Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-01-17

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in 4th cavalry" The letter has beer
on its journey over two months and
has Travelled about $1,000 milei
all for two-cent stamp.
At the annual meeting of the Dan.
, vile Creamery association dividend
of 8 per cent was declared. There
were taken in at the creamery last
year 2,6l9,667 pounds OF milk and
663, 1873 pounds OF cream, from which
1913, 62i pounds Of butter were made
at cost Of l.6l cents pound. The
total receipts for the year were &c.,
600 and the patrons received an aver.
age net price Of % 1912 cents a
pound for their butter.
Mrs. II. Bullock Of Brattleboro is in
receipt Of letter written on a Saliva.
ton Army letter head by w. b.
Boyden at San Francisco, enclosing
20 to pay for boyish prank nearly
90 years ago OF stealing plums and
breaking the limbs Of trees on the
farm OF her family in Guilford. II
everybody would thus remember, un-
der Salvation Army or any other in
tiuence, to atone for the sins Of youth
what a world it would be.
Lena Conway, one of Manchesters
prettiest and brightest young girls,
her age being Il, has been missing
from her home for six weeks. Her
parents are distracted and have
exhausted every effort to find her.
She was large Of her age and proud
spirited. Shortly before her dis
appearance, she was reprimanded by
her parents, to which reprimand she
took exceptions. IL is feared that she
has fallen into evil hands.
During the five years it has been
organized st. Johns Court, G. o. F.,
has dispensed about $4,000 in the
city of Barre in way OF sick and death
benefits. The court has been unfor-
tunate in the past year, losing three
members by death. The total num-
Der Of deaths in the court the past
five years is largely in excess Of those
in the other courts in Vermont. The
court has shown itself a true friend to
the widows and orphans Of its menu
bers.
Henry Elkey, Jr., was seriously
injured at Eddy Brothers ice pond
near Rutland recently. He was
standing at the foot of one of the
slides when the tongs on large cake
slipped and the cake came down the
slide, striking him in the corner of
his left eye. The sharp edge of the
ice cut a deep hole and completely
smashed the eye and nose. The
young man also had his right leg
broken in two places. His chances of
recovery are slight.
j. L. Cushman, the attorney for
Mrs. Melvina Prunier OF Burlington,
has been notified that the United
States court of appeals has affirmed
the verdict Of $4,000 awarded Mrs.
Prunier in the lower court against
Lillian Ash. The suit was for the
alienation OF affections Of Mrs. Pru-
nier's husband, and was tried in New
York, and the verdict secured one
year ago. An appeal was taken by
the defendant. The verdict is secur-
ed by bond of S25, 900.
Francis Shambo, aged so, died in
Montpelier recently. During his life
he followed the business of quarrying
and stone mason and was employed
in lS4s, when the Central Vermont
railroad was being constructed, in
making all the cuts through the
lodges along that line from Essex
Junction TO what is known as the No.
bridge near Browns mills. About
40 years ago he was employed in con-
structing canal and bridges in what
was known as Canada West. He
served in the civil war as a private in
Company C, ID VT Vols, enlisting
March 6, 1862, and was mustered out
March 2s, 1865.
One Of the few surviving fathers Of
the prohibitory law, Enos P. Hoag, is
still living in Lincoln, hale and
hearty, at the age of S4. Mr.. Hoag
was member of the House in 1851
and 1852, and took an active part in
the prohibitory fight. He says, how
ever, tuht the law paccCu thO houoc
through an error on the part Of an
extremely ignorant member, who
thought he was voting for another
bill. Mr.. Hoag has always been con-
sistent temperance man and believes
in prohibition, but he has no SYM
patty with that class of people who
resort to blacklists and spite to carry
out their notions.
The New England Asbestos Mining
and Milling Co. was organized at
Fall River, Mass, last week to exploit
an asbestos mine located in Eden in
Lamoille county, Vermont, where l25
acres have been purchased. The rock
rises 500 feet from the surface and is
known locally as cotton rock. This
is the first company organized in this
country to do asbestos mining, most
of the raw material now used coming
from Canadian mines. II is proposed
to buy mining and milling machinery
Of once and ENGAGE in the manufac-l