Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1905-08-03

| The party returned home Sunday night.
The stamp savings system was adopted
February in three villages of Lyndon,
and the balance on hand now is s2l2.oo,
nearly all of which has been deposited in
the savings bank on interest. The larger
amount OF money saved during the last
term of the school year shows the in
creasing interest of the children in the
system.
Mrs. Eliza Searles and Mrs. Mary Fill
more OF Bennington were driving down
hill Saturday when the harness broke, let
ting the carriage against the horse. The
animal ran, throwing them out upon the
marble sidewalk. Mrs Searles' right hip
was broken and Mrs. Fillmore's back was
hurt and it is feared she was injured In
ternalIy.
The midsummer meeting OF the New
England Fat Mems club will be held at
the headquarters of this unique organiza-
tion at Haleis Tavern, Wells River, Aug.
| IS. The only qualification Tor member
ship is that the applicant must weigh at
least 200 pounds and the heaviest weight
now in the club tips the beam at 4O6a
pounds.
There is not union in Barre which is
not now affiliated with the State Branch,
American Federation of Labor. The last
of the flock were rounded up last week,
being the plumbers and the bartenders.
| In Montpelier there are still three organ
izations which are not included in the
state branch, the stone cutters, the car
penters and the painters.
At Bennington July 25, work train was
pulling cable when it broke and hew
| back, hitting group of workmen. VIII
| liam Warrenburgh was struck in one side
and in the chest. Nine ribs were broken,
his chest bone fractured and he was in
| iured internally. Joseph LaFrance,
/ brakeman, suffered the breaking OF four
ribs ana bad cash on one leg.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 of the s20,-
! 600 needed to erect Young Mems Chris
/ tian Association building at Bennington
has been pledged and the structure will
/ be built as soon as the remaining amount
/ IS raised. OF the eighteen associations in
Vermont, six have buildings OF their own,
| Island Pond, Proctor, Brattleboro, Mont
pelier, st. Johnsbury and Burlington.
Gov. c. ]. Bell has named the following
delegates from Vermont to attend the
thirteenth annual meeting OF the National
/ Irrigation Congress which is to meet IN
Portland, Oregon, August 2l-2:-N. q.
Williams OF Bellows Falls, w. j. Van Pat
| ten OF Burlington, Alexander Dunnett OF
st. Johnsbury, X. b. Galusha OF Royalton,
J. T.. Buxton OF Rutland and q. {. Manuel
of RIchford.
/
member Of the local firm OF Barry Will
/ liams, furniture dealers for many years, IS
missing Last spring the firm dissolved
partnership and Mr.. Barry went TO Ded-
ham, Mass, to work, his wife remaining
at her old home In Lebanon, n. III. lie
/ has not been heard from since June IL.
Detectives and police officers have been
working on the case but without DEFINITE
results.
States Attorney f. G. Bicknell of John
son has been investigating the method OF
/ handling liquor that has been customary
between Morrisville and Stowe. Il. >.
/ Boardman, who has been acting as agent
at stowe for the stage line in handling ex-
press, was charged with furnishing liquor
and gave bonds for an appearance at
county court, when rather nice point OF
/ law as TO what constitutes furnishing VIII
/ be settled.
The eighth annual meeting of the Ver-
mont Society of Colonial Danes was held
at Rutland July 20. Thirty members were
present from out of town. The feature OF
1 The session was the reading OF a sketch OF
the late Gen. Samuel Fletcher by Mrs
John Miller Horton of Buffalo, n. y, a
great-great- granddaughter. delegates
| reception was held in the evening at the
/ home of Mrs. Wallace &. Clement, the
society's president.
Grace Page, who mysteriously disap-
peared from her home in Barre six or
eight years ago, has been heard from ana
/ il is thought she may return to Barre.
/ Her mother, Mrs. c. c. Page, who has
been in ignorance of her daughter
whereabouts all these years, received a
brief note from her July %, saying that
she was in London at the present time. A
cablegram was sent from Barre to Miss
Page asking her to come home.
John Perry, a well-known cattle buyer
of Ferrisburg, was engaged in loading cat
tie on a stock train at Nergennes station
July "a. Among the lot OF cattle was
vicious bull, weighing about 400 pounds.
/ This animal, in the confusion incident 10
loading, became wild, and turned on Per-
nv. striking him near the groin with one
horn. The blow glanced upward through
the muscles Of the abdomen, grazing the
peritoneum and narrowly missing Vltal
parts Of the body.
The recent wrecking OF the gunboat
Bennington at San Diego, Cal, recalls the
fact that about eighteen years ago United
II States Senator Justin Morrill, OF Vermont
introduced a bill IN Congress Tor the
building of three gunboats, to be named
after The battlefelds OF the Revolution.
The vessels were named Yorktown, Con-
cord and Bennington. The old colors OF
the Remington are in the possession OF
bennington Chapter, Daughters OF the
American Revolution.
II. W. Denison, native OF Guiidhall,
Vt. is with the Japanese peace commis-
sioners in this country. He holds tmpor-
tant station IN Japan, to which country
he went in 1863, being legal adviser to the
Japanese foreign officer. He has been
decorated By the emperor. IL was In ms
honor that the state flag of Vermont
fioated one day last week by the side OF
the flag OF Japan from the window OF the
hotel in New York that served as mead
quarters FOR the commission.
At the annual meeting OF the trustees q
the Vermont Soldiers Home last week,
the report Of the auditors showed that the
total receipts for the year ending July
were ~, l74; expenditures, si9,36o; ex-
peuse Der capita last year, S232, decrease
~ s3l from the year before, which Is Que
10 the unusually large amount OF produce
raised on the farm. The present member
ship Of the hcms is %. IL was voted 20
! raise the salary OF the matron, Mrs
Thomas Harmon. $50, making her salary
$3.50.
. 81 know am going to die, !" said Mrs
Elizabeth II. Caswell OF Rutland, aged 4
, and eccentric, to a neighbor Friday. sun
, dav her body was found burned TO crisf
in The upper floor of the house where sh'
, Z is.-old al alone She had inhaled the dames