Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-08-22
state of Vermont.
- Nexvs Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

AGENCY average from $50 to $40 day.
the rural free delivery route through
addison serves rs families and sos
persons.
country club is being organized in
Northfeld and a two-story club house
/ In process of erection.
WTloughby Lake is having a boom in
the sale of building lots. Joseph Hyde
Iecently sold at auction 80 or 40 lots.
Earl and Arthur Flanders, two
orange boys, found and killed one
hundred and fifteen snakes in one nest
recently.
Fire which probably caught from a
chimney destroyed Thomas Calder
woods farm buildings at Greensboro
recently.
A party of engineers has been sur
veving the boundary lines between
Woodford and Searsburg, about which
there is a dispute.
John Rickaby of st. Johnsbury has
declined a civil service appointment as
4 stenographer IN the government SER
vice in the Philippines.
The docket for the September term
Of Rutland county court has been
issued. II contains 250 civil. IA
criminal and 81 chancery cases.
The star route from Hancock to
Bread Loaf has been extended BY the
postotilce department so as TO include
hipton. 10 take effect August 20.
Nine Of the Is candidates who took
tbe examinations before the state
board passed and will be given certii-
Gates to practice medicine IN Yer
mont.
Hotel Lookof at Sugar Hill, n. H.,
/, one Of the assets Of the defunct
Bradford bank J. b. Hale, receiver,
!. about % transfer the property TO a
cash purchaser.
Prank and Richard Taylor OF Proc
t8f who are passing the summer az
Long Point. Lake Champlain, while
trolling for pickerel, captured one
which weighed Is pounds undressed. .
The board OF the Vermont Horse as
ISOLATION has selected Diamond, the
2.year-0ld Morgan stallion belonging
% Fred Newton OF Waliham. 10 be ex-
hibited al the Pan-American exposition
al Buffalo.
Frank Carpenter Of West Concord
sad his nephew. George Proctor. OF
Boston last week In three days caught
50 trout. The first day in three
hours they landed $50. the second day
10 Eve hours. l57.
jeremiah Rockwell. a revolutionary
soldier who saw service at Bunker
Hill aud who died in Brandon \ y,
ii 1852. was a native of Cornwall
One Of hls sons, Otis + Smith. is now
living in Middlebury.
A petition for the discharge from
bankruptcy OF John W ketchum Of
Nergennes has been filed with Rete-
Zee Joel c Baker OF Rutland. The .
hearing In the matter will be held IN
hiddlebury September 3.
Agents of Boston commission houses
are going through the farming sections
buying an the early potatoes they can
md. Potatoes are quoted IRON el.9o
10 - per barrel in 1.-THE Boston market
and anybody with good crop Is
lucky.
The new steam launch, Blanche.
owned by y. ID. Phelps OF Barre has
arrived at Burlington. IL was built by
the Wolverine Motor Works Of Grand
Rapids. Mich, and It's build would
Indicate that Il is boat OF considerable
speed
In looking over some old papers
George Braley of Barre discovered a
number OF old state bank notes which
had been taken az the Chelsea bank
Years AGO and which were endorsed
on the back OF the envelope containing
them as having been charged on 10
profit aud loss in lS65. L
Or w. Seward Webb Of Shelburne
has rendered the Vermont Fish and
Game League the use of his steam I
yacht Elfrida 70 convey Vice President
Roosevelt from Burlington 10 Isle la !
Alotte and return on the occasion OF 1
TIE midsummer meeting. Sept. 8. The {
oler has been accepted.
A suit of clothing. hat, shirt and {
shoes were found Tuesday near the
railroad tracks at the standard on :
Cos tanks in Burlington under {
circumstances which indicate L
possible drowning with the attendant
disability that the clothing may have
been leit as a hoax or by accident
". E. Ranger. state superintend-
ent Of education, reports the summer
schools this year to have been success.
There were $50 teachers in attendance
one teacher out OF every
ia in the state, which is deemed an !
excellent average. The largest at
enhance was ut Rutland and the
'nallest at Bennington. 5
Il is said that Mrs. Ada Bracket 9
lleged to have Influenced the deels-
on Of Judge Harvey at Butte. Mon" t
= the copper mine case. involving c
worth OF property. Is na- ?
I'VE OF Burlington and the child OF
Feil-to-do parents. Her maiden name {
vas Adelia Penniman Howe. II
The generous gift of Andrew Carne- o
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