Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-05-13

from the outlet Of the sewer; BY remov-
ing the dumping ground and changing
the sewerage. In 1854. be was appointed
assistant surgeon ct Sloan General hospital
in Montpelier, where be remained until
the close Of the war, caring for disabled
soldiers. DR.. CrandalI left a wife aud one
daughter, Miss Fanny M. Crandall, who
was few years ago special teacher OF
music in the Randolph graded school.
Judge e. @. Mower OF Burlington is to
deliver the address before U. s. Grant
! post, 9. A. R., at the Memorial exercises
to be held in this village Saturday. May
20, instead Of Memorial day, the s0th OF
May, which falls this year on Sunday.
Judge Mower, who is well-known law
yer OF Burlington, was born in Norris
town, Feb. %, 1853, and, after finishing
/ his preparatory course in the Peoples
academy at Morrisville, entered the uni
versity Of Vermont, from which he was
graduated in 1892 with the degree Of A.
B. The degree Of A. M. was conferred
upon him in 1904 and that of IL. B. by
the University OF Schenectady, N. r.. in
1896. He is attorney fer the Rutland
railroad. and director and vice president
OF the Vermont Construction company.
He was states attorney for Chittenden
county from 1900 to 1902 and has been
municipal Judge of Burlington for the
last four years. He has been a member
Of the board Of trustees Of the University
of Vermont since June, 1907.
Those people OF such trusting nature
as to keep refrigerators on the back steps
and leave them unlocked night and day
have had a rude awakening lately due to
the depravity Of humankind and the gen.
orally lax observance OF the eighth com.
mandment when nobody is looking.
First piece of fresh pork laid away fol
dinner was found missing one morning
I when the housekeeper opened her refrig.
orator. Shortly after an apricot pie was
taken from a neighboring refrigerator
and evidently put in q safer place at once
for the plate, licked clean, was left on the
piazza floor. third refrigerator was at
tackled last Thursday night and thret
plates OF something, presumably pretty
good but which it was too dark to recog
nize, we're carried of. The ''something'
was dried pumpkin, which, soaked half {
day and mixed with eggs and milk. might
make tolersble pie, but in its Original
state would be about as appetizing and
digestible as so many lifts of bootheel
The Individual who looted that each,
must have had qualms OF some sort, i
not OF conscience, " hen he tasted of hi
plumber.
Time flies and it is now again fly time
as an old minstrel joke has it, but mod
ern scientists assure us it is no joke. w,
knew of course that the fly had been I
plague since the days when Pharoaf
hardened his heart, but we had supposed
that he was a well-meanIng, though
thoughtIess and inconsiderate, insect
But alas! he is NOT even to be credited
with good intentions. he is q murder
Gus villain who steals into your chamber
at sunrise, not simply to tickle your nos.
in mischievous playfulness and then soal
away to the ceiling with a mirthfuI buzz
while you wrathfully beat the air in q
vain effort to kill him; nay, rather, hiI
object is to stab you with typhoid fevei
germ or some other deadly bacteria with
which he is armed to the teeth. Not I
fly should be let into the house, declare
the +" healthy boards" until he has beer
given an antiseptic bath, had his teeth
pulled and his claws clipped. So danger
Gus is the ubiquitous buzzer made out Il
be, that not only should doors and win
dows be screened early, but It may b
well to have screen frames built to trave
around in outside. More power to thu
arm that wields the CORY newspaper bat
ter, and all honor to scientists who scar
us into fits every other day with som'
newly discovered danger; but all the SAM
one heaves a sigh for the good old day
when people calmly fished drowned file
out Of their teacups and as calmly dranl
the tea without expecting or experiencing
instant death.