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...Wickford, R. I. She roves about the country with her two children during the summer, playing her mandolin, banjo and guitar at fairs and carnivals. She has a paper purporting to be the marriage certificate of the late John Gottlieb Wendel II, and one Hannah S. Holt, of Chelsea, Vt., dated 1855 (Mr. Wendel II, supposed never to have married, died in 1914). Mrs. Hayward claims to be the daughter of Bertha Wendel Davis, born to John Gottlieb Wendel II and Hannah Holt Wendel...
Appointed last week by Vermont's Governor Weeks† to succeed the late Senator Frank Lester Greene was Frank Charles Partridge of Proctor, Vt. Senator-designate Partridge, 69, president of Vermont Marble Co., started as a page in the State Senate, was president of his Amherst class (1882, thirteen years before Calvin Coolidge), studied law at Columbia, served the U. S. State Department as its solicitor (1890-93). He has held minor diplomatic and consular jobs. Coincident with the Partridge appointment a general Senate election was ordered for Vermont on March 31, preceded by a party primary March...
Died. Frank Lester Greene, 60, senior U. S. Senator from Vermont since 1923. U. S. Representative from 1912 to 1923, Spanish-American War veteran, onetime (1917-23) regent of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington; after an operation for hernia; in St. Albans, Vt. He had been partially paralyzed since 1924, when he was hit in the head by a stray bullet fired in a Washington street fight between Prohibition agents and 'leggers...
Cities considering chests include: Augusta, Me.; New Kensington, Pa.; Mankato, Minn.; Edmonds, Wash.; St. George, Staten Island; Modesto, Calif.; Litchfield, 111.; Springfield, Vt...
Died. Dr. Ebenezer Johnson Foster, 83, adopted at the age of 41 by Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science founder; in Waterbury, Center, Vt, where he was the last surviving Civil War veteran. Although an able physician he never practiced after taking up Christian Science...