Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1902-07-10
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

for Our Readers.
! Westfield celebrated Friday not only
the birthday OF the nation, but also ITS
own centennial anniversary.
g. r. Allen, Of Roxbury. fish eultur.
ist Tor the state commission. has
taken $4,000 small lake trout from the
Roxbury hatchery to stock a lake in
Orwell.
w. W. Peck of Morrisville bas
bought Of I. D. Chase, Of Somerset. IA
large tract OF mill and timber land.
embracing 5000 acres. There are tMo
mills and several houses on the land.
The Gen. Pitkin Hose Co. of Mont
pelier, one OF the oldest in the state
having been organized in 1865. dis
banded last week because the city
failed to provide them the first Of july
with a horse to draw their apparatus
to and from fires.
The employees in the laundry de-
partment at the shirt factory Of Bottum
4 Torrance OF Bennington were sur
prised recently at the announcement
made that entirely unsolicited the firm
had advanced their wages ten per
cent. Some fifty hands are affected
By ii.
The report OF Rutland's city health
officer shows that there were I2s cases
OF infectious diseases reported during
the month OF June. There were III
of measles and one OF scarlet fever
There We're q deaths during the
month. Only one death resulted
from an infectious desease. measles.
Admiral Charles +. Clark, who has
just been elevated 10 the grade Of
junior rear-admiral, has indicated to
his friends that he is considering the
ACCESSIBILITY Of applying for voluntary
retirement under the terms OF the
personnel act. as a senior rear-admiral
His retired pay would be S5,G25 per
annum.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to be present at the annual
exhibition Of the Windsor Horse and
Cattle Show association the last OIL
August, The president will probably
be accompanied BY Senators Proctor
and Dillingham; Of Vermont. Senator
Gallinger OF New Hampshire and
other notables, and will 90 from
Windsor TO Brattleboro, the only other
place in the state his engagements will
permit him toyisit.
Well defined rumors are floating
around Montpelier that that city is
soon TO have another daily paper, the
lie OF which win be during the pres
ent goyernorship campaign. Several
OF Mr.. Clements supporters are said
10 be interested in the matter and it
will. ii started. be a Clement news
II is said the purpose Of its
promoters is to print il Tor gratuitous
distribution in Montpelier and Barre
and generally throughout the towns of
northern Vermont.
Gov. Stickney has issued a procla-
nation relative to Old Home week in
which he says cold Home day will |
be celebrated throughout Vermont in |
oil the cities and towns whose inhabi- |
tants find ii in their hearts to do so, |
at such time as each may select during
the week beginning with the tenth and
ending on the sixteenth day of August |
next. During the week named, which |
Is fixed by law, comes the anniversary |
Of the battle of Bennington, where |
was gained for the rising American
republic the first decisive victory in
he war of the Revolution"
At test made in the Davis mine at
2eadsboro June Is tree gold in good
Quantities was struck at a depth OF
Inly ten feet below the surface. The
company is preparing to make another
un through the mill, three having al
eady been made which have averaged
ortv dollars ton. This company is
low erecting a mill with a capacity
II fifty tons per day. The find OF
he 2Sth has created much excitement
.mong Readsboro people who see
bonanza for the town Other mines are
icing prospected for in various diree-
ions.
The trouble. which had existed for
ONE weeks between the Master Build
rs association and the Carpenters
1nion at Montpelier has been adjusted
nd the latter gain practically all their
The chief end obtained by
be carpenters is that all journeymen
shall be paid $3.50 day
or nine hours. The difficulty was of
ono standing, it being more than a
lonth ago that the trouble resulted in
n open breach. All the members of
he Carpenters Union who were EN- t
loved BY the members Of the associa-
ion left their work and refused to re- &
urn until an agreement was reached.
his caused a considerable cessation {
+ building operations and a large t
umber OF carpenters left the city, !
emporarily at least. There was some t