Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-19


last week Tuesday afternoon from Fair
field and played Tuesday night, but the
next day the members struck and refused
to appear and the nights performance
was given I'd The property has all been
attached BY Morrisville officers and il is
even said that the company did not have
money enough to get dinner. 1t was
hoped, however, that enough would be
collected to enable the members to get to
their homes in Montreal and other Cana
dian points. The performers were all
French.
! DR.. Wilhelm Bernhardt, retired profess
scr of languages OF Washington, d. C.
who had been living at Queen City park,
was struck and instantly killed BY the
milk train on the Rutland railroad track
last Thursday. The accident occurred
about 40 rods south OF the Vermont Con-
struction company's building. DR.. Bern
hardt, who was very deaf, was walking
north and did not hear the approaching
train from the south. The only bad
wound was in his head in which ahere
was large cash. The deceased was
weli-known character in Burlington, be-
ing blur and hearty German always
willing to make friends. He has spent
several summers at the hotel at Queen
City park. For many years be was a uni
versity professor Of languages but an
operation in his head paralyzed the audi
tory nerve and untitled him for his du-
ties.
The Middlsbury- Vermont Marble com
pany has secured about 25 acres of valua-
bic land in Bristol, owned by Harry
Jimmo. A gang Of men has boon trans
ierred from work at one of the quarters
in North Middlebury and will take cores
from different parts Of the property. The
marble is variegsted in color and takes a
high polish. The work at the quarry in
Middlebury is being pushed, there being
about 80 men employed there ct present,
while at the Pittsford quarry operations
are in swing with a gang OF eight men.
A large number of blocks have already
been taken out, and several marble ex-
perts who have examined the blocks tax
en- out state that the marble is unusually
sound so near the top of the quarry. A
loading station has been established on
the Clarendon and Pittsford railroad,
within a short distance Of the quarry, to
facilitate shipment of the blocks, and a
roadway has been constructed from the
quarry to the loading station.
The chair company at Readsboro is
making good progress in the erection Of
its new plant on the site OF the tsnnery
property. This new factory will be APP
proximateIy 260 feet long, a part of it 70
\ feet wide and the other part as feet wide.
The entire building will be four stories
high and the first floor or basement will
be of concrete construction with concrete
floors. This new plant win be equipped
throughout with every device and i'm
provement for the economical msnufae-
ture Of school desks, opera chairs and
bent wood chairs, and the company hope
to have the new plant ready to start by
April of next year. The company is now
working on orders for opera chairs to 90
to South America, South Africa, Ecuador
and Mexico, and many other large orders
are coming through the plant for thea
tres, halls and schools in United States
cities and towns. When the new plant
is in full operation the company will en-
ploy about 400 men in both factories.
Deputy United States Marshal Frank
H. Chapman OF Rutland went to Ben
nington last week to make an attachment
in big damage suit, entitled Hercules
Sanche VS.. Arthur J. Dewey and Charles
H. Dewey. The suit is brought in the
United States district court and is return
able at the October term in Rutland. The
plaintiff, who lives in New York, claims
he was damaged to the extent of $50, 600
by five hours Imprisonment for which
the defendants are alleged to have been
responsible. The assertion is made that
the arrest was false one and was the re-
suit of a conspiracy against the plaintiff
as an early discontinuance of the suit
showed. The declaration states that in
February, 1907, Charles Fl. Dewey, who
is an official of the Bennington Savings
bank, and Arthur j. Dewey, who has
large lumber interests in Woodford,
caused Mr.. Sanche to be arrested under a
, trespass suit for $1,000; that Sanche was
in Jail five hours before he got bail; that
Sanche paid out $500, and suffered great
, mental agony before he gained his free
dom; that the Messrs. Dewey notified
him in about ten days that the suit had
been discontinued.
A public whipping took place last
, Thursday at williamsville, small village
: in Newfane, about ten miles from Brat
! tleboro, when William Shippe soundly
! whipped Frank Allen for an alleged in
suit to Shippe's wife. Both men are en-
, ployed in the mill of A. NJ. Merrifield in
, Williamsville and the affair which hap
pened on the main street considerably
stirred up the quiet village. Both parties,
! the wielder Of the rawhide and his vic
! tim, are well known. After finishing his
, forenoon's work, Shippe went to Mr..
! Merriheld's general store and purchased
75-cent whip. He then went 20 II. A.
Williams store, where Allen was COM
, fortably seated, Willing away the balance
of bis noon hour. Shippe started the
argument by accusing Allen of having
|. struck Mrs. Shippe Sunday night and
, asked him to try conclusions with the
same weapons. Allen denied having
struck Mrs. Shippe and also declined to
get a whip. Shippe then invited him out
into the middle of the street. Allen &C
cepted the invitation and Shippe dealt
! Allen two resembling cracks which could
= be heard long distance away. After OBJ
tanning q suitable apology, Mr.. Shippe
2 demanded that Allen make an apology to