Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-03-05
State Of Vermont.
10 News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

~ Nows condemned and Rewritten fol
Our Readers.
A Jamaica man gathered 8 or IL
lively grasshoppers On his farm few
days ago.
The bankers of the state will NEE,
at Montpelier March rs to form a state
organization.
Beatrice Hitchcock of Rutland,
artist, died recently at Rome, Italy
aged 26 years.
During the year 1895, 3O3 births
265 deaths and 10 marriages were re.
corded in the Rutland city clerks
Office.
The postoffice department on March
LIST increased the service to twelve
times week between East Barre and
Barre.
The Methodist church at Brown
vile has just received repairs to the
amount Of $4,000. This church has
been in existence over 95 years.
There were admitted to the Mary
Fletcher hospital last year is patients,
OF whom A29 were charity patients.
The daily average of patients was SO.
Ensign George G. Day, U. S. N,
formerly Of Bradford, is now in charge
of guard from the u. S. S.
"Machias," for the U. S. Legation at
Seoul, Corca.
William G. Harris of Windsor has
returned from Paris, where he shas
been studying art for several years,
and will make his headquarters at
Windsor for the present.
A charming poem by Rev. Alfred
]. Hough, entitled, "The Dream Of
the Stream" is one of the attractive
features in. the Washington's birthday
number of the Youths Companion.
George r. Miner, formerly of Man
chester, who is on the staff Of the New
York Herald, has received cable.
gram from Bennett to 60 to Geneva
ON business connected with the paper.
OF the patents granted last week
the following were to Vermonters:
Harvey Stone, Cambridge, for an
ironing table, and Benjamin +.
Whelden, Ludlow, for a heating
stone.
The annual report of the town of
Woodstock shows the Indebtedness of
the town to be SlO,5S6.S9 less than
one year ago, the present net indebt-
edness being S57 ,045, of which the
amount Of $50, 100 is bonded.
Prof. Kidder, of the class of ~, for
several years the oldest living gradu-
ate of Middlebury college, died at his
home in Huntington, Pa, the early
part of the month. Throughout his
life he had been actively engaged
along educational lines.
The property Of the Green Noun
tain Summer Home company, which
includes Camp Comfort, Big Pond
and several large tracts Of forest land
in Woodford, will be sold at auction
unless the interest on the bonded debt
of the company be paid before March
10.
Rev. Dir. L. w. Parker. native Of
st. Johnsbury, who has been for many
years missionary in India, has been
chosen delegate from India to the
general conference of M. e. churches
which meets at Cleveland in May. DIR.
and Mrs. Parker expect to leave India
March 2lst.
Pres. H. Il. Fuller of Drury college,
Springfield, Mo-, former principal
of st. Johnsbury academy, has re-
ceived check for S25, 900 from Dr.. D.
X. Pearsons of Chicago. The total
endowment of Drury college now, in
elusive of buildings and grounds, is
nearly S250,000.
A. N. johnson of North Springfield
met with quite a serious accident re-
Gently. While attempting to split
wood with an iron wedge, the timber
being frozen, the wedge flew out,
him in the face, demolishing
a set Of false upper teeth and cutting
quite cash in his upper jaw.
J. l.. Winchell of Fair Haven, pro-
prietor of the Green Mountain Ken
nels, lost from heart disease his valua-
bic dog, Champion. This dog had
never been beaten as a man trailer or
on the show bench. At the West
minister Kennel club shows in 1890,
1892. 1893, 1894 and 1895 he won first
prizes. Last week Mr.. Winchell's
two mastiffs, Black Prince Brompton
and Miss Constable, won first prizes in
each Of their classes at the New York
show.
Suit is brought against the town OF
Brattleboro, says the Reformer, by di-
of Gov. Woodbury. and State
Auditor Hale, for the liquor agency
profits for the year ending Feb. !,
1895. which the town declined to pay
on the ground that the law was un'
The law which was
passed by the Legislature Of 1894 and
went into effect Feb. l, 1898, required
towns to pay to the state all the profits
above 10 per cent on the liquor busl-
ness not only in the future but ior inc