Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-11-21
State of Vermont.
is News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

Center has received call to a parish in
Oswego, n. Y, and will move there
shortly.
Brattleboro is to have a girls club
whose membership is to include employees
of the overall factory, office girls and
clerks who rent rooms.
Col j. c. Norton of ST. Adams has
been appointed an aide-de-camp on the
staff of the cOmmander-in-chief of the
United Spanish war veterans.
w. L. Jenkins of East Burke was quite
loser in the recent gale, when mis- shed
was blown down, badly damaging several
sleighs, grain drill and several wagons.
An Arlington man named o. Whittier
while at work in the brush back factory, /
recently cut off his left hand up to the
thumb. He was removed to the Troy
hospital.
+ The house of DR.. A. H. H. Lewis of
Barre was entered early Sunday morn
ing, Nov. 10, by means of a skeleton
key and the sum of about $50 was taken
from pocket of the DOCTORS trousers.
The Rev. L. o. Sherburne, who has just
begun his new work in connection with
his election as secretary of the Vermont
Bible society, delivered his initial sermon
on the work at the Methodist church in
Montpelier Nov. 10.
Miss Isabelle Phelps, the youngest
daughter of the Rev. F. B. Phelps of
Whiting, has just been ordained as
Congregational minister at Pittston, Me
She is said to be the first woman or
dained in that state.
Mai. Henry w. Hovey, oath Inf, !. s.
A, was retired from active service in an
order issued by the war department Nov.
6. Major Hovey, a former cOmmandant at
Norwich university, Northfeld, has been
in ill health for some time.
Fred Parker, employed in Jones Bros
granite plant at Barre, was severely in
jured Nov. 10, his left arm being drawn
into the machinery of travelling crane
and so badly mangled that amputation
near the shoulder was necessary.
Hermon Griffin. the elder of the Barre
youths who ran away from home at
every opportunity, is now at the state in
dustrial school, Vergennes. With his
brother, he was found hiding in a cellar.
The brother, Charles, is again at large.
Little Eleanor Hurley of Bennington
was the victim of peculiar accident by a
fall while at play the other day, the
bones of one arm being bent instead of
broken. 1t will be necessary for the
. child to wear splints for several months.
5 Cold weather has put a stop to working
= the asbestos deposit at Mechanicsville,
but it has not chilled the ardor of the
u promoters, who feel sure of rich find.
g About 200 tons of stone have been dug
q up. laying bare a vein of asbestos 80 feet
wide.
The silver cup which has been compel
= ed for this fall by the football teams OF
the four classes of the Rutland High
school has been awarded to the sopho-
RI more class. The team representing this
ii class went through the season without 6
!, defeat.
Of Inability to keep up with its order;
r. has compelled the Gage stocking mill a.
p Bennington to install twenty new ma
a. chimes. The company is also building
I'd forty machines for its factory at North
& field and expects to have them in place
Id by Jan. /.
ID Frank Pervier, a carrier on rural FREE
in delivery route in MorrisviIle, Nov. los
At his wallet, containing S3S and his stool
to of postage stamps. The next day Will
IN covering his route, he stopped to picl
j, some apples beside the road and Their
~ found his wallet.
ga The 12-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
81 Almanzer Piche of Winooski has just suf
z, fered the fracture of his left leg between
g the knee and hip by falling from Wagon
on which he was stealing ride. He hat
- already suffered the fracture OF an arm
and two ribs this year.
John w. Reed of Plattsburg, n. Y
iinn while ill in bed of typhoid fever at Rut
Of land, was the bridegroom at a weddln
with bridesmaid and best man. III
A. bride was Miss Agnes Forcia and atte
e- the ceremony the groom was taken |
of his home in Plattsburg.
"a. al Foster Franklin of Fair Haven accident
ed allv turned on the gas in turning on a
bPe electric light in his room at the New Gran
hotel, New York Nov. IA and was overcome
Of He revived when found by attendant
ng and then when apparently perfectly we
lat he dropped dead the next day.
en- David Massey of St. Johnsbury, brick
55ff; layer engaged in building a chimney o
lite the y. NJ c. A. building, made misste
go Nov. 10. falling about 80 feet to tn
aid ground. He broke his collar bone an
,gs was considerably bruised by the fall
art Mr.. Massey is about 80 years old.
'er William Fairbanks of BrattleborO, cor
victed of murder in the second degree {
= Newfane Nov 9, was taken Nov. IA
=. the state prison at Windsor by Deput
Sheriff D. p. Thompson, where he WI
begin his life sentence. He appeared
excellent spirits and looked to be in GOO
in health.
er' Bridget Dougherty of Rutland, WI
last spring had her home raided
R. officers and was convicted of keeping II
toxicating liquor with intent to sell tt
OF same has just been committed to II
sell house of correction for violating Il
led terms of agreement and continuing to Sc
and :.
hat liquor.
aid Michael H. Sullivan of Burlington
V of aged 20 years, night Waterman for the
ate R. Booth Lumber Co., was drowned du
hat ing the night Nov. r. His body W
me, recovered. 1t is supposed he fell OFF Il
y ub wharf into Lake Champlain. He was +
rec a long time employed by the Central We
ate mont railway
os s The worst wind storm ever known
ing Newark occurred recently. Several roo
ses were blown off and one of Chester bean
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