Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-06-19
state of Vermont.
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prg Gen. Merritt baTDef, u o A.
p5 and wife are at their summer
Ie e.tIsnce in Pownal tor the season.
= p Zones and son, Ernest, OF Bar
80 bouoht the hotel at Washing
~ D and will take possession July /.
w. ,rse delivery of mails win begin
.trorgh sheldon August LIST IRON the
lIfo,5 Chas. Loukes will be carrier.
There are no new cases OF smallpox
- sheldon poor farm and all pre-
osntions are being taken TO stop the
snread Of the disease.
Zine annual NEE ting OF the Vermont
rnworth League will be held IN Irini-
III NIethodist Episcopal church in
Wontpeler June rs and 20.
The fourth annual school OF instruc-
.ion t.or health officers will be held at
p9rIfpotOn July to 10, inclusive, UNI
A. tbe direction of the state board of
health. At. -. 4,.o,.,
the Highgate Center postotlice, recent
il surveyed by Special Agent Norton
fss been ordered into effect August /,
witb Alfred +. Young as carrier.
I.E. Willard has purchased a new
Yacht TO run on the Missisquoi river
bis summer q between Highgate
Sgrings and Sheldon. Mr.. Willard
4 MIN have charge OF the boat himself.
Prof c. II. Stone, who completes
his duties as teacher at Goddard semi
nary Barre. this term, has rendered
his resignation as president of the Bar
re Musical association. The vacancy
will be filed later.
The new Portland House at Sheldon
4. completed and has been opened by
the owner and proprietor, G.. II. Thorn
As. The hotel was built by +. Nj.
Prontv. contractor and builder, OF
Swantou The house is thoroughly up
10 date. The inside is finished in hard
pine and hardwood floors.
The Fourth of July will be observed
in Burlington on grand scale with
military parade, In which 1t Is hoped q
company of the Queens Own from OF
hwa viii participate in addition to the
troop, from Fort Ethan Allen. The
promoters intend to have a continuous
performance all day and into the night.
"t is estimated that over $1,000
. changed hands on the Montpelier SEM
inary and Goddard ball game last
week" saws the Montpelier Journal.
4 The bets were made even money when
N il was acknowledged that in view Of
a previous records odds should have
been given by the hackers OF the God
dards,
The First National bank of Bristol
n opened its doors for business June 10.
Fl " J.. Hanks was the first deposltor
and +. f. Dixie a close second. The
n first DAYS business was very crafty
Inc. being more than the officials OF
& the bank had expected. From present
N outlook the bank viii do a larger bust
ness than its most sanguine friends
have predicted.
Fl A vail comes from the northern
II part OF the state that no one remembers
such a spring as this, when corn rot
W tel IN the fields as II has this year, ana
8 when II was impossible TO plant or har-
81 row til almost the middle OF June.
FL Grass is growing finely although some
Il are complaining that their cows are
shrinking In their milk because OF the
grass not having body TO 1t, owing to
the wet weather.
Prois. Butterfield, Sawyer and Cot
a aud twenty students of the L. NJ.
Il Burlington went TO Greensboro June
"A - tor The usual summer school in civil
engineering which will continue Tor
four weeks. The work which was be-
n gun four years ago is being carried on
with the idea of making a map OF
. Greensboro The party already on
the ground includes Prot. Notey ana
Prof Barrows.
The postmaster at Oakland, in the
town of Georgia. has resigned ana II
looks as though the office would De
discontinued, owing to the inability oil
\ the department to find anyone who Is
willing to accept the duties and emolu-
ments Of the office. Many of the Tor
mer patrons OF the Office have put up
boxes and become patrons OF rural iree
delivery route No from st. Adams,
winch passes the office.
The Rutland men, who have had IN
charge for several weeks the matter OF
a proposed baseball league to consist
o. Rutland, Poultney, Fair Haven,
GIens Falls, n. Y, and Granville, \.
l., have met with sufficient en-
eouragement so that they have an
n3uuced that arrangements have been
eonsummated and Rutland will I'M
doubtedly see during the coming sum
mer the best baseball that mas been
played there in many years.
At special meeting of the Barre
cLiy council it was voted to purchase
a new steel bridge for North Barre and
Tue contract was awarded to the Unit
ed Construction company OF Albany,
y. Y, the firm which built the Granite
street bridge at Montpelier and which
removed it from the river where 1t was
washed by the flood this last spring
Inc contract price is $4,000 and the
bridge must have a capacity OF thirty
tons and be ready by October l.
= The Jury brought in a verdict of not
guilty last week at Hyde Park in the