Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-02-09
State of Vermont.
It's News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

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Bellows Falls is TO have the free de.
livery of mail at once.
Four children Of Lewis Munger OF
Brandon have died within two weeks
1t is expected that the new Masonic
hall at Bristol will be dedicated Feb
ruary %.
o. Knapp Of Eas. Dummerston shot
a bay lynx recently. 1t is four feet
and five inches long and weighs "a
pounds.
A new rate has gone into effect on
the Barre & Montpelier electric road,
the fare between the two cities being
ten cents.
Mrs. Agnes Lewis Mitchell,a daugh-
ter OF Rev. A. N. Lewis, of Montpel-
Ter has an illustrated poem in the Feb
ruary Sc. Nicholas, "The Goblin and
the Tide"
ARENAS Lawrence had the end of
a finger severed the other day by an
axe in the hand Of fellow workman
who was trying TO cut a rope they
had been splicing.
Patrick Fox OF Winooski had his
arm fractured and badly mangled in
a washing machine at the wooden
mill the other day, careless work
man starting it without giving him
warning.
Mrs. Randolph Dodge, Bellows
Falls antiquarian, has pewter teapot
which belonged 10 Alexander Iiamil-
ton. On the pot is engraved the Ham
ilton crest and the name Alexander
Hamilton.
Caleb lockwood, the man Of many
lawsuits in Burlington, one Of which
was rent case, now languishes in
Jail. His household goods have been
moved into the street and his wife has
brought suit for non-snpport
Col. 4. NJ. Mansur and c. n. Brady,
committee chosen by the Newport
board OF trade, have gone to Wash
ington to counsel with Hon. Charles
A. Prouty in relation to erecting the
federal building in that place.
Mrs. c. +. Bliss Of Montpelier was
fearfully burned last week by the ex-
plosion Of lamp. HerNlaughter, who
was in with pneumonia, and others
finally put out the flames with blank
cts. Some furniture was destroyed
by the fire.
Constable w. II. Buchanan Of Bar
re met with bad accident Tuesday
Of last week while cunning in Cabot.
A gun was accidentally discharged,
the charge of shot passing through the
brim Of his cap and his right eye and
nose were filled with powder.
The fifth interstate convention of
Young Mems Christian association OF
Vermont and New Hampshire will be
held at Laconia, n. H., February %
10 20. A long list OF noted speakers
has been engaged. All phases OF the
association work will be treated.
The Readsboro Chair Mfg. Co. is
busily engaged in getting out new
samples and otherwise preparing for
the spring trade. IL has also opened
an Office in Chicago. lll.,so as to be in
better touch with its Western trade.
Chas. II. Gibson, secretary OF the
Bellows Falls Gun club, received a
letter from the secretary Of the Inter-
state Trap-shooting association, say
ing it has decided to give Bellows
Falls one Of the tournaments this year,
naming June % and 20 as convenient
dates.
Guy +. Graham OF Hartland, who
filled his silo in the fall, on going TO
il recently, found it infested with rats.
In attempting to drive them out they
attacked him, climbing up his legs,
over his shoulders, back and arms and
at the end OF the battle there were six
teen dead rats.
The stove of Joseph Gassetts OF Bur-
lington was blown to pieces the other
day. IL hsd a hot water boiler at
tachment and in the night the pipe /,
between the boiler and stove froze.
When the fire was kindled the steam
generated in the water font had to
ind place TO go.
George A. Ross, Of the Barre Press
Co., has sold all his right and title to !
an undivided half in the Barre Press !
CO., publishers of the Evening Tele- !
gram and Weekly Enterprise, to Ell.
Metcalf, who has been and is a re-
porter for the Telegram. The sale
was recorded on Jan. Both. l
Last week Rev. Edward T. Fair
banks, ID. d., completed the 25th year
OF his pastorate of the South Congre-
gational church in st. Johnsbury. AT
The close of the regular service he was
presented with an envelope contain :
ng Sl.550, gift to the church from
is parishioners to wipe out the debt. !,
The body of Thomas Buchanan,who I
eft home Jan. Is, probably while !
deranged, was found +
.hree DAYS later about two miles from II
he village at the foot of Mount An !,
hony. He had probably been dead :
ince Saturday. He was 20 years old 4
md left widow and several children.