Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-07-29

- -~~o N~Nh AGn0AACu III al huODe anu Qt-
partments Of the Central Vermont rail
way, while the machine and locomotive
shops are being run IS hours per day.
The company is hiring sIl the expeti-
enced machinists it can find and the ma
chine shop will be run continuously if
enough men can be obtained to man
them. The company is bending every
energy to get all its engines and cars in
first class shape and ready for winter and
the rapidly increasing business.
Herbert s. Lawrence. a brakeman on
the Central Vermont railway, was seri-
ously injured last week Monday by step
ping from a moving train at Montpelier
Junction. He landed on his head and
was rendered unconscious. When ex-
amined it was found that be had sus-
tanned several bad cuts on the back Of the
head, one about three inches long on his
forehead and a broken nose. The in
jured man was hurried to Heaton hospi-
tai, Montpelier, where it was learned. that
although the injuries to his head are Sc
we're it is not thought they will prove
fatal.
Violet, little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
William Cox of Rutland, had a narrow
escape from serious injury last week
Monday. when she was run over by a
wagon loaded with hay. The child was
riding on load OF hay coming from the
hay field and while crossing q ditch from
the field into the main road the wagon
lurched suddenly, throwing the child
onto the ground. The front wheel ran
over the upper part of her body. An ex-
animation showed that no bones were
broken and although she was badly shak-
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anticipated.
Supt. +. j. Brownscombe has received
another inquiry about the paper towels
used in Montpelier, an idea that Mr..
Brownscombe was the father Of. He has
received mp to date inquiries from IS
states, from California to Maine, and two
concerns are now manufacturing them,
George w. Millar & Co. OF New York and
Flanagan q Co. of Chicago. Chicago
paper towels were never thought OF until
suggested by Mr.. Brownscombe and they
appear to fill such long felt want that
they are coming into general use every.
where it is desired to improve sanitary
arrangements.
While Mrs. KenAeld, housekeeper for
Edward Graves of Morrisville, was out
picking berries recently, she came upon &
fawn probably not over week old, that
was nearly dead from hunger. Mr.
Graves took it home and notified State
Fish and Game Commissioner II. O.
Thomas, no told him to take care of il
until 1t WIS called for. The little anima
took readily to cows milk and is now
l happy and we'll, attracting much atten
ton. 1t is believed that the mother mus
have been killed and that the fawn would
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by Mrs. Kenheld.
I Deer are more numerous than ever thil
summer, says q Brattleboro exchange
and reports of small damage done to gar
dens, growing crops and fruit trees keel
coming in. The only large claim was b.
/ Charles Wright OF Grafton, whose younl
/ apple orchard was nearly ruined by thu
browsing deer. Fully 40 per cent of thu
three-year-old apple trees in one orchard
we're ruined or made Improbable, on
side being eaten of. The damage wa
7 fixed at 800 but, taking into considera
ton the extra time which will elapse be
fore the orchard is productive, the actua
damage was much greater.
A touring car owned by Col. j.
Clark OF st. Johnsbury, driven by J.
Gid, and occupied by five persons, raj
into moving Boston & Maine train at
crossing near Lyndonville, and the peopl
in the car had a narrow escape from in
Jury. The driver of the car saw the trail
too late to make the crossing but stOppel
the machine on the very edge of the track
The automobile was hit, the steps wer
ripped of several passenger cars and
board sixteen feet long and three fee
wide was taken of the side of milk car
The auto was badly damaged but none o
the occupants were injured at all.
Mrs. Richard Bradley, wife of forme
trustee Of the Brattleboro retreat, has pre-
scented $40, 900 to that institution in mem
DRY Of her husband, for many years an
M 10 the time OF his death was truste
OF the institution, as his father had bee
before him. The money is to be used a
fund m establishing and building reC
reation building for the patients at tn
retreat. The gift was made with a
agreement on the part of the trustees {
the institution that the beautiful fores
, on the westerly slope of Antastiqu'
mountain, directly opposite the village {
Brattleboro, shall be preserved by the n
treat in perpetuity.
Senator William P. Dillingham; intend
to sail for Honolulu at the close of tt
present session of Congress on bushes
: connected with the Senate immigratio
: commission, of which he is the Chairman
! The trip grows out of the peculiar lah'
a conditions now existing in the island
Iabor-employing industries having
: ported that the Oriental labor is not So
D isfactory. Employers desire to obta
e European labor but under the present la
? are unable to do so. Senator Diliiughs
= will investigate the situation and W
make his report to the commission in I
o gard to what action should be taken
; allow labor contracts with Europeans.
+ The Rutland-F Florence Marble compsi
{ OF Fowler were Friday given the contra
: by y. B. Knox, president of the MacCs
a company of Philadelphia, contractors,
s furnish marble to the value of S20O,0
! Tor interior postotfice work, the hrm ia
il ing the contract to erect federal buildin
Il at Atlanta, Toledo and Baltimore. 1
(. Pittsford Italian marble, as the Fowl
d concerns grade is called. won out
h competition with Georgia white msrb
About $751; 900 worth of marble from W
O y mont is to go into the Atlanta buildi
i and $50, 900 in each Of the other STIR