Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-04-02
State of Vermont.
=, News Condensed and Rewritten
tnr Our Readers.

for Our Readers.
brcl,et brigade saved the house of F.
=, West Of Arlington, which canght fire
.raI times when his large barn burned.
srantv-one cattle persisted.
A.. Hemenway of Middlebury, aged "a
ont two severe wounds in his scalp
yss va .,rrained his right wrist by falling
a.o5.frst down the cellar stairs.
Tho breaking of ice on quarry pit,
"a seven cows owned by George
or,, of Poultney had gone to drink, let
ITths animals into the water and they
we're drowned.
Fred Lefrebre of Burlington, who was
lid $50 last Thursday by a surety COM
pan pa tor injuries in an accident at a cir
wear ago. was robbed of the same
tbat night while intoxicated.
pev lanes Renfrew has just closed a
u,storste of over four years at Monkton
PpiJgo and gone to his new home at Mace
Son \. Y, W here he has accepted call
:. rsstor of the Friends church of that
place.
Jobn B. Raleigh CT Pittsford, an old
pntIand county marble man, who went
70 Marble Colo. last fall TO take a posi-
ton as superintendent of quarries, was
Filled last Thursday by the breaking of
aguy rope
Edward MaxfieId, who had been out of
ile state few weeks, contracted small
ny during his absence and is now quar-
57tined at his home in Plainfield. He is
rot seriously ill and it is thought no one
has been exposed.
The annual session of the Evangelical
rbnrch conference held in Boston recent
II appointed Rev. ]. w. Latte to the Peo-
nles church in Montpelier, in place of
Rev. G. H. Moore, whose time limit as
pastor had expired.
The two mills of the Stark Paper Co.,
one at North Bennington and the other
in that part of Salisbury known as Sod
ON. have been shut down indefinitely
on account of lack of orders for goods.
Wall paper is largely the product of the
mills.
DR.. H. S. Carver of MarshfieId is said
TO be one of the victims of G.. F. King,
Boston's fugitive Financial agent"
Doctor Carver is alleged to have lost over
900, which he sent King and which he
wished to have invested in American
Wooden preferred.
Garry Cabana, an aged resident of st.
Josephs orphanage, Burlington, was Sc
riOusly injured Saturday evening, March
q, while driving, by being run down by
another team. One arm was fractured,
bis body badly bruised and it is feared he
was injured internally.
Emile Marquette CT st. Adams, aged Is
years, found a dynamite shell that he
thought vas empty. While trying to
open it, he was painfully injured, as it
exploded in his hands, seriously lacerat-
ing them and necessitating the amputa-
ton Of the end of his left thumb.
While chopping in the woods Wednes-
day, March %, Leon NJ. Hutchins of East
Barre met with a serious accident.
large limb fell, striking Hutchins on the
head and telling him to the ground. He
remained unconscious for three hours.
He is apparently doing we'll at the pres
ent time.
Rev. D. L. Sanford, who recently re-
signed the rectorship of Emmanuel Epis-
cOpal church at Bellows Falls, will take
up the work of general missionary for
Vermont, beginning early in May. This
work is conducted by the missionary
committee of the Vermont diocese under
the direction of Bishop Hall.
Fred St. Pierre of Fairfax, aged 81
years, was drowned Friday afternoon
while trying to cross the river on the ice.
He started across near the foot of the
island and had gone but few rods from
the shore when the rotten ice suddenly
gave way and he disappeared, being
swept under it by the current.
About twenty men will be employed
early in May working the white clay de-
post near Rutland owned by the Claren-
don Clay & Mining Co. 1t is probable
that large part of the output will be
shipped to Glens Falls, N. Y. This clay
E used in finishing writing paper and
there is a steady demand for it.
Shortly after the two daughters of Wal
ter Fl. Alexander of West Brattleboro
went into the barn to throw down hay,
they ran into the house and told their
mother the loft was on fire. Their Ian
tern had set blaze which destroyed the
barn and house, the stock and piano be-
ing saved. The loss will reach IS, 300.
Henry G. Clark of Brattleboro has filed
a claim against the Boston & Maine Kali
road Co. for damages to carload OF
horses. On arrival at Bellows Falls from
Boston, six horses were on their backs
and fourteen were badly cut and bruised
oy being trampled upon. One has since
uled and three are of little value. Appar-
emily the car was in collision.
Eighty-five persons, including 81 mem
Ders of the senior class of the Rutland
high school, left Rutland on the schol-
ans excursion to Washington, d. c., Fri
day. The Rutland pupils were chaper-
oned by Prin. and Mrs. S. HI. Erskine.
Nearly every pupil in the school was at
'ne depot to see them off and school songs
and class yelIs were in order for half
hour
AT special town meeting in Bakers
Aelo to decide what class of liquor IL
ense should be granted, that for beer
ana light wine or third class prevailed by
vote Of rs TO 20. The effort to establish
seeond-class license having failed, it is
very probable no license of any descrip-
uon will be taken out, as there is not
enough money in the class voted to war
rant anyone going into the business.
Mrs. Belle Durkee of Fayston became
grandmother four times in "a hours when
ner three daughters gave birth to that
many sons in a day The first INSTALL