Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-05-07
State of Vermont.
rs News Condensed and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

sbend took effect April rs, goes to Grand
Island, Neb.
Rev. J. K. Kilbourne, who completed a
ave wears pastorate with the Cungrega.
tional church at East Barnet April 26, be-
gau his duties as pastor of the church at
s.. Johnsbury Center last Sunday.
Violet, the fourteen months-oId daugb-
TOR Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jenkins of
bradford, died April 25 from a severe
bnrn caused by the child pulling a pan OF
hot water from table into her face.
Rev. E. I. Backett, who has been pastor
of the North Pownal Congregational
church for three years, has accepted a
call to a parish in southern California.
He will leave Vermont about May IL.
The Vermont Tale & Soapstone Co. of
Windham is getting out twenty tons of
tale each day and is finding good mar
ket for the product. The quarry is one
of the largest, if not the largest, Of its
kind in the United States.
LIQUOR license fees amounting to
s21, $50 have been paid in Burlington.
There are still some fees that have not
been paid. July 1, the fees will be dis
tributed, one-half going to the city and
the other half to the state.
In accordance with the will of E. L.
Goodrich, who died in Rutland several
months ago, the village of Fair Haven
will receive s400 to erect a memorial
fountain and 800 to be used in keeping
the fountain in repair and in identifying
the park,
A seven-yesr-old Bellows Falls boy
named Harold Bush narrowly escaped
death there last week Monday, when he
was run over by trolley car and his hip
broken. The space between the motor
and the roadway was about six inches
and through this the lad was squeezed.
kind stranger arrived in Rutland the
other day by train, having evaded the
railroad regulations regarding putting
dogs in the baggage car. A pet was
domiciled in each of his dress suit cases
which were provided with breathing
holes so that the canine journeyed very
comfortably.
Fred Donahue of Rutland was sent to
jail in default of $4,000 bail April 29 on
the charge of assauIting Patrick Staple
ton of Wallingford with intent to COM
nit murder. Donahue hit Stapleton
with his fist the night before at the Bard
we'll House barroom. The Wallingford
man was unconscious until the next
morning.
Rev. Charles River, who recently re-
signed his pastorate in Chesterfield, N.
H., has come to Brattleboro to live tenn
pOrarily. He has withdrawn from the
Methodist church and adopted the Con-
EDUCATIONAL faith, and he will seek q pas
tOrate in the Congregational denomina-
ton. Rev. Mr.. River formerly was in
the diplomatic service in Turkey.
Several wild ducks have been seen in
the Winooski river and the North branch
at Montpelier recently and some of them
have been shot. A shot meant for one of
these ducks near the stone sheds of Harry
Bertoi struck Mr.. Bertoli in the leg, in
hcting very painful wound. The sur
geons have probed twice for the lead but
have not been able to locate it yet.
The George Boyce house in Poultney,
owned by R. w. Goodrich of Rutland has
been leased as temporary dormitory for
the girl students of the Troy Conference
academy. The upper floor OF the gymna-
SUM will be used by the boys as dormi-
tory. These will replace the burned
dOrmitory until new one is constructed.
The other sessions in the academy have
been resumed.
Daniel Phillips, who was stabbed dur
ing an alteration that occurred on the
old toll bridge between Bellows Falls and
North Walpole, N. H., April Is, died at
the Wslpole House Monday night, April
Y The murderer is still at large. The
officials of Cheshire county, N. H., have
offered reward for his capture. Phil
lips body was taken to Springfield,
Mass, by his brother for burial.
Mrs. Kittredge Haskins, wife of Con-
gresham Haskins, has been suffer-
ing from a painful injury. One of the
bones just above her right wrist was
broken by the fall of window screen.
She has undergone the process of having
the fracture reduced three times. The
last operation took place April 10, and
the doctors are now satisfied that the
bone is IN place. Mrs. Haskins is in
Washington.
Mrs. F. R. Burton of Brandon was
very seriously injured at the Addison
House in Middebury last Thursday morn
ing. She had been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. c. [. Button for about two weeks
and was to return home that day. In
leaving the Addison House she fell on the
stairs tracturing one shoulder and driv-
- wv ndtpiuS lItO utT ASdut causing
painful scalp wounds. She is in serious
condition from the shock.
The seven-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Wheeler of Halifax, met
win serious experience with fire recent
~ The parents, who were in the yard,
heard screams from the child and rushing
INTO the house found the little girls dress
IN flames. They succeeded in putting out
th9 flames by smothering them before it
was too late, though the child was badly
burned. For several hours she was in
critical condition, but will probably
recover.
boy about fourteen years old, who
was taken from the Burlington Home
ana worked at the home of John Cada-
tette OF Milton, was seriously injured re-
Gently He was leading four-year-old
colt when in some way the halter slipped
ana the animal, which was newly shod,
kicked the boy in the head so severely
mat bones were broken and the brains
onrst out. 1t was some time before the
10Y gained consciousness and there is
s'halI hope of his recovery.
Suey Lung and Bark Coon, Cinnamon,