Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-01-16
State of Vermont.


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Stephen v. Meader has been com
missioned postmaster at Walden.
Mrs. II. G. Calvin has been appoint
ed postmistress at East Hubbard.
The dairy schoolsat the state agri
cultural college opened Thursday
with 46 pupils. The class is limitec
to so.
Rev. j. E. Bruce Of Poultney ha'
rendered his resignation as pastor o.
the Baptist church of that place, tt
take effect in March.
During recent high wind thu
barn of Mr.. Whitcomb of Townsend
collapsed. Eight sheep were killed
and his oxen and cattle were some
what injured.
The Senate last week passed bill
appropriating $4,000 for the recon
struction of the postotfice and custom
house building at st. Adams, which
was destroyed by fire last May.
The New England Telephone and
Telegraph company is setting new IL
wire poles between Wells River and
st. Johnsbury and will soon have the
line perfected between there and Bos.
ton.
R. M. Sherman, son of Newfane
has resigned his connection with the
Vermont Loan and Trust company
and has located at Sanders, B. c.,
where he is interested in a silver
mine.
William III. Button of Middlebury
arrived in Washington last week and
was installed as clerk to the Senate
committee on agriculture, of which
Senator Proctor is the chairman. Mr.
Button is staying for the present al
the Hotel Page.
Miss Ethel Dalton of Brattleboro
sailed from New York on the Ger.
mania, January 9Th, for Genoa, and
will spend the winter in the south OF
France with two Boston ladies. The
three will make the trip from Genoa
into France by bicycles.
Lawrence Baldwin of Chester was
arrested recently, charged with forg.
ing three checks on Proctorsville
bank. The checks were made paya.
BILE to Charles Howe. AT the trial
which followed the arrest he was sen.
fenced to three and one-half years in
the house of correction at Rutland.
Frank Guild of Greensboro has
closed his work at Wesleyan univer-
sity and has gone to his labors in the
far West. He has accepted a pro-
fessorship in the college of Montana,
located at Deer Lodge, west of Helena.
He has charge of the chemical depart
ment and will teach chemistry and
other scientific branches.
Timely discovery of fire in N. l..
Hawley's dry goods establishment at
Brattleboro last week Thursday prob
ably prevented serious conflaglation
in the Brooks block, in which the
store is located. The fire is supposed
to have been caused by spark from u
Wclsbach gas burner which flew from
the fixture when the light was turned
off.
James Davis, aged 26, was killed
Thursday afternoon at the shipping
room of the Fall Mountain Paper
company ut Bellows Falls. In load
ing a GO0-pound roll of paper
into a car he slipped and fell from
the platform under the car and the
roll came on top of him, crushing him.
He was to be married in few
weeks.
A peculiar accident happened in
the kitchen of the Congregational
church at Rutland Monday morning
of last week which made things lively
for few moments. 1t seemed that
ice had formed in the stovepipe and
when a fire was built an explosion
took place and the stove was scattered
in pieces. A stove cover was lifted TO
the ceiling.
During the recent heavy winds the
old Westinghouse at ''The Kingdom"
in Plymouth, Windsor county, was
Frustrated on the common. This
house was built in 1916 and has
weathered the storm of nearly 80 win
ters but no repairs have been made on
it for over 80 years, and it had SO far
decayed that the terrible gale fellcd it
with crash.
The buildings in Ludlow recently
presented to the Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows of Vermont by j. S. Gill are
being gradually remodeled and
adapted to their new purpose. Sixty
one lodges and other organizations
have applied to furnish one OF more
rooms. 1t is expected that they will
be dedicated the day after the next
annual session in May.
Emma Louise circuit, the novelist,
is a Lyndon woman, born in the
Methodist parsonage little prior to
1910. The Boston Traveller says Of
her: "Emma Louise circuit, the COM
ing novelist of New England, is d res
dent of Chicopee, Mass. Her new
novel will rival in popularity, il the
Judgment of competent critics goes
sor aught, the works of Kipling,
Doyle, Harte, wilkins, Caine and