Source,Rutland Vt.Herald--Tues.Dec 29,1931. RUTLAND, Vt. EBEN W.BISHOP, 85,G.A.R. ,MEMBER, DIES Was Survivor of Co.D 7th Vermont Volunteers; In Service Four Years. Eben W. Bishop, 85, one of a dozen members of Roberts post, G.A.R., of this city, died yesterday at the home of his son, Fred S. Bishop, 262 North Main street. He was a past commander of the post and had been active for many years in its activities. He had attended several national conventions of the Grand Army. Mr. Bishop volunteered for service early in the Civil War and fought throughout the conflict. Mr. Bishop was born in West Rutland, Vt. and had made his home in Rutland,Vt and vicinity all his life. When a lad of 15 he enlisted in the Civil war, serving four years and four months in Company D, 7th Vermont regiment. His father and two brothers also enlisted during that war and his great-grandfather served during the Revolution. Besides his son, Mr. Bishop is survived by two grandchildren. He was a member of the First Baptist church, of the Sons of Veterans and an associate member of Rutland lodge of Elks. The funeral services will be held at the house tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Mon.Dec. 14, 1931. VERGENNES, VT. COL.CROSBY BURIED WITH MILITARY RITES. Last Survivor of Ethan Allen Post, Vergennes, Vt., Was at Gettysburg. Dec. 13--Final military tribute was accorded yesterday to Col. William Crosby. last survivor of Ethan Allen post, Grand Army of the Republic, who died at his home on Green street Tuesday after a long illness. The funeral mass was celebrated yesterday morning at 9 o'clock at St. Peter's church, with Rev. L. A. Vezina of Rutland, Vt., former pastor,officiating. The bearers were Dr. C. H. Cole, Howard W. Adams, Clinton McCormack, Henry Adams, Raymond Slack and John McEvilea, members of the Vergennes post, American Legion. Floral tributes were received from friends and organizations. Col. Crosby was born in Westford, Ireland, May 27, 1848, son of Thomas and Anastasia Powers Crosby. He came to Montreal with his parents when he was two years old. The family later moved to Burlington, Vt. where Crosby entered business as a plumber and tinsmith. Although not legal age when the Civil War broke out he enlisted with the 9th regiment,but when the company left for Washington his father's objections prevented him from accompanying the regiment. He attempted to join the First Vermont cavalry without success. With his parent's consent he enlisted as a private under Capt. Munson in the 13th Vermont regiment, September 6, 1862. Crosby took active part with the Second Vermont brigade at Wolf Run Shoals, Va.,and was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg. After his discharge from the service in July,1863, he returned to Burlington, Vt. where he married Miss Catherine O' Neill of Keeseville, N.Y. They moved to Vergennes, Vt. Five of their six children survive: Mrs. Frances Ramsay, Miss Ada Crosby and Mrs. Catherine Garno of Vergennes, Vt., Milo Crosby of Oakdale,Cal., and Charles Crosby of Chicago. Two years after Mrs. Crosby's death in 1881, Crosby married Miss Catherine Gordon of Vergennes, Vt. They had one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Horsford of Charlotte, Vt. The second Mrs. Crosby died in 1918. Burial was in Prospect cemetey, where full military honors were accorded. Rev. G. E. L'Eeuyer officiated at the grave, after which the legion committal service was conducted by Wesley Smith. Taps were sounded and a volley fired in salute. The flag of Ethan Ellen post, which Col. Crosby carried for several years as standard bearer, was draped upon the casket. Contributed by Joan H. Bixby.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Tues. Feb. 1, 1927. POULTNEY, Vt. Mrs. Elizabeth (Pugh) Roberts, 75, died yesterday morning, after a lingering illness, at the Seward hospital where she had been for treatment for the past three weeks.She is survived by two sons, Hugh and Ezra Roberts, both of Poultney, Vt. The body was removed to her home. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Welsh church at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in Poultney Cemetery. Thurs. Feb. 3, 1927. FUNERAL OF MRS. ROBERTS. The funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth (Pugh) Roberts, who died Monday morning, was held Wednesday afternoon at the Welsh church. Rev.John D. Owens of Fair Haven, Vt. officiated, assisted by Rev. C. L. Corliss of Poultney, Vt. The bearers were Richard Pritchard, Owen R. Jones, Arthur Thomas and Richard Thomas. Burial was in Poultney cemetery. Among those from out of town were Mrs. Morris H. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Davis of Granville, N.Y., Mrs. John Williams, Mrs.Owen Pierce and Mrs. Daniel Griffith of Fair Haven , Vt.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Fri. April 17,1908. The state incubator record is held by Thomas Benjamin of Bennington, who had 101 chickens hatch from 100 eggs. He lays the extra chicken to a double yoke.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Fri.April 17,1908. POULTNEY, VT. A son was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Minogue of Furnace street. A chimney in the Burnett block on Main street burned out Thursday morning. The hose company responded to an alarm. Miss Katherine Starr was in Rutland this week at attend a funeral. Misses Mary and Margaret O'Donnell are spending a few days at their home in North Granville, N.Y. Miss Elizabeth Seully is with her sister, Mrs. J. Dorsey of Schodac Landing, N.Y.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Fri. April 10, 1908. RUNAWAY BOY COMES HOME. John, the 12 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Carnell of Crescent street (Rutland), who left home two weeks ago and who wrote home from the residence of relatives in Staten Island, N.Y., asking his father for money to pay his car fare home, returned last evening. He said that he had left home just for the fun of it; that he had but $ 7 when starting out; that he had no trouble in finding his aunt in Staten Island and that he had a fine time. He brought with him a baseball bat and a pair of boxing gloves and many other things dear to the heart of a boy.

