Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-28
State of Vermont.
-. Na,vs Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

H. News eto
for Our Readers.
Tho University of Vermont claims the
49, FngEand baseball championship, hav-
~. lsfeatad Amherst, its chief rival, Sat
| urday.
The swanton Courier has been sold by
p r Fletcher to Il. NJ. Tobin, formerly
=. s8itor and publisher, who took posses
sion Friday
RrsttIeboro has decided to wage war
=, rackIess automobiIists and those by
obou the speed limit is continually be-
ing violated.
pav. J. T. Glow OF Madison, n. H., has
hssn engaged as pastor of the Free Bap-
ti.t church at Sutton and began his la
bors May "a
Miss Edith Barcombe of Burlington
rro. seriously injured last week in a runa-
w,v accident caused by loose holdback
She was thrown upon curbing
second largest monument ever
N Barre was shipped last week to
natl, o. Its weight was 119 tons,
e was 45 feet long and it took
s TO move the huge mass.
5i Burnett, aged so years, one of
De Brattleboro men hurt in an auto
accident at Berlin, Conn.,, re-
GENTLY. died in the hospital at Meriden.
Conn, May is, tetanus having developed
Carl Merchant and John Dunahan have
been bound over to Caledonia county
eourt charged with burglarizing the meat
market of n. c. Fenton at st. Johnsbury.
Twelve bottles of ginger ale and $3.50
were taken.
United States Marshal Frank Totman
recently took to Rutland Walter T. Carr
Of St. Johnsbury, who is to serve a SEN
tence of nine months in the house of cor
rction for breaking and entering the
postoffice at Windsor.
Fred Sears of Middlebury, who has been
in the hospital at Burlington since his
recent shooting accident, is in precari-
Gus condition and there is little hope of
bis recovery. The bullet is believed to
have lodged in one lung.
While Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Thomas of
leicester were away from home last week
Monday, tramp broke into their house
and stole S12, three gold rings, watch
chain. chain and locket, a pair of men's
shoes and two pairs of stockings.
The Montpelier city council has voted.
after some lively discussion, to purchase
the Pratt farm adjoining Berlin pond,
from which Montpelier secures its water
supply, as measure tending to protect
this supply. The price paid was 50, 800.
building at Fowler, formerly used by
the Rutland Railroad Co. as a station
known as FIorence) but more recently
occupied as dwelling, was burned FRI
day. Rafael Monte, who occupied the
building, lost $500 which was in a trunk.
The first electric vehicle to be owned in
Vermont came to Burlington last week
Tuesday. 1t is Babcock electric victoria
and was purchased by DIR. w. S. Vincent.
1t has an electric battery of SO cells and
can run over 80 miles without recharg-
ing.
Principal A. B. Wilmarth of the Ben
nington High school has rendered his res
ignation to take effect at the end of the
present school year. He will take a post
graduate course at Harvard university,
Cambridge, Mass, before resuming his
Profession.
Rev. F. W. Wilson of Macomb, ILL.,,
has accepted a call to become rector OF ST.
S.ephen's Episcopal church at Middle
bury and will begin his work Sunday,
June IA, to succeed Rev. w. T. Forsythe,
who has accepted call to st. Matthew
church, Enosburg Falls.
In an opinion. Attorney General c. e.
Fits says that fish and game wardens
have a right to search the baskets of fish
ermen to see if they have trout less than
six inches long therein, and to arrest
them if they refuse to permit such search,
and to search them after such arrest.
Papers have been received from Eng
land announcing the marriage of Benja-
min Opie and Minnie Roose IN England
and that the couple had gone to South
Africa. Mr.. Opie is the student who
suddenly left Montpelier seminary some
time ago and he has a wife in this coun-
try.
John A. Martinson of Barre was killed
at his granite plant last week Tuesday by
the falling OF a boom from derrick. HI
was holding a bullset for workman, hi!
back being turned to the derrick, and ht
had no warning of his danger. He wa.
struck on the head by the boom and hi:
skull was crushed.
In their new SO, 900 club house, which
was formally opened last week, the mem
bers of the Memphremagog Yacht ciuf
at Newport have one of the finest clul
houses in New England. The building
and lighthouses occupy $50 feet of lax
frontage. Three years ago there wer'
only four motor boats on Lake Memphre
magog; now there are 1852.
G. P. LOOMS of Rutland has receives
through the Rev. j. G. Mccormick o
Tuckahoe, n. ", check for s45 con
science money. Three years ago Will
Mr.. Loomis was attending the RUTLAND
county fair, his pocket was picked, ant
the thief, whose identity is not mad
public, mas now returned the none.
through the medium of priest.
The slipping of a sixteen-pound ham
mer in the course of the training of tn
Bellows Falls High school track tear
Monday afternoon, May IS, may result il
the death of Michael Stack, young la
Who was standing nearby watching tn
practice. The heavy ball of iron strucl
the boy il the head and although ne
still alive his recovery is doubtful. IN
victim is Is years old.
The first fire in Panton for ten years oc
CURED Wednesday evening, May ~
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