Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-01-30

81 The Universalist church Of St. A
bans has extended a call to Rev. a. !
; Booth, q son Of Rev. !. T. Booth 9
Morrisville. Mr.. Booth has recent
} been graduated from the Canton, \
Y, Theological school.
!. A plan is on foot for reDrganizin
! the Brattleboro Jelly Co. The schem
! is to organize n joint stock companf
! with q capital Of $50, 900, divided int
shares OF 800 each. The concern is
local industry which has done the pas
J wear the largest business in its history
about $50, 900.
Capt. Dinsmore Of the U.V.M. base
. ball team has returned to the medica
. college and has ordered the candidate
, Il for the ball team to report for prelim
mary training. Five Of last year
team are eligible for positions ant
plenty of good men arc to be found il
the freshman class and medical col
)legc.
The trustees of the Vermont Indus
trial school, Hon. Charles H. Lane
Hon. G. G.. Peck and Hon. N. w
| Fiske, made their semi-annual vista
ton there last week. Gov. Woodbury.
was with the trustees. The school now
contains 100 boys and Ii girls all in Q
healthy condition, and have been free
from all epidemics this year.
] Brainerd Avery, son of Rev. DR.,
Avery, pastor of the Baptist church at
st. Adams, who has been Senator
Proctor's private secretary the past
three years, has recently been pro-
NOTED to the very responsible position
OF secretary Of the senate committee
on agriculture and forestry. This is
one of the more important committees
of the senate.
Cyril Lussier brought down pike
weighing II Ia pounds, on Saturday,
which he caught, with a little help,
through the ice in the lower pond at
Plymouth. The pike was handed up
after lively tussle, the fishermen hav-
ing some trouble in getting him
through the hole, which was not
quite large enough for a fish Of that
size. He was caught in about four
feet of water Woodstock Age.
If reports be true, large manufac-
turing plant will SOON be established
in the brick factory at the south end
of the village, and granite sheds erect
ed on the site OF the old fodndry. Pa
pers have been drawn for the lease of
the factory building to II. S. Wilson,
trustee, for term Of ten years for
1000 year. The same parties are
said to be negotiating for the lease Of
the Machine Co.'s plant, and If every
thing works right another three
months may sec large manufacture
ing business in full blast. Windsor
journal.
In Garfield Stoke Pogis, the Billings
farm at Woodstock is said to have the
greatest butter sire in the world. His
twenty-six daughters have records
from IA to % pounds in seven days.
Mr. Aiken, manager OF the Billings
farm, considers him the best Jersey
bull living to-day, and expects him to
beat his famous sire Exile Of st. Lam
bert, who died recently. The Billings
farm has sold sixteen Young bulls the
past season, some going to head the
best herds in the country. Among
recent shipments from this herd was
heifer, Garfield's Pet, which goes to
Milwaukee.
A fatal accident occurred at East
Concord recently. George Streeter,
who was working for George Morse,
went to the landing on the banks of
the Connecticut river tounload some
logs. Being gone longer than usual,
Mr. Morse went to look for him and
found him dead with a log across his
stomach. His canthook lay beside the
sled. As he was all alone no one will |
ever know just how the accident hap
pened, but it looked as if after start |
ing the log from the sled he started to
run but stopped to look back, when |
the log caught and crushed him. He
was unmarried and was about 80
years Of age.
From a letter OF very recent date
just received by a Morrisville business
man, it appears that G. +. Sweeney, a
former Morrisville boy, who still owns
his birthplace in that village, is in
rather serious circumstances in lava
ma, Cuba. Sweeney has for several
years been an expert telegraph opera
tor, doing cable work in Mexico, Flor
ida, Texas and Cuba, and at the time
of the great yellow fever scare in Jack
'onville few years since took the
places and extra work vacated by
operators stricken down with the dis
Ease, and stuck to the work until he
100 became a victim, but survived the
horrors Of ''yellow jack" For some
line Sweeney has held an Important
position on the cable end at Havana.
,ut now through the ms and outs of
he rebellion, together with the fact
hat he has been through severe i'll
less, and that he and his family have
net with serious losses in the exciting
INES through which Cuba is passing,
lie is left pennieSs and Is irving IN cot ,