Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-01-28
There will be a meeting of the state

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board of pharmacy at Montpelier Feb
Sd for the examination OF candidates
and other business.
John Gilfillan, Barnet boy, VIII
graduate at the Homeopathic college
in Cleveland, o., in March, as vale
di torian of the class.
James Heath, the man who was Sc
severely injured at the West Berlin
granite plant recently, died last week
from exhaustion consequent upon his
injuries.
S. l.. Griffith of Dandy received
from Massachusetts, last week 100000
trout fry, which he placed i'll the
hatchery recently completed by him.
The hatchery is one of the most COM
plete in the state.
Superintendent Cakes of the State
prison mas recently received six hun
bred uncut copies of the Cosmopoli-
tan magazine for 1895 and l896-an
unsolicited gift to the prison by the
publishers of the magazine, and one
fully appreciated.
OF the twelve senators from Kew
England, seven--Morrill of Vermont,
Plat and Hawley of Connecticut,
Hoar of Massachusetts, Hale and Frye
of Maine, and Aldrich of Rhode Is
land-have served as fellow-members
since 1881, or for a continuous period
of l6 years, while of the seven, Nor
rill entered the senate in 1867, Hoar i'll
1877 and Plat in 1879.
Frank Scanlon of Poultnev, an en-
ploye of G.. b. Boyce, had his right
ear so badly cut by a telephone wire
last Thursday that partial amputa-
ton was necessary. lie was on load
of straw when telephone wire, which
had slackened until it was about eight
feet from the ground, caught him UNI
der the ear, nearly throwing him from
the load. He was taken of in an un-
condition and carried to q
doctors office where part of the ear
was cut of.
Willis A. Carpenter, for about ten
years the travelling salesman of James
E-erson ~ Co. of Rutland, has disap-
peared, according TO the Herald, and
il is understood that he is now in Can
ada. A Miss Harrington of Melrose,
Mass, disappeared about the same
time, and the belief in Melrose is that
it is case of elopement. Carpenter
left an unsettled account with the
Everson company OF about 5000 and
some unpaid bills. Mrs. Carpenter is
now staying with her father, c. &.
Holden, at Shrewsbury, and her child
is with her. Mr.. Holden's son, who
married a daughter of Senator Red
field Proctor, is in the employ of the
Vermont marble company and is sta
toned at Boston.
Thomas ii. Garfield of Burlington
died suddenly from heart failure at
his farm at Lake Park, Mimi, last
week Wednesday. He was born in
in 1922 and was one OF the
most prominent among the men OF
business affairs in that section of the
state. lie took leading part in the
of the Rutland, Ogdens-
burg and other railroads. During the
war he was assistant manager, under
Thomas a. Scott, of the railroads CEN
tering in Washington. Mr.. Garfield
was a leading spirit in the construc-
ton of the Northern Pacific railroad
and acquired an immense landed
property along its line, to which he
had devoted the greater share of his
time for the last 20 years.
Springfield evidently has an ele-
plant on her hands in the shape OF
partially completed electric road. The
own was asked to take $50, 900 of the
stock, the sale Of 100000 being suiii-
,ient to complete the road. Town
bonds were not required until the cars
we're running. The town did as
agreed and purchased the $50, 600. OF
he remaining $4,000, about S25, 900
has been purchased by citizens and
others, and now the road is stalled, no
me wishing 10 invest further. The
Attest proposal is that the town guar
lntee the interest on 100000 at five
ler cent for twenty years 10 finish up
he road. The people naturally OBJ
ect, for the money to be paid thus is
o be raised by taxation, necessitating
he mortgaging Of the entire taxable
property OF the town, and then there
; no certainty that the road when
completed will ever make running ex.
lenses, to say nothing of dividends on
took. Twenty-Five per cent of the
ailroads in New England pay no div
dends.