Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-09-12

During part OF the time the company
had ntty-nye bean pickers In the field.
The amount paid to piekers was s2il.
The Vermont State Teachers assoela-
ton will hold its annual meeting in Bur
lngton October II, rs and 10. The off,
GERS OF the association are;-President,
Superintendent G. ii. Dempsey OF 81.
Johnsbury; vice president, Principal T..
NJ. Roscoe OF Springfield; secretary,
Principal +. @. Ham OF Randolph; treas
urer, Principal A. A. Kempton OF Bakers
field.
Covered with mud and his clothes torn,
but still plucky, Charles Horton OF
Rutland, pulled himself together after
a peculiar accident when his bicycle
slipped and threw him under horse
| driven by Fred Foster. The animal
jumped the bicyclist but the buggy
wheels passed over him. He was not
much injured and the damage to the BIZ
cycle was slight.
About one hundred men are employed
in the various mines of Corinth at pres
ent. About fifty men are employed at
the Pike Hill copper mine and twenty at
the Corinth mine. Highley 4 Mcdonald
have fifteen or twenty men at work open
ing up the mine they discovered in July.
Eighteen to twenty cords OF four foot
wood is consumed at the smelter OF the
Pike Hill mine every day.
William Skeels OF Rutland recently
shot mossback turtle near Rabbit island,
Lake Bomoseen, that weighed thirty
eight pounds and was the largest turtle
ever seen in the lake. IL. B. Ellis, pro-
prietor Of the Prospect House at the
lake, will build a large garage for the
accommodation of automobile tourists, as
well as rebuild the billiard hall and
bowling alley destroyed by the recent
. fire.
William Gordon OF Newport, aged
nineteen years, met with fatal acci-
dent recently. Gordon was employed at
the Newport stock farm and was about
his duties when he received kick from
horse in the pit Of the stomach from
which he died in few hours. Gordon
came from London and had been work
ing at the stock farm since May S. He
had no relatives on this side OF the At
/ lantic.
A valuable and interesting relic OF early
I Vermont has been given to the museum
OF the University of Vermont, Burling-
ton, through the generosity OF Horace
!. 5. Brooks, the former possessor. 1t is a
: rocker settee, OF painted pine, which is
e known TO have been used by Ethan Allen
g and to have been kept at the farm house
: as a piece OF porch furniture. At present
the settee is being repaired, and it will
soon be placed in the museum.
= Each new school year has the same
story to tell in Barre: the attendance OF
q students is greater than in any previous
: year. II is the same this year. At the
, end of the third day of school there were
enrolled in all the public schools Of the
city 1850 pupils, an increase of 81 over
> last year, and of 1872 over 1905. The
!. high school keeps up in the increase
Q with the other schools. The senior
class this year numbers over 40.
A survey has been made in Pittsford
for the Vermont Marble Co. with 9
view to "harnessing" the power fol
n Furnace brook, the most famous trout
Is stream in Rutland county, and building
. a big power plant so that the concern
u can run all its plants by electricity. Al
u though no actual work haSyet beer
n begun the matter is being considered ser
iously and the result of the survey L
he said to have been very satisfactory.
Is The state board of health has served
. notices on Mayor j. w. Ryan, the boar'
.. of aldermen, the water commissioners
AZ the constsbles, and heads OF households
al in yergennes prohibiting the use OF thu
present supply OF water for domestic us
Of except for laundry purposes, flushing
st water closets, sprinkling lawns an
2. streets, and watering gardens until in tn
he opinion of the state board of health tn
III danger from the present source OF waite
ce has ceased.
After a several months tour of inquir
lie into the immigration situation abroad
N members Of the subcommittee OF tn
Il, immigration commission, with Senate
en- William P. Dillingham; of Vermont
,is chairman, arrived at New York city sep
NV on the steamer Cedric. Some OF tn
II members of the committee are still
Fnrone The members have obtaine
much data with which it is hoped
es solve immigration problems here. The
Ir will report later.
~ Al the house of correction, RUTLAND
he during August there were seventeen con
be mitments. This is four more than Il
the nreyious month. Although the con
mitments do not number very high u
IL sentence in each case was long. AT u
lat county jail IS prisoners were registere
BIZ for the month of August, which IS
to more than for the preceding mont
ng The August record at the county JAN
w one of the biggest in the memory
IN Supt. D. L. Morgan.
The manual training school whi'
IN had been in session at Woodstock SIN
ne last June under the instruction OF l..
AZ Wahlstrom, of the Ethical Culture scho
on of New York, has closed. About loo 81
ter dents of all ages and both sexes ha
I'D attended the school, and many boys ma
no come from farms even seven miles ava
making one class in the forenoon. i
It's farmers by letting their boys come ea'
yar half day show that they appreciate I
IN school and the training.
on The specisl committee on taxation a
eys iourned Sept. at Montpelier, witho
the having accomplished, anything iurtn
led than routine work, the consideration
hills and some progress on the tabuiati
H., of the statistics that is holding ga
in the work of the commission. Inc Co
ned ,,,iss;on will issue public stateme
,aI- -I.~.,,, 30 acme of the things that ha