Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-01-26

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Robert Place, aged 80 years, diet
last week at the home of his son-in
law, l.. X. Jacobs, in South Bristol
after an illness of but few days. A
! physician was called-the first eve
employed for him during his lifetime
lie was the oldest man in Bristol.
Dr. r. NJ. Cram of Rutland, one Of
the Vermonters who joined the party
which about a month ago left for {
trip through Cuba and Porto Rico, il
enthusiastic over his trip, especially
over the scene at the raising of Old
Glory over Havana, of which he was
an eye witness.
Mayor Sutton of Burlington has
issued warning for city meeting to
be held Thursday, Jan. 26,at O'Clock
in the morning to see whether the city
will vote to exempt from taxation the
Shepard 4 Morse Lumber company
for the term Of five years and if so,
upon what conditions.
The number of books in the Nor
man Williams library at Woodstock
was increased by the addition Of 544
volumes during 1898, making the total
IL l54 at present. On January II,
fourteen years ago, the library build
ing was opened to the public with
4,2l1 volumes on its shelves.
There are at present i'm the Indus
trial school at yergennes 1870 boys
aud % girls, the largest in the history
of the school. The last consecutive
number Of boys was l,lsl, girls l35.
Children have recently been commit
ted from New Haven, st. Adams,
Monkton and Salisbury.
While digging the well for the new
wrapper factory at Chester workmen
found, some twenty feet below the
surface, two logs of wood in an excel
lent state Of preservation. How long
they have been there is, OF course, Ial-
certain, though many centuries have
passed since they first became covered.
Hugh NJ. Adams, a former Brattle-
boro liyeryman, who left last Febru-
airy, writes that he and George VIII
son, another Brattleboro man, are en-
gagged in mining near Dawson City.
Joseph Ferriter, who learned his trade
in the Phoenix office, is employed as
a printer in the klondike Nugget Of
flee at Dawson.
Rutland will improve and enlarge
its city hall at an expense of about
100000. The plans have been drawn
with the idea OF making the building
a lirst-class convention hail. Rutland
is very near the center OF the state and
1t is thought that a building such as
that proposed would attract al sorts
OF meetings, conventions and musi-
Gales.
An electric car ON the Springfield
road ran into Witt 4 keyes' delivery
team the other morning. The team
stood across the track halfway down
town hall hill and frosty rail made
il impossible TO stop the car fully. The
front Of the car was smashed in, two
windows broken and the controller
box Knocked over. No one was in
iured.
After being paid Oft at Estey's
organ works at Brattleboro, Swede
by the name OF Anderson accidentally
threw some $40 of his money into the
fire. The ashes were carefully gath
cred up and brought TO the Peoples
National bank for inspection in hopes
that the money may be redeemed,
making good the loss to
Anderson.
b. Howard Smith, probably the
oldest resident of St.Lawrence county,
New York, died at his home in Gou-
Jan. IL. lie was born in
Williamstown, VT, in 1900. He en-
igrated to New York in 1926. Mr..
Smith was the oldest Mason in New
YORK state IL not in the country. lie
was a lifelong Democrat and cast his
first vote for Jackson.
The annual meeting OF the Ben
nineton Battle Monument and His
torical association was held at Ben
alngton last Wednesday. The re-
ports showed that there were about
81 900 in the treasury; that the sums
from visitors to the monu-
ment were enough to pay all expenses
incurred in the care OF it. Seventeen
new members were elected.
A curious accident happened at
George Fisk's in Barton recently,
which might have caused the loss OF
IN the buildings by fire If the family
aad been away. A cat after a mouse
.hrew over a loaded gun which stood
n the corner of the shed, causing a
discharge which set fire TO lot OF
,havings and kindling wood near.
Sometimes people are fortunate.
A sled carrying large steam boiler
rom Brattleboro to NJ. L. Lyman's
Mill i'm West Dover slowed out OF the
Dad and went over 20-foot embank-
nent near the the Williamsville rail
Dad station. The four horses were !
ragged over the embankment and
omewhat injured. A tramway had
o be built before the boiler could be I
lrawn back into the regular highway.
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