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

The Rev. ]. Edward Wright, secretary
of the trustees OF the Keliogg-Hubbard
Montpelier. has announced that
until February / next the library viii
be open Sunday afternoons and that all
visitors will be as welcome as they are on
week days. II the attendance for the
next eight Sunday afternoons is such as
TO indicate that the experiment is APP
preciated, keeping the library open regu-
larly Sunday afternoons will undoubtedly
become an established rule.
Seventy-five cars OF apples, or some
thing like 5000 barrels in all, were
loaded for New York firm this fall
from territory mainly comprising Addi-
son, Chittenden and Grand Isle counties,
and the average price paid was 20
barrel so that about $4,000 has come
into Vermont from this source. When
the financial stringency developed, the
firm instructed its buyer to cut the price
in two With the result that the farmers
have placed thousands OF barrels IN
cellars and cold storage for higher prices.
Aoit.-Gea. w. III. Gilmore OF Fairlee
has several applications and petitions
for new companies in the First Vermont
regiment, provided the companies at
Newport, Bradford or Brsttleboro, that
recently had second inspection because
they were below the standard, should
drop out. Barre, White River Junction,
Hardwick and Lyndonyille are all anxious
to form a company. General Gilmore and
Col. J. G. Estey will soon fix the time
and place for holding the annual school
for officers.
Joseph Alnon of Mortified has in
vented a trimmer, designed TO be used in
a blast hole, after drilling. 1t is arranged
TO be forced into the hole and makes
crease or line down two sides Of the bore.
This service, though small, causes the
force Of the blast to take effect in two
definite directions and thus govern the
work done. In the ordinary way the
result OF the blast is largely matter OF
chance. Mr.. Almon has made arrange
ments to have this invention manufac-
tured on a small scale.
Miss Florence Dickinson Of Williams
willie is suffering from arsenic poison.
About a week ago she washed a shirt
waist set embroidered with green and be-
fore removing her hands from the basin
OF water which she was using for the pur-
pose noticed prickling sensation in her
hands and arms and later discovered a
scratch on one hand. = few hours later
rash appeared and a physician who was
consulted decided she had been poisoned
by the arsenic preparation in the green
dye. Her condition is now improving.
Msicr L. L. Howe would have the state
pay national guardsmen TO attend the
company drills. Fifty cents or - meet
ing and nothing for the men who did
not attend, he believes would work Won
ders. There is no compulsion for a man
10 join the militia, as ii used 10 be called,
but after he has enlisted, he Is liable to q
fine Il be does not attend the drills and
meetings. u has come TO time when Il
is hustle TO keep the ranks fun and de-
ficiency reports from attleboro, Brad
ford and Newport show which way the
wind is blowing.
The clothing store of c. Z. Pease s Co.
in the Winooski building at Winocski
was entered by burglars the night Of Dec.
and about $500 worth of clothing taken,
most of which has been recovered, al
though the burglars got away with about
SIS worth of furnishings. They forced
an entry into the rear of the store by
breaking the glass of the inner door, af-
ter springing a heavy grated door on the
outside. They had a good start and
could not be located. The clothing was
discovered the next morning on the bank
near the railroad track only a short dis
lance from the Pease store.
Fred Mancastroppa of Montpelier, a
freight brakeman in the employ of the
Central Vermont railroad, met with an
injury Dec. Z which will result in his dis
ability for some time, with the possible
less of a foot. Mancastroppa, who was
bralSing the southbound way freight on
the main line, was assisting in switching
some cars at Mortified " hen the accident
occurred. He was running along the
track with the train close behind him
when his foot became caught in a frog
and before he could extricate himself
the rear car was upon him and struck his
foot just as he pushed it from the frog,
crushing it badly.
Dwight +. Foster, a teamster, who
lives in the Tomasi block in Barre, met
with an accident Dec. 3. He was at &.
tempting TO put kingbolt into s.iig-
ger" heavy wagon with the body I'M
der the axle. He had the wagon lacked
up and was working upon it when the
jack slipped and allowed the weight of
the forward part of the heavy body to fall
onto the instep OF his left foot, piuning
him to the ground. Foster remained in
TINS iOr over
20 minutes until workmen going to their
homes discovered his position and re-
leased him. An examination showed that
although no bones were broken the foot
was badly jammed.
Thomas Fitzgibbons of Montpelier, en-
ployed as Jumper in the Columbian
Granite company's plant in that city,
met with a serious accident last Thurs
day, which sent him to the hospital and
will keep him from his work for a month
or six weeks. With other workmen, he
was engaged in lifting a large block Of
granite when without warning the block
fell, carrying him to the ground. When
they got The granite of him, it was dis
covered that one leg was useless. The
man was taken to the Heaton hospital.
Examination there disclosed that he had
sustained a compound fracture OF one leg
and sustained other minor injuries, con-
sisting mostly of bruises.
Hale's Tavern, Wells River, was the
mecca for the heavy weights Friday
night, when over 100 of the members Of
the New England Fat Mems club gathered
at the annual meeting and banquet Da