Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1900-11-29
State News.

u A Hall cf Burlington has bought the
ale Wonder Clock from C. A. Yale and
naS formed tick company, having paid
up capital of $50 900.
The late census euumt ration ma il ap-
pear that Brandon has lost nearly six huo-
ured In population during the Ia I decade
anu the to snl authorities, believing mis-
rake has been made, have ordered nes
enumeration to be taken by Justice e. w.
! briggs, who has commenced the work.
There are now A postoffices in Yer
mont OF the presidential class, where post
masters are appointed in the po.tofiice de-
pertinent. The gros' receipts OF these A
oihcss last year were $426,9l7 81, where
the previous year it was S403. 415 80
and fyr the fiscal year 1898, 1877 ,408 81.
lhl' shows how the postal receipts tor
Vermont have grown steadily fer tie past
three years.
Four new cases If diphtheria are report
ed rom Rutlai county. The disease,
winch vas supposed to have b ea COM
p'etely stamped out in that section, has
again broken out. The victims live short
distance south of the place where the
dlpbtheria prevailed before. They are not
IN the town OF Rutland and so do not come
under the risdiction Of the city health
othcrr. The prevalence OF the disease in
this section is undoubtedly caused by i'm
proper sanitary conditions and carelessness
amor the residents.
A member of the firm Ct Hyde, Grace &
Go. Of New York was in Barre lately
to get figures on $4,000 Barre granite
ob, vault for the Guggenheim family to
be set in the Cypress Hill cemetery at New
York Several firms have figured on the
job which will probably be let within few
days and will help to make business good
in Barre thi, winter. Im'ah & Co. nave
received letter from prominent New
York wholesaler, stating that he had prac.
tically closed a 100000 con'r ct calling
for Barre granite -...77.-sa :s;;aisy ...s:5saa
L; DR.. H. H. Mel tyre, executor tf the
will Of Sarah Jane Croker. has closed the
estate and passed over to w. III. Dubois,
trea,urer, tor the trustees OF the Randolph
public library, the residue of her property,
in kind, in accordance with the terms
her will, as follows, VIZ: Money IN Bur.
lington Savings bsnk, $1518 90; mon in
Vermont Savings bank, Brattleborc
1904 So; money in Randolph Saving,
bank, face value, $575.11 bond, Vermont
Inv stment Co., Orwell, face value unpaid
$140; cash, $245 80; total, $3524 80
This money will be known as the ''Sarah
Jane Crocker fund" and will be kept on
interest. by the trustees, for the sole use
and benefit of the Randolph public library
The idea of union OF the young peoples
societies connected with the Vermont
churches in twentieth century convention
originated with Prof. Kitchen of the Uni
versity of Vermont, and that icea is being
developed by the state and local committee
in manner that promises most satisfactory
results. The last day of this year and the
first and second days of the coming new
wear have been fixed upon for this great
invention, which is to take the place OIL
the regularly held state conventions of the
Christian Endeavor, Epworth League and
Baptist Union. The program prepared
for this memorable occasion is q strong
one, and the speakers selected are full Of
enthusiasm along the several lines of work
HMoses Durand, Jr, of Burlington lies
in the Troy, N. T., city hospitak DIVING
from the effects OF three bullet wounds in
the breast which he says we're given him by
stranger, who afterwards robbed him ir
small wood near Troy. Durand went to
Troy from Schenectady and visited mum.
Der OF saloons and disrsputable places. He
claims to have had $40 with him. To the
police be said that his name wa, Charles
White and that he came from Schenectady
He told them the story Of the robbery a.
above stated. His stories were contradic
tory and after much examina;i N he &C.
knowledged that his name was Durand O.
Burlington and that he had served two
y ars in the Rutland work house for Great
ing disturbance in Burlington.