Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-10-06

The new Catholic cnurcn at 81.
Johnsbury is nearly completed and
will be ready for services in October.
1t will be one of the best in that town.
Frank Lewis of Bethlehem, n. H.,
has been operating in Concord buying
cattle with his individual check
drawn on baLk in which he had no
deposit.
Thomas Green Fessenden was the
editor of the first paper ever published
at Bellows Falls, "Tbe Intelligencer. !"
The paper was started in 1917 and
run till 1922.
The docket is out for the general
term of supreme court commencing
October IL. The whole number Of
cases is 115. OF these Washington
has % or more than any other county.
The Washington county court spent
considerable time over case of alien
alton of wife's affections valued at
$1,000, but Judge Start ordered YER
/ dict for the defendant as soon as he
heard the plaintiffs testimony.
George Ledoux was arrested in
Montgomery Thursday, charged with
the larceny Of a horse and carriage.
At the hearing he was bound up in
the sum of $500 and taken to st. AL
bans Jail. He stole the outfit in Wa
terloo, z. Q.
The barn OF Henry Chedel at West
Woodstock was struck by lightning
Sept. 18th and burned. A ton or
two of hay, lot Of poultry and sew
eral wagons were destroyed, the loss
perhaps reaching 5000; partly COW
cred by insurance.
There is now every prospect that
the Bellows Falls and Saxtons River
electric road will be built early next
year. The fare will be 10 cents be-
tween the two places and ID cents for
the round trip. The stock is being
taken literally by local men.
The establishment of the Wright
Health Underwear company Of Pow
nal has so many orders for goods on
hand that the operatives are working
13 hours day. In short time the
Cooper Knitting company Of Ben
nington will run the jersey goods de-
partment all night.
The celebrated Barney will case in
Chittenden county court has resulted
in favor OF the plaintiffs. The
amount at stake was $4,000, which
" i'll now be divided according to law.
The next Ease was that OF Louis |
Ploof VS. the Traction Co. for $4,000
for loss of life by being run over by
an electric car.
Little boys in Montpelier started a
fire under gasoline tank that stood
on the back porch of one of the stores |
Sept. "a, and but for its timely dis
covery that city would have had a Sc
rious fire. The boys, who were vert
small ones, sat quietly watching the
fire burn when discovered. They
said they found some old straw and
thought it would burn mice"
AT the state convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
ion at Manchester Center last week the
officers were unanimously
reelected: President, Mrs. Ida M.
Read; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
G.. E. Davidson; recording secretary,
Mrs. A. A. Wyman; treasurer, Mrs.
E. NJ. Drury; auditor, Miss B. +.
Chamberlain; editor Of Home Guards,
Mrs. L. f. Wilbur.
The town of Norwich elected a
Democratic representative this year
for the first time almost in its history
and the high license organs have been
loud in claiming that it was distinct
triumph for their cause. A corre-
spondent informs the Woodstock
Standard that this representative
elect is an active Good Templar and
can be depended upon to vote for
prohibition every time.
The Vermont State Sanitary asso-
,iation will hold its third annual
meeting in Montpelier Tuesday, Oct
%. Papers viii be read and discussed
by the leading physicians, health Of
ficers, and other citizens of the state.
Ex-Gov. VIM. P. Dillingham; will pre-
tide at the evening session at which
DR.. George NJ. Sternberg, surgeon
general Z. S. A., will deliver an adj
lress ON "Modern Health Regula-
IONS"
Edward Blanch of Montpelier en-
Dyed the Mortified fair, ETC., too
veil. Expense, sl0.2l. Melvin |:
,paulding of Roxbury was another
-ictim of the flowing bowl and was '
ssessed Sl0.64. William Basbaw
likewise paid sll.66 for violating the /
law. Alfred Bushey of
Iinesburg and Bernard Leach OF
Burlington engaged in the manufac- y
uring of booze for immediate con- /,
but they landed in the po- 2
ice court and paid $40 to settle at v
FORTIFIED.
John B. Norton, the representative Il
Iect from Waitsfield has been arrest 4
charged with bigamy. He was in b
icted by the Washington county 81
rand iurv at the session which ended "