The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-10-22
Vermont NelUs.
Montpelier Seminary Endowment.

Rev. E. A. Bishop, principal of Mont
pelier seminary, received Tuesday from
Daniel X Pearsons of Chicago a draft for
$4,000 it being DR.. Pearsons' contrlbucc
ton to the seminary endowment fund OF
sl5O,OOO recently completed. In an accom-
panying letter DR.. Pearsons says: ooo
Now Montpelier seminary has $l5O,Uoo
clean endowment, and 100 years from this
date the seminary must have the same
amount. This is perpetual sacred endoW-
ment, only the interest can be used. 10
not make any mistakes, do not as long as
Won live allow one cent of the principal
to be used Success begets success. Now
Won can go on and build a good dormltory,
the people will help you, ,
at pleases me to send you the money mo-
IT is the best $4,000 that | ever had.
saw the old seminary built, | knew exactly
where the brick were made. AT the COM
mencement of every school year make up
your budget of expenses and never come
out in debt. Choose the best men IN Yer
mont for trustees, select them Tor their
good business qualities and good horse
sense"
A native of Vermont is gaining notoriety
in the aeronautic field in Switzerland. Dr.
Dane Hurlburt, son of Mrs. w. r: Hurl-
burt of Jericho, dentist by. profession,
who summers at Lucerne, Switzerland,
and winters at Cannes, France, has in
vented an aeroplane which is attracting
considerable attention on the continent.
The preliminary trials are being held at
Lucerne and several fights have been
made.
Peter Lamouria, about SO, was in
stantly killed near West Rutland Satur
by train on the Delaware & Hudson
railroad. This was the second time with
in four hours that death visited the La
mouria household, a son of the dead man
diving at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, fol.
lowing brief illness with inflammation OF
the bowels. The accident to the elder
Lamouria happened while he was on his
way home from the undertakers.
j. Vernon button, As, station agent, at
Harlwicl1 for the past % years and a
prominent Free Mason, committed suicide
bv shooting early Monday evening. The
body was found by his brother, Edward
Dutton, in the barn on the home prem
ises after buttons failure to keep an APP
pointment with man at the railroad sta
ton had caused inquiry and search to be
made for him. The man had shot himself
with a revolver, the bullet entering above
the right ear and passing, completely
through the head No cause Tor the ACT Is
known.
f1re broke OUU Ill Vic DuSCHChC Vi CiiS
block occupied by Dodge & Watson as a
furniture store in Lyndonville about 4
o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and it is sup
posed to have started from the furnace;
The fire department was called out and
about an hour was spent in subduing. the
flames and smoke. The damage, from
smoke and water in the carpet and turn nc
ture rooms is estimated at between $zoOo
and $4,000 and as there has been two serl-
GUS fires here within the past few years
and this block is in the center of the bust
ness section, there was considerable eX-
element for time.
At the list annual meeting of the Yer
mont Historical society in Montpelier
Tuesday afternoon the following officers
were elected: President, w. w. Stickney,
Ludlow; vice presidents, Joseph, A. De
Boer, Montpelier; Horace w. Bailey, New
bury. and j. f. Goodrich, Burlington; re-
cording secretary, f. d. Field, Montpelier;
corresponding secretary. Il. M: Goddard,
Montpelier; treasurer, H. f. Field, Rut-
land: librarian, E. NJ Goddard, Mont
pelier; curator from Rutland county, f. Z;
Partridge; from Bennington county, Hall
Park Mccullough; from Windham, l.. ).
Hayes, and from Addison, Ezra Brainerd.
A loss of $4,000 was incurred at Ran
dolph late Saturday afternoon when the
upper part of Bell Brothers department
store in Dubois & Gays block was burned.
Goods to the value of $4,000 were con-
sumed, the total loss approaching the fig
ures mentioned through damage by water
to the remainder of the stock and partial
destruction of the building. The fire was
started by the overturning. of kerosene
oil heater AS Miss Marjorie Jerd, an EN-
ploye in the millinery department, was
passing the stove her skirt caught on 1t
and tipped it over. As the oil ran across
the floor the fire quickly communicated
to racks containing coats and this whole
Department was soon seething furnace.