Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-12
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

rs News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.
Licensees in Barre have voluntarily
closed their places of business, ostensibly
on account OF labor conditions.
The Congregational society at Cam
bridge has secured the services of the
Rev. Robert Barton of Greensboro for
the coming year.
Rev. N. M. Shaw, pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal church at Worcester. has
been invited to take charge of the church
IN BRISTOL this spring, but has not yet
made decision in the matter
By the will of the late William M.
Bragg, the Congregational church and
society OF Rutland will receive a legacy
OF II, 900. The interest only will be
used, the fund to be kept intact as a
memorial.
g. w. Gray, aged 63 years, was killed
in the woods of Fayston Wednesday
morning, March 4. He was chopping
in company with another man and they
had sawed tree. His companion noticed
the inclination of the tree and warned
him, but the latter seemed dazed and the
tree fell and killed him.
The section men who are employed on
the Barre and Montpelier branch of the
Central Vermont railway, beginning
March 1, had their pay reduced from
S1.40 to S1.25 day. The pay OF the sec
ton foreman was reduced from $1.S5 to
$1.75 day. This reduction was made
in carrying out the policy of the road
to reduce expense.
John Carter and John Thomas, while
thawing out pipe which had become
frozen at the Aud & Conger quarry in
South Poultney last Thursday, were bad :
ly injured. Some unknown person had
left powder in the pipe and while the
men were thawing it out, the explosion
occurred, injuring them about the faces,
heads and hands.
Northwestern Vermont was treated to
the novelty of heavy thunder and light
ming accompaniment to a winter snow
| storm Friday evening. Rain and hail
also fell at intervals. Lightning struck a
house on North Champlain street, Bur
lington, occupied by Bridget and Ellen
hester, two unmarried women, and tore
pictures and mirrors from the wall and
played other pranks. The damage is
small.
While standing On one of the iron
frames of the new 150-foot bridge which
is being built to connect the towns of
Weybridge and New Haven, Henry More
head, an iron worker, was struck on the
nose and knocked into the Otter creek,
forty feet below. He was rescued by
fellow workers. When doctor arrived
he found it necessary to take ten stitches
in the wound on Morehesd's nose, both
the nasal bones being broken.
Mrs. Robert Imlah, while shaking a
heavy rug from the piazza on the second
story of her house at Barre Saturday, lost
her balance and fell over two-foot
railing to the ground below. Her hus-
band heard groans and upon investiga-
tion found his wife, where she had fallen,
the blood flowing in a stream from an
ugly cut on her head. A doctor was
called and took sixteen stitches in the
wound. 1t was also found that three
ribs were broken.
Miss Vivian Phillips, the 19-year-oId
girl who was shot and killed in a board
ing house in Worcester, Mass, by her
Jealous lover, Harry Mounier, was well
known in Rutland, having been a student
at Mount st. Joseph's academy there for
several years, leaving few months ago.
The murder was caused by the attention
paid the young convent graduate by a
prominent Connecticut politician, whose
attentions she preferred to those of Mou-
| nier.
| Fire destroyed the farmhouse and horse
! barn of Lucian Caswell at Fairfax Feb.
| 20. causing loss of over 81, 500. The in
surance on all the buildings was 81, 700.
but the largest barn was saved. The fire
caught in the attic of the house from a
defective chimney and only bedstead
was saved from the upper floors. On the
| first floor the household furnishings were
/ got out with the aid of neighbors who
responded to the call for help by tele-
phone.
Sometime Friday night, Feb. %, Miss
Jennie Davis, eldest daughter of G. H
Davis of Hubbardton, left her home un.
known to the family. She was not
missed until they called her in the morn
ing. Later it was learned that she was
married to Ralph Gibbs in Whitehall, n
| Y, Saturday morning, Feb. 20. Their
| friends have not learned their where
abouts since. The young woman was 9
student at the Castleton State Normal
school.
The Graniteville Presbyterian church
has extended call to the Rev. L. Beaton
of Moose Creek, Ont, to become pastor
of the church. Mr.. Beaton will be un-
able to come at present, but will take the
charge during the summer. The church
will be supplied until his arrival by J. L
Gordon of the Montreal Presbyterian col
lege. Since the death of the pastor, Rev.
w. A. Fraser, Jan. IS, the church has
been supplied by students from the Mont
real college.
Miss Bessie Mills and Miss Mandy
Simmons were driving home from Riptor