Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-09-30

at the Woodstock Inn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace S. Walke
celebrated their 5Oth anniversary o
marriage Sept. 18th at their home il
East Middlebury.
A four-in-hand tallyho, owned b,
Mr.. Crawford of Pennsylvania, the
manufacturer of the Crawford bicy
Gle, is doing Vermont.
The grand jury of Rutland county
has found bill against Frank Bragg,
formerly resident of Proctorsville,
on the charge of bigamy, and he was
arrested and taken to Rutland to an
swer to the indictment.
AS Rev. j. p. Marvin of Yves
Charleston was driving with friends
on Tuesday of last week, one of the
ladies noticed some four-leafed clovers
by the roadside; he jumped from the
carriage and pulled up the turf and
when the leaves were separated they
counted Sc fiye-leafed and "a four
leafed clovers. He's a minister and of
course it's true.
In the case of p. r. Sias VS.. Consol-
idated Lighting Co.of Barre in Wash
ington county court last week the
jury brought in verdict of 80, 200
and costs for plaintiff. 1t is thought
that the case will be taken TO the SUI
preme court by the counsel for the
defendant corporation. Tie plaintiff
sued for injuries received while at
work for the company.
IL appears that there was considera-
BILE talking" about the infant found
on the Methodist parsonage steps al
Richford one morning recently. The
child belonged to parties in Franklin
and the father came for il last Friday.
The story was that il belonged to a
Mrs. Leo Sutton, and her sister, Mrs.
Pelkey, took the child from the poor
master to care for it, but she had the
wrong kid
w. II. Chiids of Brattleboro has
given the high school q barometer,
full set OF MISUNDERSTANDING
and minimum and wet and dry bulb
An thermometer and weather vane. |
lie has complete set OF meteor ologic-
al instruments, valued at $500, which !
he will turn over to the school, says
the Phoenix, when he becomes con-
WINGED that they will be properly used |
and the records kept correctly.
The late Charles T. Wilder left,
among other benefactions, the sum of
$40, 900, which was divided among
the employees OF the Olcott Falls pulp
and paper mill company Saturday
night. Mr.. Wilder also left $4,000
for an iron bridge across the Connec-
ticut at Olcott and $50, 900 for q FREE
public library at White River juno
ton. Altogether Mr.. Wilder has left
nearly $4,000 to be distributed for
The benefit OF his fellowmen within a
radius of 10 miles of the Junction.
The daring steeple climber, Michael
Cavanaugh, was thrown from the Bap.
list church roof at Brattleboro and
BADLY injured last week. lie had just
work on the church spire, 10
'eet high, and walked out on the roof
% get hat which his assistant had
dropped and the small wire which
him gave way and he rolled
,fi the roof, distance of 80 feet. His
exploits in climbing chimneys and
.hurch steeples had attracted much
attention and he never met with an
Iccident before this one.
The suit of the Bennington and
glastonbury Railroad, Mining and
Manufacturing company, practically
he heirs of the late Trenor w. Park
# Bennington, against John c. and !
Noses Newton, the Deerfield River
company, with some contractors who
worked under them, for wilful tres
,ass in eating timber on lands of the
ormer in Glastonbury, near Benning-
on, will be one of the most important !
and cases ever heard in Vermont. t
zen. Mccullough of North Benning-
on, a son-in-law of Park, is the chief I
ne in pushing the suit. The dam +
ges are placed at $4,000. u
A distinguished party from Massa- )
husetts, including United States Sen
tor George #. lIoar, recently visited c
Center and spent several I
ours in viewing the battle monu-
nent, the battle relics at the house OF
irs. Geo. w. Robinson, and the old i,
emetery, the oldest in Vermont, Il
rhere they were particularly interest a
d in the granite stones erected to the n
nemoro of the patriots and Hessians a
uried there. In this cemetery are
uried four governors of Vermont, !
wo United States senators, three SUI s
RENE court judges, several repre- a
entatives to congress and many Brit 81
h and American soldiers. 81
Earnest efforts are being made TO n
etermine the origin of typhoid fever A
t Middlebury. The facts so far as
nown are these: On August 18th, IL p
ersons from two different families in 4
own went on a picnic to Lake Dun a a
lore in the town of Salisbury; about :
yo weeks later seven of the II were
lken i'll with what proved afterwards
, be typhoid fever. 1t seems quite :
,rfain that the disease resulted from II