Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-06-08
State of Vermont.
Its News condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

Friday.
The little son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
Hibbard OF West Georgia was seriously
injured thursday, his left arm being
crushed IN the wheel OF a separator.
The Rev. F. A. Junkins Of West Hart
ford has accepted call TO the pastorates
OF the Congregational churches Of West
field and Troy. His pastorate will begin
June IS.
Congressman ID. J. Foster OF Burlington
spoke recently at reception and banquet
given TO Gen. Nelson A. Miles In West
ford, Mass.
&. III. browne, for the past two wears the
principal OF Stowe High school, has the
position OF superintendent OF schools in
Walpole, \. H., for the coming year.
The Rev. DR.. Gerald II. Beard. recently
of Burlington, will be formally Installed
as pastor of the Park Street Congrega-
tional church al Bridport, Conn, June 10.
The second of the triplet sons Of Mr.. and
Mrs. William j. Darcy OF Brattleboro
died Friday. The first and third children
are IN good health. The triplets were born
April 10.
Clara Bnffum, daughter of Frank Buff
fun OF East Wallingford, eight years old,
who is in the habit OF walking in her
sleep, fell May "a, hurting her head and
neck seriously.
II has been decided by a vote of repre-
sentatives from the various churches in
Brattleboro TO hold open-aIr meetings
Sunday evenings on the common during
the summer months.
At a recent election Of officers Of Co. l.,
v. n. c., OF Newport, First Lieut.. &. W.
Richmond was elected captain; Second
Lieut.. c. A. Davis, first lieutenant; c. g.
Taylor, second lieutenant.
The Grand Lodge Of Vermont, Free and
Accepted Masons, has appealed from the
decision OF the Burlington listers In in
Guiding the Masonic temple in the list OF
taxable property at $4,000.
Mrs. Sidney Perry, well known in club
and church circles OF Bellows Falls, COM
mitted suicide May p by hanging herself.
She had been in III health aud respondent
for long time. Mrs. Perry was 60 years
old.
Walter 8. Bishop Of New Haven, Ct,
was caught by a Dish warden in Dummer
ston last Thursday with 10 short trout in
his possession. The court fined him -
for each trout, amounting, with costs, 70
sos.
Albert, the 2i- year old son OF Gilbert A.
Terean, was instantly killed June ] by
suburban train on the Montpelier 4 Wells
River railroad az Granite street crossing.
The yong man had been deaf and DUMB
from fancy.
Charles +. Burnham OF Burlington has
been appointed captain and quartermaster
OF the lst Regt. Int, v. n. c., in addition |
10 his present duties as ordnance officer,
succeeding Capt. \. y. Hadley OF Brattle- |
boro, resigned.
At Newport Friday, the jury which
heard the case OF John Gokey vs.. the
Boston a Maine railroad for recovery of
"a NFErl ~ y lar in the lfHifnn i
states Circuit court, returned verdict
for the plaintiff to recover $3.50 damages. |
Darwin, the l2-year-old son Of Mr.. and |
Mrs. George Pelkey, OF Pittsford found
dynamite cartridge May q and lighted |
ii with match. holding Ii In his hand. |
The explosion which followed blew OF
the thumb and first and second fingers
al the first joints.
Leonard Joy, an Italian, was In Bur-
lington city court June 1st Tor an
assault the night before on William /
McLane in a stabbing ARRAY. He pleaded |
guilty and the case was continued. /
McI.ane was too quick for his assailant, or /
be might have been killed.
Melvin Nelson, lad OF IS years, escaped |
from the state industrial school at YER
gennes May 2S. The boy was entered at
the school less than 3 week before from
where he was charged with /
returned 10 the school In few days.
DIR. Henry Jaynes, the oldest physician |
in Waterbury and famous as surgeon,
lies at his home dangerously i'll with |
blood poisoning. DIR. Jaynes recently /
made an incision in his own hand while /
dressing a wound for Edwin Cooley, and /
thereby contracted blood poisoning.
Washington news letter says that
Washington is still talking about the
''dressing down. that Interstate Com.
merce Commissioner Charles A. Prouty or
Vermont gave the Senate committee few
days ago for allowing his bureau TO be
badly abused by numerous witnesses,
The explosion OF a barrel OF gasoline
in the storehouse attached 10 Is. r.
Whelden's tin store in Ludlow resulted
in about $1,000 damage by ire. lie
carried an insurance Of about 5000 on
the whole property. TINS Is the thlra nre
from which Mr. Whelden has suffered.
Life insurance organizations distributed |
in Vermont in 1904 si.639, 329, apportioned |
in part by towns and villages as follows;-
Bethel $3.50, Norwich 5000, Randolph |
Si5fS4. Rochester 1854, Sharon s623, south /
STAFFORD 5000, Stockbridge s3so5, West
Falrlee s3i05, White River Junction, s4,oIs.
The wedding of Former Gov. William
w, stickney and Miss Sarah Il. Moore
took place June /. The bride IS q daugh-
ter of the late A. 4. Moort OF IAyHhouth'
She was for several years clerk IN the
bank at Ludlow, and more recently has
been studying music at the Boston con-
servatory.
The completed grand list book OF Mont
pelier for 1905 shows a gain in the grand
list over last year of sS0i.44. The total
grand list is S56,59s.17 and the real es-
tate Is listed at g, ass, 600. The total num-
Der of polls is 2227, with 80 exempt because
over 20 years old, and 1856 militiamen and
soldiers exempted.
Ex-senator George +. Edmunds OF Yer
mont, who has been living in philadelphia
since resigning his seat IN lssli has sold |
his residence there and viii hereafter
divide his time between his cottage at Bay 4
Head, n. j., and his winter residence In 4
Aiken. 5. {. Mr.. Ednands IS IN his
seventy-seventh year.
Efforts in all other directions having l
proved fruitIess, Letter J. Safford's guard
ian, John +. Gale, and the authorities o.
the town Of GuliSrd have come 70 the
conclusion that the only logical explana.
ton OF the mysterious disappearance OF
Stafford Oct Is, 1904, Is that be was muir
dered and his body hidden.
The Tenney Memorial library az New
bury has received as a gift from Mrs. Al
n. n -. AZ her husband. ]