Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-08-15

Gardner were driving Sunday ON the Mt.
( Hunger road, they met in narrow place
team driven by Mrs, james Hatch.
| Mr. Cowdrey got out TO assist Mrs. Hatch
and while he was doing SO his own team
ran away. Mrs Gardner was thrown out
aud suffered several severe fractures and
I the horse ran some six miles 10 Bethel
village, where ii was stopped by Roy Alb
/ bott.
The remains OF the late Mrs. John Il.
Martin, formerly OF this town, were bur
I led in Fairview cemetery Sunday after
noon, Rev. j, Wesley Miller reading the
service. The funeral was in Rochester,
which had been her home several years.
! Mrs. Martin is survived by her husband,
a daughter and seven sons, OF whom one
Is Walter Martin OF Bethel Mrs. Martin
was sister of William t. Brink. Her
age was 81 years.
Town Treasurer Flint has paid to the
state the share OF Bethel OF the highway
tax, being si56.9S. The town will re-
ceive back sum, based on the mileage in
town of the roads, amounting TO s59S.l9.
In addition, there was special sppropri-
alton voted at the last March meeting OF
$3.50 and the state will put with this
s225, making in all the sum Of S1,073.19
that will be available in this town for
permanent road work this year.
The supreme court handed down a de-
cision at Montpelier last week reversing
the Judgment found at the June term of
Orange county court in 1906 in the case
of William Smith of this town against
the Central Vermont Railway company.
The plaintiff secured in the lower court
/ Sl,65S.TS damages for the burning of
his property April list, 1905, by fire al
legged to have been set by the locomotive
of the railroad. This verdict is reversed
and the cause remanded for another trial.
/ A mining expert was in town last week
I looking for deposits OF rutile. This min
eral Is quite limited in the supply and
has recently become quite valuable on &C
count of its wide use in the electrical bus
mess. Rutile is an oxide of titanium and
is used for making titanium carbide. 1t
has been found in Warren in this state
1t occurs with feldspar, quartz, mica
schist and gneiss. II is worth about $50
ton and can be profitably worked when
the ore carries only per cent rutile. 1t
is found as dark red crystal and is very
hard. II anyone having specimen sup
posed to be OF this mineral Will bring the
same to Guy Wilson, he will investigate
the matter. Mr.. Wilson has a specimen
of this mineral left with him for compar-
ison and will send to be tested any miner
al which there is reasonable ground to
suppose is rutile.
There will be a concert in the Town
hall Wednesday, Aug. 21st, given by Mr..
King r. Lille of Boston, assisted by Mrs.
r. NJ. Chase of Bethel and Mr. Harold r.
Haylett OF Montpelier, a violinist, who
has a widely known reputation as q
most finished and beautiful performer on
that instrument, with Mr.. Winifred
Hewitt of South Royalton as piano soloist
and accompanist. Mr.. Lille has been
taking lessons in voice culture for the
past two years of one of Boston's noted
teachers and those who remember his
singing when a resident of Bethel will
doubly enjoy his magnificent voice on
this occasion. Mr.. Hewitt has also been
in Boston the past two years, studying
the piano and it will be great pleasure
to listen to his playing as his talent il
that direction will undoubtedly place hin
IN the foremost rank OF musicians III tn(
} near future.
: Judge L. o. Seaver held a session of tn,
probate court in Bethel last Friday t
hear testimony on the petition of Luce &
Smith in the matter of the estate CT tn
| late J. G. Sargent. Luce & Smitl
( claimed that shortly before the death o
: Mr.. Sargent they had entered into con
e tract with him, covering the sale of Mr.
/. Sargent's goods, a lease of the store por
! ton of the biilding with right of renew
al for ten years and certain alterations il
:. the store. A sketch Of the general dc
!. tails of the contract had been reduced t
: writing by the parties but not signed
Luce g. Smith ,petitioned the prolat
court for an order directing R. J. Flint
IS the administrator of the estate of Nj
), Sargent, to execute a contract in ACCORD
u ance with the provisions as agreed upo1
s Judge Seaver gave a decision denying til
d request of the petition and intimatin
that he did so on the ground that such
!, contract would delay the settlement
i the estate for many years.