Source, Rutland herald--Friday April 10, 1908. WEST RUTLAND CITIZENS OBJECT. Tell State Board of Health That Cesspool Installed by School Commissioners Will Pollute Drinking Water. Considerable feeling has been aroused in West Rutland by the action of the school commissioners in placing a cesspool in front of the school building close to the street. The citizens have complained to the state board of health claiming that it will be a nuisance for the reason that it will pollute the drinking water in the immediate neighborhood. The matter will be investigated by the board of health.

Source, Rutland Herald & Globe--Sat.Mar. 24, 1883. RUTLAND, Vt. A very pleasant company gathered at thee residence of H. O. Perkins Thursday morning to witness the marriage of his daughter, Stella C., to Samuel N. Stone of the firm of Tuxbury & Stone of Windsor, Vt. The presents were numerous and costly. Prominent among them was a silver tea set from Mr. Tuxbury and the employes, and another from the brother of the groom. Also a china set, a case of silver, and a Duchesse lace set.

Source, Rutland Vt. Herald & Globe--Sat. Mar. 29, 1883. RUTLAND, Vt. Rose McQuiney of Brandon,Vt. died on the cars yesterday between Rutland, Vt. and Brandon. She started from West Rutland, Vt., where she had been working, yesterday noon, to go to her home, and when she reached here she was so unwell that services of a physician were necessary. She was placed in a car on the arrival of the 2:40 p.m. train, as she desired to reach Brandon as soon as possible, but died just before reaching there.

Source, Rutland Herald & Globe--Sat. Mar.29, 1883. A house owned by Patrick Kelley of Clarendon Springs was burned to the ground Tuesday night in his absence. The origin of the fire is unknown Mr. Kelley has a large family, all of whom were driven out in the cold. Mr. Kelley is a poor man, and this as a great loss to him. The house was insured for a small sum.

