Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-10-21

his home farm for reforestration purposes
and a game preserve. State Forester A.
r. Halves of Burlington and Fish and
Game Commissioner H. @. Thomas OF
Stowe have inspected the property. The
estate is q large one ana particularly
adapted to the purposes for which 1t il
offered. Final decision in the matter has
not been announced but the state will I'M
doubtedly accept the gift.
At q meeting of the trustees Of the Free
Baptist church in Enosburg Fails last
week Wednesday. it was voted to extend
call to Rev. w. ]. Clark of Hyde Park,
a returned missionary from Burmah. 1t
is expected that Mr.. Clark will accept the
call in conjunction with call which was
recently rendered from the Baptist
church at East Enosburg. The churches
in the'two places have been without a
pastor since the resignation OF Rev. A. P.
Davis, who left Sept. / for Franklin,
n, II.
The house occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
John Mochette in Barre was raided last
week and 32-gallon barrel Of ale, which
had not been tapped, 16-gallon cask OF
ale, which was nearly empty, two-thirds
Of barrel of bottled beer and three pint
bottles of whiskey were seized. The OFF,
GERS found the liquor in the cellar and
there was also a quantity of wine which
they did not take. The respondents we're
discharged, as no evidence was produced
to show that any intoxicating liquor had
been sold at the house.
John Pifco of West Rutland, W no was
arrested last summer while he was con-
Quoting a Sunday dance at his dancing
pavilion, pleaded guilty last week to a
charge OF keeping liquor with intent to
sell and was sentenced to serve from four
to Ave months at bard labor in the house
OF corrections When the officers descend
ed upon the dancing pavilion, Pitko was
installed behind bar which was built at
one end Of the room. On the bar was
pitcher OF beer and beside him was a half
barrel OF the beverage.
A native OF Vermont is gaining notori-
ETY. in the aeronautie field in Switzerland.
DR.. Dane Hurlburt, son of Mrs. w. r.
Hurlburt OF Jericho, dentist by profess
sion, who summers at Lucerne, Switzer-
land, and winters at Cannes, France, has
invented an aeroplane which is attracting
considerable attention on the continent.
DR.. Hurlburt left Jericho Fl years ago.
He graduated from a dental college in
Philadelphia and then went abroad. He
practices principally among royalty and
has been so successful that he has &C
ouired considerable wealth and Is held
in high esteem by his titled patrons.
Arthur l. Alexander's body was found
last week Wednesday in his home at st.
Albsns Bay, and it is now supposed that
he committed suicide by taking paris
green. He had been acting queerly for
several days and had also threatened to
commit suicide. To a physician the
night before the man stated that he had
been taking paris green, but that he
found il difficult to take enough to kill
himself This statement was attributed
to a mental freak of Alexander, and moth
ing serious was thought about il until
his body was found the next day. Alex
ander lived alone in his house at the Bay
and was 81 years old.
The 96th annual meeting OF the YER
mont Medical society was held at White
River Junction last Thursday. The Sc
cretary reported that OF tho 724 physi-
cians in the state, 1922 belong to the soci
ETY.. Chittenden county leads in mem
bership. The treasurer's report showed
a balance Of se27.02 in the treasury. The
following officers we're chosen by the
house OF delegates :-President, W. l..
Chester Depot; vice president, H.
B. Ross, st. Johnsbury; secretary, c. II.
Beecher, Burlington; treasurer, B. II.
Stone, Burlington; auditor, A. H. Nor
ton. The next meeting will be held at
st. Albans in October, 1910.
Miss Estelle Lovejoy of winooski was
shot Sunday, Oct. 10, by
Fred Ladue, who was cleaning a shot gun
and did not know that it was loaded. La
due, who is a boarder at the Lovejoy
home, had taken his shot gun to the
front porch to clean it, Miss Lovejoy be-
ing seated a short distance away. With
but warning, the piece was discharged
ind Miss Lovejoy toppled over. 1t was
'ound that the charge OF shot had entered
he calf Of the leg, tearing away the mus
lies and continued on to the thigh below /
he hip, where the shot lodged. Miss
Lovejoy was hurried to the Mary Fletcher |
hospital and her condition is serious.
The Montreal and Boston air line,
on the Boston q Maine rail- |
Dad, struck the stage which runs be-
ween LyndonviIle and East Burke last |
veek Wednesday. Mrs. Alonzo Hudson,
Eife Of the driver, was instantly killed,
Ter body being dragged nearly 200 feet /
md terribly mangled. Mr.. Hudson was
,adly injured. but will probably recover.
rhe stage was smashed to kindlings, but
he horses were not injured. The acci-
lent happened on the cattle yard crossing
Inv This h novsmhsr.