Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-04-08

with his halt-sister, Mrs. Nelson Parrott,
took 1855 from q place in which Mrs.
PARROT had concealed it last Thursday and
left town, being seen by several people on
River street. Young Proctor came here
from Worcester, Mass, and was IS years
old. His sister had somewhat doubted
his honesty and concealed the money
where she thought he would not find it.
The storehouse Of Upper & Graham,
situated in the rear of the Sylvester
house, owned by E. L. Bass, caught fire
Monday night, either from a spark from
a passing locomotive or from the burning
Of the grass the Gay before by section
men on the Rochester railroad. When
discovered By Night Waterman Pray
there was quite q brisk blaze stared on
the northwest corner. Mr.. Pray went to
the store of Upper & Graham and in ac-
cordance with instruction previously Civ
en- for just such emergencies, broke in the
glass and took fire extinguisher, with
which he soon put out the fire, with but
very little damage done.
The Washington party have been arriv-
ing home in detachments for the past
week, nearly every train bringing in a
few. They were q tired crowd, but hap
py and well pleased with their trip. Il
was one solid week Of sight seeing, and
their feelings were we'll represented by
the expression OF one young lady as she
stepped OF the train. "Well, here am,
all that is left OF me-" Dress suit cases
were lost and found again, gas was blown
out, but no one hurt, feet were sore and
theatres attended in rubbers, but what's
the odds? A good time was had and the
travellers acquired more useful informa-
ton than could be told in many pages.
Attorney c. w. Writers of the Central
Vermont railway was in town last week
and met some of the men who have petit
toned for a hearing before the railroad
commissioners in regard to the rate on
coal from Burlington to Bethel. 1t seems
that the railroad is charging from Bur
lington to Bethel S1.3O a ton, W bile they
charge from the same point to White
River Junction only 95c., the latter point
being q competitive point. Mr.. Writers
expressed himself as surprised at this in
equality and asked for a continuance Of
the hearing which was set for April :,
with the expectation that the rate would
be adjusted by the railroad on its own
will.
The E. c. Fisher Co. have the manu-
| facturers of chrome sole leather by q new
/ process devised by them. Only the very
/ highest grade OK hides from France and
Switzerland are used, costing them on an
average about 1sc. pound, and the hides
weigh about 100 lbs. each. Under the
old method Of tanning sole leather, bark
was used, and by that process the leather
could not be heated to receive a proper
\ filling without destroying the life Of the
leather. This is not so by the chrome or
U 80 A
leather waterproof, fire proof and almost
indestructible. The leather is in great
demand for making shoes for firemen
where men have to step on Goals. The
Fisher company are selling their product
at from 60e. to zoe. a foot. The average
sole leather brings only 80 or 4Oc. foot.
They cannot keep mp with their orders.
The employees OF the e. G. Fisher Co.,
es mark of their appreciation OF the
fair treatment and generosity of the COM
pany, have organized a fire company for
the protection of the plant, to be known
as the E. c. Fisher Hose Co., No. 1. They
/ intend to be self-supporting as far as
able and in the near future to have hose
cart and equipment for first-elass hose
company. This company when fully or
ganized and equipped will be ready to
. ANAANE Ae1AoAdhIN II ENluAIGu W lAc NllAdEc
/ fire department. There will be given
sometime in May Firemen's ball as the
/ first step for raising funds. Following
are the members Lee Boardman, chief
engineer; Harry Sanspra, assistant; ]. w.
steinhauser, Ben King, Harry Mentley,
Walter Mentley, Fred Dutton, Harvey
Kidder, Roy Persons, A. E. Jebb, Albert
o. Minner, George Burrelle, Harry
Burns, j. B. Regain.
w. II. Edmunds. s. F. lyman and Ed
son Emery have returned from their visit
to the Virginia battlefelds. They were
accompanied by John Keleher. A little
episode that occurred on their trip will
show that their general conduct and APP
pearance reflected no discredit on Bethel.
One Of the points that they visited was Ar
lington, on the Potomac. below Washing
ton. As they stepped from the train they
were cordially met by a committee OF
some OF the first ladies of the city, who
took charge of their grips and urged the
Vermonters to follow them to places of
entertainment. Our good travellers did
not quite understand the situation and
the occasion OF this unexpected hospital
ity and made some inquiry. They learned
that a Methodist conference was taking
place that day and they we're understood
to be delegates to the conference from a
neighboring town. On reflection, our
party concluded that the safest way was
to disclose their true identity. They
were little skittish over the idea that
they might not be able to properly carry
out the part assigned them by their kind
entertainers.
The Courier Said April 6, 1885,
The Courier of April 6, 1899, contains an
account of the institution of Rebekah
lodge, No. 10, /. o. O.. F., which occurred
the preceding Friday. There was a large
attendance OF Rebekahs from the sur
rounding towns, especially from Rau-
dolph, which cent so, and from Wind
sor. An afternoon session was held, presid-
ed over by members of the Grand lodge.
At p. M, the Rebekah degree was con-
ferred on 80 candidates, membersf of the
new lodge, the work being exemplified in
the most beautiful and proper manner by
J members OF Fern lodge of Randolph. The
new lodge elected the following for its
first officers Mrs. e. A. Read, noble
grand; Addie R. Bradbury, vice grand