Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-03-16
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

The oldest voter in Burlington a
the late election was Jed Harrington
az.
J. B. Divoll of Rockingham has 4
COW that is giving 40 pounds of milk
a day.
The Hiram Atkins house on Elm
street, Montpelier, was sold recently
for s., 500.
The Rutland liquor dealers were
Unexpectedly raided March 3 and a
large haul made.
The international congress of the
Catholic Order of Foresters will meet
in Burlington June 6.
The sale of the Rutland and Fitch
burg combination mileage book was
discontinued March 1.
The date of the Donahue-O'Neil
wrestling match has been changed
from April 6 to April 10.
John T.. Doton of Pomfret has at
tended % terms Of school without a
tardy mark against his name.
Every photographer in st. Johns
bury had their sample cases OF photo
graphs stolen n night recently.
John l.. Bacon, treasurer of the
Dewey memorial fund at Mortified,
has received 1905 in contributions.
The bicycle riders Of st. Johnsbury
and Lyndonyille propose to build a
cycle path between the two villages.
The receipts OF the st. Adams post
Office for the month OF February were
the largest in the record Of the Office.
Cagendish is proud Of a boy ten
wears old. named Harry Bemis. who
las sawed three cords Of wood ia one
week.
George II. Town of California, a
native Of Marshfeld, committed sui
eide recently by shooting through the
head.
The Burlington Methodist church
has been remembered to the extent Of
5000 in the will Of Mrs. Prudence
Roby.
The annual town meeting in West
minister will not be held till March q,
as the warning wa not legally posted
for March I.
Fred Ranney OF Burlington, who
had both feet badly frozen in the biz
lard early in February, is just able to
walk around the house.
Allen MeQuarrie OF Barre had both
legs 50 badly crushed At the Mcmillan
X Stevens quarry Friday that ampu-
tation seemed necessary.
Alfred Kemp Of Brattleboro, aged
so, hung himself last week TO the
fo0tboard of his bed after writing
messages to his grandchildren.
W P. Smith OF Simonsville, who
was injured in the railroad accident {
at Larrabee's Point, has been paid
500 damages in full settlement.
John Dwyer has gone to Camden, n. I
j.. TO work on the postofice building
there, for which the Vermont Marble /
company is furnishing the marble. !
Enterprising farmers at Newport -.
and in Chittenden county tapped .
their trees during the recent warm I
week so as to say they made maple
in February. J
Mrs. George Aitkin Of Woodstock y
received a gift of two beautiful :
swans from her former home in Scot !
land, also a pair of English pheasants !
from her uncle there. }
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The box factory at Pittsford is en- /,
- men, working over hours, :
aud is erecting a new steel covered
Try house, with all the latest improve :
nents for drying lumber. !
Ten thousand dollars in purses and !
premiums, competition open to the !.
world, will be offered at the Vermont ],
fair to be held at the kite track, i
W bite River Junction, Sept. IL to L. 4
Otis Harwood, who lives on Whit
hill, Brookline, and who is past SO b
ears Of age, walked from his home to e,
\ewfane and part OF the way back 81
NE day recently, a distance Of over G
en- miles. In
Gov. Smith, Lieut-Goy. Bates and b
speaker Haskins were in Montpelier fc
darch 3 and signed the laws passed h
BY the Legislature Of 1898. Their Of
.elal signatures were required to be r
iaced upon 35s acts. il
The three young men who attempt IN
" TO break up a iyceum at Gassetts b'
.fe wiser TO the tune of the following +
'lls assessed by the court; Leroy X
'erNins, Sl3.25; Clarence Austin, Sl6.- TO
Arthur French. sl3.O5. bl
Ludlow sold 80, 723.4s worth Of in
oNlcating liquors last year, all for OF
MEDICAL purposes, and made a profit OF
L s56n.49. The towns poor cost n
I, 1885 TO support and the town Is m
worse off than a year ago. tn
The picture Of the interior Of the o
enter Con-1 church at Brattleboro o
Fpears in the current issue OF the u
aides Home Journal. This church vi
as awarded third prize in a comps- M
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