Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-11-17
State of Vermont.


There are on cases OF measles In
Danville.
Middlebury is to have new laun-
dry soon.
Whooping cough is epidemic in
Winooski.
There are now $50 prisoners in the
house of correction at Rutland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Gregory Smith
of St. Adams have sailed for Genoa,
Italy.
Edward Enright of Montpelier
broke his left arm while wrestling re-
Gently.
A building association has been Or
ganized at Chester with F. w. Pierce
as president.
A tramp was arrested at Bellows
Falls recently for stealing copper wire
from dynamo.
A hunting party from Glover went
to Lowelltown, Me-, recently and
captured seven deer.
The annual banquet of Mt Sinai
Temple, Mystic Shriners, will be held
at the Pavilion Nov. II.
The barn of Frank Plumley of
Northficld was destroyed by fire last
week. Loss about 5000.
Harry Weston of Montpelier had
his collar bone broken last week in a
practice game Of football.
A concrete walk has been built from
Pittsford to Pittsford Mills by private
parties at a cost of $1,000.
The annual charity ball for the ben
eft of the Heaton hospital at Mont
pelier will be held Nov. l6.
The steamer Cbateauguay has car
ried $4,000 barrels of apples this sea-
son, about the usual number.
St. Johnsbury is talking of $780,
900 bridge to connect it with its
flourishing suburb, Summerville.
Sheffield has experienced genuine
revival under the preaching of DIR.
Duffum and Is have been converted.
In the Rutland county court two
farmers were fined for selling hard
cider, one $34.2l and the other $45.6l.
The Starksboro co operative cream
cry receives about $500 lbs. of milk
daily and paid 80 cents hundred for
milk.
Ned Larkin was severely injured at
Chester recently by the breaking
down of staging on which he was |
painting.
Henry Jones, who Is working in the
marble yard at Proctor, got his right
foot crushed under the wheel of the |
travelling crane.
Rev. DIR. w. j. Harris, no has
been state missionary for six years, has
been appointed rector of the Episco-
pal church at Barre.
Rev. G. w. C. Hill of New Bed
ford, Mass, has accepted a call to the
Union Cong1 church at Proctor and
win begin his duties Dec. |.
Henry Graves of Benson was found
dead in bed recently. He had evil
IDENTIFY been dead some two or three
days when found. He was 76.
Some one tore down the flag of L.
Bart Cross of Montpelier Halloween
night and he offers reward of $40
for the arrest of the guilty party.
Frank Cooley and John Winters of
were arrested Nov. 7, |,
charged with stealing Sls.75 from
Mrs. Sarah Chatterton Of that city.
Conductor Corners got badly hurt
at Newport recently. While making
up train boy threw a stone from
sling which struck him in the eye,
cutting it badly. {
The increase in the amount of
granite shipped from Hardwick goes
IN steadily from month to month,
md there is no better indication of I
business than this fact. Is
Mrs. Lewis Rockford of Bellows
Falls was found dead in bed Nov. 5.
Her husband had worked all the pre-
,eding night in the paper mill and
'eturned 70 find her dead.
Mrs. Mary Duffy of st. Adams was
atally injured at Enosburgh last
week, being thrown from a wagon.
Her hip was fractured and she re- !
,eived other injuries from which she
lied.
Fred Feetler of Addison was ar =
ested Friday by Deputy Sheriff o. :
4. Smith, charged with the theft of :
oat owned by a party in Weybridge. :
lie was sent to the Rutland work. =
lonse for As days !,
George II. Rabbit, general super
ntendent of the American Express !,
ompany and one of the pioneers in 4
be New England Express business, =
lied at Bellows Falls last Sunday of !,
of the heart. !,
Hugh Henry Of Chester, the U. S. q,
,ension agent for Vermont and New ii
is considering the desira- O
ility Of moving the Office from Con- a
ord, N. H., to Montpelier or some V,
Their Vermont city where II viii be Il
nore convenient and better accom- d