Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-04-17
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

ADa oNa AhtoAohos
The Health Officers school will be
held July 7-l0
The Montpelier city finance commit
tee reports that 1t will take $4,000 to
run the city this year.
The Sl700 Indebtedness of the Ben
ningtOn Y NJ. c. A. has been cancell-
ed by subscription pledges.
Ten dwelling houses win be erected
by the Vermont Marble company, OF
Proctor, during the coming SUNNI er.
G. c. Bonett, the aeronaut, former
ly Of st. Johnsbury, is making a new
balloon to be called the "St Johns
bury
The total receipts Of the Montpelier
postotiice for the year ending March 81
were Sl42, 1904 and the expenses
Sll .305.S9
+. n Bissell Of East Shoreham has
Just shipped 81 head Of sheep to Aus
tralia. They came from flocks in Adj
Olson county.
The Glen House at East Middlebury
has been sold 10 New York and Boston
parties who will remodel il and make
a first-olass summer resort of it.
The receipts ofthe Bennington post
Office for the year ending March 81,
1902, were the largest in the history
OF the office, 81 ,2S9.l3; gain Of SOIL
.53 over the previous year.
Edward ID. Farrar, manager of the
st. Adams Remedy Co., has been en-
gagged as assistant advertising man
ager for The n. h. Fairbank Co., of
Chicago, and has gone TO his new sit
uation.
A meeting was held Monday to or
ganize the First National bank of
Bristol. Already $4,000 has been
subscribed. The bank will be situated
In rooms now occupied by the Bristol
express office.
Major Seymour II. Wood OF st. Al
bans has prepared and published a
"Roster of Survivors of the First Begi-
ment Vermont Cavalry, with brief
historical sketch OF Regimen and Re
union society,"
Thaddeus Powers of Batesville, was
stricken with blindness and other
alarming symptoms Mar. 81 from the
efIe cts OF drinking what is supposed TO
be wood alcohol, installing II for
Scotch whiskey.
About fifty pupils of the Pomeroy
school. Burlington, have refused to
attend the sessions, claiming that the
principal, Mrs. Kate p. Miller, called
them names when giving them lee
ture on cleanliness.
The silver trophy which has been
contested for during the winter by
eribbage teams representing six OF the
fraternal organizations Of Barre was
awarded to the Knights of Columbus
at a banquet given the evening" Of Apr.
9Th.
DIR. F. f. Farmer, who for the past
two years has held responsible posi-
ton in the state hospital for insane at
Waterbury, has severed his connection
with that institution and will locate
elsewhere for the practice OF his pro-
fession.
The Deerfeld Valley Times publish
cd al Wilmington. in its last issue an
pounces that the reported sale oil
that paper is incorrect. The present
proprietor is not planning to make any
permanent business change at the pres
ent time.
News from Philadelphia states that
the Rev. John Davis Ewing, formerly
rector at Woodstock, who withdrew
from the Vermont Episcopal ministry
al the suggestion of Bishop Han, has
Joined st. Johns Catholic church Of
that city.
The Boston & Maine Railroad com
many has announced its intention to
extend its double track from West
minister TO East Putney during the
coming summer. The double track was
laid last summer from Bellows Falls to
Westminster.
George II. Dalrymple, the recent
principal of the Essex Junction Hlgh
school. has resigned the place and lett
tbe village. Charges Of a shocking
nature were made against him, admit
ted bv him to be true and he was COM
PEELED TO leave.
Luther 2. Brown OF Burlington, VINO
was recently granted patents on non
returnable milk-bottle made nom
wood pulp and parafiine and on but
ter print. has now applied for patents
an a large milk can and swing stan
chion for tying up bottles
ON the first of May seven new rural
free delivery routes will be established
in the first congressional district Of
Vermont. The routes becoming opera
five an that time are in Bristol. Pitts
ford Shelburne. Ferrisburg, Poultney,
North Clarendon and Rutland.
At the meeting of the Vermont Anti
onarian society of Burlington last
- - tbe proceedings were partly in