Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-01-26
WHAT'S DOING AROUND THE STATE.
Items of Interest Outside Our Own Bailiwick Con-
densed and Rewritten.

The Burlington city schools were
closed last week on account of the APP
pearance OF diphtheria among the pu-
pills in one OF the buildings.
A. G. Adams OF Rutland, purchasing |
agent of the Rutland railroad, has
been appointed treasurer to succeed
Clarence Morgan of Burlington. About
Feb. lst, the treasureT's Office viii be
moved TO Rutland from Burlington
and will be located in the Clement
building.
An early west-bound train on the
Boston 4 Maine railroad killed two
deer near the state line in Pownal late
/ ". One OF the animals had every leg
| broken. They were in good condition
and evidently had been browsing on
the track. The game warden cared
tor the earcasses.
Mrs. II. NJ FouDtain Of Winooski
broke quarantine in Montpelier sever
al DAYS ago and took her son, who was
i'll with scarlet fever, back TO Wlnooski
with her. The lad was at the right
stage OF the disease to communicate It
10 others and il is not known how
many were exposed
While chopping wood in Parsons
woods in Castleton Jan. II, Edward
. Wood looked up aud saw lynx pre-
parino to spring upon him from tree.
Mr. Wood had gun with MN ana
| promptly shot the animal. IL Is hne
specimen, measuring two feet, elght
inches in length and weighing IL
pounds.
CONGRESSMAN ID. j. Foster has APP
pointed Gerald Bradford Of Burlington
a midshipman at the United States
Naval academy at Annapolis, Nd.
! Bradford Is a grandson of the late Luz
cins T.. Chittenden OF Burlington. lie
! has passed the mental examination
, and Ii the physical examination Is
. passed he will enter the academy IN
. April.
A suit OF unusual interest to people
OF Cabot was filed Jan. Is with the
clerk OF Washington county court al
Montpelier and is returnable at the
|. March term. 1t is brought by 4. r
/, Smith of Lower Cabot against George
: r.. MAY of that village for the seduc
!, ton OF Edna Lyiord, the stepdaughtei
: OF the plaintiff. Damages are placed
at $1,000.
The work upon the new steel bridge
over the Connecticut at Bellows Fall'
Is making rapid Roadway The stee
Z arch. $40 feet in length, the longes
= arch in the United States except ina
across Niagara. and which eAceed'
this but a few feet, Is In place. M
center OF the arch towers gracefully =.
feet above the water In the middle Q
the river
4 Fire insurance rates in the cities o
z Vermont have undergone man.
-s changes lately. In Rutland they nav
j been raised to such figure that
! number OF the owners of the larges
e business blocks are going without IN
i surance and taking their own risks
h In several other cities and towns 10
! rates have been lowered because OF tn
recent installation Of new hre-hghthl
"a apparatus.
NIB. Byam of Mortified takes tn
palm in that section in the raising Q
porkers this season. lie had pll
which for the past Is months-tn
ID period of its existence-he has been $
IT proud OF that he named il Roosevelt.
II II was slaughtered the 10th and whei
y dressed tipped the scales at b5t. In
e. naming OF this pig bad some slgnll
<. canoe In view of the firm democratl
Y political opinions which Mr.. Byam ha
NJ always held.
i The Vermont Chemical Co. and tn
d Gilbert Rist Optical Co., both OF Bun
llinpton. have iiled articles OF incorpof
= alton i'm the office OF the secretary 9
j. state at Montpelier. The first Nance
' has capital stock Of $4,000 divide
\ into 1000 shares of $40 each and J
organized for the purpose Of manutac
N turing and selling chemicals an
u drugs. The optical company mas
capital stock OF $1,000 divided into ~
shares OF $40 each, and is organize
for the purpose Of dealing in optics
instruments.
snit for the recovery Of damages
$1,000 was brought Jan. 20 in Burllns
sr ton by Rosalyn Duchaine VS.. Thoma
er F. Ahearn. the action being an unusu'
re one II is claimed by the plaintih tns
on July last the defendant sold !
l.. her son. Leo, who was nine years Ole
y q quantity of blank cartridges an
&c that the youngster later, by their u.s.
" shot the wads into the palm Of his ie
hand, death resulting about nve gay
later. Mr.. Ahearn has a magazine an
D. notion store in Burlington. 1t Is 2
legged in the complaint that be not on
1922 sold the explosives to the boy, VINO w
, too young to use such things, but s 70.
~ he also sold them on Sunday. III
case was brought through Martin
Villas and is returnable at the Marc
term OF county court.
Bankruptcy Notes.