Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-06-25

churches, and that the secretary and
treasurer shall be elected from the men,
bers of the executive committee.
Nine voting members shall constitute Q
quorum for doing business, provided
each church is represented by at least four
members.
The executive committee shall organize
by the choice of . chairman and shall
have power to appoint such sub-commit-
tees from their own number as they con-
slider necessary to do business. They
shall raise all money needed for home ex-
penses Of the Federated society, including
PASTORS salary, insurance, janitor, fuel,
lights, all ordinary repairs and inciden-
tails. They shall have the power to draw
orders (signed by the chairman and one
other member of the committee from the
other church, said member to be selected
by his colleagues from the same church)
on the treasurer for the payment OF all
They. shall employ ministers and tram
sact all business II the Federated society
not herein after delegated to other officers
or committees.
In case Of the dissolution of the FEEDER
ated society, the two churches shall be
equally responsible for all debts lawfully
incurred by the executive committee.
"Ordinary repairs" shall mean the keep
ing of church property in suitable condi-
!tion-mending of broken blinds, panes
! of glass and the like.
Each church shall raise, separately, all
money for permanent repairs, such as
outside painting, shingling and remodel
| ing.
The Federated society shall organize q
union Sunday school.
| Auxiliary societies shall organize. to-
gethcr.
| The place of holding the services shall
be left with the executive committee.
| The form of the communion service
will not be determined until after confer
ence with DIR. Davidson of Burlington,
the Baptist state secretary, and Presiding
Elder Smithers of the Methodist church.
! Contributions for missionary and
benevolent purposes shall be given to the
organizations designated by the donors.
In case no choice is designated, they shall
be divided equally between the two
| churches.
Ministers shall be employed by the ex-
ecutive committee to preach the "Gospel
of Christ" and the principles of Christian
| living, and the contract shall he renewed
annually at the January meeting as long
as it is the pleasure of the Federated soci-
ETY., provided that when a change is made
it shall go into effect at the end of the
ministerial year. a three months notice
having been given. The ministerial year
shall close in April.
Amendments may be adopted at any
time by three-fourths vote of all voting
members, provided a notice of the pro-
posed amendment has been given from
the pulpit on each of the two Sundays
immediately preceding.
$4,000 Verdict Against J. r. kimbaII.
The troubles, domestic and financial, OF
John F. Kimball, continue. At Nashua,
N. A., last week, in suit brought by
his wife to recover $4,000 for the alleged
sale of property Of the plaintiff, to wit, a
farm in Braintree, the jury brought in q
verdict for Mrs. Kimball.
i Mrs. KimbaIl alleged that in March,
1907, Mr.. kimball sold the property.
She claims that she signed the deed, but
that her husband had no right to sell the
land.
She testified that after she married Mr..
Kimball, she learned that he had another
wife living and that he secured q divorce
and they were married a second time.
The defence alleged that the plaintiff
had taken about $1,000 from Mr.. Kim
balls safe to which the defendant
claimed she had no right.
In 1892, he married girl, by whom be
had two children, the elder of whom,
Ellen A. Kimball, was in court Thursday.
Later, he went to New Ipswich, N. H.,
and boarded with q Mrs. Read. Later he
married Alice p. Read, the plaintiff,
when she was q schoolgirl IL years old.
The marriage, he claims, was performed
by justice of peace in Boston, but nc
record of the marriage is found.
u Mr.. Kimball testified that he married
Miss Read in September, 1897, after q
months acquaintance, but letters were
produced written by him to her the pre-
vious November, and an engagement ring
bearing the date of Christmas, 1896. he
gave her q piano before they were married
and also farm, called the Page farm,
over the sale Of which this action was
brought.
He claimed that before he married Miss
Read he went to Sunny Side, N. D., and
there lived six months and obtained d.
vorce from his first wife.
He stated that he came to Randolph to
live with his present wife and while there
J his mother-in-lsw attacked him with q
knife and a revolver. He said that Yer
mont court held that the Dakota divorces
was not legal ana ne served sentence IN
prison. He was pardened and in 1901 he
married Miss Read again and their sec.
ond child was born. The second mar
rage was performed by Boston clergy
man. Mrs. Kimball is now suing him
for divorce in Suffolk county.
), His defence was that when he sold the
Vermont farm, over which the suit was
brought, he did so because Mrs. Kimball
had taken money from his safe. He al.
legged that he had been decoyed to New
Ipswich by q message from his wife ask.
ing him to come for her, and that while
he was making the trip in his automobile
she went to his apartments with dray
and carried OF his safe. He alleged that
she broke this open on advice of counsel
and took $500 from it, with papers and
documents.
The daughter testified to having seen
her father place five $1,000 bills and one
$500 bill in the safe.
In the argument for the plaintiff, Mr..
Kimball was bitterly denounced by Mr..
Doyle.