Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-09-02
STATE OF VERMONT.
tie News condsnssd and Rewritten
for Our Readers.

kiou Will uOtu It's annual meeting IN Dur
iington Oct. 21-2s, inclusive.
BY the will of the late George Van
Dyke Of Lancaster, N. H., the millionaire
lumber king, the Methodist church at
Canaan will receive a bequest OF $1,000.
Repairs on Lyndon institute amounting
to. %, 800 are nearly completed. An agri-
cultural library and laboratory equip
ments have been given By Theodore N.
Vail.
While helping load stene at the shed Of
John Benzi at Qroton recently, Alsxsn-
der Burnett was hit across the back and
hips by the rope blocks and was severely
injured.
Il is said that summer travel over the
railroads to the White mountains has been
much lighter this year than ever before.
The cause Of this fact, it is thought,
has been the increased number OF tourists
in automobiles.
Just how dangerous the San Jose
scale is may be realized from the fact
that one female of the species creates
billion of the scales annually. The
scale is reported to be spreading rapidly
in Windham county.
The first bequest to the Barre city hos
pitaI is $4,000 from the ANGELA French
estate. The trustees of the institution
have decided to place the money in i'm
mediate use by applying it on the pur-
chase price OF the hospital.
Alice Amy Hamilton, one of the twin
daughters born Aug. 10 to Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Hamilton OF West Brattleboro,
died last Thursday Of neglect, according
to the physicians verdict, and the other
baby Is in q dangerous condition from
the same cause.
A new pipe organ will be placed in st.
MichaeIs Roman Catholic church at
Brattleboro before Christmas. The value
Of the organ is about 60, 500 and Col. ].
Gray and J. Harry Estey have each given
$3.50 toward the fund. The Estey Organ
company has received the order for the
organ
+. W. Stiles, formerly editor of the
Springfield Reporter, has bought tbs
Swanton Courier Of T.. NJ. Tobin and took
possession last week. The concern
will be known as the Courier Publishing
90. and George Il. Stiles, son Of Mr..
Stiles, will be the editor and manager Of
the paper.
Edward Kinney, the ten-year-old son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. James Kinney OF West
Rutland, by playing with q dynamite
cartridge the other day, lost the thumb
and index finger Of his right hand.
The other fingers were so badly mangIed
that amputation will probably be
necessary.
A short-Iived cyclone struck Johnson
last Thursday and did considerable
damage. 1t tore up trees, took the
roof on E. e. Holmes blacksmith shop
and the steel roof OF the creamery, blew
two large chimneys from B. A. Hunts
briek house and laid low the electric
light wires. No one was injured.
The hardware store of David A. Elliot
at White River Junction was broken
into early Saturday morning and s71
in cash was stolen besides some hardw are.
Entrance was doubtless made through
e rear window. There are no clues to tbs
burglar except e Providence, r. l.,
pawnshop ticket found on the floor.
William Frapier, q young man en-
ployed by the Sweat Comings Co. il
Riohford, suffered two broken ribs and
possibly internal injuries Friday when b.
vas caught between q load OF slabs anC
the pile on which he was to have placed
his load. He was found in an uncon
scious condition By boy who was pass
ing the lot.
A. 1. 0oodhue and B. j. Holt, govern
Bsnt steamboat inspectors OF Burlington
have about completed their work for tn
season. Licenses to run motor boats
GOOD for Eve years, have been granted t.
SO persons this year. This makes a tots
-ot 157 licenses for motor boats aimee 1906
when the inspectors first began to issu
such licenses.
Ten pint bottles OF whisky were seize
from an Italian named Joe Cichetta il
what ia known as the "Oaeo shack q
Waterbury Saturday night, Aug. p
upon a search warrant. Cichetta wa
arrested and taken 10 the county iai
ct Montpelier to aw ait a hearing on th
charge OF keeping. The liquor was foun
in trunk owned by Cichetta.
While at work on staging Saturday
Aug. II, at the John Ballard farm in rir
mouth, X. NJ. Fiske and his son, Eai
Fiske. both OF Clarendon, fell q distanc
of 20 feet and both received numerou
injuries. The father was seriously in
jured, having a badly sprained hip, an
II is feared internal injuries, while hi
son was badly bruised and had his lei
arm sprained.
While On her way to attend a picni
with her husband aud children, Mr.
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Barre, was struck by pebble from
quarry blast and both bones of her rigt
arm broken. None OF the other member
OF the party was injured. The usui
warning had been sounded but the M
brow ms considered that they were beyon
the danger mark.
Minnie FeinberR, one Of the Ne
York fresh air children being eDtertaine
at the camp OF Mrs. Jerry Thornton wit
30 others near Rutland, is in the FRI
stages Of tuberculosis. The child
mother has consented to her remainin
in Vermont until she is better and ST
may be taken to the state sanatorium
Pittsford. Mrs. Feinberg and two chi
dren live on "a week.
High, II not the highest, in the hone
list OF railroads afiording safe protectio
and transportati IN of human freigh
stands the Central Vermont railwa
which in seven and q half years has n.
killed passenger. This is a most remarl
able record and is believed to be N
eduaIed. The last fatal accident to