News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-09-03
STATE NEWS.

of Putney fell from truck and broke
her arm.
A block of soapstone - feet long
has been hauled from the quarry at
Perkinsville.
An expert from Barre has com
menced blasting the granite ledge in
West Windsor.
Sneak thieves are prowling around
Gassetts to the loss of the farmers,
who are missing many things.
Will Confrey, while at the Ackley
mill in Brattieboro a few days since,
had one foot crushed by an SOOpound
milestone rolling on it.
The Methodist Seminary at Mont
pelier, which began it's fall term last
week, has over 200 students and
more are coming this week.
Chas. Malone, a stone mason at
Pittsford, was discovered in a fit by
the roadside last Thursday, was TAX
en- home, but died before medical aid
arrived. He leaves a widow and sew
eral children.
L lie IdIllllN Vi VI. w JNGHut,N vi I'll
kinsville had a reunion last week to
the number Of D. On Thursday
they picniced, riding in an OK cart
decorated with evergreen. The whole
family numbers 4S.
Simeon Houghton of Woodstock
has bought a tract of land contain
ing 1900 acres on Ascutney Noun
tain, and a force of men are building
a road to it. A steam mill is to be
built at Brownsville to saw the lum-
Der.
The long-drawn-out Ely copper
mine case of Goddard, Cain and
others is probably nearing it's end.
The final hearing has been had and Il
decree dividing the money for which
the mine was sold, is expected in q
few days.
John II. Dawson, aged 81 years, Il
workman in q quarry at West Paw
let, on August 10 fell 40 feet to the
bottom of the quarry, fracturing his
skull, breaking his lower jaw and
crushing his left thigh. He died in
two hours.
A five-year-old black colt owned by
Andrew Bridges, of Gassets, was stol-
en- from the pasture a few days ago,
also a harness from Alonzo Currier
and a carriage from ii. H. Winters.
With this outfit the thief made
good his escape.
John E. Densmore of Felchville,
was thrown down and trampled on
by a frightened colt the other day,
and was seriously injured. A long
cash was cut in his head from which
he bled profusely and was uncon-
scious for some time.
A ferocious fight occurred last Thurs
day, August 81, near South Walden,
between Joe Pascal and Thomas
O'Brien, in which the latter was
terribly pounded with pair oftongs
and was nearly kicked into the other
world. Pascal is in Jail at st. Johns
bury.
Thomas Howard, aged fifty years,
and James Miller, aged eighteen years
both of Brandon, Vt, were drowned
Thursday evening in Lake Dunmore
while fishing. There were four in the
party. Two, being expert swimmers
swan to the shore Howard leaves
a family.
The Middlebury Register vouches
for the statement that Mr.. and Mrs
John Lowell, of West Cornwall, have
IA children, ten sons and four daugh-
tiers; that these children have IA liv-
ing sons and daughters and these
latter %, making in all family OF
ITO, not counting the old couple,
who are still vigorous.
The unIucky m1s-step OF Mr.. H. F.
Tapley's horse on August came
very near a fatal ending for the man
ufacturer of the well-known Tapley
shoes. Fortunately a stiff Derby
hat saved the worse, and .1Stsrl 2
three weeks absence Mr.. Iapley IL
again able to attend to business as
usual.
DIR. J. @. S. Hitchcock, who died in
Boston last week was born in Ran
dolph in 1923 and graduated from
Middlebury College in 1914, going
thence to Harvard Medical College
where he graduated in 1850. During
the war he served as a surgeon and
later acted as examining surgeon for
pensions. His funeral was Friday.
Eugene, the 16-year-old son of Uzeb
Robarge, of Burlington, clerk in a
drug store in that city, was last
Thursday afternoon a victim of the
"didn't know it was loaded" revol-
YER He was fooling with the weapon,
and placing it to his forehead pulled
the trigger. There was an explosion
and he fell to the floor. The pros
poets are that he will recover, al
though the wound is severe.
There seems to be a civil war in
Mt, Holly in which Ezra and Frank
Boswell are accused of obstructing
the passage of James Byrn on the
highway and generally making them
selves offensive, says the Ludlow
Tribune. Things came to a head
Wednesday morning, when they as
sailed him on the highway with
stones and forbade his passing until
he drew his tobacco knife. On Sat
urday he was stopped again, knocked
over with a pitchfork and otherwise
maltreated. A demoralized eye is
left to bear record and the end is not
yet.
The contesting heirs of the late
Laura Mott of South Hero, have
withdrawn their opposition to the
probate of the will, which, after MAX
ing numerous minor requests, wills
some $4,000 in trust to Henry O.
Wheeler, of Burlington, Lydia Rood,
Frances M. Wheeler, John Robinson,
Alison E. Lanqon, Thaddeus L. Kin
ney, and Thomas Landon, of South
Hero, as a board of trustees under
the name of the 81. & l.. Mott Home. :"
This home is to be at the site of the
testator's homestead in South Hero
and is for the care and education of
poor children between the ages of 7
and Is years.
County Fairs.
Lamoille Valley, at Morrisville,
Sept. 1917; Essex, VT, and Upper