Source, Rutland Herald & Globe--Sat.Mar.29, 1883. WEST RUTLAND, Vt. The English and classical High school and the schools in district 21 will begin the spring term April 2, instead of March 26. S. E. Smith is building a large barn for J.H. Chapman to cost some $ 2000. It is rumored that J. E.Seamans has sold a portion of his farm to capitalists who will soon open a marble quarry. We have examined some specimens from this deposit, which look well for surface marble, and indicate that good marble will be reached with slight excavation. An item in the Herald and Globe intimates that West Rutland will soon have a bank. In a village of over 3000 inhabitants, and constantly increasing, there is a sure guarantee of success of such an enterprise. Our business men are greatly inconvenienced by having banks at such a distance.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Mon. Mar. 2, 1931. WALLINGFORD, Vt. March 1--Miss May Congdon , 55, badly burned in a fire at her home early Thursday morning, died yesterday afternoon after pneumonia had developed Friday night. her mother died some years ago of burns suffered in an other fire in the same house. Hope were entertained for her recovery, although her burns were serious, for she had been sitting up not long before she died, but her lungs, weakened by the smoke she inhaled were unequal to the strain of fighting off pneumonia. She was born in Wallingford, Vt.,May 1, 1857, the daughter of Philip Congdon of this town and Betsey (Sweetland) Congdon of Weston, Vt. She was educated at Wallingford High school and had lived here all her life.Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Congregational church. Burial will be in Green Hill cemetery.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Thur. Apr. 3,1958. BENNINGTON, Vt. The funeral of Mrs. Dorothy Bargh Howe, 54, widow of Paul C. Howe, former publisher of the Bennington Banner, will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. a the home here of Mrs. Frank E. Howe where she had lived since her husband's death. The Rev. Canon Norman B. Godfrey, rector of the St. Peter's Episcopal Church of which Mrs. Howe was a communicant, will officiate. Mrs. Howe died Tuesday in the Bennington Vt. Hospital. She was born in Dedham, Mass.,Dec.10,1903, daughter of Samuel and Jane (Adair) Bargh. She was graduated from Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing and was assistant nursing supervisor at the Truesdale Hospital, Fall River , Mass., prior to her marriage to Mr. Howe on Oct. 2, 1933. Both she and her husband were active in newspaper work and in church activities. Mr. Howe died of a heart attack in December,1948. Since then, Mrs. Howe had spent many winters in Sarasota, Fla. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. P. N. Hibbard of Pownal, Vt., a brother, William H. Bargh of Dedham, Mass. and two nephews.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Thur.May 12, 1927 WEST CASTLETON, Vt. The funeral of Emery White, who died suddenly Monday morning at his home in West Castleton, Vt., was held yesterday morning in St. John's Catholic church. Requiem high mass was sung by the pastor, Rev. J. J. O'Brien. Burial was in St. Mary's cemetery, Fair Haven, Vt. Father O'Brien officiating. Mr. White is survived by one daughter, Mrs. James Doran of West Castleton,Vt.; three sons, John and Victor of Hartford, Conn., and Emery S. White of West Castleton, Vt.; three sisters, Mrs. J. Wimmett of Middlebury, Vt., Mrs. George Parker of Pittsford, Vt. and Mrs. John Parker of Rutland ,Vt. and one brother, Jerry White of Rutland ,Vt. Those attending from out of town were; Mr. and Mrs. I. Wimmett, George Parker and family, Mr. and Mrs. William Trombley and Mrs. Rose Benore of Pittsford, Vt.,; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burdick, Miss Anna Walsh, Elsie Hipp, John Stoneburner and Victor and John White, all of Hartford, Conn. The pall bearers were; John Larkin, John Ryan, William Larkin, Michael Burns, James Moriarity and Thomas Kelley. Miss Florence McGuiness of Fair Haven, Vt. acted as soloist with Mrs. Charles McLaughlin presiding at the organ.

