Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-05-09
State of Vermont.
tts News Condensed and Rewritten for
Our Readers.

| nOrIleu $50 Htau " Caltic tllc Pasl
year.
ArthurL 'Heurex, late Of Brattleboro
aged "a, committed suicide by Ca
poisoning at Boston recently.
Fire at 2:3O Sunday morning de-
stroyed the farm buildings Of Dr. @
o. Davis on East Hill in Mortified.
The city Of Schenectady, N. ", has
contracted with parties at the qnarries
to get out 100000 paving blocks this
summer
Willard Monroe committed sui.
eide by hanging at Manchester re-
Gently. He leaves widow and sew
eral small children.
Geo. II. Richmond of Mortified
has bought Press and Printer Of Bos'
ton, the trade paper, and will publish
it from the Mortified News office fol
the present.
An expert survey of Lake Griffith
at Dandy shows that body of water tc
cover L, 22-l00 acres ofland. 1t, there
fore, can no longer be considered pub.
lie water, as only a body of watercon-
tanning over 20 acres is public prop
erty.
VIM. Riley of Ludlow fell under a
freight train in the railroad yard at
Bellows Falls last week in attempting
to board train to steal ride. He
lost one foot at the ankle. He was
taken home to Ludlow, where he has
a wife and two children.
Henry l.. Stillson. editor of the
Bennington Banner since 1877, re-
tired from that position May LIST and
will devote his time to the inter-
ests of the Fraternity Publishing com
pany of Boston, with which he has
been connected since 1887.
Myron Pencil, the seven-year-old
son of John Pencil, Jr..was crushed to
death between two lime rock trucks at
Fonda's lime kilns atSwanton, Sunday.
He was out with his grandmother,
strayed away from her,and when found
was pinned between two heavy stone
trucks standing on the turn table.
Summersgill, the former Vermont
academy pitcher, promises to equal
the most famous twirler that institu-
ton has ever turned out-Jack High
lands. He has pitched two games for
Brown University against the Provi-
dence Eastern league, holding them
down to four and three hits respect
lively.
The Barre Breeders association has
decided to hold meetings as follows:
June 90, 300 class, 800; 2:45, $50;
2:35, SITS; June 80, $50, 1925; 2:4o,
Sl75; 2:27, 5000; July A. 300, 5000;
2:40, 5000; 2:27. 800; July 3, 2:50,
$3.50; 2:35, 5000; open, S250,with 500
extra to the horse in open race beat
ing the track record, 2:2l IA, held by
G. II. X.
At special village meeting, Ben
nington voted-IlS to 3--to purchase
the public waterworks, the cost not TO
exceed Sl25,O00. This plant is owned
by the Bennington Water company,a
private corporation, and its cost is not
stated. BY the terms Of the charter
either the village or town may pur-
chase the plant, and this meeting was
preliminary. A board of water COM
missioners was appointed.
The Brattleboro Street Railway |
company has contracted with M. A.
Coolidge of Fitcaburg, the builder
and superintendent of the Gardner
electric road, to build another road |
there and to have it completed by
June Is. The work will begin about
May 10. The road will be about four
miles long and will run to Prospect
Hill on the south, through Canal and
Main streets and thence to West Brat
tleboro via the common, Oak and
High streets and Western avenue.
Ground has been broken at Morris.
vile for a new summer hotel to be
erected on high elevation in a maple
grove in this village, on land owned
by Orvillc Choate, who builds the
house. A. II. Manley of Enosburgh
Falls has the contract to build the ho-
tel, which will have front of l26 feet
and depth Of 100 feet, the central
portion, ga feet, to be AZ feet deep. 1t
will be three stories high, fur
nished with all modern improve
ments, and will be completed in time
for late season this year. 1t COM
mands fine view of the pleasant sur
of Morrisvillc.
The death of Col. Franklin Fair
banks removes the last of his family
md generation in the scale company.
md the effect on st. Johnsbury may
De serious. 1t is an open secret that
he business will leave st. Johnsbury
or point where coal and iron are
;heaper as soon as majority of the
took can be controlled by outside
parties, and possibly the day has
nearly arrived. If it has not, it is be-
ieved to be only question of time.
Col. Fairbanks was thoroughly good
nan, most valuable citizen, public
in countless ways, and has
eft vacancy in st. Johnsbury which
an never be filled. His death is a [
public calamity of unusual magni-
ude. -Hardwick Gazette. I
William Common who xyac fo,,,,l {