Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-04-07
State of Vermont.
I. News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

for Our Readers.
=, NJ. Scarf of Burlington has pur-
4 .bssed the New Park hotel property
= woodstock and is getting the house
ready TO open TO the public soon.
case of small pox has developed in
N Rec Hiven q large tenement house
= Randalrs walk in Poultney. David
! Sqmuals is the patient.
The new bobbin factory Of the
,ljen Speare's Sons in Bellows Falls
- been started. It employs "a men
snd the number will be increased to
N II has a capacity Of 10000 finished
4 Robbins daily.
F. Davis. a druggist in Barre, has
4 bsd his name forged on check for
80 an the Barre Savings Bank and
4 INST company. The check was
shed by b. Oudette in Swanton and
retnrned to Barre where 1t was termed
mo good
Fred A. Tiffany, Is years old, was
sonnd dead in bed March 20 in Ben
nington. Heart disease il supposed TO
he The cause of his death. He was the
sop of Elijah Tiffany, the head OF
tiffany Brothers, the leading manu-
hcturers of Bennington.
Snit ht, begun in Rutland county
court by John McTierran, administra-
IN OF the estate of Engineer Dennis
4 Waboney against the Rutland Railroad
"a. for sl0, 900 damages tor the death
nj Mahoney, who was killed in the
Sbelburne wreck of January, 1908.
An organization TO be known as the
Vermont Good Roads association was
formed at Burlington March 2S. Reso-
lntions and a constitution and bylaws
were adopted, and temporary officers
we're elected. An annual meeting will
he called later when every town in the
s-ate can be represented. and at that
time the association will be formed
permanently.
The Vermont School-masters' club Is
scheduled to hold its semi-annual
meeting and banquet at the Junction
a House In White River junction on the
I'm OF April The club will be adj
& dressed by Judge W p. Stafford of the
Il Vermont Supreme court. His subject
viii be The Making OF Vermont. ,
The committee on college require
nents in English will make It's final
report az the meeting.
James Fitzgerald, strong, healthy
boxing man about 40 years old,
dr0pped dead in the street in Benning-
0n March % lie had been about all
jsy. apparently in the best of health,
bat had complained OF a pain in his
eh side He was a nurse by profess
sion. and had served in the Spanish
American war in Co. X, LIST VT. Vols,
being the last man TO enlist, in order
70 fl the ranks of the company.
The current number OF the Army
and Navy Register has handsome
notice OF assistant secretary OF the
uyy, Charles II. Darling OF Benning.
hl VT, urging his appointment as
he successor OF the Hon. Vim. III.
Moody of Massachusetts, the present
secretary. Mr.. Moody will retire at
es close Of the present administration.
NJ Darling,as assistant secretary, has
dle good work and during the alb
snce Of Secretary Moody has handled
Affairs with a steady hand.
Wm c. Holbrook, municipal judge
0iNew York city and son of Yer
uonl's famous war governor, Freder-
lex ilolbrook, of Brattleboro. is dead.
He had always maintained a summer
residence in Brattleboro and was keen
II Interested in Vermont affairs. His
i4ther, Frederick Holbrook, who is in
BIS 10Th year, is in very feeble health.
Judge VIM. G.. Holbrook was born in
Buttleboro. July 4, 1912. After gal
ant service for his country in the war
q the rebellion, he began the study OF
aE. In 1868 he was admitted TO the
bar in New York city and had since
been engaged in active practice. He
vas a member OF the Windham county
Oar and of the circuit and district
courts OF the United States in various
departments.
smallpox has again broken out in
Lincoln. The disease broke out in
December and was supposed 10 be
stamped out. the last family having IL
being released from quarantine the
middle Of February. Since that time
t1ere has not been a case until Mon
day, March 2l. Mrs. Hannah Yarney,
Vho had been Ill for a few days, was
Pronounced by Doctors Brandon and
Cashman to be suffering with small
poG, Monday. March %, Doctor Ed
ulnds Of Bristol and Doctor Cushman
q Lincoln decided that George Atwood
uau the disease and his house is quar-
ahtlned. No one knows where the
disease started but it is thought to
nave been spread from some person
VINO has had il and whose clothing
Sad not been properly fumigated.
noth patients had been visited by sew
sfa friends before the nature of the
disease was discovered.
The License Vote.
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