Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-07-01
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Horace Thresher of Gouldsville has
had a shock.
Montpelier wants over $4,000 of the
new government bonds.
A. Il Edwards native OF Richmond,
has just died at Chicago.
Mrs l.. NJ. Newell of WardsbOro has
committed suicide by taking paris green.
The Tooth anniversary of Emmanuel
church, Bellows Falls will be celebrated
July 2S.
Daniel Sweeney, 90 years old, stone
cutter at Montpelier, has committed
suicide by hanging.
Lewis j. Hathaway has been secured
as musical instructor in the Methodist
seminary at Montpelier.
The Orwell creamery is making 500
pounds of butter a day. The Rutland
creamery paid 62 cents per hundred for
milk
Rev S. p. Perry of Richmond has
been offered a professorship in Honolu
lu college, Hawaii, at a salary of $500
per year.
The list of Putney. for the year of 1898,
is s5lO2 against s5O29 in 1897. The num-
Der of poll tax is 264, a gain Of six over
last year.
The Boston Sunday Globe published a
song will You Love Me as of Old" the
music of which was written by Ernest
II. Kittredge of Bethel.
The same week that a meteor fell in
Cambridge the Cambridge Transcript
appeared in a new dress, and will here
ba old int
The next annual convention of the
Episcopal church in Vermont will be
held in Emmanuel church. Bellows Falls
the third Wednesday in June, 1899.
Ira Bingham, prominent citizen of
Nergenness, is dead at the age Of S5
years. Mrs. f. E. Marsh of Brandon, at
50 years. Miss Joanna Carmody at New
Haven, at 80 years.
c. Frank Harris. son of Chares F.
Harris, formerly a leading merchant at
Randolph has enlisted for five years in
the marine service, and is on the United
States cruiser Columbia.
A Railroad Mems Reading association
has been organized at st. Johnsbury
with Il members. A room is to be fitted
up for their use at the station and read
ing matter will be furnished by the
members.
Rutland real estate is appraised at
s6.196 49O. The personal property at
/ s1,Sl5. .S03; total IS, 012 2S3. There are 1882
taxable polls. The total grand list this
year is $S,55S, 693. The rate of taxation
will probably be $3.50
In the Orange county court Will Ragan
and Patrick Kiley of Randolph were
sentenced to pay a fine of S. and costs.
. the costs in each case amounting to
$li.55 with an alternative sentence to 20
days in Jail for each for intoxication and
general cussedness.
L. H. Love, the peace-at-a t-any-price
man. was burned in effigy recently at
St. JOhnsbury. In the right hand was a
/ card on which We're the words, "Presi-
dent of the Universal Peace league"
In the left hand was Spanish flag The
figure was taken down by the police.
The St. Johnsbury Atheneum has been
| been presented with a novel that is both
written and printed by Captain Fernah-
do C. Harrington of St. Johnsbury East.
The book is entitled THE Counterfeit
ers, or the Stone House in the Pass"
land was printed at The Owl Printing
Works"
George Slate, the Oldest resident of
bellows Falls, is dead. He was born in
Hinsdale, N. H., Aug. 15 1873 and in
October, 1S41, went to Bellows Falls.
He was appointed deputy sheriff In 1916,
and performed the duties of that office
until 1858, when he was elected shefiff
of Windham county.
Rev. and Mrs. Cyrus Hamlin of Miss
fssippi will spend the summer at New
fame. DR.. Hamlin is dean of the uni
versity at Tougaloo, in charge of the
Amercina missionary association. Those
to whom the name will have familiar
sound may recall that his uncle of the
same name was foreign missionary.
Mrs. Hamlin is a sister of Rev. Lyman
Abbott, Brooklyn's preacher, and editor
of the outlook.
Edwin Faxon from Jamaica Plain,
Mass, one of the party of botanists that
were stopping at Mrs. r. Richardson's 3
at Wiloughby Lake, was out gathering
flowers recently. He was getting over a
fence and had got up on it when he fell
Two friends who We're with him ran to
his assistance, but he only gasped twice
and died. He was unmarried and "A
years old. His brother came up ana
took the remains to Boston.
There is god prospect that the electric
railroad from Bethel to Rochester will
be built. Stockbridge has voted to bond
for $4,000 with the conditions that the
towns of Hancock, Pittsfeld and Gran
Vile shall combined raise $4,000 and
that the same shall not be built in
the highway in the towns of Bethel and
Stockbridge, and shall not move the
highway in said towns without the con-
sent of the respective selectmen.
Pensions have been granted Vermont
ers as follows: Reissue, Pearl d, Blodg-
EFT of St Johnsbury, $3O Wesley N.
'Kellogg of Charlotte, s17; original, Ed
, win c. Bigelow of Randolph, $l2; Chas.
+. Clark of Proctorsville, S6; Henry H.
} Rich of West Charleston, SS; additional
Cyrus a. Greeley of Chester $8 to $40:
: increase, David M Fry of West Con-
cord, $12 to S24; Augustus II. Bissell
or Bellows Falls So to $40; Truman L.
Eelis of Middlebury, $S to $40
The silver wedding anniversary of Rev.
DR. and Mrs V. M. Hardy of Randolph
has just been celebrated. The Society of
the White Church rendered them a re-
, ception. A party of about 200 assembled
B. 7. Lombard rendered formal congrat-
ulations and presented fine array of
gifts. Dr. Hardy responded most feel
ingly, touching upon the significance of
the event and its relation to the lives
of others. He mentioned a remarkable
circumstance in his family history
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