Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-03-26

The Londonderry library is soon t
have an addition of % volumes G
new books.
The selccimen or the town OF R,l
land have decided 10 discontinue III
town liquor agency.
II The village OF Brattleboro has ], ls
children Of school age, Of whom 60
are girls, and 564 boys.
4 The farmers OF South Vernon ar,
trying to induce the Brattleboro Jell.
company to move lis establishment e
that place. If the movement to in
crease the capital and business OF. tht
company is successful il will probably
remain in Bratileboro.
Stratton lost is oldest resident
March 9TH in the death Of Mrs. Sally
Jones. Her age was ninety two years.
Mrs. Jones comes Of lcng-lived race,
her father living TO the age OF l04
years. She has a brother, Jonathan
Babcock, who breaks colts and does
work OF that sort and whose age is near
ly ninety.
Friday at Burlington fhe executive
committee of the Young Mems Repub-
lican club of Vermont held a meeting
together with the chairman of the
state committee. Col. II. II. Morse. the
president of the club, presided. Meth
DDS Of the coming campaign were
discussed. 1t was planned TO hold
two or three large meetings in differ
ent sections of the state. These meet
ings will probably be held in Rutland,
st. Johnsbury and Bellows Fails and
with the two conventions in Burling-
ton and Montpelier, are supposed to
have a marked effect upon the com
ing campaign.
Moranville, one of the jurors in the
case of the state OF Vermont against
Chase and Mrs. Holloway for the
poisoning OF the lafter's husband in
Orleans county court last September,
was last wcak sentenced to three
months imprisonment in The county
jail for contempt Of court III express
ing an opinion in regard to the
case which he said that he had not
when examined for the jury, thereby
causing the state an expense Of over
$4,000 in the second trial OF Chase
and claimed by many TO have caused
such a decision in The trial where
Mrs. Holloway was acquitted and
Chase convicted on the same tesli-
mony.
The percgrinations of an antique
clock which originally belonged 10
Giles Chittenden, son of Ncrmont's
first governor and brother Of Martin
Chittenden, member of Congress
from Vermont, are very interesting.
This clock, which came into the pos
session OF Mrs. Isaac 4. Hyde, late OF
Arlington, a daughter Of Giles Chit
tenden, was loaned 10 a family friend
some twenty years since, who took itI
TO Buffalo, n. y, where il remained
several years, when the family in
whose possession it was removed TO
Asheviile, n. G. After a time il
passed into other hands and went 10
Georgia and thenceto Pensacola, Fla,
whore after q general search it was
found ana sent 10 Claremoni, N. II.
From thence il was returned 10 Ar |
lingion, where it is now 1T The Hyde |
where three OF The direct |
descendants OF the original owner re-
side. This clock is l25 year, old and
stands in cherry case seven feet high,
which has been thoroughly repaired |
and restored to is original condition
BY an expert mechanic.
The statistics from the Congrcga
Iional churches in the state, as fur
nished TO the compiler or The year
book, show that the year 1895 was an
prosperous one among the
churches OF that denomination. i. Re-
ports were received from every church.
Forty of the churches in the state are
served by installed pastors, ll5 BY
pastors that are not installed, II by
supplies, Is by licentiates and minis
crs Of other denominations and 10 are
yacant. This showing is somewhat
better than that for 1894. The total
membership January |, 1896, was H.
543, a gain of 400 during the year. OF
his number 4, l3l are now residents,
which is 43 less than last year. There
we're 1926 additions, $50 being by |
and 449 by letter. The to.
al number of removals was 1858, $50
~ death, 448 by letter and los by dis
.ipline. The excess of additions over
he losses were 399. There were 22,-
so Sunday school scholars reported,
/ gain of 476 during the year. The
lverage attendance was II, 716. There
we're lac Christian Endeavor societies I
eported, with a membership of 1921,
IS against III societies and 1875
members the year before. Benevolent
amounted to $58,697,
n increase of 81 ,403 over the preced-
ng year. Home expenditures were
,2U4, 223, a sum less by S4,Il2 than in ;
lie year 1894. Six churches omitted
his statement in their annual report; |
6, $50 families are under, the care of ]
he church, a gain Of Cos. During I
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