Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-11-19

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received telegram from the war de-
partment Nov. II which orders him to
report at Washington for examination
Tor commission in the United States
army. He received his appointment
through Senator Proctor. Cadet Deal
OF Norwich University recently re-
ceived an appointment through Sena-
tor Gallinger of New Hampshire.
They hope to be able to pass about a
month in the preparatory school in
Washington before being obliged to
take their examinations.
The surgeons at Fort Ethan Allen
have vaccinated all cavalrymen in
preparation for their departure for the
Philippines and drills have been sus-
pended for week to allow the wounds
TO heal. According to regulations the
soldiers have been vaccinated in three
different places and the result is that
their arms are almost useless. An
inspection will be made before they
board the transport in New York and
all who are not satisfactorily inocu-
lated will have to undergo another
trial. Still another inspection will be
made before the men leave the trans
ports upon reaching the Philippines.
George Harvey Statson, who claims
to hail from Bennington, was arrest
ed by a policeman at the White House
while trying to find the president Nov.
IA. Statson claimed he wanted the
president to stop a number OF persons
from prosecuting him. He says he is
heir 10 Trenor Park, who endowed
the Soldiers Home In Bennington,
and that there is 5000, 600, 900 in stocks
and bonds due him but that he cannot
get il. He says he has been confined
In a dungeon and has been shot, but
escaped the other day. He had a re-
turn ticket TO Bennington in his
pocket when arrested, but no money.
Isaiah Dunbar, teamster, of South
Dorset was found alter supper Nov. 10
lying in the barn with an ugly hole cut
the front OF his skull. A ply
stefan was summoned who did what
he could for him and finally decided
that an operation was necessary, which
was performed Thursday. The opera
ton was successful and ii is thought
he may recover. What caused the
wound is a mystery. II was at first
thought il was from the kick of horse
but the doctors say II could not have
been the case and Dunbar himself
says il was not, though he does not
know, or refuses 10 tell how il was
done.
At the annual meeting Of the Yer
mont Society OF the American Revolu-
lion in ST. Adams last week a propo-
sition was submitted by +. S. Pease of
Burlington for the society TO purchase
a farm near Burlington known as the
Ethan Allen homestead, now owned by
w. j. Van Patten and turn 1t into a
public park as a permanent memorial
10 the great Vermont patriot. He said
Mr.. Van Patten was willing to sell
about 60 acres OF this farm overlook
ing the lake. not including the farm
for 5000. The matter
was discussed and the president was
to appoint a committee TO
investigate and report at the next
which he did.
In justice court Miss Rose Murray
secured a Judgment against the town
Df Bennington for $50 and costs as an
outcome of the recent smallpox scare.
She has been one of the district school
OF the town for some time and
when the disease was discovered there
she was in school. She never had been
and when Ii was announced
hat all teachers and pupils must be
or leave school, Miss Muir
ray declined for reasons which she
thought TO be good. She was accord
Ingly forbidden TO teach until called
Tor, and another teacher was substitute
ed. She consulted legal authority
with the result that she brought suit
for the time she was out. and the case
was decided in her favor. Ii is I'M
lerstood that the case will be APP
pealed.
Early risers in Middlebury last
morning were startled TO
see what was apparently the figure of
4 man suspended from a wire near the
Episcopal parsonage. Daylight re-
gealed the fact that IL was "a man OF
straw decorated with placards Which
read. The man who thinks he runs
he town. Captain Wills" The village
trustees some time ago secured F. W.
Wills of Burlington as policeman.
The first week of his residence there
Mr.. Wills is credited with fifteen ar
rests. After that "the boys" got
WISE and arrests have not been of
such frequent occurrence. His work
was in the main satisfactory to the
.rustees and the advocates of tenn
Derance. but some of 1.-THE boys think
be is too important in his demeanor,
hence the hanging in effigy.
F. l.. Smith and c. L. Heating OF
Ludlow. students at Norwich UniveT-
,ity, are III with diphtheria at the
nome OF A. X. johnson, some two
niles from Mortified, and 10 other
Students are quarantined in the hall
IN the first floor of the barracks at the
University. DIR. Holton of the state
BOARD of health was sent for and in
)culated the remaining students with
lnti-toxin, and II is believed the dis
ease will gain no further Roadway.
The students who are Ill are freshmen
who have been working their way
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