Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-05-17

bury district.
Al the annual meeting Of st. Paurs
| Episcopal parish, Burlington, il was re-
ported that the fund OF 5000 for the
maintenance OF 81. Paulis church free bed
and room at the Mary Fletcher hospital
was completed and that the DEMENT'S OF
that endowment had already been in oper-
alton for some time.
Alderman +. 5. Watkins OF Rutland has
brought a suit for $4,000 against George
G.. McCloy, second-class liquor licensee.
doing business in Rutland since May /,
/ l5b. The bank account Of Mr.. McCIoy
has been trusteed and his stock Of liquors
! attached. Mr.. McCloy has secured bonds
and is still doing business.
Work on the erection OF the new mauso-
leum to BE- built in the old cemetery at
Bennington Center for J. q. Mccullough
and +. b. Jennings has been begun. The
contractor is the Norcross Brothers Co. Of
| worcester, Mass. Tue mausOleum Is 10 be
made OF granite, will stand on a slight ele-
Walton and is to cost $4,000 or more.
Robert Pushie, the little son Of David
Pushie Of Poultney, met with a serious
accident while playing recently. He
| slipped on banana peel and fell on an
upturned axe, one eye striking directly on
the blade and partly severing the eye
from the socket. The child was taken to
the hospital at Rutland for treatment.
The Brattleboro village water board
/ have sent out calls for sealed proposals for
the construction Of an independent water
/ system for BrattleborO, the bids to cover
/ the whole project OF building a reservoir
With a capacity OF 22,O00,0O0 gallons, lay
/ ing pipes, furnishing all material and
labor.
I The United States Asbestos Co., 6rgan-
/ ized under the laws OF South Dakota, with
a capital stock 81 600. 600. for the purpose
OF developing the asbestos mines OF Eden,
/ VI, has been licensed to do a mining,
milling and manufacturing business in
Vermont. The asbestos mines at Eden
were worked for time, but abandoned a
few years ago as Improbable.
John F. Dillon, millionaire OF Jasper
Ind, after searching Europe for many
months for a satisfactory model for a
I mortuary monument, has had one cut al
/ the stone sheds OF the Ryle & Mccormick
/ TO. in Montpelier from his original de-
I sign. The monument was cut from a
solid block Of granite. The weight OF the
hnished monument viii be about nine
ttons.
/. Miss Florence Kimball OF North Walden
committed suicide May by taking an
I overdose 81 morphine. She had been
addicted 10 the morphine habit for several
years and plans we're being made TO take
her TO Burlington for treatment. She did
not wish % go and while her mind was
! on the fact that she was 10 be sent she
went to her room saturday and took the
fatal dose.
Hazen Uric, aged five years, was
drowned AZ White River Junction in the
I Connecticut river last Thursday. He and
his brother Of nine years we're playing
/ along the bank near their home when
| Hazen slipped and fell into the stream.
] The swift current swept him Of In spite
Of bis brothers efforts 10 rescue him.
/ he was 4 son OF the Boston & Maine
! station agent at West Lebanon
The Burlington coal dealers have
dropped the price OF CRATE, egg stove and
nut coal from SIS a ton TO US ton
7 delivered in Burlington, with . cents q
ton Of for cash. Coal will be sold At the
Z dock for 500. The price Of coal Was
advanced awhile ago IN anticipation Of
strike and because, IL is said, the small
amount on hand would soon have been
| exhausted had the price not been raises.
Roscoe Fuller OF Cambridge Junction
and his hired man, sherman Irish, have
been arrested ON a charge Of cruelty 10
horse. Fuller was bound over TO the
I Iamuille county court under bail OF 200;
/ Irish was put under slO0 bail. II Is al
legged that they hitched a pair OF horses
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an attempt to move the horse, the result
being that the animals tongue was
pulled out.
Following the custom in other places
where the senior class took trip 20
Washington the Bristol school directors
have permitted the seniors TO have no
pu bile graduation exercises this coming
June The diplomas viii be presented the
graduates on one OF the last days OF the
fsaI will he
held Is usual under the auspices Of the
Junior class but there viii be no COM
mencement concert
The Walloomsac Inn, Bennington, the
oldest hotel in the state, has been opened
for the reception OF summer hoarders. II
was first open to the public as a tavern IN
1895. and for over 100 years was run the
year round. During the Revolutionary
war, Il gained a reputation as a rendezvous
for memb ers Of the Continental army. Of
late ID has been used entirely as summer
hotel. but. beginning this year, i Will oe
open the year round.
A motion to have the verdict Of the
Jury 10 the case Of Samuel ID. Wilson vs..
percivsl W. Clement set aside has been
made hv the attorneys for the defendant
Ia the Uuited States courts. This motion
Is based on two grounds, that the verdict =
against the evidence and also contrary 70
law. a new lElAA - hekNN ANAs 49,
was tried al Burlington recently ana
verdict for the plaintiff TO recover damages
Of Il 900 was returned.
The Rutland Railroad company has ap-
pealed against the decision OF the state
commission IN connection with the Ben
nington automobile accident. After IN
vestigation OF the accident IN which two
persons were killed, the company was Tor
hidden By the railroad commission TO run
an engine with the tender ahead on the
Remington branch Of the road. The raul /
road company claims that the commission
had no right to issue such an order.
Rev. ". 4. Davenport, field secretary /
Of the Vermont Anti-Saloon League. mas
resigned and has been appointed pastor
OF me Methodist church AZ Barton land |
ing. Mr. Davenport was presiding eider
81 The Montpelier district OF the vermont
Methodist conference from ISIS three /
wears. He was principal OF Montpelier
seminary FOR the next three years, ana
has been working IN the interests OF the /
Vermont Anti-Saloon League Tor the past
two years.
Ii IS nov probable that the girls school
at Bishop Hopkins hall viii not be re-
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