Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-01-28
General Vermont News.

session Of the block before an effective stream
could be turned On. The iiremen experienced
much delay during the early part of the lire.
owing to the frozen hydrantS. Tue weather
was very cold and this alsJ proved "a hin
drance to them. The postOftice wd- .he only
section of the block that was saved from the
flames and this was badly damaged by
water. The Curri"r Co. and VI. l.. lOwnc <
CO.. grOcers. lost u large part OF their stock.
The former company : loss Is practically
total. There is an insurance Of $4,000 on
their stock. Towne Il Co. 5 loss is estimated
at $4,000 and is insured FOR 1900. The city
clerk saSed all his property. The block will
probably be- rebuilt.
The Orleans county musical festival will
be held at Newport Feb 7-ll and promises
to be an exceedingly interesting affair The
conductor will he Professor Blaisdell Of
Concord, and mis- orchestra will also be in
attendance. Mrs. Shepard has retired from
active service as pianist after long and hon.
orablr career, but her place will be ably filled
by Miss NJ. Josephine Page OF Lacona, y.
II. Dr.GeO. Clark of Boston is TO be the baSsO.
Miss Luela Wagner OF New York is to be So
pranO, and commands the highest salary
ever given a soprano by the association.
Miss Black and Miss Barnes Of the Priscilla
quartet will be the cOntraltos. Miss VI.
Ernestine Banks Of Boston will be the reader
Of the festival. There will be tour grand
concerts besides the promenade Wednesday
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Thomas McGreen while crossing the Rut-
land Railroad bridge over the canal at Bel
lows Falls, recently. was struck by the eX-
press mail from Rutland and killed The
body was thrown by the collision into the
canal. 1t lOated down the canal into the
boat house. 4 distance of 200 yards, and was
sucked by the currents under the gates.
/ ne water was at once smut OIL. but extensive
search disclosed only fragments OF the BODY.
Mr. McGreen was a wears old ana some
what deaf and 1t Is thought he did not hear
the train. He was born in Dublin. Ireland,
came to Bellows Fails IN lS4S. ana mad lived
there ever since. lie was Tor several years
employed as laborer by the valley railroad'
ana about 10 years ago acted as bridge
tender for the Cheshire road. For ID years
past he had done no active WORK.
rborlaa Soo+, bae irs+ diad ot his ham,,
at tyson. He was born January 6, 1919. at
Cayendish His grandfather Thomas Scott
WA, soldier in the war of 1872 He studied
medicine with DR.. Abraham Lowell of Ches-
ter. and graduated from the Castleton medi-
cal college in lS43 He commenced the
practice of medicine in Plymouth in 1874.
and continued until within few months of
his DEATH He was member of the Yer
mont House of Representatives in 1869 and
1870, and a member of the Senate in 1872
He married Betsey +. Watkins January 90.
1915. She survives him. He also leaves
two sons. Clarence A. Scott professor in the
New Haven agricultural college and Charles
H., OF Tyson.
The following tale is told as truth of the
daughter of a Montpelier man. who is for
tunate in having a weather prophet in his
family. The prophet is his daughter and
the sign the family goes by is a little ridge
in one Of her ears. Twenty-four hours
before it storms this ridge swels out. After
the storm is over or a clearing is in pros
pect, the lump fades away. 1t has never
been known to fail. When any one Cf the
family. desire to go off on a journey they
look into the girls ear, and ii the ridge is in
its normal shape they can go without any
lear OF storm Inc girl Is II years OF age
ana ATTENDS scnooi every DAY. she WIN
prooaoly shlhe IN the future as weather
bureau
Hon. Rollin j. Jones has Just died at l-S
home i'll West Cornwall. aged 70 wears He
owned an extensive farm in Lemon Fair Val
lev and was a pioneer in the American mer-
inc sheep industry. and for many years was
the most extensive merino sheep dealer in
the United States. Early in life he took an
active part in political affairs and had al
ways Identified himself with the Republican
farty, serving MS town as representative
lour sessions member OF the state Senate
thfee times. also Il member OF the constltu-
tlonaI convention, ana from Is TO 1919 col
lector OF internal revenue Tor the First DIS
trlct OF vermont
The monument which is being built at
Bennington in memoriam of the Fourteenth
Vermont volunteers will be set upon the
battlefield at gettysburg next month. The
structure Is OF Barre granite ana VIII De
10 - lett hlSh: Inc column anu al paseS
are clrcuiar' Inc pedestal Is slN leet III
diameter second pase Is llNc. ana thlru lour
1eet IN uiaheter' me column whlch Is three
leet III diameter Is II leet hlSh' Inc lhscrlp-
ton rea1S: II + ourteenth Nermoht Nolunteers'
ozone W. l. Nlchois' ntanaaru bHYaae:
guly ana D. 1868. hllled ~ wounded 'b'
Ai0 ll'0l'"'AleAi' "''i oo'' Tio'O'
"A creepy STORY IS noatihS rounu the Ht'
aloahs sarQs ana rounu-hols9s resaruihE
tne T snost VI tne iate lalnenteu mugs Darp!'
!. 10y canlot set the po!s 70 say uluch aoout
| IL, ouI tne story SqeS tnat huss is III the
nautt oi rlulnS on MS oIu engine loI at times
seIti.s On mnen tne traiu ls running iu'l
sPeeu taking ms oiu seat ana remaining
ridden far enon1b wban hSdrons off oniatIv
| Several very sansible and matterl0f- -fact
| drivers are talking This thing over seriousjv
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| Howe ia now taxing n most Graduate course
in hotanv Mt Columbia university Before
| Going to Nav VorL he was instrIic+or in tho
| University of California.
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