Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-30
State of Vermont.
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| i lit lJduV lllC CISuHiCit - INV 1880
ing out from 5000 to 1000 pounds OF
butter per week.
Arthur Sanders killed rattlesnake
three feet long on Wantastiquet
mountain last week.
The State Board of Pharmacy will
hold state examination under the
new pharmacy act in Rutland,J June rs.
Col. L. w. Winchester, native OF
| Woodstock, died at New York on
Saturday. He was vice president OF
the National Express company.
/ 1t is very probable that portion OF
the business of the Pike Manufacture
ing company of Pike Station, N. H.,
will soon be moved to Montpelier.
4 On Monday afternoon of last week,
the dwelling house of Frank Hanchett
of Groton, near the railroad, caught
fire and in short time was burned to
the ground.
The Brandon Mining company lost
nearly all it's buildings and the paint
works Sunday night by fire which
burned several of its sheds, engine
room and dwelling house.
VIM. Pooler of Victory last week set
an old log pile on fire and thought he
would burn some brush, but before
the fire was stopped, it burned his
house and barns, nothing being saved.
No insurance.
George ID. Sherwin of Burlington
has contracted to furnish and equip a
l2-mile telephone line connecting
Grand Isle with Alburgh. A cable
will be used across the lake at the
drawbridge.
The West Rutland town bonds for
ST. 800 have been taken by the Ma
tional Life Insurance company of
Montpelier at per cent interest. Five
per cent? interest has been paid on
these bonds up TO this time.
Swift Bros, the wholesale dealers in
beef, have entered the field as COM
pctitors with ex-Gov. Page and are
now buyers of calfskins. The ex-gov-
ernor has practically had the monopo-
" of this business for several years.
Residents Of Westminster want the
grade crossing over the tracks of the
Boston Il Maine road at that place
abolished, and plans for its accomplish
ment are being discussed. 1t is under
stood that the railroad company ia
vors the idea and will bear share Of
the expense.
w. S. Williams, one of the firm of
the Brattleboro Jelly Co., has invent
ed and has in successful operation a
very ingenious but simple machine for
cutting pickles, for mixing pickles and
chow-chow, which have heretofore
been done by hand.
The lease for the site of Masonic
temple has been duly executed by
Mayor Van Patten of Burlington and
John II. Whipple, grand master of
the Grand Lodge of +. and A. M. of
Vermont. Some new developments
regarding the erection of the temple
may be looked for in the near future.
The supreme court last week rem
dered the following opinion in the
Cram murder case: 'eThere was no er-
ror in the admission of testimony in
the court below" and the respondent
makes nothing by his exceptions. SUI
perintendent Cakes of the States
prison has taken Cram back to serve
out his sentence Of 20 years.
"A Pittsford man says that in 1881
or '32, the entire spring was excep-
tionally warm to nearly the middle of
May. Vegetation was far advanced
and the fruit-bearing shrubs and trees
in full bloom, when a snowstorm sud-
denly developed, which continued
throughout the entire day and was
succeeded by very cold night.
Hazing has broken out at st.
Johnsbury. Louis Kimball, presi-
dent of the junior class, was Kidnapped
and taken several miles out of town in
a carriage by members of the other
classes recently, and left there to make
his way back on foot. He was to have
delivered an address at the class inter-
view, and returned about an hour az
ter the interview commenced. There
is considerable excitement over the
affair, and the faculty intend dealing
summarily with the offenders.
The State Board of Railroad COM
missioners has granted the Military
Electric Railroad company permission
to cross thespur at the entrance to the
military reservation, under certain re-
strictions and precautions against ac-
cident, at grade. The right to cross
the bridge over the railway at Win
ooski, against which the Central Ver-
mont company obtained an injunc-
ton, is to be decided by the supreme
court, now in session at Montpelier,
which has been asked to dissolve the
injunction.
BrattlebOro electric matters are fur
Their complicated, Judge Rowell hav-
ing been petltioned for another in
junction restraining the railroad COM
pany from bulldog the proposed
trolley road along the highway leading
past the Centerville factory, formerly
occupied by the Brattleboro sewing
machine company, but at the present
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