Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-11-18
General Vermont News.


Gently. aged %.
The new marble mill at Middlebury is
nearing completion.
10 Brown of Randolph captured small
black bear in his trap.
John W. LawtOn of Wilmington died re-
Gently in Florida, aged GS.
A tornado blew down fourteen telegraph
poles in Coventry recently.
A Cornwall man has sold three sheep to
60 to Australia for SIS each.
Joseph H. Loring, well-Snown business
man oi Bennington, is Gead.
The steamer Chateauguay has carried 49,
900 barrels of apples this season.
Mrs. Hattie Culver Chamberlain of Que
chee died recently, aged 80 years.
The work of rebuilding the burnt section
in South Ryegate has commenced.
George W. Grandv of Company VI is able
to be out again after his long illness.
The silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Z.
Adams ofPOmfret WAS celebrated recently.
Two pet dogs belonging to Rev. Norman
Seaver of Montpelier. have been poisoned.
Hank White OF Felchville, the old time
minstrel, hangs out his card as an auction
eer.
Mrs. L. D. Merrill Of East Albany owns q
cactus that has 347 buds on it and more to
follow.
George Cutler OF East Montpelier, aged 50
years, committed suicide by hanging re-
Gently
John $ Sheppard, formerly of South Roy.
alton. has Just died at Nineland, \. j., aged
SO years.
st. Johnsbury is talking off 1900 bridge
to connect it with its fiOurishing suburb,
Someryile.
The annual charity ball for the benefit OF
the Heaton hospital At Montpelier VIII Do
held Nov. 10.
The creamery building In West Glover
was burned recently. The origin OF the hre
is not known.
Rev. NJ. l.. Woolsey OF Manchester. n. H.,
has accepted a call to the Episcopal church
at Nergennes.
H. c. Gleason of Burlington has been
sued BY his partner to force an accounting
for some $4,000
The golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
AlOuZo A. Averil of Woodstock, was cele-
bratcd recently
The family of General j. q. Mccullough
of North Bennington. have returned to New
York for the winter.
Henry Jones. an employe of the Vermont
Marble Co. at Proctor, had foot crushed in
the quarry recently.
Milton F. Perry of Wardsboro has been
sued by the town for a settlement OF his ac-
count as tax collector in 1898.
The assistant postmaster at New Orleans
is a DummerstOn boy. E. 5. Stoddard. He
has lived in that city since 1862.
Postmaster Shedd of Montpelier has had
a slight hemorrhage of the lungs, but his
illness is not considered dangerous.
A gang of sixteen young thieves that has
been stealing from freight cars, stores, etc.,
at Northheld has just been broken up.
The Roy Bros. of East Barnet are doing a
big business making croquet sets They
used II tons of wire for wickets last season.
A little girl asked for Barre all burned
by L. p. Roe, at the Kellogg library. Mont
pelier, recently. She got Barriers, Burned
Away
One hundred and twenty thousand pounds
of cider apples were recently shipped from
Woodstock. They brought 20 cents per 100
pounds.
The increase in the amount of granite
shipped from Hardwck goes on steadily.
There is no better Indication OF prosperity
than this fact.
A. W. Spafford of Rutland, recently OF the
First Vermont, has been appointed chief
freight clerk i'll The depot OF the B.& Ii. rail-
road at Rutland.
Leonard NJ Sherman. formerly Of Wind
sor. has just died at Hartman Tenn. .where
h. went some three wears ago for his health.
He was 43 years Old.
n. johnson, one of Albany's oldest citi-
zens. on his S5th birthday not only held the
plOw, but also drove Il team to break up a
number Of rods OF land.
The ties will be got out and delivered this
., . ,.ia .tri. raj ilrNpH IbnnIt-
ney to Middletown springs and the road will
be built early next season.
Conductor Connors got badly hurt at New
port recently. While making up train
boy threw a stone from sling which struck
him in the eye, cutting it badly.
The Sutton Mari company has $50 cylin-
ders of gas on hand. which will last to I'LL
orders through the winter. The company
expect to start up again III May.
According to the Randolph Herald IL o:
the state papers are for prohibition as 1t Is,
13 are for high lcense,twO are for referen-
DUN, and II are nOn-commtta!.
H NJ, Harvey has pair of crossed sabres
which went through the Cuban campaign.
They were presented to him by Capt. +. ii.
Hardy of the Third l. 5. cavalry.
The executive committee of the Vermont
| Dairymen's association met at Montpelier
anu uttlutu W HOll tlS aulLuhl ulONtlbS
| St Johnsbury the first week in January.
Barre has just shipped the largest base
ever made to Covington, ky. 1t measured
| IA feet inches by IA feet inches and was
| Is inches thick. 1t weighed $4,000 ponnds.
Friends and neighbors to the Ium yer OF
| about zoo surprised Mr.. and Ms. +. L..
| Davis of Pomfret, recently and spent most
| enjoyable evening with them leaving many
| tokens of esteem.
Castleton has recently lest by death two OF
| its oldest and most respected business men,
James Adams and D. Wilder. The former
! was a prominent slate manufacturer; the
latter was 50 years old.
The Heaton hospital annex in Montpelier
is about completed, adding five new private
rooms and eight beds to tho accomm oda-
tons The hospital now has ten private
rooms and nineteen ward beds.
The Barre Daily Telegram has been test
ing the sentiment of tlmt city in a voting
contest between prohibition and local op,
| ton. The vote stood: Prohibition l30, local
option 30l. Barre has nearly 5000 voters.
Robert Cushman of Montpelier has been
| selected as one of five lawyers to act as in
structor of pleading in an evening law school
in Boston just started under the supervision
| of the law department. of Harvard and Bos-
, ton universities.
Persis Davis of Barnard is the owner of a
ring which bears the date 1889 1t is u val
liable heirloom, having descended in each
Instance to one bearing the name Perss
Davis. 1t is dated 1889, the year in which
Washington became president.
Three or four of the members of company
! d of st. Johnsbury INDUCED in celebration
| after they were mustered out last week
| which came vecy near destroying the equi-
librium of that good town. A Chinaman
narrowly escaped being hanged. Rum did
| it.
James Guilmette of st. Johnsbury. a sol.
dier in the regular army has been pre-
sented by his friends with costly solid gold
medal In token Of their appreciation of his
courage and loyalty while with his regiment