Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-08-31

The contract for the construction of
the Randolph sewer system has been
awarded to w. S. Teachout OF Essex
Junction, whose bid was $11,444. The
contract includes excavating, laying pipe,
and back filling but does not include tile,
manhole caps, lamphole caps, or flushing
apparatus.
Rev Leonard Dolph celebrated his 101st
birthday anniversary Friday at his home
in Brandon. Mr.. Dolph is in good health
and retains his mental faculties to a
marvellous extent His eyesight is fail
ing A few months ago Mr. Dolph at
tended service at the Congregational
church.
The young daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
w. C. Firth of Bennington was
dangerously i'll. She suffered hem
orrhages, and one day last week during
a vomiting spell threw up a large safety
pin. Her condition is favorable to re-
covery The pin punctured the stomach
causing hemorrhages.
The Vermont Construction company Of
Burlington, capitalized at 100000, will
take over the old Lang & Goodhue plant
now owned by F. o. Sinclair. The COM
pany is organized to engage in all
branches Of engineering and construction,
manufacturing and dealing in the prod
ucts Of iron, steel and other metals and
mill supplies, etc.
Alvah Martin, %, now finds himself In
the rather peculiar relationship OF father
to his own half sister and brother
having just married his step-mother
Mrs. Alvah Martin, widow Of George
Martin. Mrs. Martin is 81 years old.
Alvah Martin is Of Ludlow but is now
living in East Wallingford at the home
of his step-mother-wife
A loud explosion was heard at d. p
Guilder's in Castleton Sunday night and
in the morning a hole six and one-half
inches in diameter and eight feet deep
was found on the lawn. Both sides were
as smooth as If the cutting had been
made with a knife. 1t is believed that
the hole was made by a falling meteor
and an excavation will be made to see If
any object can be found.
The laboratory and business Offices Of
the Henry, Johnson e Lord Co., manu-
facturers of patent medicines, were de-
stroyed by fire at Burlington Saturday.
l.. b. Lord, senior member of the firm,
was burned about the face and hands in
saving the company's payroll. Mr.. Lord
was experimenting in the laboratory when
some chemicals caught fire from a gas
stove. The loss is $4,000, fully insured.
]. E. Burke, superintendent Of the
Cooper Manufacturing company In Ben
nington, discovered a burglar in the
kitchen at his home about 1 o'clock Sun
day morning. Ine stranger was u
young man who wore no shoes or stock
ings, whose linen trousers were turned
up, and whose shirtsleeves were rolled
up to the elbows. Mr.. Burke was trying
TO get in a position to attack the man
when the burglar jumped head first
through window and escaped.
Sheriff d. b. Fish Of Rutland went to
Elizabethtown, N. T., to bring William
Norton and o. A. McGinn to Rutland TO
answer to the charge Of burglary at
Benson. While changing cars at White
hall the two men knocked the officer
down, jumped over him and fed. linked
together with handouts. They left the
handouts in Taft's stone quarry two
miles away, with a note saying Good
bye. We win see you later" One ac-
count says they found a chisel in the
railroad machine shops and with 1t pried
open the handouts.