odd Fellows
are about to redress their hall, put on
iron ceiling, renovate, paint and fresco.
This is among the largest lodges in
the state. With membership of
$50, it stands third, only Rutland and
Brattleboro being ahead Of it.
Dean B. Conner of Burlington died
in the American hospital in Mexico
last Friday from typhoid fever. He
was quite a prominent young man at
home. He was an expert in the cal
cium light business and was in Mexico
under engagement with Orrin Bros.
The Republican state committee
held largely attended meeting at the
Van Ness House, Burlington, last
Wednesday evening, Chairman DIN
Merrill of Enosburgh Falls presiding.
Col. George T. Childs of St. Adams
was elected Vermont member of the
Republican national committee forthe
unexpired term of Hon. M. S. Col
burn of Manchester, deceased.
Friday evening, while NJ. l.. Seary
of Richmond was attempting to light
his stove, Rochester lamp in his
hand exploded. The force of the
shock knocked Mr.. Seary down and
injured him considerably. The store
took fire. Before help arrived the
flames were beyond control and the
building and its contents were de-
stroyed. They were partially insured.
The building was owned by Il. j.
Judson.
James Il. Billedo of Enosburgh |
Falls, against whom the grand Jury
sitting last September found an in
dictment charging bigamy, was re-
Gently arrested and lodged in the jail
al st. Adams. He says that his coun-
sci had told him that he had procured |
a divorce from his first wife and that
he was free to marry again, and he
supposed when he entered into the
second marriage that he was free and
untrammeled. He will be tried at
the April term of court. He was re-
leased from Jail Thursday under $500
bonds.
Ellsworth Holloway of West Glover
was found dead the other day, after
dance, and foul play is suspected.
There was liquor bottle beside him,
in which was little spirit and some
white crystals of some unknown
substance. He lay in such an attitude
as to suggest the theory that he had
drank some poison and died sudden
ly. The authorities were called, Dir.
Dow of Glover, DR.. Sedgwick Of Bar
ton and DR.. Campbell of Albany were
sent for and an autopsy was made.
His stomach and heart were removed
and sent to Burlington for examina
ton. His wife and a man named
Chase are under arrest pending an in
vestigation.
A correspondent Of The Hoyse,non
writes from Nashville, Tenn, as fol-
lows: "The great Morgan stallion.
Ben Franklin, 2:29, will probably be
leased to its former owner, Ii. L. Cults.