Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-12-05
State of Vermont.
its News Condenssd and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

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The Vermont sanatorium at Pittsfort
is practically completed and will b.
opened formally Tuesday, Dec. TO-
Rev. J. e. Bowman of Jamaica has &C
cepted the call to the Congregations
church at Ferrisburg and will begin his
new work Dec. 8.
The Congregational church at Ludlow
has extended an invitation to the Rev. w.
J. Ballou Of Hudson, N. H.. to become it,
pastor. 1t is hoped he will accept and be-
gin his work January /.
The treasury department at Washing
ton has, authorized the collector of Gus
toms at Burlington to make East Alburg
a quarantine station for the inspection
and irrigation of cattle.
Hiram II. Howe, one of Rutland's
best known business men, committed
suicide at his home Saturday by shooting
himself in the head with a revolver. De-
spondency arising from poor health is be-
lieved to have been the cause.
l NJ. j. Hapgood has bought 600 acres OF
timber land connecting his Peru and Mt
Tabor tracts. : large reservoir, on the
/ land is contemplated for trout and an ey-
tensive water power which would cdd
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I Waiter Weinie was painting Rutland
\ greenhouse when he slipped and in try
ing to save himself stuck his right hand
through the glass. He rode 10 the doc
tors office on a bicycle and he'd IS
stitches taken to close the great wound
/ in his arm.
The Carpenter company of Prnttleboro
is entering the market with an auto
organ which plays the same music as
piano players and win cost one third as
much at retail. Samples are being sent
out by the company and the real manu-
facture will be begun with the new year.
An Italian laborer at work across the
Canadian border in the township OF Pot
ton, Que, adjoining North Troy, was in
stahtly killed Saturday afternoon, Nov.
%, on the Oxford Mountain railroad,
where he was at work. He, with others,
was pushing an empty car up a grade,
when it ran back. The other men es-
capped.
w. F. Richardson's meat market in
Brsttleboro was burglarized Tuesday
night of last week, the thieves getting
SO. Entrance was effected at the rear
door which is fastened by placing bar
across it. In the money drawer, which
was left unlocked, two bags of change are
always left for the use of the drivers of
the delivery teams.
Charles browns pleaded guilty last
week in Burlington city court to obtain
ing fifteen bushels of potatoes from Curtis
Emo by representing himself to be the
agent of c. A. Barber, and was sentenced
to not less than eighteen months or more
than two years in state prison at Wind
sor. browns, who is only % years old,
was not stranger to the police court.
The village of Morrisville was lighted
Tuesday night OF last week for the first
time with power from the new lake
which, with accompanying expense, has
cost Morrisville approaching $4,000
The work which was begun a year ago
saw its official completion Tuesday when
the water was first turned into the steel
penstock running to the electric light
plant.
Timothy Glennon OF Mortified Falls
pleaded guilty Nov. % to furnishing IL
quor Illegally and was sentenced to serve
three months in the house of correction,
Rutland. Sentence was suspended and /
he was placed in the charge of the proba-
tion officer. Glennon was arrested while 4
in the act of passing a bottle OF gin to
Kenneth McSwain, whose name is posted i
in the saloons. McSwain had just handed
a dollar bill to Glennon.
broad patent has been obtained by
DR.. George X. Roberts OF Brattleboro on
an improved artificial limb. One feature
of the new leg is the detachable. pivotaliy
lock joints, by means of
which enc portion of the limb can be
made rigid continuation of the other.
Another is the Pneumatic cushion which
extends around the inside of the stump
socket and prevents soreness and chatting.
It is claimed that the articfiial limb in
iustry has not received such forward
impetus in 20 years.
Suit has been brought in Rutland coun- I
" court by Mrs. Rose Lafevre of Rut !
and, administrators of the estate OF Eli
Latevre, her husband, to recover $1,000
damages from Temple Bros, marble and
granite dealers, because of the death of I
ler husband at their plant in November,
1905. The unfortunate man was working I
IN a rubbing plant when his clothing !
,aught in some machinery and he was
yhirled around and killed before the !
could be stopped.
A local passenger tariff rate book of the
CENTRAL Vermont railway has just been ,
ssuSu Ior ming IN each station and with ,
'arious railroad commissions. The book ,
p pages and gives in clear and
concise form the tariff rate from any sta
ion on the line to any other station, the
tations being grouped alphabetically /.
Town the side of the pages, and geo. !
graphically on the top of the pages. /,
This tariff is published and filed in ac-
'ordance with the regulations of thej in !
erstate commerce law
Fire which broke out in the Peoples :
sundry, Newport, Nov. % did about /,
1900 worth of damage. Three alarms ;
we're sounded, bringing out the entire !
department. whose valiant efforts prevent !
d serious confiagration. As II !,
vas, most of the damage done was from !
moke and water, two laundry machines ,
icing destroyed. The laundry is situated ,
n the rear OF the Raymond House stables 7
With only few inches separating the t,
Juildings. The fire caught outside the s,
Iryroom from some unknown cause, and !
plead rapidly.
The annual meeting of the New Eng /
and Fat Mems club will be held at its
Hale's Tavern. Wells River. ,
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