Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-02-20

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| Bellows Falls is trying to gets free
postal delivery Office.
| p. G. Parmenter has been nomi-
mated postmaster at Mechanicsville.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wilson Of
Danville celebrated their golden we'd
ding Wednesday Of last week. Mr..
Wilson was the first chief Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, holding the Office ten years.
The large factory building occupied
by the Vermont Spool and Bobbin
Co. at Essex Junction, was burned
with oil its contents last week Wednes-
day night. Loss about $ll 900. 1t is
a severe blow to that place as % men
are thrown out Of employment.
The sudden disappearance Of Frank
J. Burt Of Lyndon, who has made his
residence at st. Johnsbury, has caused
considerable excitement. He was last
seen in the vicinity of Swanton and
some think, from indications, that he
was drowned in Lake Champlain.
VIM. Crawford of Mount Tabor
met with painful accident Jan. %,
which resulted in his death Tuesday
morning. He was at work in the yard
at ST.. Griffith's mill at the south end,
and his foot became caught in such a
manner that the flesh was taken from
his heel and the bottom of his foot.
| Three logs cut in Monkton and
sawed in Fisher, Young IL Co. s mill
at Vergennes are the largest ones ever
seen in that section, and there is but
one other mill in the state where they
could have been sawed. One log
weighed 1920 pounds, was 3S inches
in diameter, ID feet long and cut S75
feet of lumber; another weighed 5000
pounds, was 80 inches in diameter, 10
feet long and cut $50 feet of lumber,
and the third was As inches in dame
ter, Is feet long and cut 7S4 feet of
| lumber.
The stores at Burlington next to
Drew's meat market, lately occupied
by Ward u Boucher and the Star
restaurant, were formerly saloons.
They were proof against searches.
The other day the workmen were tear
ing away a partition in the cellar
when they found-not a barrel of
money-but three barrels of beer,
neatly CONNECTED with pipe and APP
paratus for drawing. Two of the
barrels contained large quantity and
the third was nearly full. 1t is more
than six years since there was saloon
there and the beer, of course, is not SO
fresh as it was once.
Henry Bathric of Grafton had an
uncomfortable experience during the
storm of Thursday, Feb. 6. The road
leading to the farm of Frank WEIGH
passes along the hill above and behind
Mr.. Bathric's house. The melting
snow mast have formed dam nearly
opposite, until quite pond had gath
cred, when the snow banks gave way
and the water swept down on the
house, bursting in the kitchen door,
flooding that room and the shed and |
outbuildings The family and stock
were removed to neighbours in safety
but it was a close call for the pig,
which scrambled to the highest spot in
the pen and was pulled through
window.
A man named Harris, who was in
volved in the Cold river murder affair
several years ago, was arrested Oh Al
derman Bourne's coal track behind the !.
freight house at Rutland at 9 o'clock
Saturday evening, Feb. s. Some time
previous Harris had gone into an
empty Fitchburgh freight car, partly
closed the door and dropped into
drunken sleep. An officer who was
on duty near by discovered smoke is
suing from the car and opening the
door found Harris lying on the floor
and at one end Of the car blaze that
had. caught from Harris pipe. The
man would have suflocated had he
been left many minutes, more. While
the officer was putting out the fire,
Harris ran, but was caught later.
A Bennington man named VIM.
Hay, who has been in the habit of go
ing on periodical sprees for several
years, and who was head carpenter for
Contractor Eff. Boyd, has gone wrong.
Three years ago he took the liquor
cure, reformed and joined the Baptist
church, but lapsed into his old habits I
and has recently been on drunk for
i month. He had charge of building
The new village hall at North Ben
nington and went over to that place |
Saturday, Feb. 8, and made a settle
ment with the committee, taking a t
check payable to Mr.. Boyd, which he !
look to the bank, endorsed it for Mr.. |
Boyd, per VIM. Hay, agent, got the :
money and skipped. Mr.. Boyd says
le will not follow him, as the bank is |
and the bank people say Z
hey will see whether they are or not.
The Cong'l church at Hartford, /.
which is not in the easiest financial ,,
just now because of the
of Ephraim Morris sup !.
port, is making an effort to secure a
egacy of 81 900 left it in 1868. Ed.
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