Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-27
State of Vermont.
Its News Condensed and Rewritten
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for Our Readers.
kerosene lamp exploded at the Shell
don poorhonse Saturday morning, Feb.
10, and set fire to the furniture. The
blaze was quickly extinguished.
Rev. Charles Kendall Drake has been
obIlged to resign his pastorate at st. Pc
ter's Episcopal church, Lyndonville, on
account of ill health, and is soon to leave
town.
The question of summer hotel for
Barton is being agitated. Four business
men OF that town have pledged $500 each
and one has pledged $1,000, toward the
project.
A st. Johnsbury paper says that forty
of the leading business men of Lynn.
Mass, fifteen in Boston and one in Cali
fornia have recently joined the st. Johns
bury Merchants association.
Edward Maxfeld, who owns farm "
ing in the towns of MarshfieId and Plain
field, has unconsciously paid taxes on the
same piece of land in both towns for five
years. He has been allowed rebate by
the board of civil authority in Marshfield.
loss of $4,000 with no insurance is
reported in the destruction by fire of the
sawmill owned by Owen Maginn at Fair
field Center. The cause of the fire is a
mystery as the mill had not been used for
two days and there was no fire under the
boilers.
Mrs. Charles s. Hoag of Rutland sue
cumbed to injuries received in a runaway
accident recently. Her skull was frac-
tured and she sustained internal injuries
but it was thought that she would recov-
er until high fever set in from which
she died Feb. IS.
Little Charles Bernier. II years old, son
of Joseph Bernier of Barre, is not expect
ed TO recover from an illness caused by
jumping into lot of hay Feb. Is in
such way that his knee struck his stom-
ach. Peritonitis set in, and the little
fellows case is serious.
The Vermont Packing company, organ
lied by S. j. Cray OF Bellows Falls and
III. S. Davis of Cavendish, will locate its
packing house in North Wslpole, n. H.,
instead of in Bellows Falls. Land has
been purchased there and work on the
building will be commenced Immediately.
F. w. Farnham, formerly paymaster at
the Copperfield mines, has been engaged
by the Barre Merchants association to
reorganize the association and get the
cash customer list into better shape. The
association now has forty members and
efforts will be made to increase this num-
Der.
A safe which has been in the Royce
family in East Berkshire for more than
two generations, and unused for several
years, was recently forced open and
found to contain $40 in hills of the Mis-
sissouoi bank of Sheldon, an institution
which failed before 1860, and three $3.50
gold pieces.
William H. Woodward of Rutland is
dead at the age of "a years. He was
known as an earnest worker in the inter
est Of charity and his ambition to raise
81, 900 for Leon Russell of Chittenden,
the young man who lost the sight of both
eyes from the kick of horse, had been
nearly realized.
w. G. Appleby, manager of the J. c.
Colgate farm at Bennington and a rela-
tive of the New York soap n1agnate,
suffered conclusion of the brain Feb. Is
while experimenting the moving of a
tree Its limbs tripped him up and he
struck his head with great violence on
the frozen ground.
Contractor E. NJ. Prouty of Swanton
ing down the Furman hill to the fish
hatchery. The sled on which he was rid
ing slowed and Mr.. Prouty was thrown
out. 1t was found that his left leg was
broken above the knee, and his right
knee was out of joint
Gov. Fletcher d: Proctor has accepted
the invitation from the war department
for the Vermont troops to take part in
l. t,I-.
White Plains, N. Y. The troops will be
in camp there for about two weeks, and
it is said that about 1000 soldiers will
take part in these drills.
Having turned down the Australian
ballot system, the voters of Brattleboro
will indulge in a genuine old-fashioned
town meeting. 1t is not necessary to lille
papers for any of the officers, but it is
understood that it will not be all plain
sailing for some when the voting and
nominations from the floor begin.
Retrenchment is the order on the st.
Johnsbury & Lake Champlain railroad.
The smoking car has been taken off the
mail train, which saves the expense OF
one brakeman, and the crew of the shift.
ing engine at Swanton has been dis
missed. The crew of the morning ex-
press train will attend to the shifting.
James Rem, who was arrested on sus-
picion of having broken into the postof-
flee and depot at Beldens, was brought
before Justice of the Peace Fred NJ. Foote
of Middlepury last Thursday, but it was
impossible to prove the charge against
him. However, he was held as tramp
and sentenced to thirty days in the coun-
ty Jail.
Fred Stewart of Morrisville was serl-
ousIy injured Feb. II while working IN
the woods alone. He was struck by q