Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-12-29


the benefit of his health since March
last, has returned home permanently.
His condition is much improved.
Creditors Of the detunct Farmers
National bank OF Nergennes have re-
Gently received another dividend of 10
per cent. on their claims This makes
20 per cent. OF the Indebtedness OF the
bank that has been paid.
Miss Katherine Hutchinson, daugh-
ter of Capt. L. NJ Hutchinson Of Mont
pelier, is making a hit on the stage
/ this season as the bride in "The Girl
from Rays A Chicago paper re-
Gently referred to Miss Hutchinson as
1.-THE pretticst arrival on the Chicago
stage"
The mail from Woodford Wednes-
day OF last week contained i've reg
/ istered packages. Assistant Post
master Robinson says that in the years
that he has been connected with the
/ office it is the first time that such a
/ thing ever occurred, SO tar as he can
remember.
Alta meeting held in Barre Dec. 10,
an organization was effected having
for its object the raising Of money for
q city hospital BY incorporating, the
| society Is enabled to obtain consider
able sum Of money that has been LETT
by wills and through other channels
Tor this purpose.
Three bears have been captured this
fall in southern Vermont, one at Whit
in0ham. one al Wilmington and one
in the Glastonbury tract, the last
named weighing 400 pounds. Last
year there was a big bear hunt but the
bear went through the party OF hunt
ers. and though hit by their bullets
was able to escape.
Joseph Durant OF Montpelier and
Charles Barton OF sodom were arrest
ed Dec. Is, charged with cruelty to
animals aud for intoxication. The
horse in question died that night Bar
ton pleaded guilty in Montpelier city
court the next afternoon and took ten
days In iail Durant was sentenced
Tor a second oflense Of intoxication.
Among the scholarships and prize
awards at Harvard was the Price
Greenleaf scholarship to Frank =.
Wheeler OF Newport, VI, member OF
the Junior class. He also receives
second-year honors in classics and an
award. The Price Greenleat scholar
ships are ten in number and the IN
come ranges IRON 500 to $3.50 year
: twenty-five years ago or more Am.
asa +. Clark OF Glover, who was IL
the lumber business, failed ana somt
; preferred creditors were thrown out
: Mr.. Clark has since died in Whining
: ton. Mass, and now his sons, 1. )
, Clark OF New York aud Chester W
CLARK of Boston. both attorneys al law
| are paying those preferred creultoI'
the fall amount Of their principal.
) The Central Vermont railway ha'
refused the offer OF $1,000 from th'
I CITY OF Burlington for a public wharf
ON property on the lake front IN Bur
lington owned by the railway. Il II
not improbable, therefore, that th'
City will now 90 ahead and sequestel
the property for public use, undel
t which procedure the law would allow
! the railway company reasonable
7 price.
Charles NJ. Colburn Of the firm o
. Colburn a Hasseltine, Insurance
! accents. aged 81 years. died suddenly
~ Montpelier Dec. 10 OF neuralgia Q
: the heart after smoking a cigar AM
! sending for barber to shave him. III
had travelled % years Tor Wells, Ken
ardson 4 Co. OF Burlington, and wa
4 well known to the drug trade oil Yer
G mont. He was In railroad col
: Iision at the Burlington yards last ial
!, ana had not been well since that time
d a present of $50 boxes of cigars AM
/ q naeka0e of tobacco Tor every man u
TIE battalion has been received by IN
: Twelfth Battalion, Field Artillery, sta
toned al Fort Ethan Allen, from IN
members OF Light Battery 4, Massa
lchusetts Volunteer Militia, at Boston
: This Christmas gilt Is the result 9
friendship created between the wv
lorganizations when they were Dot
paTticipating In the army manoeuVre
Al Portland. Me, two years ago, an
al Manassas, Va, this year.
!, The new court OF claims which wa
!, provided by the passage OF bill az u
recent session 81 the legislature, me
a. the state house in Montpelier Thurs
day OF last week to effect an organl1zl
lion and there was present the Ia
board. comprising the Hon. iran
Plumley OF Northheld, T. 6. Williams
% clerk. Of Newport and Linus Leayen
~ Cambridge. The court was give
! room IN the state house by Sergeant
II alarms J. w. Brock in which to hol
its sessions. which will take place
MAY and November.
Two suits. one Tor $4,000 and "a
T. other for 5000, have been brougt
AGAINST the Rutland Street Railwa
GO. by Mrs. Katherine keenan, an
John a. keenan,. respectively, oil hu
land. In the written declarations q
tarhed to the writs of attachments i
= claimed that October ., 1908. Mr.
= Keenan, was seriously injured as T
snlt of the street car, in which she WI
riding. becoming derailed q we
Rutland. Mr. Keenan,, her husoen'
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