Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-08-08
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closed his work there and gone 10 Bloom-
Held, \, Y, where he viii prsaeh the
coming year.
Work ON two additional buildings 10
the Mary Fletcher hospital, Burlington,
VIII be begun at once. The expenditure
Tor the new buildings will amount 10 APP
proximately 100000.
The Rev. William e. Braisted, pastor Of
the First Baptist church IN Antrim, n.
H., has resigned that pastorate, TO take
effect September l, having accepted call
10 the Baptist church In Barre.
New equipment costing $4,000 will be
added TO the laboratories OF the medical
department Of the University Of Vermont,
burlington, this year. The next term Is
TO be opened Thursday, November Il,
two weeks earlier than usual.
David L'Ecuyer OF Enosburg Falls
slipped Aug. ON board and fell from
the top OF the new school building, where
he was working, 20 the ground, twenty
nVe ieet below. His left arm was broken
and his head and face were badly cut.
While j, c. Adams, a Cambridgeport
farmer, was trying 10 drive a COW and calf
into barn, the COW suddenly turned up
on him and hooked him, tearing open his
mouth with her horns, breaking an arm
and internally iniuring him. He is not
expected to live.
William hin and a boy aged IS years,
whose name is unknown, were arrested al
Cuttingsville last week by Sheriff +. c.
Fish on the charge OF stealing horse
from Sears livery stable at Claremont, y.
H., July 20. The horse was in bad con-
dition from the effects OF over driving.
William II. Riddle OF Rutland, a lum-
Der dealer, was arrested at Wallingtord
July 30 on the charge Of speeding an au-
tomobile which frightened the team OF
Zed Cook on a hill, a collision being mar
rowly Ryerted. An appeal was taken TO
Rutland county court and bail was fixed
at $50.
The state board OF railroad commission
ers is considering plans submitted by the
Central Vermont railway for new pas
senger station in Barre. The plans are
for one-story brick building 76x2S feet,
to cost about $4,000, following somewhat
the form OF the Central Vermont station
at Windsor.
George Bickford, Jr., OF Hardwick,
while swinging around the end Of a fence
on the river bank, fell distance OF is
feet and landed on the rocks, dislocating
the great toe of his right foot and sprain-
ing the ligaments of the foot. He was
compelled TO crawl on his hands and
knees TO his home.
George B. Vail, aged 40, county jail
prisoner at Montpelier, employed by the
county on the city water works, was com.
pletely buried under tons OF sand and
stone in a slx-foot ditch July 80 and was
rescued alive. He was taken to Heston
hospital He has broken rib and un.
less internal injuries develop will recover
f. NJ. Bartlett's lumber mill at Norton
Mills, all the machinery and the dry
house containing 1900 worth of the fin
ished product were burned July 81. II
originated over the boiler and Travelled
through an elevator TO the mill. Lum
Der piles and logs surrounding the mil
were saved. The loss is $4,000; insur'
ance, $4,000.
Assistant Judge L. X. Wells of Middle
sex. member OF the Washington county
prison board, has audited the accounts o.
Sheriff Tracy for work of prisoners dur
ing the month of July. The men who
are confined in Washington county jai
earned from July l to July q, $4,000
OF this amount there is net profit to the
state OF s207.54.
The Central Vermont railway will be
fore December put in its winter supply
OF fuel coal for its locomotives. Sixty
thousand tons will be taken to st. Alban'
within that time, forty thousand tom
will be kept there and the balance will b.
distributed at Burlington, Montpelie
junction and White River Junction. Thu
railway consumes two hundred Thousand
tons OF engine coal every year.
A number OF dogs worked havoc with
flock of sheep belonging to Lucius Put
nam in the town of Vernon July u. On
OF a flock of thirty-nine, search part.
was able to find but fifteen alive and o
these three were badly bitten. A dog be
longing to Charles Coombs OF Guilfort
was shot in the pasture, but 1t is believed
that several dogs must have hunted IN
pack to kill so many.
| Charles f. Waite OF Londonderry ha
filed petition with the court ofsclaims a
| Montpelier asking that the court refun'
to him $500 which he paid in 1904 as
fine for violating a section of the lquo
law relating to the sale of cider without
| license, the section having been since de
clared unconstitutional by the suprem
court. Waite also asks to recover Tn
costs and interest on the fine.
William LaFrance and his father-ln
law. whose house in Bristol notch Tn
officers raided July q, finding larg
quantity OF liquor, were given, hearing
iuly 80. The men pleaded not guilty
Int were tried and found guilty
Each was fined 1850 and costs. They ap
nealed their cases to the December term Q
Addison county court and bail was nAe'
at $500, which they secured.
The contract for building the mechani
cal filtration plant on the lake front, bu,
lIington. was closed July y and slgneo
The construction of the plant was aware
ed to the Ley Construction compan
when the bids were opened. Inc con
tract calls for the completion OF the plan
within six months. 1t will occupy TN
end of the city's lake front properly JUS
south of the electric light plant.
The last payment for the removal OF IN
monument of the Sixteenth reg