Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-02-28
State Of Vermont.
its News coadsnssd and Rewritten
Tor Our Readers.

Tor Our Readers.
Brandon has organized a business mems
| association,
The wead Hardware Co, swanton,
general hardware and plumbing, an old
established concern, has assigned.
| The da'es fixed for the Great Eastern
Exhibition OF Canada at Sherhrooke, +.
q, are from Sept, "a TO iith, next,
Rev, MIR, William OF Meredith, n. H.,
has accepted call to the Baptist church
IN johnson and Is expected there March l.
Michael Roekstord, a yard foreman at
Rutland, was struck by an engine while
adjusting switch Saturday aud fatally
| injured.
Il The prisoners at the Addison county
jail at Middlebury will have TO saw wood
there until spring, when they can be put
at work ON the highways.
Miss Clara Clemens, the famous con-
trsito, and daughter Of Samuel L. Clemens
("Mark rwainhl will appear In Brattle-
boro March ~ with a concert company,
Rose, Anna and Jessie Pratt OF Burling-
ton, aged l., IA aud nine years, respec-
lively. charged with trusney, have been
sent to the Reform school at Vergennes.
Among Vermont postmasters recently
appointed are the following;-B. j.
Derby at Burlington, L. ID. Haxen at
st. Johnsbury and 5. X. Bryant al Wind
sor.
Mrs. Betsey Human Carpenter, aged
90 years, : months and % days, died Feb.
Il at Derby Line. Mrs. Carpenter was
one of the limited number OF 1912 pen
sioners.
Il was wnliamstown, Mass, not VIII
Jamestown. VT, where the mllkmsn was
found TO be responsible for the spread OF
scarlet fever, his children having the
disease.
Three accidents occurred at the Frost
Veneer Co.'s plant In Newport In a single
week, Peter Bernard suffered a damned
leg, Thomas Dawson was cut on saw,
and the tip OF one OF II. j. Wileox's fingers
was cut or
The Rutland board of aldermen has re-
fused to consider communication from
the typographical union asking that a
resolution be passed to give all contracts
for printing to firms in Rutland using thu
union label.
The body OF Bert Crossmsn, son of L. A
Crossman OF Brandon, who was killed b!
a train in Ohio, where he was employed a
q brakeman, was brought TO Brandon 10
burial last week.
Harold Clegg, the twelve year-oid sol
of MIR. and Mrs. Robert Clegg, lost al
the fingers on his right hand while work
ing in the Graham x Skinner sawmill a
Craftsbury Feb. Il.
The Congregational church OF Wey
bridge has extended unanimous call l
Rev. George II. Bailey OF ferrisburg to be
come its pastor and 1t Is generally though
he will accept the call.
II is said that thus far this winter owe
one hundred cases of the grip have bee
tod In HtnhuatA IL also sal
that never since 1880 has so much sicknes
prevailed in that vicinity.
II is understood that c. l.. O'0lair an
]. ]. Anair will move their granite bus
ness from Hardwick TO Waterbury, hsvir
had inducements to locate there by II
Board OF Trade OF that place.
The four-year- old SON Of Mr.. and Mr.
Charles Brush of Cornwall was serious
burned on the hips and legs recently
stepping backward, sitting IN, and npse
ting pail OF scalding water.
BY the will OF the late Sidney A. Stevel
OF Ess Junction, the Congregation
church will receive a bequest oil flu
and Ethan Allen lodge, + q A. NJ,
that village will receive $500.
The Middlebury Catholic church wifi
has been in course of construction at tim
Is for more than a dozen years, is approaehil
completion and il is now expected TO be
readiness for services Easter day.
The sawmill of Alva Higgins in Jamaic
used for getting out chair stock, was q
stroyed by fire Feb. IA. The cause OF I
6re il unknown. The loss was abo
~, 900 and there is no insurance
During the initiation of class OF ca
didates by the Brattleboro Aerie
Eagles Feb. is, William Belden, one
the charter members, suffered the iractu
Loo, or a the ankle.
No news has been heard from Char
Jones, who broke Jail at Morrisvlile Q
night recently. Jones was arrested IN
intoxicated cond ton and broke the 10
{ and made his escape through wlhuo
All the new bylaws but two w
adopted al a village meeting held 10
| Johnsbury heb. 20. The articles reiati
to the sale of one per cent peer pas
, without dissenting vote though oppe
! tion was anticipated.
| Thomas Hardigan, employed at :,
Mountain mills in Wilmington, was XII
instantly Feb. Is. A scantling, thro
from piece OF machinery, struck III
breaking his neck, although only sill
flesh wound was inflicted.
Macy Dupaw. an employee Of the Br'
don Italian Marble company, had
hand badly lacerated between the WI
and elbow last week by being caught
machinery while greasing pulley
flesh was torn from the bones.
BY the Middlebury college catalogue
19O6.07, Just issued, it is found Una.
whole number OF students enrolled Is
az whom los are men and 20 women
freshman class numbers 81, OF whom
are men and 81 in the womans college.
Business is brisk at the veneer mn
G. q. Manuel & Sons Co. at Richford,
the firm is advertising for fifty more 9
business is also good at other manu-
turing plants there, the sweat, conn !
Co.'S. sawmiIl being run night ana
At special village meeting in NO
a. Id Feb. 20. it was voted to BOND the
lage for $4,000 on account OF Inc s,,
10 water system when mas peg The rat,
te which the bonds are to be issued is %