Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-12-22

missioned a second lieutenant in the
marine corps.
Lyndonville has voted to purchase
the Sanborn house for a public libra
ry. 1t will use the legacy OF $4,000
left by the will of Isaac Sanborn, one
of Lyndonville's most respected citi-
Zens.
George Wilder of Derby has been
appointed a deputy collector and in
sp1 ctor OF customs and will be sta
toned at Island Pond, filling the va
cancy caused by the resignation of
John G. Walker.
The directors of the Waterbury Ma
| tional bank have voted to establish a
savings bank department in connee-
/ ton with the bank The new organi-
cation is capitalized at the same
amount as the national bank, $50. 900.
The new system will go into effect
January /.
The,comptroller of the currency at
Washington has received the applica-
lion Of John l.. Bacon of White River
Junction, Maxwell Eyarts. w. ID.
/ Tuxbury, j. H. Kinny, Walter J.
Sake and others to organize the State
National bank of Windsor. The capt.
tai stock viii be $4,000.
Arthur Fitzgerald of Pawlet, who
disappeared Dec. 5, has not been
heard from since that time and his
young wife is Frustrated as a result OF
his prolonged absence, the reason Of
which is not known. Fitzgerald is the
son of Thomas Fitzgerald and has
been married only short time.
Mrs. Lucinda b. Simmons died at
East Orange, n. j., Dec. Q. Mrs.
simmons father. Wheat Beals. of Yer
mont, built the first railroad known in
the United States-the wooden track
affair four miles long at the Quincy
granite qnarries in Massachusetts,.
Her grandfather was member of the
Boston tea party.
The late Charles S. MeAllister of
West Enosburg has left about $4,000
to the Montpelier seminary, the Meth
odist preachers aid and the church ex-
tension. It was understood that the
amount of the bequest was to be con-
tested but investigation proves that 1t
is not. Mr.. McAllister had always
been a generous donor to the semi
nary.
The will of the late Gilbert E. Hood
of Lawrence, Mass, disposing OF a
go, 900 estate, left the sum OF $4,000
in trust for Thetford academy at fhet-
ford, this state. The estate is held in
trust. two sisters. Mrs. Lucinda X.
smith and Miss Eliza Hood, having
the income during their lifetime and
the trust reverting to the academy up
on their death.
The case of Samuel ID. Wilson VS..
7. w. Clement, the famous $4,000
suit for alleged SANDER, has Just been
argued before the United States circuit
court of appeals in New York city.
No decision has been rendered but II
the case is decided in favor of the
plaintiff the trial will probably come
off at the February term Of county
court in Burlington.
The bequest of $4,000 to the Brat
tleboro home for the aged and disabled
by Mrs. Martha Ryther of Bernardston,
Mass, formerly of Brattleboro, makes
a total of over $4,000 that has been
given the home, in addition to gift OF
$40. 900 made conditional upon pro-
vision being made Tor caring tor the
donor, which gift was accepted and
used for enlarging the institutio n.
A man giving the name of Byron NJ.
Frasier was discovered Dee. Is near
the iron bridge in Island Pond in a
most pitable condition, nose, ear,
right hand and both feet frozen. As
result OF his exposure, the poor man
was somewhat deranged. lie went to
Island Pond from Berlin, n. H., where
he admitted he drank to excess, but
gives his home at Lancaster, Ont.
The several companies of the Uni
form rank, Knights of Pythias, in Yer
mont have Just been organized into a
regiment and C.. NJ. Brownell OF Bur-
lmpton has received his commission
as colonel. There are ten companies
in the regiment, which is organized
along regular army lines. The COM
panies are located at st. Johnsbury.
Hardwick, Rutland, st. Adams, Bur
lington, Barre, Bellows Falls, Barton
Landing, Groton and Richtord. Here
tOfore the companies uaNe had o"V-
TALON formation. but that form was
not satisfactory.
Frank Plumley, as umpire, has been
notified that France has appointed
Count Peretta de la Rocca as commits
sioner of that government on tpe
Franeo-Venezuelan commission TO
arbitrate certain claims remaining
unsettled. and that he will be ready to |
take up the work of the commission at
Northfield February l, 1905. Mr..
Plumley understands that the govern
ment of Venezuela is in agreement as
TO time and place. Count Peretta
served as commissioner tor France IN
the mixed commission which sat AT
Caracas, Venezuela, in 1908.
Miss Rest w. Perkins, a young
woman of Rutland, has just returned
from North Dakota, where she went
wear and a half ago with four other
Young women and took up govern !
ment claim. Each OF the young wom- /
-. TEa aaraa of land each i