Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-12-01
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

Ryegate mas an epidemic OF chicken
pox.
Eagle hotel, ProctorsvilIe, is closed
for the first time in 40 years.
St. Adams boasts of ssChickamau-
"a Poozey Woozey Pedu club.n
The South Ryegate creamery paid
q IL cents for October butter.
A Ludlow farm that was sold year
or two ago for 500 brought 81, 200
last week.
Over thirty children were confirmed
and Joined the Roman Catholic
church at Castleton lately.
Henry Aldrich of Island Pond had
both legs broken recently by the cav
ing in of ditch he was digging.
DR.. w. Seward Webb, the gentle
man from Shelburne, presented Christ
church, Montpelier, with $50 recently.
Over geo lock boxes have been adj
ded to the Bennington postoffice to
accommodate the increasing business.
The ground was broken for new
wrapper factory in Chester last week.
The building Is to be l20x40 feet, and
two stories high.
DIR. George Nichols Of North field
has sold his interest in the drug bust
ness in which he has been engaged for
over "A years to his partner.
A bachelor ladies' club has been or
ganized by some well-known young
women of Essex junction. The mot
TO is, "Not from choice, but from ne
sessity."
H. e. Allen, formerly of st. Johns
bury, has just been elected treasurer
Of Grafton county, N. H., receiving
4,4s7 votes against 1882 for his OPP
ponent.
Ex-Governor Roswell Farnham of
Bradford is getting on slowly but is
able to walk across his room. Ex-
cept that his back is lame he would be
able to go out.
Miss Mary A. Tobin Of Swanton
entertained the Daughters of YER
i mont in Boston by readings at their
recent meeting. The clubs annual
reception will be Dec. 3.
Business is very brisk at the Cooper
4 Knitting company. The mill is one
Of the prosperous establishments of
Bennington and its periods Of idle
ness have been very rare.
i The coping shop of the Vermont
Marble Co. at Rutland was complete
y destroyed by fire recently and three
or four cars standing near were bad
j y burned. Cause unknown.
Herbert Harlow of Pomfret was re-
Rnty arrested charged with attempt
ing nameless crime on the person OF
slittle eight-year-old girl at Ludlow
and lodged in Woodstock Jail.
The appointment Of Edward III.
DNenport of Montpelier, as referee
bankruptcy for Washington county
ia distinct compliment to one OF the
'hte's brightest young lawyers.
The Bennington and Rutland Rail-
way company has laid during the
year 2,l00 tons OF steel rails, 80
pounds to the yard, and $4,000 ties.
About one-half were southern pine.
From 81, 800 to 81, 900 has been ex-
pended for concrete walks in Chester
his fall, the citizens bearing the ex-
Pnse except the road crossings, which
Road commissioner White has made.
Vial & Shields of Bennington are
repairing the damage done to their
new saw mill by the recent flood and
preparing to build big addition for
general Jobbing and manufacturing
work.
Mrs. John Wool Griswold of Ben
hHgton sailed last week on Euro
pean tour which will include Paris,
where her daughters are at school.
Mr.. Griswold will join them in a
couple of months.
S. p. Fuller of East Hardwick was
SERIOUSLY hurt the other day while re-
arranging an underpinning stone UNI
Der his house, it falling upon him and
Pinning him under, where it held him
for considerable time.
4 lie. Bullock of st. Adams was in
iured last week while repairing the
nsles in the railroad yard near the
height depot. He was struck in the
head by the step Of a passing engine
nd was cut and bruised.
The Warren place at Saxton's Riv-
u, belonging to the Kurn Hatten
Property, was opened last week. Mrs.
Maynard, matron of the Kurn Hatten
home, and some of the boys assisted
"a the opening of the home.
DR.. J. G. Parker of st. Adams has
ieuriosity in the shape of kitten
which has 26 toes. Nature has been
unusually generous with this kitten
md has placed six toes on each Of its
lerSard feet aud seven ON the hind
ieet
Miss Minnie Ward of Burlington,
whose tragic death from fall from
ith-story hotel window in Boston
~ been noted, is now reported to
AVE been a somnambulist and the
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