Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-07-25
PERSONAL.

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! Hon. Hiram A. Huse Of MONTPELIER.
state librarian. has returned from Wis
consin, where he attended the annual
meeting OF the National Librarians as
ISOLATION.
c. J. Bell OF Walden is to deliver an
address on The Grange at the six
teenth annual field meeting of the
New Hampshire state board OF agri-
culture at Hampton Beach July 81.
William LAWN, husband of Mary
Howe-Lavin, the Brattleboro singer,
has been engaged as tenor soloist in
the Nine. Patti company, and will be-
gin the season in October in London.
DR.. WatsonL. WATSON, who receiv-
ed his degree at the University of YER
mont this year, has been appointed as
sistant in the pathological building at
the state insane hospital at Waterbury.
Alden Bass, the Yermonter who was
given such a welcome throughout the
state last season in "A Poor Relation
has been engaged Tor a special season
Of Sol Smith Russell's plays at the
Castle Square Theatre, Boston.
Samuel II. Mccullough, who has for
the last Is years been in the railway
mail service, running between Burling-
ton and Boston, has been appointed
assistant chief clerk to Chief Clerk
Carpenter, of this division, and will
have his headquarters at w. Il. juno
ton.
A circular, issued from the Office Of
the president of the Southern Pacific
company, Chas. NJ. Hays, under date Of
July 9, announces the appointment of
+. III. FitZhugh as assistant 10 the pres
ident, with office in san Francisco. Mr..
Hays was formerly manager Of the
Grand Trunk. and Mr. Fitzhugh of the
Central Vermont.
DR.. John Gibson OF Nergennes, who
was tor several years resident of
Burlington, has received the appoint
ment Of adjunct professor of materia
medica and therapeutics in the medi-
cal department OF the University OF
Vermont DR.. Gibson is a graduate
Of the medical college in the class OF
1898. lie is native Of Scotland.
DR.. ID. X. Pearsons Of Chicago, the
philanthropist, a Bradford boy, an
nounces that during the remaining six
months of this year he proposes to
give S275. 900 to struggling colleges IN
the Western states. DR.. Pearsons has
distributed 50, 100000 in the past 10
years. and at the rate he mentions he
will dispose OF nearly $4,000 900 in the
10 years he has allotted himself to live.
Dr. NJ. A. Jewett. United States con-
sui ut Sivas, Turkey. is now visiting
in Boston. DR.. Jewetts father was a
st. Johnsbury man and is rem embered
by many people in Vermont. BY a
singular coincidence DR.. Jewett otiici-
ally represents this country in the
Turkish city in which he was born,
his father, the Rev. DR.. Fayette jew
EFT. having been located there in the
SOS as a medical missionary of the
American board. lie was appointed
by President Harrison in 1892 and eX-
perienced the horrors Of the Armenian
massacre.
Hetty Green, her husband, Edward
Green, and her daughter, Sylvia, are
at the family residence in Bellows
Falls and keeping house on very
mode scale Mrs. Green gives Bel
lows Falls as her residence and pays
taxes on Sl25.000 property valuation.
a decidedly clever scheme of hers, and
the town authorities are perfectly
agreeable. She is the first to pay her
taxes. She breads newspaper men
and camera tiends. Recently.to dodge |
one OF the last named, she climbed a |
high fence back OF her house in order
to get to the postotlice.