Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-01-30
will Humphrey Of East Burke had

IN an ACCIDENT la6C week wednesday
Perley L. Kimball, assignor to Vel
! mont Farm Machine company, Be
, lows Falls, has taken out patent 70
a centrifugal machine.
w. II. Marcy of Fairfield, mea
J man, fell dead by his cart in front 9
the Bingham house at Bakersfield
last week Monday just as he hat
| filled ali order there.
n Leander Lavcrly Of East Burk
met with very serious acciden
while working in the woods last weel
Friday. While he was skiddin!
some logs one Of the traces becam
unhitched and as he leaned over Il
| fix it, one of the horses kicked him il
The face, breaking his nose and cheel
bone and putting out one eye.
The report OF the treasurer Of tn
Bellows Falls village corporation t,
the annual meeting held Jan. 18th
shows that the Indebtedness has in
creased during the last year from 500,
496 to 5,243.23, caused principal,
by the complete new system Of 20-incl
water mains from the reservoir to thu
village, costing Sl9,294. The tota
expenditures Of the village aside
from the water extension were 81 GAO
being considerably less than the tive
| previous years.
Joseph Ryan Of Rutland captured d
fox in peculiar manner recently.
Ryan went into the farmhouse cellar
shortly after dinner to look over some
potatoes. While looking into bin
he heard noise behind him and
turned just in time to see full-grown
red fox come by the hatchway into
the cellar. Ryan closed the hatch
way door and after lively chase
caught the fox. The animal seemed
bewildered and tired and gave evil
dence of having been bounded.
Apollo Lodge, No. 2, Knights of
Pythias, at st. Johnsbury. dedicated
its new building last Friday evening
with imposing ceremonies. Pythian
building is located on Eastern Avenue
on the site of the one burned last
March, which had been occupied but
a short time. The building is of
brick, three stories high. The whole
of the third story is used by the lodge
and includes Castle Hall, parlors, ban
quet room and kitchen, robe rooms
and armory, all finished in bard pine
and elegantly furnished.
A meeting OF the state highway
commission was recently held at st.
Adams to look over the annual reports
of the town commissioners, to arrange
for winter meetings in the various
counties and to plan for the work of
the coming season. The reports in
general show that the present system
of one commissioner and the road
tax is vastly superior to the old sys-
TEN, resulting in great saving Of ex-
pense and remarkable improvement
in the roads. Under the new system
800 goes as far as $3.50 did under the
old. The board has now ready for
distribution for commissioners pam.
phlet embracing the highway laws of
the state.
An accident occurred at the foun-
dry Of the scale works ut st. Johns
bury Wednesday afternoon of last
week, in which Joseph Bussher was
seriously hurt. He was riding up the
elevator and neglected to look out for
! beam which crosses the elevator
we'll. As a result he was hit on the
head by the beam. The beam grazed |
)ne side of his head severely, breaking
several bones and badly injuring his
shoulder and arm. He was carried
1t once to the new hospital where
was done to relieve his
ufierings. AT last accounts he was
by the physicians as getting
llong as well as could be expected.
The total value of merchandise i'm
ported into the customs district Of
Vermont during the year ending De-
ember 81, 1895, was S6,9l2,574. or
his amount, $4,723,22S was entered
rec Of duty, and duties to the amount
II 1920, 464.S7 were collected on the
S2,lS9,346. During the
ear merchandise valued at S526,772,
N which duties were assessed to the
mount of 1862, $751; was imported and
inferred for transportation to other dis
riots, and merchandise to the amount
1 S6,335,0l2 was transported through
he district in bond for expectation to
oreign countries, the duties on which
Jould have amounted TO 81 1904, 574.
he domestic exports during the; same
eriod were $5, 1851. II
w. B. Thurber, superintendent for
ne New England Telephone and
company in Burlington
nd vicinity, has been promoted to be
ssistant superintendent of the Bos-
IN division and expects to begin his s
uties Feb. 10th. This is the most y
division in the field covered
y this company. Over half of the
telephones controlled by the company :
re in Boston and its suburbs, and I
Il. Thurber will have charge Of the !
SERVICE" that is, instruments and !
in. all this division. All {
will come to him for adj I
Istment and he will hire and dis !
n a. \