Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-22
State of Vermont.
its News Condensed and Rewritten for
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| Our Readers.
A society of Sons and Daughters @
| Vermont was organized at Nashua
| n. H., last week with so members
Il. j. Libbey of Newport lost pal
of valuable horses last week by havin.
them run over by the cars. His sleC
and harness were also badly smashed
In the case of State VS.. Georg,
steel and Lillian Ellis of Roxbury fol
the blanket act in the Washington
county court, the jury rendered yer.
dict last Friaay evening of guilty
Judge Rowell sentenced Ibon both tC
Two years in tie house of correction
It Rutland.
News has been received by Brattle.
poro friends that to Mrs. Harriet Bra.
zor Pratt has come the honor of being
one of the MANY distinguished singers
who have been invited b, tyu,
Fictoria's representative to sing on
he occasion of the great .j,nil,e.
June p, celebrating the Goth anpise,
airy of the Queens accession TO the
throne.
Col. William l.. Brown of New
York city, the great leader of Tam
many Hall al the present time, is a
native OF Rutland. A New York
Journal says of Col. Brown: Gle Is
very truculent over the assaults that
have been made on Tammany Hall
and he indicates that this thing has
got to cease or somebody will get nso
trouble.
Griffith & Mcintyre Of Mount Ia
Dor completed on Tuesday the winters
work Of getting out lumber During
the season the company has gotten out
from the forests OF Dandy and Mount
Tabor, ), OOO, 600 feet; from Peru 3, 900, :
600 feet; from Arlington, 1000, GOO
feet and from Mendon, 2,000,0 600 feet
The total, II, 0OO,0 600 feet, is about the
annual output Of the company.
Martin S. Villas of Winooski, a
graduate OF the University of YER
mont in 1894, has been engaged by
the Montpelier school commissioners
TO supply during the remainder Of the
year the position of principal Of the
high school, made vacant by the
death of Prof. 5. J. Blanpied. This
will give the board an abundance Of
time for considering numerous appli-
cations for the permanent position of
principal now in their hands.
While the records Of the Masonic
lodge at Poultney were being looked
over n few days ago book was found
giving an account Of the old lodge,
which was established at East Poult-
ncy in 1907 and numbered . mem-
bers. Through the anti-Masonic
strife in 1926 the lodge was suspend
ed and the last record is in lo26.
The lodge was subsequently organ
lied and numbered 81 members.
Among the most prominent mem-
bers was William Miller, who held q
high position. Miller was the foun-
der Of the sect OF Millerites or Second
Adyentists, and in 1888 began to
lecture on the speedy second coming
Of Christ and prophesied the end OF
the world in 1873.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob l.. White re-
Gently celebrated their golden we'd
ding at Springfield, Mass. Mr..
White is ~ years of age, is "a descend
ant in the fourth generation of Pat
rick White, who came 10 this country
from Ireland about lao and settled
at Peterboro, n. II. Mrs, Whites
maiden name was Sarah Mather
Howard. She was daughter of jon
athan Howard Of Marlboro, Wind
ham county, Vt. She is = direct de
scendant of Cotton Mather of Boston
colonial DAYS. Ten children have
been born to them, six of whom are
living. A priced souvenir of the
earlier days had prominent place in
the parlor IL was the candlestick
which held the candle by which the
couple did their courting years ago in
Vermont. Many valu-
able gifts were received by them.
Once the foremost medical college
in Vermont passing into disusc on
the removal TO a new building-and
now again occupied by students I'M
able to find accommodation in the
rooms of the present
college building; such is the brief
history for the last half century of the
old medical college, known at pres
ent as the Experiment Station. The
old college bears the date of 1924 and
was used from that time until the gift
of John p. Howard made the present
medical college building available.
So Successful has been the system fol-
lowed by the faculty that now there
is not room for the work of all the
students and DIR. 10 II. Linsley, in an
endeavor to find better accommoda-
tions for his large class, has conceived
the plan of again utilizing the former
college.