Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-08-05
General Vermont News.

Rutland
Justice Bigelow of Borton is dead at
the age of 4.
w. f. Caswell. prominent citizen Of
Bennington is dead.
the Orleans county fair will be held
at Newport, Aug. L. and IS.
oscar Ward was seriously cut on .
scythe al T unbridge recently.
There will be- no Methodist camp
meeting at Mortified this year.
Emma J. Linsey has been commis-
Stoned postmistress at Greensboro.
A camp of 70 members Sons of Vet
Grams has been OF ganiZed at East Barre.
Boston parties are talking OF building
a summer hotel near Mirror lake, Ber-
lin.
j. C. Wilcox, postmaster at Guilford.
is dead. He was born in Halifax, Feb.
G. 1919.
Diantha Maynard of Waterbury has
been granted widows pension of IS a
month.
James Ella of Monkton has been fined
S2G.Sl for catching trout under six inches
in length.
+. T. Seguin of Montpelier wont the
one-mile open bicycle race at Saratoga
July IL, in 2.l4l2.
Dr. Lyman Rogers has recently re-
visited Dandy, his native town, after
4O yeaIs' absence.
Rev F. NJ. Bissell a Wilmington boy,
has been called TO st. Pauls church,
Springfield Mass.
The Bristol Manufacturing company
has begun work on the three-story ad-
dltiOn 10 its casket plant.
Miss katherine Hughes of Granville,
n. Y, recently attempted suicide at Rut-
land via the laudanum route.
Edwin Clark and William Galliger Of
MiddleDury have just tested the state
prohibintory law Ss.ol worth each.
r. W. McAIister of Waitsfied, was
thrown and badly injured recently by
a young horse he was attempting to
shoe.
Louis St George of Brandon, who
was married short time ago, has dis
appeared. leaving his wife in destitute
circumstances.
Increasing business compels the G.. H.
Glimm company of Rutland to enlarge
its works SO as to make room for double
the present force.
The Randolph cooperative creamery
paid l6 cents a pound for butter fat for
the month of June. The Cabot cream
cry paid l412 cents.
Mrs. Charles Henderson has just died
suddenly, aged IS years She was a ma
tive of Newbury and a great grand
daughter of General Jacob Bailey.
+. D. French. formerly of Barre has
been arrested at Tampa on charge OF
embeZZlement. He was the secretary OF
a Chicago building and loan association.
John Maxswell of Waitsfield was run
over by-a moving machine and seriously
injured recently. The horses took fright
and threw him off in front of the ma
shine.
DR.. H. Nelson Jackson, formerly as
Instant physician at the Brattleboro
retreat, has been appointed instructor
in surgery in the medical department
of the University OF Vermont.
The officers of the Barre town are de-
termined to stop the Sunday picnics
from the city. Recently combination
of 400 granite cutters, eight barrels or
beer and some hard stuff made the day
hideous.
During the month of June Orange
country creamery at Chelsea received
292. OIL pounds of milk from which were
made IA, 49, pounds of butter for which
patrons were paid l6 cents per pound
Current expenses We're 1921, SO.
Walpole, n. H., across the river from
Bellows Falls, celebrated the surrender
of Santiago with fireworks, bontires.
firing of cannon, ets. A cannon ex-
ploded and killed COW b elonging to J..
G.. Bellows in pasture 40 rods away.
Joseph Wood of Berlin has just died
at his home at the age of Sc years. He
was the oldest citizens in that town,
where he had lived for 10 years Mr..
Wood broke the ground for the second
| state house He was born in Drum
mondsville, Canada.
The knitting mill of H. f. Bradford &
| Co., Bennington. will be shut down in a
few days until the early part of October,
when operations will be resumed on full
time and with a full force. The COM
pany is building an addition to the main
part of the mill, and during the summer
! will put in q new water wheel and a
! large amount of new machinery.
The Essex Publishing company, which
! ,las just held its second annual meeting,
! reports that over s per cent has been
| earned in the first nine months of busi-
! ness, and a dividend of per cent. was
| declared, the balance being carried to
the surplus fund. The directors elected
are w. B. johnson, L. NJ. Hays, j. H.
Burke, DR.. C. M. Ferrin and L. P.
Thayer. The circulation of the papers
has more than doubled the past year.
T. H. Page has just died at Las Vegas.
His wife and his little son Carroll were
with him at the time of his death. Ex-
Governor Page, his father, started Mon
day for Las Vegas in response to mes
sage that his condition was worse. The
| deceased was the eldest son of eXGoV-
ernor Page, and was promising young
man. He had begun to take an active
part in the management of his father s
business when his health failed two
years ago. He went to the Adirondacks
for number of months, and went then
to Eel Paso, where he remained until
within a few months. He leaves a wild
ow and two sons, Carroll aged 4, and
| Proctor, aged q He had been postmas-
ter two years.
Thomas Kelley and James Sterling
We're arrested for burglary at St, John
bury Center and Passumpsic, and taken
| before Justice Albert Worcester of st.
Johnsbury. Kelley insisted that he was
innocent and was discharged. Sterling
! adnitted having taken some of the ar