Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-10-17
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

While tearing down an old house,
Wallace Sherry of Wheelock fell, break
ing several ribs and hurting his back.
A horse that Mrs. c. d. Morse of Rut-
land was leading behind her wagon
bolted and pulled her off the seat and the
wheels passed over her.
John B. Parry, blacksmith of Bur-
lington, was fined $50 Oct. on the
charge of running a gambling joint.
The place was raided Oct. 5.
|. The store of L. ]. Johnson at West
Alburg has been closed by government
officials. 1t is alleged that a variety of
articles found there had been struggled
across the border.
A movement has been inaugursted and
portion of the fund already been sub
scribed to remark the grave of Moses
Robinson, the second governor of Yer
mont, in the old cemetery at Bennington
Center.
Superintendent E. D. Nash of the
southern division of the Central Yer
mont railway, who recently resigned to
1 become general manager of new road in
Costa Rica, has reconsidered that move
and decided to continue in his present
position.
howard ROONEY. IHe
son of Joseph Rooney of East Fairfield,
was seriously injured while threshing in
the barn on the l. n. Chase farm Oct. 5,
falling through hay chute distance of
thirty feet and suffering injuries which
may prove fatal.
The Rev. Walter Dole, at his request.
has been granted four months leave
of absence from his duties and work in
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will leave about Dec. l for Florida, where
he will act as pastor of church in one of
the winter resorts.
The right arm CT Fred Lee, an employee
at the government farm at Weybridge,
was nearly torn off recently by horse
which he was leading with a rope. Mr..
Lee had the rope twisted around his hand
and fingers when the animal bolted, and
he could not free his hand.
1t is expected that the Vermont Tuber-
culosis sanatorium at Pittsford will be
completed some time in November and
ready to receive patients the following
month. The capacity is limited to thirty
two patients and only those in the earlier
stages of the disease will be accepted.
While on the way to Wilmington
village, young colt driven by Mr.. and
Mrs. George Carpenter took fright at
brush fire by the roadside and ran away.
Mrs. Carpenter was thrown out, break
ing her nose and receiving cuts on her
head that required % stitches to close.
Napoleon and Arfon, the 49, and To-
year-old sons of John Laliberty of st.
Johnsbury, are in county jail for break
ing and entering into the offices of A. L.
Bragg, the contractor and builder, and E.
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where they took some small sums of
money.
The Rev. Elmer F. Newell of New Bed
ford, Mass, has been appointed as pastor
of the Methodist church at Hardwick for
the remainder of the conference year.
Mr.. Newell has recently been engaged in
educational work, having had charge of
the department of history in the New
Bedford High school.
The Boston & Maine railroad has just
announced its annual award of prizes in
the competition for the best depot flower
displays. West Burke came under the
fifth class and the station agent there re-
ceives SIS. The Vermont towns getting
ten-doIlar prizes were Barton, Barton
Landing, Dummerston, Passumpsic,
South Newbury, South Vernon and st.
Johnsbury.
Brattleboro teachers have begun a cam
paign against cigarette smoking by
school boys. 1t has been discovered that
one youngster has profited considerably
in the traffic of tobacco and cigarette
paper. Some of the lads, even under the
fifth grade, have built shacks in the
woods, primarily for use in smoking,
and sometimes pass the night there when
their parents suppose them in bed.
In Franklin county court Oct. 10, the
case of the state against Arthur w.
Fisher was taken up. Two indictments
were found by the grand jury against
Fisher for maintaining nuisance in the
form of rendering plant in st. Adams
town. The respondent pleaded nolo con-
tendere, which was accepted. An order
was made to abate the nuisance, the re-
spondent to pay the costs of prosecution.
Henry c. Hazelton and Frederick H.
Laughton of Dummerston broke into the
house of Augustus l. Laughton recently
and found the occupant in critical con-
dition with pneumonia. He has since
died. He owned property in Dummers-
ton and Brattleboro valued at S25, 900
but lived the life of a hermit A par
allel case was that of his brother who
died ten years ago alone, when in his
bureau drawer was $4,000 in bills.
The mill to be erected by the American
Marble Co. of Fair Haven will be one of
the largest and most convenient of its
kind in the United States. 1t will have
a frontage of 1 200 feet on the D. & H.
railroad track and tackle to load all the
marble handled without manual help. 1t
is to be built of cement blocks with
wooden roof supported by steel girders.
1t will consist of machinery building,
40xS0 feet, and a cutting shop, 90x2S feet.
If a syndicate of Waterbury men can
secure the farm of Richard Lyman in
Duxbury at a reasonable price, Water
bury will have trout lake of fifty acres
in the near future. The men already
have an option on the farm of Edward
Foss and if they can secure the Lyman
property they will build a dam that will
cost several thousand dollars and erect
summer cottage around the pond. They
propose to build large dance hall. The
pond would be about three and one-half
miles from Waterbury village.