Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-03-19
State of Vermont.
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for Our Readers.
Dow franklin Blake has resigned as
.,stor Of the Baptist church at Sutton.
There are SO few voters in Somerset
49, Fred Y. Johnson was honored with
. .Dren Offices at town meeting and Fred
Basloy with six.
Traile smith, the four-year-oId daugh-
..r If Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Smith of
srenton. choked to death March by
Getting bean in her windpipe.
The Oldest Building in Bellows Falls.
.,orn as the Frost building, was badly
rrtted BIZ fire Monday afternoon, March
causing q. loss of about $4,000.
Rev. W. L. jennings of Cabot ten
dored his resignation Sunday, March s,
az he has accepted a call to Greenwich.
Mass. to commence the first of May
Miss Hildah Belcher of Pittsford has
been awardeda first prize of $500 in the
Strathmore water color contest in New
YORK. OF 693 contestants, Miss Belcher
was the only woman contestant.
The conflicting dates of the state fair
and the Valley fair have been harmo-
uiouslv adjusted and the former will be
held at White River Junction Sept 1926,
and the latter at Brattleboro Sept. 80
Oct. 2
Carl Rosa of Fair Haven, who Is al
ready in jail for want of bail, has been
indicted by the county grand jury for
asssulting Robert j. Williams of Fair
Haven, an aged man, Feb. 10 last, with
intent to kill.
Mrs Ruth Allen Smith of Putney, the
oldest person in Windham county, is
somewhat indisposed by reason of re-
cent fall, when cash was cut in her
forehead. leaving her bewildered for a
time Mrs. Smith will be 104 years old
June /.
James Mann, aged 40 years, who gave
Burlington as his home, was in court at
Providence. r. l., March charged with
begging on the streets and, although he
promised to go right back to Vermont if
liberated, he was given six months
sentence.
Harry Miles of Bellows Falls, aged IL
Years, went on an errand for his mother
last week Wednesday at noon and while
returning he attempted TO steal ride on
aB. F. & S. R. street railway trolley car,
when he slipped under the wheel, losing
both legs. A doctor was called, but the
boy did not rally and died.
While running across the trestle of the
Barre railroad near the trotting park
March 10, Donald Morrison of Granite
vile stepped down between the ties and
broke his right leg half way between the
ankle and the knee. He was running to
catch up with his friends who were ahead
Of him when the accident happened.
A. VI. Merrifield of WilliamsyilIe is
planning to erect mill to take the place
Of his mill which was burned Feb. 30.
Connected with the old mill was basket
factory but whether the making of bas-
kets will be resumed Mr.. Merrifield has
not decided. He has about 10, 10000 feet
Of logs waiting to be sawed into lumber.
John Kane of Poultney, aged 65 years,
apeddler, who had been missing since
March I, was found last week Monday
dead at the foot of the stairs in his house
by men who broke into the house. He
had been subject to dizzy spells and it is
believed that he fell down stairs and
broke his neck. He was widower and
lived alone.
The will of Senator Redfield Proctor
has been filed with the probate court in
Rutland. The family has instructed the
court not to make public any part of the
document until it is probated. There
will be hearing to prove the will March
81. Mrs. Redfield Proctor is named as
ezecutrix and Gov. F. d. Proctor and
Redfeld Proctor as executors.
Frank Carleton of Warren has been
lodged in Washington county Jail pend
ing the disposition of the suit for aliena-
ton Of affections of his wife brought by
Ulysses Austin of that town. The ad
damnum set up in the writ is $4,000.
The woman is about 40 years old and
carleton is not quite 81. He cannot fur
nlsh the $4,000 bail required.
Rev. F. Lauriston Billiard of Brandon,
congregational minister, arrested some
months ago in Boston on the charge of
stealing books, and who is now under
treatment for mental disorders, has been
dropped by the Rutland County Minis
teFs' association without censure. The
committee on investigation decided this
to be the best method of disposing of the
affair
John Gordon of MiddIebury, aged 10
years, died March 9 as the result of in
Iuries sustained by falling from coal car
On which be was at work Friday after
noon. March 6. Gordon's chest struck
one OF the rails when he fell, but he did
not believe the injury serious and went
10 his home as usual when work was fin
Ehed' He was taken i'll the next day and
grew steadily worse.
Fred D. White of Mount Holly, who
mad been in the house OF correction at
hutland since September, awaiting the
action OF the jury on charge of the muir
uer OF Angelo Turzi of Mount Holly last
1al, was not indicted and was dis
charged last Thursday. Turzi, who was
an Austrian section hand, was found by
Inc roadside in Mount Holly, his body
being badly decomposed.