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


contract will be made in about two
weeks.
Nasy Corey, IA years old, SON of Isaac
Corey OF Barre, was drowned in Stevens
branch last Thursday while swimming
with two companions, Cedric Caswell,
II, and Burton Humphrey, years OF age.
When the two boys noted Corey's dis.
tress, they tried to assist him, hut, being
unable to help him, called for help.
Their cries were heard by George Grant,
employed in the Straiton stone sheds.
Grant was not able to save the boys life,
although be succeeded in pulling the
body from the water in twenty minutes
from the time at which the accident oc-
CURED. The boy was pronounced dead
when taken from the water. The lads
father is an Armenian peddler.
Four boys about Is years old were in
the Montpelier city court last week on
the charge of breaking into the state ar
senaI. The boys, Arthur Currier, Cleve-
land Mason, Ino Daniels and Eugene
Jeaniaquet, took tent and several other
camp utensils and started out to 'make
camp" just outside Of the city when they
were arrested. Jeaniaquet, who was already
ON probation from q sentence passed on
him last winter for taking property from
the opera house, has been admitted to
bail in the sum Of $500 and the case con-
tinued. The other three boys were SEN
fenced to the state industrial school, Yer
gennes, but sentence was suspended and
they were placed on probation.
| Charles T. Hawley Of Gardner, Mass,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. HawleY Of
| Brattleboro, has received notice OF his APP
pointment as assistant examiner Of patents
I in the patent Office at Washington. He
will enter upon his duties Aug. 9. He
took the examination last spring and
/ passed with the high rank which has
characterized all OF his work, beginning
with his school days in BFattleboro. At
/ present he is 4 mechanical expert and in
ventor for the Simplex time recorder COM
4 pany Of Gardner. He has brought out
several important inventions, among 9th
ers being q time recording device for COM
putting costs. Last year Worcester Poly
teehnic conferred on him the degree of
mechanical engineer.
The house OF John Peck in Montpelier
was broken into and ransacked sometime
between last week Monday and Thursday
night. The family were in Canada and
the neighbor in whose care the premises
were left discovered the theft when he
went in to see IL everything was ell right
before the owners return. He found the
whole house looking as II q cyclone had
struck it. Bureau drawers had been
pulled out and their contents scattered
over the floor and there were other evil
dences of the presence OF the burglars.
The house had been ransacked from cellar
to garnet, and it is evident that the burg
lar had free rein to take what he wanted.
The loss could not be ascertained until
the family returned.
Brakeman W. w. Hopkins of Benning-
ton was killed and Conductor NJ. &.
Dryer of Rutland painfully, but not Sc
riously, injured, in a freight wreck near
West Lebanon, n. Y, on the Rutland
railroad Saturday. The shoe OF wheel
dropped of, causing the deraiIment and
overturning five cars and the caboose.
Hopkins and Dwyer we're in the eaboose
and were caught in the wreckage. Hop
kins was 40 years old and leaves a wife in
Bennington. When informed of the
death of her husband, Mrs. Hopkins be-
came demented and fiercely assaulted
Train Dispatcher Charles e. Roberts,
who broke the news to her. She drove
him from the house, after scratching and
beating him and backing one eye.
Ernest Hitchcock, secretary OF tn,
, Forestry association OF Vermont, announ
ces a summer meeting of the association
to be held on the Billings estate at Wood
stock Aug. s. A. F. Halves Of Burlington
state forester, and foresters from New
Jersey, New York, New Hampshire and
other states are expected to be present
Addresses will be made in the open air
where the Billings estate offers the bes
opportunity in Vermont for an examina
: tion OF the methods and results Of flores
= planting. Here trees of various specie
have been planted in large numbers dur
! ing the past 40 years. giving excellen
chance to compare the development o
different trees on different soils and un
der different methods of treatment.
: Philip Keenan, of Bennington. about 8
2 years of age, attempted to commit suicid
] July 10 by shooting himself in the hes
I with a revolver. The bullet, however
though fred from a 32-calibre weapon
I hattened against the mans skull and IN
I less blood poisoning develops he will re
+ cover. keenan, bad been drinking heavil
for months and after he had driven hi
3 wife out OF the house, he made the attemr
e at self-destruction by shooting himsel
$ between the eyes. After firing the shot
O ran to a neighbor's house, where his viii
. had taken refuge, to bid her goodby'
+ The physicians found an ugly woun
!, made by the ball as il plougbed upwar
: across the mans forehead but they are Z
+ the opinion that there il no permaner
n injury.
" With the close of the season for trOI
n fishing, report comes from Windhai
II county that the success of the law whic
p was passed at the last session of the legi
o lature. making the open season there or
month earlier than in any other count
Y of the state, has exceeded expectation
+ The primary object OF the law was to pc
i vent a sudden influx of fishermen and ii
n stripping of the streams the first few da,
m of the season. The first two weeks four
= the water cold and high and although Il
= fishermen met with good success Il
70 trout were rendered wary and were n
- easy victims Good strings continued
n be the order throughout the season and
! is said that there are probably more goo
- fish left in Windbam county brooks this
20 at any time for the past fifteen years.
C. Through the combined efforts OF {