Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-02-04
State of Vermont.
lts News CONDENSED and Rewritten
for Our Feeders.

Tor Our H@4uGf8.
Rev. w. ]. vile Of AndoEer has accept
Cd q call to q South Windham urch.
The Boston Alumni association Of Nor
wich university viii hold their annual
banquet at the Boston City club Feb 10.
Rev, Il. Garfield Mohl Of Chicopee,
Mass, has accepted . call to the Pownal
church and will begin his duties April 1.
Rev. j. K. Williams has rendered his
resignation Is pastor Of the Congregation
al church at Peacham, the resign nation TO
take effect June 30.
Leonard st. John Of Barre was nearly
killed last week while unloading coal. A
huge ioicle fell from the eaves ana
knocked him to the ground, baoly bruis-
ing one Of his sides.
Between 80, 600 and 10000 Red Cross
stamps we're sold in Vermont al Christ
mas time, the proceeds 70 Be devoted TO
fighting Tuberculosis.
Rev. Henry @. Van Haagan hes accept
ed q call to the Congregational church in
East Burke and will begin his pastorate
there the first Sunday in February. He
preached his farewell sermon at Hinesburg
last Sunday evening.
Charles Prince OF Fair Haven has been
arrested at Saratoga, n. Y, on the charge
Of raising q check given him BY Maiey
Bros. Of Fair Haven from fi.20 to
1920. He succeeded in getting the
check cashed at the railway ticket office.
The Vermont National Guard viii par
ticipate in the Champlain Tercentenary
celebration the FIRST week in July, at
which time the annual muster OF the reg
iment will probably be held at the state
camp ground adjoining Fort Ethan Al
len.
More than s2o, 900 has recently been
distributed among the employees Of the
Vermont Marble company, this amount
representing the profits Of last years
business at the two cooperative stores
which the company conducts for its en-
pioyes at West Rutland and Proctor.
Edward Bellows, driver of the Ben
nington Putnam House bus. met with q
peculiar accident recently. While light
ing q cigar, he placed the match too near
his moustache, which Immediately caught
fire, burning a portion Of it together with
the skin in the vicinity Of his upper lip.
Three mild cases Of smallpox are re-
ported in White River Junction in addi-
tion to the first case, that of Mrs. Lund.
Two OF her children are i'll with the dis
ease and also Mrs Bailey of West Leba-
non, N. H.. who called upon Mrs. Lund
before she was pronounced Ill with small
pox.
The thunder storm at Chester Sunday,
Jan. "a, was attended by the destruction
OF three barns on the farm OF Oliver
Kingsbury, one of which was struck by
lightning. All the hay, tools and q valu-
amounting to nearly $1,000, which was
covered by insurance.
Fire drove the family of jerome Shea
and w. c. Sweet of Barre from their tene-
ments Jan. %. The Sweet family, who
were sleeping, we're nearly suffocated
when aroused by Mr.. Shea. The loss was
about s4OO on household goods, the house
not being badly burned. A defective
chimney started the blaze.
At a special village meeting at Brattle.
boro Friday evening, the measure te
adopt a municipal water system was de
feated by the close margin of 26 votes
The vote cast was yes 203, no 229. The
water system of the village has been (
bone of contention for FIVE years and tbs
cost of purchasing was fixed at f273, 900
1t will remain under private control in
definitely.
DR.. q. e, Daily, who has been practis
ing dentistry in Rutland for over a year
has suddenly left town following the al
ing OF complaint by DR.. K. L. Cleave
of Montpelier, president Of the board O
state dental examiners. Daily practises
without license, 1t is said. he tried tn
examination before the state board las
July and failed. His home is in Glovers
Vile, N. Y.
Harley Bevins of Georgia, who was re
Gently arrested and bound over to tn
March term Of the Franklin county cour
on the charge of abusing q horse, pleade
guilty and was sentenced to not NOR
than eighteen oand not less than thirtee
months in the State prison at Windsor
On full Investigation and favorable r.
port, Bevins was placed in the hands {
the probation officer.
Angelo Ambrozini OF Barre sIashed hi
throat twice Wednesday, Jan. "a, with
razor at his room. Although the woun
IL very severe one it is probable that b
will recover. The man is stone cutie
about 81 years old. His actions had bee
rather peculiar for q week or 80, b
friends say. When he would meet thel
on the street he would not speak. and 1t
thought that he was partially dementet
William Suseski, q Russian smploye
at the veneer mill Of e. l. Chandler Co
Orleans, who operated the boiling vat
recently met with a fatal accident. s
failed to close the trap doors OF the vat
walking into one OF them, being sul
merged in boiling water up to bis wais
He was Immediately rescued but was
badly soalded that the skin pecled fro
his body. He died last week Tuesday
q hospital in Montreal.
George Hunton Of st. bloomsbury
charged with forging a check on II
Franklin County Savings Bank q Tru
Co., payable to the order OF Henry NJ
Donald and signed by George g. Story.
st. Adams merchant. Mr.. Story deni
having signed the check which Is 4
$1,000. It is claimed that Hunton ma,
out the check, forged the names OF sto
and Mcdonald on II and that Haro
Wood, proprietor Of a lunch counts
cashed It.
The Fairbanks Scale Co. Of 81. John
bury has just completed for Erne
Thompson Seton, the naturalist al
author, a novel polished scale, vii