Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-10-28

GROUNDS ana tnat Dc fan Ms
into the near horse OF bis team with such
force that the OF horse was pushed from
the road and against the fence, causing
injuries from which be died. The case y
SET for trial in county court.
Stimulated by the perusal of dime nov
els q ganR OF Brattleboro youths set forth
Friday night. Oct. IS, to terrorize the
town. With slouch hats drawn over
their eyes and revolvers IN their hands,
they paraded through the streets and
made themselves generally obnoxious.
Their career was brought TO q sudden ter
mination hen one OF their number held
M Bert Bastien. Ignoring the lads
orders TO throw Up bis hands, he was
greeted with a blank cartridge shot fired
within ten feet Of his face. The cigar be
was smoking was blown from his mouth
and his face was flled with burned pow
der and wadding. One piece OF wadding
lodged in an eye and the sight OF that
member was saved with difficulty.
As the result OF an accident which hap
pened Oct. 10, M. w. Airport, travelling
salesman for flower and seed house OF
Buffalo. N. y, was severely injured. Al
port and his driver, Clarence Billodeau OF
Eaosburg FsIls, were driving their dou-
Bile team across bridge near st. Adams,
when the pole of the wagon broke and
dropped to the ground, causing both oe-
cupants to be thrown heavily from the
team. Mr.. Airport was rendered nncon-
scious by his fall and an examination by
a physician revealed that lie had sus-
tanned q fracture OF one collar bone, be-
sides being very badly bruised. Mr.. Bill
lodeau sustained serious injury to one
knee, but later in the AFTERNOON be was
able to be carried TO bis home in Enos-
burg Falls.
George e. Robertson, deputy collector
OF the internal revenue district OF New
/ Hampshire and Vermont, will be at the
office of.the secretary Of state in Mont
peIier for two weeks or more examining
the records OF all corporations in Yer
mont with yearly earnings OF $4,000 or
more, OF which there are about 5000, as
preliminary step toward putting into
/ force the corporation tax law passed by
the last Congress. Mr.. Robertson has
been detailed to do this work in YER
mont, New Hampshire and Maine. He
not only obtains list OF all corporations
4 in the class named, the names OF their
officers and The annual income OF such
corporations, but advises them as to the
correct way to make their reports to the
! federal government under the new law.
]. Vernon Dutton, aged 45 years, st. j.
& L. @. R. r. station agent at Hardwick
for the past twenty-five years and prom
inent Free Mason, committed suicide by
, shooting Oct. IS. The body WAS found
by his brother, Edward Dutton, in the
/ barn on the home premises after Dutton's
failure to keep an appointment with a
man at the railroad station bad caused in
quiry and search to be made for him. The
unfortunate man had shot himself with a
revolver, the bullet entering above the
right ear and passing completely through
the head. No irregularities were found
In his books and it is thought he must
have been temporarily unbalanced in
mind. Mr.. Dutton was manager OF the
Hard lex Woodbury. railroad and was
considered one Of the best business men
in town.
The friends of Francis Walker claim
for him the New England record of con-
tinuous service with one firm. Mr..
Walker, who on yesterday reached his
80th brit hday, went TO st. Johnsbury Oct.
7, 1876. and the next day entered the
foundry at the Fairbanks Scale works to
learn the moulder's trade, receiving 900
a year for his work. Five years later he
was made superintendent OF the foundry
department OF the factory and has contin-
ued without interruption in that capacity
ever since or total Of 81 years. At the
time be began work there, the force at the
foundry consisted of six men and the
firm were making stoves, plows, hoes,
forks and scales. Sometime during the
fifties the work of making scales alone
was adopted, and Mr.. Walker has seen
that business grow from hardly more
than an experiment to one Of the leading
Industries in the world, and the factory
from a small beginning to the largest OF
its kind on the globe. At the present
time nearly 200 men are employed in the
foundries.