Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-01-27


taken apartments at the Portland for the
winter.
The lumber mill Of Follensby & Peck
} In Summerville on the east side OF 81.
Johnsbury village, was destroyed by FIRE
Jan. IS. The fire was discovered bet cen
II and / O'Clock q. N. and spread rapidly.
The mill and its contents and several
sheds nearby were burned, also a store
house filled with lumber. The large
amount Of snow on the roof and the fact
that no wind was blowing, saved the sur
rounding property. The fire probably
started from an overheated box in the
shafting. The loss is estimated between
$1,000 and IS, 900, and the insurance is
$500. The proprietors of the mill are
Curtis c. Follensby and Charles e. Peck.
The company was just beginning the
winter work of logging and In conse-
quenee. the mill was not stocked so heav-
lily as would have been the case later in
the season.
A farm automobile that will do the
work Of team on Vermont hill farms is
the invention which J. B. Mahana OF
Poultney claims to have perfected. He
says thst the machine will pillow, harrow,
NOV. haul loads OF three tons, carry the
family to the county fair and do other
useful things and will cost less than
81 900. The inventor is veteran OF the
Civil war and well along in years yet he
has worked out every detail OF the auto
mobile himself. The car has a specially
designed four-cylinder 16-horse poweren-
CINE, built by the Ruggles Machine Co. |
IN Poultney, vi ieh transmits power TO
both forward and rear wheels. The four
wheels are traction built with solid rub |
Der tires. A special device is provided |
for the attachment Of moving machine /
cutter bar, this to be driven by the en-
CINE independent OF the automobile 1
wheels.
The surgical staff OF Brightlook hospi-
tai at st. Johnsbury operated upon man
under strange circumstances last Thurs
day evening. At about six O'Clock a
team came hurrying into the hospital
drive and discharged its passenger who
proved to be a man with huge splinter
passed through his throat. The surgeons
saw that ii was a serious case and set to
work at once. 1t was found that the
splinter had nearly severed the tongue
OF the unfortunate man and II was feared
that he would die. The hospital manage
ment had no idea from whence the pa
tient came or who he was as he was un-
able to speak on account OF the accident.
At last it was discovered that be was ABB
ner J. MeGrath, who was employed by
I he Moose River Lumber Co. at Damons
Corner. McGrath ran an edger at the
mill and the peculiar accident occurred
Thursday afternoon.
The annual meeting of the policy
holders OF the National Life Insurance Co.
was held at Montpelier Jan. IS and
Joseph A. DeBoer and II. M.sCutler OF
Montpelier and Fletcher d. Proctor of
Proctor were reelected directors. The
directors then met and elected the follow
ing officers: President, J. A. DeBoer;
Fred A. Rowland; second |
J. B. Estee; secretary, O.
d. Clark; treasurer, Harry NJ. Cutler;
medical director, Arthur B. Bisbee; actu.
ary, Clarence f. Moulton; assistant medi-
cal director, +. ID. Cotton. In his annual
President DeBoer spoke Of the
wonderful advance which the company 4
has made in the past ten years during
" ich time the gross assets have grown Z
from f17, 1873, 1851 to sl7. 400, 99S; the gross
surplus from sl,s74,922 to s5s, S29, 1858, Z
md the outstanding insurance from $685.
s90,026 to 1853, 1878
Stanley Yancelett. the seventeen-year-
bid son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Vancelett
u Cornwall, had a narrow escape from Z
Heath Jan. IA in Mlddlebury. He re-
urned to his boarding place from the Z
nigh school, where be is a student, and
OF suffering with a cold. He I
vent to a cupboard and took from IL
bottle containing oil OF hemlock. Not z
Sowing the proper dose, be took a tea
poonful and Immediately went to his S
Dom. In few minutes Mrs. Martin ,
3arrows, with whom he boarded, went to s
lis room to tell him that his father :
Wished to see him. She found the young
nan lying on the bed in an unconscious 4
The doctor applied a stomach z
lump and other restoratives and after 4
Forking over him for some time he was Y
estored to consciousness. He was re-
loged to his fathers home al Cornwall Z
till suffering from the effects of the e
olson.
"Had dyspepsia or Indigestion for Y
ears. No appetite, and what did eat 4
me terribly. Burdock Blood y