Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-23
State of Vermont.
he News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

.osf Louis SalOme, a OaStletOn ltai1an,
s1o fine last week.
Rev franklin Blake of Sutton has been
,ngsge3 as pastor of the First Baptist
ob9reh at Starksboro for the coming year,
10 begin May /.
The store of S. j. Seigel & Co. of
Barre was Quilted by fire late Monday
nioht. April IS, entailing a loss of be-
tTepn "a, coo and $4,000, which is COW
srod nv insurance. 1t started in the base
ment
The First Congregational church of
uvde Park. Mass, has extended call to
the Rev. L. F. Reed, for the past seven
Years pastor of Bethany church, Montpel-
Ter, Mr.. Reed has the call under consid-
Grafton.
Fire from an unknown cause destroyed
the S. C. Lyons ochre works at Benning-
ton April H. The building was burned
to the ground but the drying machine,
some tools and quantity of dynamite
we're saved.
The James Evarts residence in Milton
was burned Friday night. The insurance
nearly covers the loss on the building.
Raw Phelps, who was tenant, had no in
surance on his household goods. but most
of them were saved.
Rev. George A. Cooke OF Brandon,
who has made many charges against
monument Methodist officials, has been
transferred by the Troy conference to the
northern New York conference, with an
assignment at Chateaugay.
Marble from the Norcross-West quarry,
Dorset, has been selected for the interior
of the Bureau of American Republ
building at Washington, d. G. 1t will
be recalled that this is the building to-
ward which Andrew Carnegie contributed
S75O,000.
The house in Swanton known as the
Rich place and owned and occupied by
Mrs Frederick Bell, was partially de-
stroyed by fire Thursday. The loss is es-
timated at several hundred dollars, COW
cred by insurance. The fires origin is
unknown.
The trustees of Montpelier seminary
have decided to relieve the Rev. DIR. E. A.
Bishop from the active charge of that in
stitution and instruction therein, that he
may devote all his time to soliciting for
the endowment fund, the two being too
much for his strength.
FAY, the four-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Victor Perkins of Concord, was
badly kicked by colt recently. The
child, seeing the colt drinking from a
bucket of sap, went out to drive it away,
and when found was in an unconscious
condition, her jaw being broken and her
lip and chin badly cut.
The marble market is very dull and the
Vermont Marble company has been lay
ing off many men. Work is also dull in
the big marble shop at the house of cor
rection. The men in this institution
have been kept at work, but the prisoners
in the county jail, who are also worked
in the marble shop, have been idle for
three weeks.
The property of the Pownal Stone COM
pany, corporation organized for the pur-
pose of manufacturing crushed stone to
be used in building highways in the state
ofNew York, was sold at auction last
week on a foreclosure secured by Jarvis
P. OBrien of Troy, who acts as trustee
for the bondholders. The business may
be resumed.
On petition of creditors, Judge j. L.
Martin of the United States court, Brat
tleboro, has appointed Frank A. Walker
Of Ludlow receiver of the Verd Mont
WOODEN mill at Ludlow. The mill has not
been run for several weeks on account of
poor business. As soon as market condi-
tons warrant it is expected that opera
tons will be resumed.
For several nights previous to the death
Of his father, Thomas Keefe of North Ben
nlngton went without sleep. He became
so erazed that at the request of neighbors
he was placed in jail. As soon as in a
cell he slept long and sound and awoke
entirely rational. He was thereupon re-
leased, physician saying that his mental
arrangement was due to loss of sleep.
The sum of 81, $50. go, the residue of the
estate of the late j. Harry Engels of Rut-
land, has been paid over to the Rutland
Hospital association in accordance with
the provisions of his will, which was
drawn by his own hand while on his
death bed at the hospital, the last gener-
GUS act of a big-hearted generous man.
Mr.. Engels was undoubtedly the great
est musician that Vermont ever produced.
At the village meeting in Morrisville
Monday evening, April 10, the new lake
formed by the damming of the Lamoille
rlVer at Cady's Falls, was officially named
Lake Lamoille. Hunting, fishing and
Trapping in its waters will be controlled
y tH0 tIusleoS, anu the Deu VI the idno
VIII be kept free from sawdust and ref
use. The appropriation of $1,000 was
made for street lighting and one of $500
for hydrants.
There is an indication that baliooning
may supplant league baseball in Rutland
TINS summer. A meeting has been held
10 discuss a movement to form an aero
eluo, the idea of the business men who
are at the bottom of the project being
mat the novelty of balloon ascensions
would do more to advertise the city than
BASEBALL. Rutland is the first Vermont
town to consider an aero club, the incen-
i've having been given by the success OF
the North Adams and Pittsfield clubs.
AT Montpelier last week, Gov. Fletcher
u Proctor heard the petition of j. Ward
carver of Barre for conditional pardon
lor Charles Lindlon of Barre city, who
tnree years ago was convicted in Wash
hgton county court of assault with in
tent to kill in stabbing John Bartlett in
drunken row and was sentenced to not
less than five years at hard labor in state
PRISON at Windsor. Lindlon's conduct at