Please unsubscribe me. Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 11:03 AM Subject: VT-OLD-NEWS-D Digest V04 #22

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Thur.May 12,1927. GRADUATION PLANS OF WEST RUTLAND HIGH. Commencement Week Opens June 15 And Continues Through 17th. The 1927 graduating exercises of the West Rutland High school will take place in the town hall,Thursday, June 16, under the direction of Principal Francis N. Hinchey. The commencement exercises will open Wednesday afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock with a baseball game between the Alumni of the school and the present baseball team. In the evening at 8:30 o'clock prize speaking will take place under the direction of Miss Nellie Newton, a member of the Rutland High school faculty. Class day exercises will take place Thursday, June 16, at 2:30 p.m., when the following program will be presented: Welcome address Clarence Fish ; junior response, Eugene Burke; class history, Miss Ruth Merithew, Robert Connell; class will, Miss Margaret Potter, Mathew Henry; presentations, Clarence Fish; class prophecy, Wilbur Nelson; class pastime, William Walker; class poem, Jerome Towers; class song, Stephen Zowistoski, Dorothy Farr. GRADUATION EXERCISES . The program for the graduation exercises in the evening at 8:30 o'clock will be as follows : Senior march music,, High school ; salutatory, Miss Aileen Anderson ; music Girls' Glee club music, High school ; valedictory, Cecil Mehuron ; presentation of diplomas, Attorney James P. Leamey ; awards, Principal Francis P. Hinchey. High honors of the class of 1927 will be given to Cecil Mehuron, Miss Aileen Anderson, Miss Hannah Johnson; honors Miss Helena Anderson, Miss Margaret McNeil, Michael Lee, Stephen Zawistoski. Friday morning,June 17,the class will go to Lake St. Catherine for a class picnic and in the evening the annual commencement ball will take place in the town hall at 9 o'clock. CLASS ROSTER. members of the class, 1927, include the following young men and women; Aileen Marie Anderson, Anna Helena Anderson, Robert Anthony Connell,Margaret Bernadette Cotter, Dorothie Mae Farrell, Clarence Clay Fish, Maurice Alonson Fish, Stanley Coleman Gibbs, Theodore Adam Grembo, Anna Eleanora Johnson, Matthew Joseph Kenny, John Harmon Langdon, Michael Joseph Lee, Margaret Bernadette McNeil, Cecil Parker Mehuron, Ruth Irene Merithew, Raymond Woodbury Mller, Elizabeth Rose Mullaney, Wilbur Carl Nelson, David Solomen Rosen, Jerome Edward Towers, William Adam Walker, John Joseph Waters, Stephen Theodore Zawistoski.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Wed.Jan.7, 1891. VERGENNES, VT. Jan.6--Edward Bostwick of Panton, Vt., aged about 40 years , died Tuesday morning of consumption. He leaves a widow and three children.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Wed. Jan. 7, 1891. William W. Pierce, one of Londonderry's most prominent citizens, died recently after a short illness. He was a son of Rev. S. Pierce and was born on the farm on which his brother Josiah now lives. He joined the Fourth Vermont Infantry when it was mustered into service, September 2, 1861. He re-enlisted in 1863 and served to the end of the war. He was wounded at Fredericksburg and taken prisoner at Petersburg. He languished in southern prisons for nearly seven months and during that time lay unconscious three weeks from yellow fever. In 1866 he returned home and married Miss Lizzie A. Stone and has since resided in that town.

Source, Rutland Vt.Herald--Thur.May 12, 1927. FAIR HAVEN, Vt. Correspondent, Harry J. Williams, telephone 13-11. Fair Haven council No. 810, Knights of Columbus, will meet tonight. The second degree will be worked. There will be no meeting of the Fair Haven fire department tonight. The Ladies' Aid society of the First Congregational church will meet this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Kate Naramore. Mrs. Naramore and Mrs. Pearson will entertain. Mrs. Ellis Thomas was called to Granville, N.Y., yesterday by the serious illness of her granddaughter, Mrs. Thomas Hart. Dr. Philip C.Gutterson returned Saturday from Boston, where he attended the Mass. Dental convention and the 10th reunion of his class. John Metcalf has returned home after spending two weeks with his daughter, Mrs. William Premo of Ithaca, N.Y.

Source,Rutland Vt.Herald--Thur.Jan. 8,1891. DIED--In Chester, Vt., January 2,1891, Mrs. Daniel Davis 3d, age 70 years.