Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-06-01
State of Vermont.
=. News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

u T. Cotterell's carpet cleaning
marks at Bennington were burned
May p.
Aria Stone, aged 5, was run over by
leam in Rutland May ~ and badly
bruised.
IN one day three Burlington women
mere fined for getting drunk and sell
ing liquor
Albert Chauvin of Shelburne, 2s
Years old, was drowned last week at
Aver, Mass.
George Cary of st. Johnsbury pur-
cbased 1875 tons of maple sugar in ten
DAYS recently.
T 4. Chesley, a Lyndon boy, was
recently nominated for judge of Hen
~ county, Ill.
The mileage brokers of Burlington
have formed protective union
AGAINST dead beats.
w. II. Thomas of Brattleboro has
med "A. +. Burnham OF that town for
a 600 for being too familiar with
Mrs. Thomas.
Two shares of Fairbanks Scale Co.'s
4 .toek sold in Boston for $3.50 per
share. The stock is slowly but sure.
y Y increasing in value.
The new Advent church at Sutton
VA dedicated recently. Seven per.
ION, we're baptized and several more
.ft,d with the church
Frank Carr Of Middlebury was
fined Y and costs for cruelty to hogs
Rutland May %. He overloaded
be car, it was claimed.
Tbe-iour-years-old son Of James
Baker of East Addison took iodine
from a bottle which he found and
anne near losing his life.
Rev. George y. Bliss has been
unanimously chosen to succeed his
uncle, Rev j. |. Bliss, as rector Of It.
.Pauls church, Burlington.
Joseph Clissold OF Springfield com.
Il Knitted suicide last week by taking
poison. He had for three years been
cashier Of Hotel Hamilton in Hol- {
y yoke.
The citizens of Middlebury are put 1
III ting up a good fight against the forest
worm. Last week one of the hose
teams was out driving the pests from
the park trees.
A new paper company has been or
n gAnized at Bellows Falls for the pur-
pose Of manufacturing waxed paper.
il Is expected that work will begin
about June Is.
Judge Thompson has granted an
injunction against the Exchange hotel
& oi Montpelier, and all tenants and
essees, restraining them from selling
liquor on the premises.
J. W. Sault has resigned the editor
khip Of the Bennington Banner which
e hss held for several months and
las gone to st. Johnsbury to engage
In another line OF work.
4 The 18th annual meeting Of the
n Vermont Woman's Suffrage associa-
4 ton viii be held in the Methodist
church in Bellows Falls on Thursday
evening and Friday, June and 2.
Ed Doheny, a Mortified boy, is
pitching great ball for the New York
league team. +. p. Wilder also OF
Mortified, is playing with the
Worcester club Of the Eastern league.
The Kellogg Hubbard library was
opened last week, enough money hav-
ing been paid in by the ladies from
the fund Of the recently dissolved Ii
brary guild TO insure its running for
a year.
George Dobbs, employed as a yard
brakeman by the Montpelier 4 Wells
River railroad, caught his left foot
between the drawbars OF two cars in
the yard last week and had ii badly
crushed.
Mrs. Mary Howe-Lavin, the noted
BattlebOro singer, viii return home
early in July after a very successful
season in the Royal opera house at
Niesbaden. She will be accompanied
by her brother
Admiral Dewey's gifted fellow
townsman, Artist Thomas w. Wood,
has received the commission TO paint
The first portrait of the admiral to be
painted by an American artist on
American soil.
While digging some post holes on
The Bennington battlefield a few days
ago a workman shoveled up several
pieces Of English money. The date
on them was 1859. They were pretty
well preserved. i
One Of the citizens Of Windham ,
who has recently bought farm |
through which flows a fine trout
brook has put up nice sign bearing |
ms legend: "Fish and be id. I
Worms behind the barn"
Wendell p. Stafford of st. Johns ,
bury has been invited TO give the adj /
eress at the unwilling of the bronze '
statue to Robert Burns at Barre on
july Il. The statue cost $4,000 and
was erected by Scottish clan. Il
Forest fires on the mountains in
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