Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1901-08-15

The earnings of the Brattleboro
Street Railway Co. the pas. year were
$4,000.
The New England Telephone and
Telegraph Co. has inaugurated an all
night service at Bennington.
A sixteen-horse power gasoline en-
CINE has lately been placed in the Pol
lard Manufacturing Co.'S factory at
Chester.
The G.. II. Grimm evaporation and
range establishment in Rutland has
shut down Tor time owing to the dull
season.
Investigation shows that the engine
and boilers of the Bristol Manufacture
| ing Co. at Bristol were not seriously
damaged by the recent fire.
Many Bristol men have gone to 0g-
densburg. \. T., TO work for the Rut-
land Transit company in the places OF
the striking longshoremen.
Patrons of the Farmingdale cheese
factory in Middlebury received 81
cents per hundred Tor May milk and 81
cents per hundred during June.
The Central Vermont railway COM
pany is laying large quantity of so
pound steel rails on its line between
West Berlin and White River juno
ton.
The electric lights for the village Of
Hinsdale. n. H.. have been started by
the Brattleboro Gaslioht Co.. there be-
ing 60 street lights of 80 candle-power
each.
A party Of twelve stonecutters has
lett Barre for Raymond, Cal, where
they 90 under six months contract
TO cut stone for the San Francisco
postofiice.
Frank Bronori Of Bennington has in
vented a slot machine that upon drop
ping in nickel plays a tune, shows
six pictures and delivers a nickels
worth OF goods The machine is over
six feet high.
The II. 5. Walbridge Co. of North
Bennington Is about to raise the south
shop Of its steroscope plant to a two
story structure The present shop is
two small for the business. Other inn
provements will be made before win
ter
Letters patent have been granted
this week TO Nermonters as follows
Frank Bronori. Bennington, Tending
machine; Ralph Stoddard, assignor TO
Moselev & Stoddard Manufacturing
Co, Rutland. silo Edward c Webster,
East Shoreham, rachel wrench.
The Battenkill Lumber Co. of Man
chester, having demonstrated that its
long spout is a success, will extend 1t
mile and half farther into the heart Of
the lumber region. The company has
about IS men now at work and wishes
to have 100 more men during the fall
and winter
The entire capital stock, $40, 600, has
been raised for the new company at
Ludlow which is to convert the silk
mill property into wooden mill, 1t
will be called the Nerd Mont Mills.
The equipment will comprise three
sets OF 60-inch cards and looms. A
dyehouse will be built.
In response to a general request
from the employees of the worsted
mills at Saxton's River, their working
time has been rearranged and reduced
TO total OF sixty hours a week. The
change involves no reduction in wages
except as it affects those who are paid
according to the amount OF work done.
The Chittenden Power Co.of Rutland
has bought the Leffert estate on the
upper Chittenden meadows. The es-
tate consists of 1000 acres of land ad-
Joining the eompany's property on
which a large dam is TO be built to
furnish power for various industries IN
the city. The dam will probably be
completed abont Nov. LIST.
The people OF Island Pond are jubi-
liant over the removal to that place OF
the G. A. Cane Shirt Co. whose main
plant has been located in Leominster,
Mass. For nearly 10 years the G. 4.
Cane Shirt Co. has employed from 80
to 100 girls in its factory at Island
Pond. Now the entire business has
been transferred to Island Pond where
the factory will accommodate 500 girls
and the managers are authority for the
statement that it will be run to its full
est capacity.
About SO OF the gang of Italians
working on the new sewer at Benning-
ton Center struck for their pay last
week. The contractor wanted the
men to work 10 days longer, when he |
would pay the men the unpaid part OF |
the JULY wages and also the 10 days in /
AUGUST. As the contractor was in
Albany Saturday, the matter could not
be adjusted, and the men repaired to |
their lodgings. Friday night 81 suits,
about $1,000. for back
wages were brought by the men. The
village of Bennington Center still
owes the contractor $1,000, and the
men will probably receive all their
pay.
Work will begin soon upon the con-
struction of hennery at the state eX-
pertinent farm in Burlington. This
viii be the states first official expert
ment in hens. The project will be
started with 1000 fowl of different 1
breeds and close account will be kept |
Of the results. Another innovation that
will probably be introduced in the near
future is a flock OF sheep. Sheep have