Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-12
General Vermont News,

Oflce contest at HardNiCk.
DIR. Logon Of Woodstock has been sick
with typhoid fever d; Boston
Willie sheehan fell from a piazza at
Rutland and broke his left leg.
Barre cycle riders are being fined every
time they ride on the sidewalks.
Fred Percival of Barton cut one knee
severely on a bandsaw recently.
The Barre and Montpelier electric road
carried $1,000 passengers in the first Is
days.
The Rascomb house Bethel has been
leased TO Fred Pippin of White River
Junction.
Another attempt to build hotel in
Barre suitable to the needs of the city
has failed.
Fred Wheeler of Barton Landing was
struck in the head by a baseball recently
and badly hurt
Ned c. Haynes, formerly of the Rut
land Herald, has been engaged as re-
porter on the Daily Argus.
The Hudson Valley creamery of Poult-
ney during the month ending with July
paid to its Istrons $4,000.
Diphtheria has broken out again at
Berlin Falls, where there are four cases
and one death in one family.
Mrs. Henry Clark of Glover had her
right arm broken in two places recently
by falling from load of hay.
The annual convention of the Univer-
sa!ists Of Vermont and Quebec will be
held in Stowe, Aug. %, "a, 25.
A Newport man is exhibiting the body
of a good sized bird which he found in
side of a three pound pickerel.
George Mcdowell of Sheffield was
thrown from a horse rake recently and
had one leg broken besides being badly
bruised.
Carl Perkins of St. Johnsbury is re-
ported as having caught a lake trout
weighing 1879 pounds in Caspian lake,
Greensboro.
The receipts of the Woodstock post
Office for the year ending June 80. 1885,
were SEAS 9S, an increase of s25l6S over
the preceding year.
Thomas Dugan, recently appointed as
Fitchburg railroad, at one time was
resident of Bellows Falls.
Arthur BaybrOok, aged IS. of Stratton,
was arrested at Bennington July 10 for
burglary. \ watch, $40 in cash and
lot Of jerclry were recovered.
DR. H. 4. Hanks, Randolph boy. of
the New York postgraduate medical
do
fessor emeritus by the hoard of direct
Urs.
Two letters addressed to H. NJ. Briggs,
Pensacola Fla, and mailed at White
River junction May 20. 1889, overlook
him at Burlington, July 2l, after nine
years chase.
A new potato bug is reported at Que
chez II is long and slim, of blush
cast, remarkable agile and possessed
OF a good appetite, but is easily killed
by paris green.
we'll executed counterfeit of the s.
Dominion of Canada bill is in circulation
in Vermont, and goodly number of the
| bogus bills are being passed in the towns
on the boundary line.
The income of the Bellows Falls post
office for the year ending July l was
Sl3,75S, an increase of $3.50 over 1897, and
an increase of $3.50 since Postmaster
Dow took the office Jan. l, 1895.
Napoleon Lafelure. candy maker at
Cross bakery. Montpelier, was severely
burned while taking pot of overrunning
| candy from the stove Were it was in
/ 10 ~ cottiptr thipSc an fire
NJ. D. Rice of Roxbury caught in
! Dog river one of the largest brook trout
| that has been caught in Washington
county. 1t weighed two and one half
pounds. 1t was IS inches in length, Az
deep and 9fa thick.
Fred Thomas of the Montpelier COM
pany. who was rejected on account of
| hernia. and who underwent an operation
that he might be accepted. has fully re-
covered and left to join the army at
! Chickamauga, July 10.
A recent ruling Of the postoffice de-
partment prohibits the sending of the
culture tubes of the state board of health
| through the mails: therefore physi-
cans must, until further notice, send
them by express. prepaid.
The contest for the secretaryship Of
the senate the coming session is to be a
pretty one. The candidates are E. w.
Gibson of Chester, Carl c. Fletcher Of
st. Adams and Max L. Powell of Burling-
ton and A. c. Coolidge of Rutland.
The Brigham company of Randolph
paid $3446.5 so for ass, 702 pounds of milk in
f1 bIlf 70 I
748S cents per 100 pounds of milk; aver
age test. 46s; butter made, "a, pounds;
pounds of milk per pound of butter, 1896.
The veteran printer, H. B. Davis of
Bellows Falls, is in very poor health,
owing to an accident some Tine ago that
affected his spine. He has been con-
nected with the Caledonian, Watchman,
Lyndonville Journal and several other
papers.
An effort is being made to start the
tannery at Morrsvllle, which, owing to
the market conditions, has been idle for
some time. A stock company having q
capital of $4,000 is being formed, with
800 shares of $50 each, 230 of these shares
having already been taken.
Another Vermont shoe company has
failed. This time it is the Burlington
Shoe company for $4,000, assets about
$54 600, Max l.. Powell has been ap-
pointed assignee. The Boston Counter
company has sued the company for $1,000
and Chadbourne & Moore, Boston firm,
have entered a suit for $7S9.14.
The secretary of state has received an
aDplica ton for a charter of the business
operated by Ex-Governor Carroll S. Page,
at Hyde Park. Ex-Governor Page de-
sires to incorporate the business that