Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-06

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ISOLATION will hold its summer scho
z at Springfield.
The town of Newbury has accepte
the offer of S5, 900 memorial librar
made by Miss Tenney.
| Victoria Notwithstanding, VIII
started the fashion OF clipping wit
coachmen, is now in St. Joseph's col
vent in Rutland.
The Norwich University alumni a.
ISOLATION will hold its annual meetin
at the United States hotel in Bostor
Friday evening, Feb IA. Several q
the professors expect to attend.
/ ID. z. Rich, Of st. Adams, unit
recently brakeman, attempted sui
lcide at Rutland last week BY takin,
morphine. He will recover and as
signs the cause as family troubles.
! A representative of the Knicker
booker Ice company of New York wa
in Ticonderoga last week markin.
out ice on Lake Champlain, the ic,
crop on the Hudson being failure.
Herbert Sias OF Barre has sued til,
Consolidated Elertric Light company
OF Montpelier for $40, 900 damages fol
injuries alleged to have been sustained
last fall by falling from pole belong,
ing to the defendants.
Thaddeus Spencer, aged 4s, who
was badly burned in escaping from
the Avenue House fire at st. Johns.
bury Sunday, Jan. 26,, died Tuesday
morning. He always lived there and
was for 20 years a jeweler and kept
the largest store of its kind in Yer
mont.
Another Green Mountain industry
was born last week. Articles of asso-
citation of the Lunenburgh Manufac-
turing company were filed with Sec
rotary of State Brownell. The pur-
pose of the companyis to manufacture
burial cases, and the capital stock is
$4,000 divided into 100 shares.
The slate dealers of Fair Haven
have formed combine to protect the
slate industry Of Fair Haven and the
surrounding section. Prices have
been cut down Of late. The combina-
ton now organized will put an end to
it and an. established scale of prices
will be adhered to. This is expected
to enliven and increase the slate trade.
A number of Burlington capitalists
have organized the Vermont Con.
tensed Milk company with capital
Of $4,000. The factory will be To-
Gated at North Williston and the Off
,es in Burlington. The capacity of
The plant will be about 200 cases OF
condensed milk per day and opera
lions will be begun in early summer.
Six of the eight subscribers are inem-
oers of the Wells & Richardson Co.
Mrs. Martha Perkins Sawyer, Wild
wv of the late Jonathan Sawyer, who
lied recently in her s0th year, was
porn in Barnard, VT, in 1916, married
It the age of FL, and had lived in
Dover, N. H., since 1850. Mrs. Saw
Ter was the mother of ex.Gov. Chas.
/. Sawyer Of New Hampshire, r. ID.
sawyer, an artist Of promise, who re-
emily died in Rome, the late Francis
\. Sawyer OF Boston and Frederick
!. Sawyer, also of Boston.
Frank M. Northrop of Wayne, Neb.,
J candidate for the Republican
omination for Congress from the
bird district in his state. The dis
riot is overwhelmingly Republican
nd the nomination will be equiva-
mt to an election. Mr.. Northrop
,as born in Fairfield and is about As
ears of age. He was admitted to the
ar at st. Adams in September 1880,
nd left at once for Nebraska, where
G has grown up with his community
nd state. He stands high in the esti-
lation OF his fellow citizens there, and |
he prospects for his nomination are
God.
DR.. j. L. Thomson and Homer L.
[oag of Rutland have recently made
,me important purchases at East
ittsford, including the so-called Ed
N mill privilege and other real estate
nd water rights ON East Creek in
lat vicinity. Surveys and plans have
ready been made, looking to the
Improvement and development of this
,luable water power, on which work
i'll be begun Immediately. The
over at East Pittsford will be used c
lrtly at that place and partly in Rnt- {
nd, the transmission being by means
electricity. Some of this power has |
ready been contracted for manufac- i
ring purposes. j
AT their closing session the YER |
ont Beekeepers' Association at its 9
Getting held at Burlington last week y
,cted officers as follows: President, 3
w. Scott of Barre; vice presidents, .
ddison county, Miss M. A. Douglass s
Shoreham; Chittenden county, ID. y
Howe of Burlington; Franklin a
unity, f. M. Wright of East Enos- 9
rgh; Lamoille county, j. w.
NTH of Moscow; Orange county, M. a
Cram Of West Brook field; Rutland \
unity, V. f. Forbes Of West Haven; n
,retary, O. j. Lowrey of Jericho; a
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