Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-04-29
TOWN TOPICS.


Charles Moulton and A. G. Went.
worth received the second and third
ranks in the Order of Knights of Pythias
at recent meeting.
The nimrods who failed in their
efforts to shoot wild geese were fortu.
nate, inasmuch as the law prescribes a
penalty for shooting them at this season.
The annual parish meeting of Christ
Church for the purpose of electing
vestrymen, will be held in the Church
edifce next Monday morning at 9
o'clock.
George S. Robinson is once again able
to attend to his official duties as town
clerk and treasurer, having been re-
stricted to his house some three weeks
with hard cold.
Be getting your fish lines untangled,
the open season for trout commences
Sunday, but of course fishermen will
postpone their visit to the brooks until
the following day.
Reports received from Mrs. f. P. Lee
are satisfactory. An operation was per-
formed last Friday and the patient is
doing as well as could be expected,
whereat her friends rejoice.
The debris that necessarily accumu-
| lated during the erection of the new sta
ton is being removed as rapidly a, pos,
slble, and in consequence there is de-
cided Improvement in the vicinity of
this building.
f. E. Gonya has sold his house to f.
J. Bagley. Mr. Gonya will shortly leave
town, but his wife aud her mother, Mrs.
Cate, will remain here for the present,
and have rented rooms of l.. w. Stevens
on Derby street.
AT West Charleston, April 10, Miss
Katie Nicholson was united in marriage
with Samuel kittle of Charleston, by
Rev. j. w. Burgin. The young lady's
friends wish her much happiness in the
new relations she has assumed.
The work on the new viaduct is be-
ing hustled right along. The bridge
work has been carried across the tracks
and work has now commenced from the
incline on the fiat. Every day shows
much accomplished AS soon as the
bridge can be got ready for planking the
erection of the overpass near the station
will be begun.
While it was feared that the unfa-
vorable weather would prevent even a
fair crop of sugar, the fine sunny days
with the attendant frosty nights that we
have had, started great flow Of sap, so
great that several sugar makers had all
they could do to take care of it. All are
agreeably disappointed this year for the
sugar crop will be large one. The
best sugar is selling at II cents per
pound.
Dealers in so called zone per cent
should exercise great care in handling
this stuff, as there is danger that an
analysis will prove it to contain greater
quantity of alcohol. We are led to
su ygest this from the fact that a few
DAYS since Charles w. Nolen bought a
case of-whatever it may be-said by
the manufacturer to contain only one
per cent. Becoming suspicious he for
warded bottle to the state laboratory
at Burlington, and the chemist who an
ayzed it reported it to contain nearl!
three per cent. The penalty under oul
present law for selling that which con
tains over one per cent is very severe
involving fine Of not less than three
hundred dollars, or imprisonment OF no
less than three nor more than twelv
months. or both. "Forewarned is fore
armed"
When the Grand Trunk pay ca
arrived here a few days since Home
Stott, a fireman, stepped into the car t.
get his check for his months pay, ant
. discovered that somebody else ha
secured the check at Montreal an
cashed it, signing his (Stott's) name o.
the paw roll, also endorsing his name Oh
, the check. The railroad authorities In
: vestgated the matter and finding
marked similarity of writing betwee
, the endorsement on the check and tn
signature on the pay roll OF another flre
man. Frederick Miller, the latter wa
SUSPECTED. A detective from Montrea
came here Thursday and secured sun
> Gent evidence against Miller to Justlf
his arrest. Late Thursday night til
man was arrested by deputy sherl
Stevens. Upon being told his rights
waived them and consented to return
Montreal. Saturday morning the depnt
escorted him TO the boundary line al
% delivered him to the custody OF u
Canadian officer. At Montreal Monda
before Judge Lafontaine, Miller pleade