Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-03-12
State of Vermont.
-. News CONDENSED and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

Ar the largest meeting VI aaP"s
beld n Burlington Thursday
eee aing- a resolution having the APP
eHaI If DR.. w. Seward Webb, which
Plated a bonus of 10000 to the Rnt-
80 railroad for the removal OF It's
-Lnsdonarters and general offices TO
RnrIinoton. was unanimously adopted.
The American House, the Oldest
hotel in Brattleboro, if not IN WIND
nam county, was sold Feb. q to Leroy
Z Adams and Charles X. Crosby.
Tba hotel was owned jointly by George
= Rovden and the John l.. Ray estate.
The nTiee is understood to be $4,000
dnJ HE building will be torn down
and replaced by a three-story brick
business building.
A. L. Bragg of st. Johnsbury has
been awarded the contract for restor-
mo Christ church, Montpelier, 10 the
condition il was in before the fire. Mr..
Rragg was the lowest OF four bidders.
The amount of the contract Is not
made public. Mr.. Bragg will nut a
force Of men at work upon the church
This week. The contract calls for the
completion OF the work Aug. /.
The United States gov eminent de-
nartment Of game and fisheries has
leased the Swanton hatchery building
and has purchased all the fish Matching
paraphernalia belonging TO the state
AZ Yermont, and will run the hatchery
this spring and summer. Alter this
season, il Is expected the government
will either buy the present building
and enlarge the same, or else buy land
and build one for hatchery purposes.
II has been discovered that the stone
bridge al Middlebury was badly dam
AGED by the recent fire. A section Of
the south arch nearest the fire has
dropped into the river the asphalt
walk aud roadway are badly damaged
and the capstones at the south end are
practically ruined. The bridge was
built about ten years ago under the
direction Of Joseph Battell and cost
$4,000, Mr.. Battell contributing one-
half OF that amount.
What appears to be n OF those lost
heir stories Is again ailoat in the fol-
loving ALLEN and Lena Charlton,
two students of Montpelier seminary,
have received a letter from their father.
who is chaplain in a fsherman's home
in Gloucester, Mass, that their family
have good prospects of becoming heirs
to $50, 600, 900 LETT by Gustavus Adolph-
US of sweden. as the Charltons are
able 70 trace a direct lineage. and that
branch Of the family are very few in
ia number. A Boston lawyer has been
consulted in the matter"
The first license forms for the sale OF
liquors 70 be issued in Vermont since
1852, have just been completed. The
documents are more voluminous than
4 person uniformed would imagine,
As the specific requirements OF the
license law have to be printed therein.
IN making up the copy, Secretary OF
State Fleetwood has aimed to cover
the ground so completely as to pre-
clude all possibility OF structural fault.
The documents. while slightly smaller
than the ones in use in Massachusetts,,
are Of liberal size and of well studied
proportions.
c. +. Flint OF st. Adams. with a
gang OLA men. has been working for
the past two weeks putting in an iron
bridge 1914 feet long on the Central
vermont railway near the Lombard
farm between Montpelier and Montpel-
Ter Junction. The old wooden bridge
which was torn down is reported to
have been standing for 50 years. After
the completion of this job they will
finish the bridge between Montpelier
and Barre which they left in order that
TIE one which they are now build
Tag might be put in before the time
i0T high water.
Mr.. Collander, representing Fox,
Iultz q Co., of Boston, nearly COM
United involuntary suicide in Enos-
burg Falls March 5. He had been SUIT
ierlng from facial neuralgia induced
by a troublesome tooth. and took a
quarter grain tablet of sulphate OF
morphia to relieve the pain, atterward
having the tooth removed. He went TO
HSwanton and while there nearly col
lapSed from the effects of the drug. lie
was taken to the office of DR.. c. b.
Dunn where hypodermic injections of
'%strychnine and liberal doses OF strong
coffee enabled him TO throw of the
state of coma induced by the drug.
The Rev. Homer Eaton, a former
pastor OF the Burlington Methodist
church and nov at the head of the
Methodist book concern in New York
city, sailed for China from San Fran
cisco March IL, to superintend the es-
adjustment OF the joint publishing
house at Shanghai and will extend his
tour to other places. He has been re-
quested by the missionary society, OF
which he is treasurer, to visit Hinghua,
fekin, and other places in China, as
well as points in Korea and Japan, and
10 look after important interests in
connection with missionary work in
these three countries.
AT the town meeting held at Enos-
burg Falls on motion of Emmett Nc
%teeters, the town refused to accept
and adopt the report of the town liquor
agency as presented by the selectmen
after which he presented the following
resolution: Resolved. That owing
20 the unsatisfactory settlement of the
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