Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-01-23
State of Vermont.
it's News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

Rolla NJ. Chase of Bethel has been
granted a trademark for a dandrutf
cure and hair tonic.
President Roosevelt has reappointed
Hugh Henry of Concord, n. H., pen
sion agent for Vermont.
1t cost Burlington STOPS. 50 to sup
port its poor from April % to Dec. 81,
1901, or almost $1,000 a month.
Potatoes are bringing 80 and IS cents
per bushel in Lyndonville and vicinity,
and are hard 10 find at that price.
The dairy school at Burlington open
ed last week with an attendance OF ~
out of an enrolment of "a pupils.
About S35, 900 was expended in Bris-
toll during the year 1901 for new build
ings, repairs on old ones and painting.
The annual banquet OF the Vermont
Veterans association of Boston will be
held at Youngs hotel the evening of
Feb. 4.
The surplus of the Bellows Falls
postofice from the business of the past
year was $4,000 more than the year
before.
Max +. Severance, formerly of
Barre. is now u special war cores
pondent for the New York Sun in the
Philippines.
The authorities OF South Wheelock
state officially that Mrs. Smiths case
i'm that place is one of chickenpox and
not OF smallpox, as has been stated.
Rev. w. j. OSullivan of Montpelier
acted as POSTMASTER at the goth ami
yersary banquet OF the Catholic Young
Mems union at the Vendome in Bur
lington last week.
WIG Freddy of Dorset has brought
mit against G. b. Wilson for $1,000
lamages for failure 10 work his quarry
np to the 50, 900 cubic feet, as stipulat-
ed in the contract.
Civil service examinations for posi-
tons in the departmental service IN
Washington will be held az Burlington
March Is and April %, and at st.
Johnsbury March p.
The Rev. John Kimball, who has
been preaching ia Pennsylvania for
the past year, has accepted call to the
Universalist church at LyndOnyille,
and begun his pastOrate.
Rutland's school board has asked for
an appropriation of SIS, 900 for school
purposes this year. This Is an Increase
of %. 600 over last year, which appro-
priation was not exhausted.
A United States mail bag, which was
sent ont from Barre shortly before
Christmas and which did not reach its
destination, has been found in Ogdens-
burg. The contents OF the bag had
been plundered.
Patrick Tromblee of Websterville, a
village in the town OF Barre, who re-
Gently visited in Canada, is thought TO
be afflicted with smallpox. Four per-
sons have been exposed. The school
has been closed.
John Cotton Dana, who has recently
accented an offer TO take charge OF the
Newark, n. j., public library at a sal
airy OF 81 200 a year, is 3 native oil
Woodstock. He formerly had charge
of the public library in Springfield
Mass.
The year Just closed shows the larg-
est building record for Mortified IN
any year since the times referred TO as
"raiiroad days. A conservative esti-
mate OF the amount expended in new
buildings and improving and enlarg-
ing those already built is S65.OOO.
The docket for the January term OF
supreme court, which convenes at
Montpelier Tuesday, Jan. q, is the
largest of recent years, showing 10
cases already entered, and with those
that NAV vet be returned, the whole
number will be between l2O and 10.
AT the annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the American Fidelity com
many of Montpelier the report of the
treasurer shows that the company has
issued surety bonds under It's charter
10 the extent of 81 100000 and earned
az 900 during the first year of its ex-
istence.
Mrs. Clarence f. X. Jenne of Brat
tleboro was elected treasurer OF the
national society, United States Daugh-
ters of the War of 1912, at the conven-
ton of the organization in New York
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city. The society is the youngest OF
the patriotic societies, but is growing
rapidly.
Last wear there were 800 births in
Barre city and $50 deaths. The dis
eases from which most of the deaths
occurred were spinal meningitis, Is !;
scarlet fever, 10; consumption, 8; chol-
era infantum, 6. There were three
deaths from cancer and two from ty-
phoid fever
Charles Beauchemin of Shelburne
has returned from visit in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut, where he has
interested parties in the gold mine
which was discovered some time ago
on his farm. Mr.. Beauchemin expects
that the property will be developed
next spring.
FL. White, the general manager OF
the Lumiere company of North Amerl-
ca which recently located its factory IN
Burlington, has purchased the historic
Lucia Bradley Peck mansion in that
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