Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-11-04
STATE OF VERMONT.


A marker to cost $500 will be placed b,
the Colonial Danes IN Dorset on the sit
OF the cephas Kent tavern, where tn
famous Council Of Safety met.
J. William Powers OF Burlington, al
employe OF the Burlington Free Press
had bone in one ankle broken Is b.
was playing foot ball Saturday, Oct. %.
c. B. FELTON, OF Montpelier has beer
suffering lately from getting a piece o
steel in bis left eye. He was pounding
nail and a piece OF the head few into hi
face.
For the year ending May !, 1903, Barr,
shipped out OF the state So, 1851, 800
pounds of granite In the rough. This
amounts to 1921 carloads OF 10000
pounds each.
There are fifteen light cases Of diph.
liberia among the boys and girls at the
state industrial school, Vergenres. No
reason can be assigned for the breaking
out OF the epidemic.
@ d. French and Senator c. S. Skinner
OF Orleans have announced that they will
present the village a town clock. The
clock viii be placed in the tower OF the
Congregational church.
Bert Parker OF Woodbury. received,a Sc
rious injury to one OF his feet. while
working ct the Fletcher quarry recently.
A piece Of granite fell on the foot, crush
ing it badly and nearly seyering two toes.
James Burnell OF Barre, right half
back on the Norwich university football
team, had two ribs fractured in the Nor
wich- Vermont game at Burlington last
week Wednesday. Vermont won, II to 0.
Two barns owned by Marcene Roberts
Of Wilmington were burned last week
Tuesday evening, including ell the hay.
farming tools, thirty sheep and twenty or
thirty hens. II is thought to have been
Of inoendiary origin.
William Burnhatn of West Woodbury.,
who was struck by train Friday, Oct.
%, died last week Wednesday at Holden
Memorial hospital, Hardwick. His body
was paralyized from bis waist down and
his spine was also injured.
A son OF Clarence Goddard of Stamford
was quite seriously injured Sunday, Oct.
"a, while riding on lumber wagon. He
fell OF and the wagon ran over him,
crushing the bone of the right leg. He
will have to remain in bed for several
weeks.
The West Virginia Paper 3 Pulp COM
pany OF Mechanicsville, n. ", which has
been quarrying stone at North PowDal
for several months, has found it suitable
for use in the manufacture OF paper and
has purchased the land where the quarry
is located.
Ralph Tobin, an 11-sear-old Barre boy,
IL In a serious condition from injuries re-
ceived while swinging. He jumped on
the back Of another boy who occupied the
swing, and when II bad reached its high
est point be lost his hold and fell 50 feet |
over q bank.
Three barns ow ned by w. c. Joslin of
Waitsfield were destroyed by fire last |
week Monday morning, together with |
two COWS, rs tons OF hay, and IA acres OF
corn in the silo. The loss is partially |
covered BY insurance. The cause OF the !
fire is unknown. 4
Joseph Roy OF West Barnet recently fell
eight feet through an open scuttle in his
barn With lighted lantern in his hand.
The broken lantern started fire in the
hay but It was smothered by Henry
Eggleston. Mr.. Roy was rendered I'M
conscious and badly bruised.
Clarence Martin OF Hardwick, who
pleaded guilty to burglary in breaking
into and entering w. NJ. Sartwell's house
in that place and stealing a watch and
chain and q sum OF money, has been SEN
fenced to not less than two years and not
more than four years in state prison.
During the coming month there will be
dedicated in the town of johnson a Ii
brary which was secured through the
sfforts OF the women of that town cover
ng a numter OF years. The women who
nave accomplished this splendid work all
under the name OF the Dread
Hub.
II took Just ninety seconds last week !
Tuesday for the citizens Of Winooski to
'ote to exempt the American Wooden Co.
rom taxation for FIVE years on the pro-
,osed new spinning mill to cost $500, 900.
Operations will begin at once on the con-
truction. The new mill will employ 800
lands
Dorothy, the two-year-old daughter of
dr. and Mrs. Oscar Dyke of Jefferson
lille, died October is as the result Of
eechnut shuck becoming lodged in her
Iindpipe. The child was taken to the Mary /
fletcher hospital, Burlington, where an
operation was performed
pom her throat. I
James Parker, a Hardwick stone cutter, !
I'll backwards, head foremost, down a !
light OF stairs Saturday, Oct. 2S, injuring \
is spine and fracturing his skull. He is
d the Holden Memorial hospital in q 4
cry critical condition. Mr.. Parker is "
bout so years old and has q wife and ..
lrge family in England. -
Samuel B. Pettengill, aged 20 years, z
led Oct. % at bis home in Saxtons Riv- n
I. He was a soldier in the Civil war, L
clergyman until bis voice failed and after d
nat editor of the Rutland Herald and ed a
or and publisher of the st. Adams Mes e:
niger. Since 1895, he had lived in re- h
rement, broken in health and fortune. el
Joseph Mccormack was quite painfully le
ljured Saturday, Oct. 90, at Northheld, D.
here he was piping boiler. As be was Il
anding on the boiler he stepped back h'
ID fell to the ground q distance Of Is
ct. A cash WAS cut in his forehead and II
9TH arms were severely bruised. No ~
,nes were broken rs the result Of the q
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