Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-06-16
State of Vermont.
Is News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

/ tubAlI cIuOOl ltdIutI
in Montpelier presented E. G.. Ham
| the retiring High school principal
with S25 in gold June 10.
The will of the late Frances Skinne
| Willing, a widow of Henry j. Willing
has been filed in probate court. Tn,
Mark Skinner library at Manchester
VT, is given $4,000.
Barre insurance agents have re
ceived notification that insurance rates
in that city have been raised from p
to 800 per cent, according to th'
location and quality of the buildings
The raise Is much resented.
1t was pay day at Fort Ethan Aller
June 9 and twenty-five men were miss.
ing the next day. A riot occurred
that evening on an electric car. Win.
dows We're broken and the guards
handled roughly. Forty-nine men
were in the guard house the 10th.
| In Addison county court at Middle
bury June 9 the judge charged the jury
in the case of F. L. Fish, receiver OF
the Farmers National bank of Yer
geDnes VS.. Huldah Olin. They gave
a verdict against the defendant, de-
claring that she was the owner OF the
stock and was liable to assessments.
The public school teachers of Rut-
land have voted to extend an invita-
| ton to the Vermont State Teachers
association TO meet in convention in
Rutland next October. The conven-
ton was to have been held at Middle
bury, but the burning OF the High
school building there made ii neces-
sary to withdraw the invitation.
The following were admitted to the
Vermont Soldiers Home at Benning-
ton last week Ira Crawford, late
private Co. A, l4th Vt. Inf, admitted
from Bennington, original enlistment
was in Bennington; David d. Ather-
ton, late Co. d, 6lst n. Y. Vols, adj
mitted from Readsboro, was a native
OF Nottingham wnen he enlisted, is in
the hospital, one side being paralyzed.
L. II. Lewis OF Hyde Park, editor
and publisher of the MoTisville News
and Citizen, has purchased OF Mrs
S. +. Brush the Cambridge Transcript
and office material. Charles w La
Bounty, former manager for Mrs
Brush, will take charge OF the office
for Mr.. Lewis for awhile IL is eX-
planned that after a few weeks the
paper will be removed TO MOrrisville
for publication.
Owing to the heavy rain Of June 5,
about forty feet of the highway known
as the dugway above Forestdale Gin
Brandon) on the Goshen road was
washed into the river below. The
bank at this place Is very steep and
high and a part of it was washed out
two years ago, leaving a gully about
thirty feet deep. That part OF the
road was permanently fixed at that
time, costing the town Sl,235.
The annual meeting and dinner Of
the Mt. Mansfield Trout club was
held at their preserve in upper Ne
braska June S. There was a large
attendance OF members OF the club and
guests from about the state. About
100 pounds OF trout taken from the
lake were served at the dinner, max
inc a repast fit for king. Admiral
Charles Clark and Admiral Eoote will
visit the preserve in July and with
their families will spend two or three
weeks there.
James Calderwood Of West Glover
found a horse dead in his yard the
morning OF June 5. 1t proved to be a
horse he had formerly owned and sold
10 Allen Gilmore some three years
AGO. When Mr.. Gilmore found the
horse was sick be turned it into the
ward and went Tor veterinary sur
geon. Upon his return the horse was
gone. They did not succeed in find
inc il and gave up searching for II
about midnight. Meanwhile the horse
wendell its way Of nearly two miles to
its old home and there died.
One of the Rutland fish and game
wardens states that the brooks OF that
section are rapidly being depleted of
trout. which until this summer have
been fairly plenty. Two or three men
are making large amount OF money
by continually fishing these brooks
and then selling the trout to wealthy
residents of Rutland for fancy prices.
A movement is under way in Rutland |
to have law passed at the next ses-
sion OF the legislature, prohibiting the
sale OF trout. If this could be done,
the incentive to catch large numbers
would be partially removed.
For some time the Deertield River
Co. has been contemplating the build
inc of a telephone line from Whining
ton 10 Somerset and g. M. Bemis of
Readsboro was given the contract.
For this line vast number OF poles
was needed and Mr.. Bemis set to
work TO devise a method whereby
the use OF poles would be eliminated.
The result of his labors is a glass
insulator and bracket that can be used
on trees and buildings, and which IS
4 great improvement over anything
now In use. The insulator Is made
in two sections with dovetails.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wood Clement
died at her home, Clement Wood, In
Rutland. June 6, after an illness OF
several months due ~ old age. She
would have been q years old II she
had lived until December. She was
~, ro,glausrhtpr of Josiah Wood,