Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1903-04-09
Stale of Vermont.
Il. News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

cailonoh and staff will attend the ded
,tion Of the Louisiana Purchase TX
pasition al st. Louis April 80.
TN building fund which is being
.tbered for new church for 81
Sassr,s narisb. Bennington, was In
&c, ~. $3.50 this week by Miss Ella 5
Mccullough, daughter OF Gov. ). q
Mccullough !,
noe river is being stocked with
n 0O6 brook trout fry. They are
Mood IN the river at various points
Petween Roxbury and Montpelier and
aon,e from the United States hatchery
Al st. Johnsbury.
Rert Rattell OF Brandon, who was
rocantly taken 10 the Mary Fletcher
bospital at Burlington, will have to be
removed 10 an insane asylum. The
nov Il IS wears old and was taken to
the hospital as the only chance Of his
recovery from the serious injuries sui
fered few weeks ago by falling IRON
high building.
CONGRESSMAN Kittredge Haskins has
received notice from the postoiiice de-
nartment that the following rural free
delivery routes will be put in opera
ton July 1, 190S:-Ludlow, routes
and 3: Westminster, route / VIII
minpton. route / ; Springfield, route ! ;
Woodstock, route Bradford, routes
and 2; Putney, route /.
The Central Vermont bridge across
Lake Champlain between Alburgh and
Rouses Point was badly damaged
April "a by the tremendous seas which
broke over ii all day long, and was so
weakened in places that all traffic was
discontinued. The Rutland railroad
was washed out for several hundred
feet along the Alburgh shore and pas
seneer trains were Obliged to 80
around BY the way Of st. Adams.
LAWYER C. G. Fits OF Brattleboro
has brought suit in the Suffolk county
superior court In Boston Tor $4,000
against the Central Vermont Railroad
company and in favor Of Tutiield Bar
mby OF BrattlebOr0. Mr.. Barraby was
passenger on a train which met with
an accident at Miller's Falls last
Thanksgiving day. He was thrown
down and bis spine was injured so
badly that he has suffered ever since.
The city Of Montpelier has received
notice from the surrogate's office in
New York that the city must pay a tax
Of Sl20.7l, its share of the transfer tax
on the estate OF John f. Hubbard. The
city is to receive Ss,4l4.S5, the amount
Of Mr.. Hnbbard's legacy apportioned
70 the city of funds and property in
New York city. Mr. Hubbard left S25,-
900 for chapel and gate at Green
Mount cemetery, and this is portion
OF that amount, realized from property
already sold.
History is only repeating itself after
al in the early spring this year, says
The Northfield News. William Law
ton saws that in the year 1912, March
18th. the roads were dry and dusty and
people were blowing. June 18th. the
same year. foot of snow fell. Mrs.
o. 5. Cook remembers her mother tell
ing about the same storm and that
sheep and young cattle had to be fed
also the fruit trees were badly broken,
but corn, which was from 6 to II
inches high, was not injured.
After reporting two disagreements
and being sent back each time the jury
brought in a verdict April ? at Mont
pelier sustaining the Cowdrey will.
The case had been on trial a week In
county court and had attracted much
attention. Mrs. Almira Cowdrey was
a city pauper until her nephew died,
leaving her 5000 She died a short
time ago. willing most OF her estate to
Oyerseer of the Poor George Wheeler
and leaving some for benevolent pur-
poses. The heirs contested and will
now take the case TO the supreme
court.
Frances, the two-year-old daughter
off. b. Carver OF Bennington, COM
planned OF a peculiar feeling in her
side, accompanied by pain. a physi-
clan examined the child and became
satisfied that foreign substance was
there. The child was taken to Troy.
y. Y, and the Mays used. A sub
stance was located and an operation
brought out large sized sewing
needle which had passed through the
stomach. IL was badly encrusted and
apparently had been there some time.
How the needle came there is un-
known. The child apparently is re-
covering.
Mrs. Arthur Stevens of Bolton has
set OF china nearly one hundred ana
fifty years old that five generations
ago graced the table of Mrs. Stevens
great-great- grandmother and not
piece is missing nor is there nick in
The whole set. which consists of cups
and saucers. plates. teapot. sugar
bowl and cream jug. They were the
best dishes of the first owner. and
were handed down as such till now
they are kept from any possible HARM
IN a glass china cabinet, for show only.
Their first owner Mrs. Blodgett, lived
In Jericho, and the McGinnis and Bar
ney families OF that place are descend
ants.
The high water and strong wind did
much damage at st. Adams Bay Apr,
destroying the Fonda. Seymour and
Barrette boat houses and blowing the
Seymour launch over the road TO the
point and sinking her in the marsh.