Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-03-24
State of Vermont.
as News condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

The lake View sanitarium in Bur-
Il unrton has been sold by DIR. j. NJ.
Clarke TO DR.. Walter ID. Berry OF
Waterbury, who will take possession
Sept.1.
The st. Iohnsbury opera house, on
account of inadequate support and a
lack of theatre goers, IS 70 be closed
4 soon and fitted up into offices and ten
ements.
The section of artillery at Norwich
university has recently received two
4 Inch Hotchkiss mountain guns with
carriages, limbers, implements and
equipment from the chief of ordnance
OF the war department.
Loomis j. Knights of Middlebury
has been appointed Chinese inspector
a Richtord and entered upon his
5aties Monday with additional inspect
Srs. Peter Rongartz OF Jersey Heights,
\ Y. and Robert +. Mellyn of Rox-
bury, Mass.
The Guiliord panther, bay lynx,
which wastrapped by Lorenzo Leach,
did not .roge 10 be the head of the
1 family. but kitten weighing twelve
bounds. The sire is still at large, al
though Mr.. Leach has found some
claws in a trap which he believes be-
long to the full-grown animal.
Sho Nemoto, a prominent Christian
temperance worker, who has been
elected to the House of Commons for
tbe Ebaraki prefecture, Japan, is a
graduate of the University OF Vermont,
and Is well remembered in Woodstock
Fl - hn lafA
erick Billings during his college course
In America.
Ellen Fremeau, a Winooski girl, II
wears old, was returned safe and sound
To her parents March Il after short
and uneventful experience with the
great big world, lasting in all about 30
hours. Unknown to her parents she
went In company with Mrs. Anna
Ladue. to Manchester, y. H., where
she was found In a boarding house by
the Manchester police and sent home.
patent has been granted TO Henry
r Dorr Of Rutland. for fuel; 70 Vim.
+. Sartwell OF North Troy, for a picker
stick check tor looms and TO Edward
Sbey Of Bennington for paper clip
and an apparatus for inserting paper
u listeners VIM. G. Farnum Of Airing
& ton has assigned his rights in patent
typewriter to the Union Typewrt-
ing Co. of Jersey City, n. J.
native Vermonter in Washington
+ noW very near being made major
general. This is Brig .-Gen. F. c. Aims
worth. who was born in Woodstock, IN
1862. and Is now famous in Washing
ton and throughout army circles the
world over for the wonderful card sys-
ten he inaugurated in the war depart
ment tor consulting the records OF sol
Glers. He was originally an army ply
scian but relinquished medical duties
Years ago,
fne specimen OF bob cat is on
exhibition in Bradford. It was shot by
aAr Mills OF Topsham. This animal
hBa large head and stronger limbs
than the domestic cat. Its color is a
pale yellowish gray with dusty stripes.
The tail is shorter than the tame kind
and i barred with dusky ring. The
Wild cat breeds in hollow trees and
usually produces tour young. They
hunt for their food mostly at night.
never eating anything vegetable ex-
cept from necessity.
Hon. J. o. Sanford state highway
commissioner. has notified the town
road commissioners TO meet nj the
Shires OF the various counties. at the
places and on the dates here fixed -
Middlebury, Mars ; Bennington, Mar
~ ST. Johnsbury. April 20; Burling-
ton, Apr. ~: Guildhall, Apr. 20; ST,
Adams. Apr Il; North Hero, Apr. IS,
Hyde Park. Apr. 10; Chelsea, Apr. b
Newport, Apr 81; Rutland, Mar. 30
Montpelier, Apr. Is Brattleboro, Apr.
z; White River Junction, Apr. Q.
Practical road building and economic
methods of maintenance will be pre-
Sented by competent speakers.
Mrs. W.T.. Bramen died before mid.
night Saturday night in Montpelier,
aged IS years. BY the death of Mrs.
Bramen the provisions of Mr.. Bramen's
will become available He died Deem
Der / last, leaving an estate valued al
more than $4,000. Mr.. Bramen be
queathed at the death OF his wife one.
nth Of his property to the Kellogg
Hubbard library, the Heaton hospital
and the Church OF the Messiah, Unfair
ian, OF Montpelier, Goddard Seminary
OF Barre and the American Unitarian
society OF Boston. Each of these insti
tutions will receive about $50. 900.
Mrs. Edith A. Dorr was successful
March Is in securing OF the supreme
court at Brooklyn, N. Y, a bill o
enforcement from her husband, Rev
Henry A. Dorr. In her testimony
Mrs. Dorr said she was married tC
Rev. Mr.. Dorr in January, 1900. HI
assaulted her for the first time, she
said, in May of that year in the parson
age at Panton, Vt. because she refused
70 write home for money. He swor'
at her, she declared, and wished h'
mad never married her; said her place
was in Hades and that she was OF n,
use TO him.. AFTER this she added
he threw lamp chimney at me. |
struck me and fell in pieces upon th'
uoor. He then grabbed me by tn,
arms, threw me u ION the floor ant
peat me. Another time he threw mi
upon the flor MI nutled my hair ON