Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-04-16
The rcce;nts OF The Rutland postof-


Y The receipts OF the Rutland postof
! fee for the year ending March 81, OF
the basis of which the allowances ant
\ postmaster's salary are regulated 10
the fiscal year commencing July l
: were over $4,000. This makes an in
crease OF 3d. 900 over the same periot
Of the preceding year.
Ex-Gov. G. w. Hendee OF Morris
vile has inst received from the police
department OF Washington, d. c., Q
package Of papers, not OF much value
! that were abstracted from his pocket
by professional pickpocket while nc
was in Washington at the time OF the
Harrison inauguration.
The women of Bennington are ar
ranging to issue paper soon. 1t will
be a 24-page paper with four columns
to a page, each IA inches long. Il is
to be issued but once and the edition
will consist of historical, political and
interesting and entertaining matter.
The proceeds will be used for the ben
eft OF the free kindergarten school re-
Gently established.
The two hotels at Essex junction,
the Folsom and the johnson, are closed
as results of recent liquor seizures. This
is the outcome of a movement started
last fall, and about the first instance
of the Hotel Keepers association play
| ing a part in the liquor traffic. Mr..
johnson, who owns the hotel bearing
his name, is president of the above
named association.
Friday morning Napoleon Richards
of Barre, while driving two heavy
truck horses of VIM. Bramford, mar
|rowly escaped death by fall of dirt
into the hi ghway leading from there
to Montpelier near Jones Brothers
shed. The horses-were instantly killed
but the driver was uniniurcd. The
road was blocked for passage.
/ Arrangements have been made with
the Fletcher Granite company OF st.
Adams whereby they furnish money
enough TO complete the Hard wick and
Woodbury. road TO the top of the
mountain. This ensures the operation
OF the road in the shipment Of the
large amount of granite which the
Fletcher company are to get out to fill
a contract for a dam at Holyoke, Mass.
Honora McCarty of Bennington cell
ebrated her l05th birthday Sunday,
April S. She is yet in good health,
and, with the aid OF granddaughter,
does the work in a family OF five. She
! was born in Ireland but has been in
this country many years. Every sum-
mer she walks once or twice from her
home five miles to Bennington,and at
tends mass at st. Francis de Sales
church.
Mrs. j. p. Waterman of Peacham
makes the dairy business pay. From
January to March 30 her herd OF IA
cows has yielded l,400 pounds of but
ter, beside the large amount Of milk
and cream that has been used in her
family of four persons. This is an
average of 100 pounds to a COW, and
the price averaged % centsa pound.So
each COW cleared S23 for her owner in
one year.
Charles Tuttle Of West Dover was
obliged to play Robinson Crusoe for a
short time last week. He was rolling
logs into the river when he slipped in
and was carried by the current to a
small island some distance away. His
sons got long rope. and attaching it
to piece of wood, floated it to the
end of the island. futile tied the rope
around his waist and was drawn to
the shore. He suffered no serious con-
sequences from his accident.
John Butler Smith, who was elected
governor OF New Hampshire in 1892,
was native OF Saxton's River, and it
is now announced that the county will
furnish another candidate for the po-
sition inthe person OF DR.. ia. Greene
Of Greene's Nervura fame, who was
born in Nottingham in l845. He was
educated in the schools of Boston and
the Ohio Medical institute at Cincin-
natl, and in 1861 set out from Boston
for the West with SO in his pocket. |
lie brought up at Pixies Peak and
there enlisted in Company Il, LIST Col
orado cavalry. After the war he re-
turned East. He has a beautiful home
on the shores Of Lake Winnipiscogec,
and there he entertains lavishIy. He |
is member OF the Grand Army, Odd |
Fellows. Knights of Pythias, Masons
and Amoskeag veterans. lie is tinan-
cially interested in many New Hamp-
shire enterprises and also those of 9TH
er states. q. A. Ramsdell of Nashua
will be the leading candidate in OPP
position to DR.. Greene for the guber-
nomination.
New Use for Petroleum.
Varied as have been the products secured