Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-05-30

THIS y = the nrs. case OF the kind ever held
Four brownington lads, Clyde Harmon
Harry hrier, Lois Kerr and a Cushmsn
noy, started Tor an adventurous Life IN tbe
west but after sleeping one night beside
the road they pinned for mothers COOS inc
and returned home. No mention Ia msds
o. any fatted calves being killed 10
brownington.
| Amos Z. Ellsworth OF Newport, the
inventor ola propeller for an air nayl-
eating machine, recently filed his idea
with the department at Washington. N
appears that q New York man also filed a
similar idea there. In consequence there
OF hearing OF Intervention Was held in
Newport Mayo.
The prison board Of Chittenden eoun,v
has established q rate OF Is cents for a day
OF niue hours AS the compensation for iail
labor, and rate OF y day as the com.
aensation for guards, The matter Of
working the prisoners confined in Chit
.ohavh county lail y len TO the sheriff and
county supervisor OF highways.
Part OF Rutland was in darkness the
other night aud reward OF 500 Is offered
by the electric light company to ascertain
who cut the wires. IL is supposed the
he company recently discharged Ia antic-
ipation OF q strike following the COM
pany's refusal TO grant an increase Ia paw
Charles Patch, aged - years. a farm
hand OF East Wallingford, tried 10 commit
suicide May y by taking dose OF paris
green. tie had been acting strangely for
some time and tried to secure a gun TO
shoot himself, before taking the poison.
lie viii be taken to an insane asylum AS
soon AS he RECEIVERS sufficiently 10 be re-
moved.
Al the special village meeting May p to
vote upon the question OF installing new
water system for the village OF Swanton,
the water to be taken from Fairfield pond,
much interest was shown by the voters,
both for and against the system. The
vote stood IS for aud IS against installa-
ton OF a system, the cost not to exceed
s76, 900.
improvement is demanded b. the busi-
ness men OF Brattleboro in the way the
Central Vermont railway handles freight
there. The board OF trade has appointed
a committee to collect data OF ali griey-
ances against the railway company for
presentation OF complaint to the railroad
commissioners II betterment of existing
conditions Is not noticed shortly.
As Joseph Poland OF Barre was working
in Jones Bros quarry at Graniteyille
Friday, driving q staple into the door OF
the powder hoa a, the staple, heated BY
the friction. Dropped TO the floor, igniting
the powder and causing an explosion.
The building, which contained eight kegs
OF powder apd four boxes OF dynamite,
was demolished. Poland escaped with
only few burns about the face and head.
The fire engine question which has been
strongly agitated In Rutland since the big
fire OF February last year, has been settled
by the aldermen voting to buy a second
sized steamer at a cost OF $3.50. The
forty-year-olu engine, which has been
repaired at cost OF 81, 500, was returned
from the factory May 20, and given test
which did not prove satisfactory, the
new engine proposition being the outcome.
Stephen J. Cray, a prominent market
man, and Lawyer George A. Weston, both
OF Bellows Falls, each pleaded guilty in
Windham county court last week to the
charge OF disturbing the peace and were
fined 80 and costs. They were leaders OF
q riot in Bellows Falls month ago when
II. l.. Pitcher, proprietor OF lunch room,
was busted by force from his place Of
business.
The United States Quarries and Granite
company has decided to
build its big granite cutting plant in
Montpelier and will locate at Montpelier
Junction. The Central Vermont Railway
has decided to erect round
houses and large repair shops there and
make 1t freight terminal. The Barre
and Montpelier street railway is planning
TO extead its line to the Junction.
The Gates Memorial library is now open
at White River Junction. The building is
the gift OF the late Amos Barnes of Boston
in memory Of his friend, George w. Gates.
The Loyal club OF women has worked en-
for Is years to secure Ii
brary for the village. The new building
has capacity for 1000 volumes in the main
room with present shelf room for 5000.
There are 1000 volumes in the library.
The directors OF the Green Mountain
Pulp Mill Co. have decided to rebuild the
mill at Middlebury which was burned
some time ago. Several industries through
out the state have been trying to buy or
lease the extensive water power which
operated the burned mill and is owned by
the pulp company. The largest bidder for
the pulp company's power was the YER
mont Marble Co. OF Proctor, which offered
$50, 900, it is understood.
Frazer pitched no hit. no run game
for the Intercity baseball team May q
against Concord in the New Hampshire
State league, the Vermonters winning by
score of 10 to O. Thompson, the negro
catcher for Concord, was hit on the head
by Frazer and knocked down. He wore
. chest protector the next time at bat.
The Hyphens had protested Thompson.
Barre and Burlington, the
two Vermont teams in the league, hold
first and second places IN standing. Rut-