Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-09-28

BY many that il may have been Of ineen-
diary origin. The hotel was valued at
about $500 and was insured for all il was
worth. The houses were insured for $500
apiece.
In st. Adams city court Sept. 10th. John
G. Reagan was found guilty OF keeping a
drug store witb0uta pharmacists license
and was fined rs and costs, with alterna-
II tive sentence Of innrisonuent IN the house
Of correction al Rutland. He appealed TO
the county court. j. g. Beilrose Of Bur-
lington, secretary OF the state board OF
pharmacy, appeared as representative Of
the complainants. The trial was before d
jury. The prosecution relied entirely
upon evidence showing that prescription
was filled at Reagans store in a bottle
bearing a label with the words. "John G.
Reagan a Co, druggists and ''Mest
Side Pharmacy, st. Adams, VI"
The jury in the trover case Of c. III.
Cheney against the Mortified Savings
bank, on trial in the Rutland county court
last week, returned verdict awarding the
plaintiff 1880. Cheney claimed that he
deposited bonds TO the value Of 5000 with
the bank IN 1882. He called at the bank at
different times and got the interest eou-
pom but when he demanded the bonds in
1903 The bank officials refused TO give them
up, claiming that there were no bonds al
the bank belonging to Cheney. Search
was made. however, and one bond was
/ found but the officials still refused to give
It up. The bank claimed that the bonds
were held as collateral security for II. q.
Cham berlain.
The evening Of Sept. 8, Urie q sawyer's
store at Crafts bury was broken into and
200 taken from lock drawer belonging
to the postottiee, situated in the store,
| j. Urie being the postmaster. Suspicion
pointed toward Bernie I. Cole OF Crafts
| bury, between Is and 20 years old. lie
recently purchased a gold watch, which
| fact came to the notice Of Uric a Sawyer.
/ He became uneasy and skipped. The
officers traced him as far as Burlington,
where they lost the trail. With several
other youths the Cole boy entered the
same store about year ago and quite
sum of money was taken, This matter
was settled by their parents and they
were placed on probation.
One OF the busiest places in Waterbury
! at this season OF the year is Demerritt a
/ Palmer's canning factory. The company
4 is now employing about one hundred
hands. the greater part of whom are en-
gagged in husking the corn, as nearly all
/ the work Of shocking, cleaning, cooking
and packing the corn is done by ma
chinery. All the machinery in use this
year has been either remodeled or re-
/ placed with the most up O-date apparatus,
/ so that the output is vastly increased over
!
pany planted about $50 acres of corn this
year, which will yield about three quar-
/ tiers OF the usual crop. During the past
| week the factory has been running nights.
/ 1t is estimated that the company viii
/ have paid the farmers from $4,000 to 5000.
Although this year the crop Is below the
average the company will put out more
than ever before.
/ one of the saddest drowning accidents
/ that has visited Dartmouth college in re-
cent years, and there have heen several OF
/ them took place near Wilder last Thurs
day Alfred ID. Gere Of the class OF 1907, OF
/ orthampton, Mass, was drowned while
/ on a short canoe trip down the Connecti-
cut, and Frank b. Riley, '08, OF Boston was
saved only by the heroic work OF Arthur
/ White, Ia years old, Burton X. Murdoch,
/ 10, and Hugh Gee, II, students at the
Hartford High school. Gere and Riley
4 started from Hanover and had just carried
their canoe around the Wilder falls and
were shooting the rapids known as the
I Tower falls when their canoe capsized.
Both could swim, but Gere was seized with
cramps or something and went down.
/ Riley reached the Vermont shore, but so
exhausted that he could not have drawn
| himself out but for the help of the school
boys who saw the accident and ran to
his aid. Gere was p years old.
! On the night OF Sept. 10th, fire was dis
covered in the carbonizing department
OF the shoddy mill OF w. III. III. Slack x
| Bro. in Springfield, and an addition 100
| feet long and 80 feet wide, butt last year,
was burned. The loss is estimated al
/ between 5000 and $4,000. The property
was not insured. The work OF rebuilding
will be begun at once. The cause OF the
4 fire is supposed to have been matches IN
the pockets OF old clothing used Tor
shoddy. This plant is said to be the lar
gest shoddy mill in the world and em-
ploys about 100 persons. during the
progress OF the ire, resulting either from
an explosion or from the breaking out OF
the flames suddenly in a new place,
Charles H. Moore, a local merchant, was
severely burned about the face, and Leroy
Carlton, stage operator Tor Lyman Howe
moving pictare show, was temporarily
overcome and fell to the ground. Both
men were watching the fire at the time.
The most important feature OF the re-
port OF the grand jury Of the Rutland
county court last week was that referring
to the deplorable condition existing IN
4 the Rutland county jail. The prisoners
are crowded into small room with very
+ little ventilation and modern sanitation.
I The room IS filthy and hot. The sleeping
accommodation consists of hunks made Of
rough boards fastened 10 the walls M
I three tiers The prisoners are turned INTO
4 this room directly from the street, thus
making the presence Of all KINDS 81 Verlnlh
unavoidable. There were - PRISONERS III
4 the Jail az the time Of the jurors visit
4 Minors and petty offenders are confined
i in the same room with prisoners charged
i with serious crimes The jury recon-
\ mended that new accommodations be
4 furnished. Under the law, the state Is
i required, in return for the 10000 paid 10
i liz ~ the county, to provide Tor rs
prisoners at the jail and the jury recon-
mends that the state be compelled 70
y remedy the existing conditions. The
state Law requiring intoXication prisoners
\ to be confined In the county jail Is SAID
! TO be the chief cause OF these evils.
Feet Swollen to Immense Size.
~ had kidney trouble SO bad that
could not work, z says j. j. Cox OF Valley
View. KY, "my feet were swollen 70 ih.