Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-06-25
General Vermont News.

The grand list of Barre city increased
$2O.15+ last year.
Bethel still has hopes of getting a
bicycle rim factory.
Two horses have just died recently at
Marlboro of diptheria.
A new Methodist church has been ded-
icated ut South Albany.
Henry Dickerman OF Lyndon has
planted l3 acres of beans.
Bratteburo people saw u meteor and
felt an earthquake June IL.
David f.. Paine. a prominent man, IL
dead at Strafford. aged 90
A Barre city man shot Il fox in his
back yard the other night.
Enoch Wood. one of the oldest resi-
dents of Quebec, is dead, at the age Of
| -.
c. +. Britton of Brattleboro had two
ribs broken by a fall in the paper mill
recently.
The Montpelier high school graduated
a class Of 10; the Randolph high school
class of :.
Clarence Roof of Gassetts was pros
thunder storm.
Seldom Moves of Wilder came near
losing his life recently by the explosion
| of an oil stove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Carpenter OF
Bridgewater celebrated their silver we'd
ding this month.
Mrs. Olive Read. mother of Hon. l.. NJ.
of Ik.ln Nns, In. i,tct a lad
Jamaica, aged ,6.
Ridden Il Southard of Bethel have sold
! 30, 600 pounds of wood to the Burlington
| Woolen company.
Lieutenant Hovey, Twenty fourth in
fantry, has arrived at the fort and has
assumed command
A mad dog created considerable ex-
element in BrattleborO but was killed
before ii bit anyone.
+. l.. Sprague. Il prominent citizen Of
Sheridan. New. is dead. He was a native
of Randolph. this state.
Hon. Gilbert A. Davis of Windsor was
taken suddenly i'll while trying a case
in Windsor county court
Several persons We're injured by the
steps at Hartland recently.
A pair of horses belonging to j. NJ
| Grant OF Chelsea ran away recently and
one was killed by colliding with a tree.
John Philip Sousa will take the first
holiday he has had for IL years and will
spend the summer on Vermont farm.
Hon. Henry Ballard was taken sick
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Randolph high school graduating class.
Bennie Russon. aged s. fell SO feet, from
the railroad bridge at Dummerston. to
| the rocks below and sustained serious in
juries.
After securing a large number of dele
gates. j. &. Jones withdrew as a candi-
date for states attorney in Rutland
county.
Judge J. T.. Weeks of Middlebury has
been appointed commissioner Of the
Vermont Industrial school In place Of c.
W. Read. deceased.
Major Lloyd Wheaton of the Twen-
tieth United States infantry has been
promoted to be u brigadier general He
was formerly from Putney.
Ffty-siX years ago this month Brat
tleboro was visited by severe snow
storm and the weather was very cold.
All vegetation was destroyed.
The most brilliant society wedding Of
the season at Burlington was that Of
Arthur p. Stockwell Of Boston and Miss
Annie, daughter of F. l.. Taft, of st.
Paul's church.
Frank Kendall of Putney was SER
iOusy injured while racing his horse
against bicycle. The carriage collided
with u telephone pole throwing him out.
The carriage was a total wreck. The
| bicycle won, as usual.
! Randolph Grange received 13 candi-
dates into full membership at the last
meeting, and banquet in their honor
was served About lis partook Of it,
there being Sc visitors from Rising Star
Grange in Bethel. The harvest march
was the feature Of the evening.
Major N. =. Bowman of st. Johns
bury was appointed foreman of the
grand jury at the June term Of the Gale
donia county court. On call of the docket
% cases were found for trial, but of
these several had been settled and others
We're confined on call. About 20 stand
| for trial.
Rev. Eli Hawley Garfield, LII. d. has
just died in Arlington, where he had
lived for the past 20 years. He was 81
years old and had been in failing health
for some time. He was a we'll known
| Episcopal clergyman. having been rector
at Christ church in Brooklyn, N. Y, 20
years and of st. Peters in New York
for three years. His ancestors were
among the first settlers of the town Of
Arlington and the family has always
been prominent in the county. His only
surviving son is James H. Garfield.
chancellor Of the Ohio state university
at Athens. He also leaves q daughter,
who lives at Arlington.
The Bellows Falls steam laundry does
work for 2OOO customers. Thirty-three
hands are employed and 1t Is one of the
largest in the state. The proprietor, G.
| +. Wheeler, started few years ago a
poor boy, but by hard work, industry
aad ability has made small fortune.
| The statement that the meteorite which
fell somewhere in northern Vermont re-
Gently Is in anybody's door yard. or
that anyone has yet seen 1t, much less
| carried off specimens of II, may be set
down as untrue. Professor G. H. Per-
kins visited JeffersOnville and the To-
cality where the meteorite was supposed
TO have fallen, but could find no trace Of
it. He has no doubt that meteor has
fallen, but judging from the time that
elapsed between seeing the meteor and
hearing the explosion. he is of the opin-
ion that 1t fell several miles further
south than the teamsters thought 1t did;
and he thinks it quite likely that 1t fell
somewhere on the eastern slope of the
ridge running north from the chin Of
Mount Mansfield. This slope Is heavily
wooded and the area is 80 large that the
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