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A tin peddler's cart from Burlington has been driven about the street lately advertising "agit ware" in bold white letters on a red background. Evidently the atmosphere in the painting district of the Queen City isn't heavily charged with the erudition of the University of Vermont. Warning rumors are heard to the effect that the canker worm is preparing to do considerable business this season in denuding shade trees of their foliage as soon as the tender new leaves appear. Bands of printer's ink around the trunks of the trees, it is said, will prevent their climbing to the branches and stripping them until the trees have as much to offer in the way of shade and look as pretty as a row of gigantic hatracks. The A. B. Cushman Real Estate agency has sold for Herbert E. Hubbard his farm, stock, tools, etc., to James F. Howe of Manchester, N. H., for 300. Mr. Howe has been for many years superintendent of the large department store of the J. W. Hill company in Manchester, which employs a hundred clerks, and wishes to seek in farming a respite from the arduous duties of such a position. He returned to Manchester Saturday, accompanied by Harry Lyman, cashier in the American express office at that city, who is to engage in farming with him together with Mr. Howe's daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Hatch. Possession of the new property, known hereabouts as the Martin farm, will be taken about April 1st. Martin L. Hanlon, superintendent of the Northfield Electric Light plant, was instantly killed at 11 o'clock last Thursday morning. He was working on the crossarms of an electric light pole when it broke at the base and fell, Mr. Hanlon dropping a distance of twelve feet and being struck on the side by the pole, which broke his collarbone and several ribs. He breathed only once or twice after reaching the ground. He was a veteran of the Spanish war and left a wife and one daughter, Mrs. Hanlon being remembered in Randolph as Miss Delia Yarrington, daughter of M. E. Yarrington, proprietor of the Northfield House and for many years engaged in business in this village, The funeral was held Sunday, the bearers being veterans of the Spanish war. An escort of 38 men, of whom E. N. Bean of this place was one, was furnished by Company F of the Vermont National Guard. The board of chancery, consisting of Judge Start of Bakersfield, W. B. C. Stickney of Bethel and County Clerk C. S. Emery of Chelsea, met here Saturday to wind up the affairs of the defunct Randolph Savings bank by declaring a final dividend of 31 percent, which will be paid depositors, beginning at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, Apr.8. When this last dividend has been paid, the depositors will have received 93 per cent of the amounts due them, which shows both excellent management on the part of the receiver, C. H. Maxham, and, with one exception, good securities for the bank's investments. January 22, 1901, depositors were paid thirty per cent, or $103,119.44; July 12, 1901, fifty per cent, or $171,868.90, and April 21, 1902. ten per cent, or $34,370.40; and on April 8, 1903, they will receive three and one-third per cent, or $11,456.80, making a total of $320.815.54. The cost of settling the bank's affairs amounted to $15,736.14, of which $5,676.60 was paid for the receiver's services, the rest of the sum being used for his expenses, cost of his bond, clerk hire, attorney's fees, rent, etc.
