Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-06-17
General Vermont News.

Aa1 vested JU4 tlo4F.
The Valentine knitting mills al Ben
ElnEtOH have resumed work
The advent camp meeting, at Beebe
Plain ~-s7ns Saturday. June Is.
\ E. Watson Of Hartford is mentioned
FOR senator IN Windsor county.
The funera! 0C Mrs Lamb of North
field aged ~, has just been held.
Forty thousand trout have just been
placed in Wimingtinstream last week.
Three cr-amer-s have been -stab-
!ish-d In Bennington county in a short
time.
The Rutland county creamery at Pitts
ford i receiving 1000 pounds u milk
daily
The Washington county Republican
convention Will be held at Montpelier
June 30.
The Barre Telegram dominates Col
onel John Watson Of Bradford for state
auditor.
The tax rate in Barre has just been
fixed 10y the city council al 2.G2 cents On
the dell!ar.
\ --y-ar-old child died at Fair Haven
jun lhat only weighed I3 pounds at
its Gem.s-.
The new Avenue house at ST. Johns
bury reports $1,000 more business in May
than April.
Worms are again at work on the maple
trees Ia P1mfret. which they nearly
ruined .4sy year
. Barre is growing so fast that the school
/ directors have 10 take dwelling houses
/ for schoJ. purposes.
Montpelier police say that the bicycle
lamps must and shall be lighted every
+ night when the cycle IS used.
Fred A Field Of Rutland has been
nominated by the president 10 Ue United
( States marshal for Vermont.
t. E. Graham. the lumber dealer u
/ Montpelier, was thrown from his car
I riagr ana severely injured recently.
4 Burlington boy, in the person Of
/ Lieutenant Henry T. Mlyo, Will 20 10
/ Manila with the gunbOat Bennington.
1 The Orleans County Veterans Ass0-
citation VIII hold its next annual re-
union at Newport on the 2sth day of
June.
Henry Chaffee Of Albany has a sheep
that he utiliz-s To run his milk separator.
It's spring clip Of wool weighed 10
pounds.
The saw mill jelly works, house and
barn adjoining al West DummerstOn
have been burned. Loss. $4,000, no in
suvance.
The f. & T, Fairbanks company Of St.
Johnsbury has Just declared quarterly
diyident Of $3..5 per share, the second
this year.
W. O. Greeley Of Waterford, had
team stolen by mis- hired man. The man
" as a stranger and had been in his en-
1 pioy less than 4 month.
William Foster of New York has set
lied all claims against the Lebanon
Springs railroad and will operate it as
soon as it can b. put in shape.
/ Senator Proctor and United States
/ Fish Commissioner Bowers Of West
/ Virginia has been visiting the United
/ States hatcheries in the state.
/ c. Q. Chamberlain. manager Of the st.
! James hotel, Jacksonville. Fla, will
/ have charge Of the Owls Head hotel,
/ Lake Memphremagsg. this season.
Charles P. Carpenter Of ST Johns
/ bury IS dead at the age Of 50. He was
! born in Poultry in 1915 He had been
/ employed in the scale works for over 80
! years.
Colonel o. T. SeaYer Of Woodstock was
/ offered an appointment as brigadier gen.
eral, upon the recommendation of the
| Vermont delegation in congress, but
! declined.
Dr., H. D. HoltOn of Brattleboro, who
has been mentioned for lieutenant gov
| ernor, has gone to Dover 10 attend the
convention OF the American Medical as
| sOciatiOn.
Judge Lyford of Warren, George Ran
dali and wife Of Wells River, and Ste
phen Colby and wife of Montpelier have
gone to Dallas, Tex, to attend the I'm
perial Council of the Mystic shrine.
Miss Alice Ordway, formerly of Bar
ton Landing. died last week at Green
field, Mass. For Is years she was libra
rian of the Kansas state library, but
was removed when the Populists came
into power.
Mrs Clara R. Jones OF Bradford is a
/ prominent CGIl4NdtS LOI la lIOII0l Su per
intendent of the Womans Relief corps.
Mrs. Jones now hold the position of
junior vice president of the national
organization.
James Crafford, a we'll known stone
cutter of Hardwick met with an un-
fortunate accident which may cost him
an eye. He had secured day off from
labor and was fishing near Craftsbury.
When casting the troll one OF the hooks
caught in the left eye, badly lacerating
the lid and slightly tearing the eye ball.
Orin Cutler has recently died at Bar
ton, aged IS. He was living at Green's
boro at the time of the battle of Platts-
burgh. He distinctly remembered being
taken out into a field and hearing the
firing. After leaving home he went to
Cambridge and lived in the Lowell
family. James Russell Lowell was then
a youth in college. Jared Sparks. Henry
W. LongfellOw and others We're frequent
visitors at the house. Returning TO
Vermont he married Mary ]. Leaven-
worth of Danville May 26 1910. and
moved to Barton village in 1856 His
business has been that of farmer and
drover, taking stock to Boston.
diphtheria is again prevalent at Ben
nngton.
rs yer sorry yer big brudder died, Tom