Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-30
State of Vermont.
.s News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.


The Sand Bar bridge at Milton, recent
" ronsfred by the state, has been dam
,rsd $500 by wind and ice. 1t is likely
- he something of annual occurrence.
Half the people in Montpelier evidently
,ort souyenier cards to friends Easter.
= 200 cards swapping the postoffice force.
This number holds the record for
single day.
Rev. F. I. Sargent has been engaged to
rrescb at Wheelock and South WheeIock
tbe coming year, and also at the village,
beginning about May 1. He has been a
nsstor there before.
The unoccupied farmhouse on the D.
" Prime farm, south of the village of
Brandon, was burned to the ground Sum
day evening, April 10. 1t is thought the
fire was set by tramps.
Rev. J. K Fuller of johnson will COM
nlete his pastorate of the Congregational
church in that town July and will move
TO Lvndcn to live with his son. After a
vacation, he will do limited amount of
supply work.
Miss Elizabeth Johnson, who is en-
ployed as a domestic in the family of A.
{. Blanchard of Montpelier, narrowly es-
eaped death last week Tuesday evening
by drinking wood alcohol by mistake
The prompt work of physician saved her
life.
William Bulls, son of Chester Bulls OF
South Newport committed suicide at the
place where he was working, about three
miles from Woodsville, N. H., April Is.
# is thought he was temporarily insane.
He was 20 years old on the day of his
death
Rev. W. c. MacIntyre resigned April
10 as pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Barre to accept call to the First Presby-
terrain church of Ogdensburg, n. Y,
large and influential church. Mr.. Mac
Intyre went to Barre from Canada about a
year ago.
The steam saw mill of j. L. Derway
three miles from Hardwick was destroyed
by fire Sunday morning, causing loss of
$4,000 with no insurance. Derway was
engaged in saving lumber for the Sawyer
Perkins company and some 0,000 feet of
its stock was burned at loss of 5000.
Early Sunday morning, April 10, the
barn of Mr.. Phillips of Newport was de-
stroyed by fire. Two tenement houses on
each side caught fire but were saved.
The cause of the fire is unknown. A
family occupying the house had moved
out the day before. The loss is about
1900 with small insurance.
Rev. E. c. Fisher has resigned as pas
tor of the Congregational church at West
minister West, his resignation to take
effect May 1. Mr.. Fisher became pastor
Of the church July 1, 1904. He has had
call to Brighton avenue, Hartford,
Conn, and will take up the work there
Immediately upon leaving Westminster.
Fire in Rutland in the rubbish of the
packing room of J. w. Stearns' furniture
store in the heart of the city threatened
large business building and caused loss
by smoke and water to Stearns and Pratt
4 Leyins, druggists, which will reach
$1,000. Prompt use of rubber blankets
saved the drug store from great loss but
the store was deluged.
Congressman d. j. Foster has an
nounced that he has secured an appropri-
alton of 100000 for public building at
Richford. 1t is proposed to bring the
customs business and the Chinese affairs
into one building. 1t will be remem-
bered that Richford is one of the four
ports of entry for Chinese along the
northern border of the United States.
George Cutler, a lineman in the employ
Of the Burlington Traction Co., fell from
the top of repair wagon, distance of
twenty-five feet, April IS, but, although
bruised about the legs and body, no
bones were fractured. Mr.. Cutler was re-
pairing a trolley wire when the wire
broke. He was unable to save himself
from falling as he held soldering pot in
one hand.
James Clark of Middlesex, who broke
one leg in two places below the knee
while employed in Middlesex wood lot
last week Tuesday by tree falling on it,
had to chop the frozen earth from under
the tree to free his leg, and then had to
mop half mile to a sugar house, where
ne secured help and was carried another
MALI mile to the camp. From here word
was sent for doctor.
Charles Lapann, aged Is years, pleaded
guilty in Barre city court April 20 to
stealing s. from the store of L. B.
Brooks. He was sentenced to the state
industrial school at Vergennes for the re-
mainder of his minority. This is the
third offence of the kind in which this
lad has been caught. A charge of steal
ing copper from the Montpelier & Wells
River railroad is still hanging over him.
George Bixhy of the town of Rutland
aled last week Tuesday of lock-jaw result
ing from gangrenous condition of both
leet. Bixby was very intemperate and
Inc gangrene is due to constant wear of
rubber boots and lack of cleanliness. 1t
IS said that he had not had the boots off
lor weeks and that when physicians re-
moved them the flesh was in such condi-
non that pieces of it dropped from bis
feet
b, w. Ingalls,, who has been confined
ii the house of correction, Rutland, for
uetrauding hotel keeper, has been taken
toy Maryland officer to Baltimore, where
ne will have to face an indictment charg-
ing him with forgery. Chief of Po-
lice E. S. Whitaker has also in his
possession a complaint from Swanton
oihcers which charges ingalls, with forg-
ing check for s26 on the Barre Savings
BANK q Trust Co. 1t is alleged that he
committed this act in 1907, forging the
name o. R. Clay.
At hearing in Rutland April %,
MISS Louise Enyings of New York was
pound over to the September term of Rut-
iand county court in the amount of