Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-09-23

of murder. When found the body was
in a bad state of decomposition. Elroy
Kent was convicted of the murder OF
Mrs. Della Congdon of w%alIingford.
Moses Gardner of Rutland, a Rutland
railroad brakeman, who tell sthrough q
railroad bridge at Shelburne and struck
on the rocks in a river bed 80 or 40 feet
below, sustaining a broken arm and leg
and other bad bruises, is still alive and
the chances may turn in favor of his re-
covery. Mr.. Gardner was acting as rear
brakeman on a southbound freight. His
train went onto a siding at ~Shelburne
n he went back along the track with
a light to protect it from the s~outhbound
sleeper. In the darkness be accidentally
stepped OF the bridge. Conductor ].
j. Mcnamara heard the lantern globe
break as he fell and Immediately sent
members of the crew to his assistance.
George and Alfred McJarrett, the Mont
pelier lads of six and eight years. re-
Gently convicted Of petty larceny in city
court, and who since that time have been
mp to their old tricks while the city
officials have been cudgeling their brains
what to do with the tots, have been
sentenced by Judge Harvey to the State
Industrial school at Vergennes for 100
Nhgb ns MI h1ACEuhllNC bcBlcuC6 iOT a u06
they could not pay. II, when this sem
tence expires, these youngsters are still in
c~orrigible, an effort will be made to keep
them at Vergennes. Their parents dc
not live together. Their home, such as
it is, has been with their mother, but she
can do nothing with them and wants to
get rid OF them.
Congressman Frank Plumley has
accepted an invitation OF the Lske-to-the-
Gulf Deep Water association to Join the
presidential party on its river trip down
the Mississippi from st. Louis to New
Orleans. The trip down the river will
start from st. Louis Oct. 25. The con-
%vention of the association at New Orleans
will begin Oct. 80 and last three DAYS,
President Taft speaking on the first day,
Vice-P.esident Sherman on the second,
and Speaker Cannon on the third. This
is the trip for which Mark Twain has
been asked to act as pilot on the Presi-
dental steamer. All congressman, sena-
tors and representatives have been in
vited to go; also many OF the governors
of the different STATES
A unique feature of library work in a
small town took place at the Abbott
Memorial library in Pomfret last week.
There is no resident photographer, so
''the best photographer in the state'' was
invited to go there and take exterior and
interior views Of the library, and Incl
dentally the librarian invited everybody
in town to meet him there one Of the
three mornings, and to have their
pictures taken or appointments made for
the photographer to go to their homes.
Another librarian in the state takes eggs
from her rural patrons and disposes of
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profit to herself. The time has passed
when the librarian can be merely a
custodian OF dark rooms full OF musty
books.
F. p. Townsend Of East Montpelier
lost his change bag will considerable
money in it the other day while in Barre
with his meat cart. He had made several
stops and upon putting his hand into his
pocket found that his change bag, con-
tanning about $40 was missing. A big
hole in his pocket accounted for the loss
/, of the money. He Immediately retraced
his path and what was his surprise upon
/. returning to the house of Mrs. l. A.
, Houghton to find that Harry Houghton's
|, setter dog ted had found the money
and had taken it home. When Mr..
Townsend had returned as far as the
: Houghton home Mrs. Houghton hailed
, him and informed him that the dog had
brought the bag to her a few minutes
before.
= Dandy has a berry-picking wonder,
/ Mrs. Mario Valente, an Italian woman,
who cleared $50 picking raspberries and
I 800 from blackberries this season, sell
ing the latter at seven cents q quart.
: The woman has the Drawn of a husky
t man and she can outpick any body in
the vicinity. She straps her pail to her
: belt so as to have both hands free to
s gather berries, and she always carries her
/. fruit home in pals balanced on a board
e on her head. She appeared at the Dandy
! depot one day last week to deliver an
order with four large pals carried this
way containing 80 quarts, the result OF
an afternoons picking. The bushes in
southern Vermont this year are fairly
J black with fruit N thousands of bushels
2 will never be gathered.
I The residence Of F. W. Dutton in
5 NorthAeld was entered by thieves the
e afternoon of Sept. 10 while the member
s Of the family were attending the fair and
: valuables amounting to 5000 were stolen.
: Among the articles taken we're two
women's gold watches, a gold necklace
t highly valued as a keepsake, miscellane-
Gus jewelry and $50 in money. The
o burglars went in q window and made
their exit by a back door. The residence
of E. B. Ellis was also entered and things
! turned out of drawers and receptacles
: in q general search for treasure. A
valuable gold watch and iewelry which
o were missing were later found gathered
: together on a shelf where the thief had
I evidently left them and taken fright,
! Entrance to the Ellis house was made by
: cutting a portion of the glass in a kitchen
/. window.
A meeting Of the Vermont Lake Cham.
e plain Tercentenary commission was belc
at the Van Ness House. Burlington, Fri
n day with Governor Prouty presiding
A large number of bills were presented
and approved. The sum of $1,000 wa'
d voted to the city of Burlington to assist
Z in meeting the celebration expenses o.
is the city; 1850 each was voted for {
similar purpose to Vergennes and Swan
II ton, and 81, 900 was appropriated for the