Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1908-02-20

plants against him aliege the embezzle-
ment of $140.
large majority of the stockholders Of
the Shady Rill creamery, which is q
branch OF the Vermont, Creameries COM
pany of ST. Adams, that recently sus-
pended, last week signed an agreement to
accept at once 20 per cent of the amount
] due them and the remainder in three in
stallments three months. apart. 1t is
hoped under this arrangement that the
management of the creamery at Shady
Rill will in very few days be able to re-
sumo the manufacture OF butter. Before
the failure of the parent company, this
1 Shady Rill creamery was one of the lar
gest in northern Vermont, and was doing
a business that taxed it to its full capacity.
Papers were filed in the county clerks
Office Friday in an action which is an
echo of o. r. Fairs race against time in
/ his effort recently to clear off the timber
on the French lot north of Brattleboro
before the expiration of the time limit
| fixed by J. L. Grover, owner of the land.
Among the last trees cut were 20 locust
trees and one pine tree, and these were
cut in the face of a warning from Mr..
| Grover to Mr.. Farr that they should be
left standing. Mr.. Grover has now sued
Mr.. Farr for 81, 900, claiming that the II
trees specified were shade trees and were
protected by statute. The suit will be
tried at the April term of court at New
fame.
Several specimens of pork have been re-
ceived at the state laboratory of hygiene,
Burlington, for analysis. These speci-
mems came from Bristol and vicinity,
where several cases OF trichinae poisoning
have been reported. This poisoning
comes from eating pork that is infected
with certain germ that enters the hu-
man system and finds lodging in the
muscles, " here ii thrives and becomes a
very painful affection, often incapacitat-
/ ing the patient for work for more than a
year and sometimes for life. Meat in
/ fected with the germ cannot be detected
with the naked eye. Several cases of this
kind have been found before in and
around Bristol.
An agreement of settlement for back
taxes due the state of Vermont by the
American and National Express COM
panies was filed Saturday with the state
treasurer. The express companies settle
4 for $40, 900 on taxes due for 1905 and 1906
and agree to pay IS mile on their bust
ness under the new law. For the year OF
/ 1905 the American Express company
agrees to pay S439S and the National Ex-
press company S605, each company to pay
I the same sum for 1906. The controversy
is of long standing and threatened to de-
velop suits against the companies. The
express companies claimed that because
4 they were stock companies they we're ex-
empt from paying corporation taxes.
Service has been made in Chittenden
county court case brought by Mrs. t. X.
Milne of Burlington against Miss Mar
! garet L. Collins, also of Burlington, the
action being one to recover $4,000, for the
alleged alienation by the defendant of
the affections of the plaintiffs husband,
L. K. Milne, widely known throughout
| Vermont as an insurance man, baseball
promoter and the former president of the
Burlington Baseball association. The
bringing of the suit is said to be the cul.
mination of affairs which have been in
the wind for some time. The suit is re-
turnable to Chittenden county court.
Bail has been furnished by Miss Collins.
She has recently figured prominently in
city court litigation.
The largest social affair given in White
River Junction for many years took place
Friday evening in Gates opera house,
7
ninth annual sold Folks ball." There
were 700 present, the largest crowd ever
/ in the hall This years party differed
somewhat from those of previous years
from the fact that it was valentine and
leap year party combined. At 9 O'Clock,
/ the grand march was called and larger
number of people never paced the floor of
the hall in a grand march, there being
225 couples, led by Alfred E. Watson and
Mrs. Scott Tinkham and Mr.. and Mrs. A.
A. Sawyer, Scott Tinkham and Mrs. Ro-
land B. Jacobs, Raymond J. Trainor and
Miss Erma Gates.
There was an accident Feb. ~ near the
lower pulp mill, four miles north of Mid
dlebury, where the towns of Weybridge
and New Haven are putting an iron
bridge across the river at Huntington's
Falls. James Rogers and two other men
were engaged in removing the old wood
en- bridge and Mr.. Rogers was chopping
a timber at the top when the whole struc-
ture collapsed in the middle and fell on
the ice. Two of the men saw what was
coming in time to make their escape, but
Mr.. Rogers was so pinned in by the tim
bers that it took an hour or so to rescue
him from his painful position. 1t was
found that no bones were broken, but the
jured and there are also internal injuries.
Mrs. Jeanette May Miller, the Vermont
bride who recently received the an
nouncement of legacy of $4,000 from
e. N. Sanderson, late OF Jacksonville,
Fla, has mysteriously disappeared from
Springfield, together with her husband,
Milton Miller, and Mrs. II. G. Hayes,
proprietor of the Hotel Roland, has asked
the police to locate the young couple, as
she says they owe her for two weeks
board. Mrs. Hayes says they left suit.
case, some of the girls clothes and gold
bracelet. Mrs. Miller told friends be.
fore she left that she had received tele-
phone message from c. E. Adams, Jack
sonville, Fla, attorney, who is settling
Mr.. Sandersou's estate, asking her to
meet him in Albany and sign certain pa
pers.
w. Coleman, fireman on the New
London Northern railroad of New Lon