Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-02-03
STATE BRIEFS.

II All contractors in burlington received
notice last week from the president Of the
local carpenters' union, stating that after
May !, 1910, the minimum wage Tor
iourneymen carpenters would be SO for q
day OF nine hours. The present high
cost OF living was given as the reason for
the request. At present iourneymen car
penters are receiving q wage OF f2.75 for a
day OF nine hours. The wage was raised
rs cents day about two years ago.
The item going the rounds of the state
press that portrait of ex-Gov. Bell has
been presented to the state BY Col. F. s.
Billings Of Woodstock is denied by Mr..
Billings, who says that Mr.. Bell ordered
and paid for the portrait himself, as has
been the custom Of former governors.
Mr.. Billings was asked to attend to the
framing Of the portrait, which he did,
and the picture will be hung ia the exec
utiSe chamber OF the state House at
Montpelier.
4 The old Brunswick hotel opposite the
depot in Rutland, which has beeR reno-
waited aud reInodeled, has been reopened
under the name, Hotel Oxford, Mark NJ.
Patterson being manager. quick
lunch restaurant win be provided on the
first hoor, where a spacious room has
been lifted with ell modern facilities, ia
bles and counters. The door above has
been arranged as an up-to-dhte grill room
for women and men. The hotel provides
"a sleeping rooms.
John Locker, alias J. j. LOCKER, was
arrested in Wilmington last week and
held for trial by county court, charged
With obtaining money under false pre-
fences. He solicited advertisements for
publication that he claimed was to be
gotten out setting forth the value OF
sout bern Vermont farms as summer
homes. lie worked several towns in
Windham county. Someone took pains
to look mp his firm and bank references.
His arrest followed.
One horse, the sleds and harnesses we're
recovered at Peacham after the recent ac-
cident caused by a team with a heavy
load Of logs breaking the ice into the
pond and the rescued animal seems none
the worse for its icy bath. The two
teams, which broke through there, were
driven BY their owners, who were eau.
toned to avoid the channel and air holes,
but drove directly over the channel. One
man said he had rather 20 home than run
the risk, which he did.
A strange and fatal accident happened
at Bellows Falls the evening Of Jan 22 in
the store OF William Duffy, Polish mer-
chant. Henry schnei, young man OF
about 20 years, who was calling on Duffy,
went into another room, reached up and
turned on the electricity, In some way re-
trtn akr thoN IA.
" killed. Mr.. Duffy, seeing that some
thing was wrong, caught hold OF Schneil
add received a severe shock himself. The
cause of the accident is not known.
At their second meeting in Rutland last
week Bob Somers lille turned the tables on
Arthur Devine OF Marlboro, winning two
straight falls. Devine won two straight
falls from Somerville the week before. At |
Burlington Friday night, Jim Prokos of /
Worcester, Mass, known as the "Greek 4
Demon" undertook to throw Fritz Ham
son twice in an hour. He failed to get a /
fall. He weighed 20 lbs. more than Han
son. The wrestle was seen by 1900 peo-
pie. They are to meet for q square
match.
The National Flooring company, with /
a capital stock of $4,000. is the newest
stock company in st. Johnsbury and is
organized for the purpose OF increasing
the business at the old Northern Lumber
mill, now operated by w. p.
5tinson. II also takes in the mill and
lands OF the Hastings Supply company,
In Lunenburg and Concord. There are
about 80 men now employed at the stin-
son mill and from 35 to 40 in the employ
Of the Hastings Supply company, so the
new concern starts of with about rs en-
ployes.
The State boards OF library commits
'ioners and the library association Of YER
mont and New Hampshire held a Joint
meeting OF Librarians and educators in /
The new Carnegie library at Bellows Falls
Friday. The session opened at 200 D.
NJ, with greetings from A. N. swain,
president Of the trustees OF the Bellows
Falls library. There were papers by vari-
BUS Librarians and others Interested in the
work. Officers elected by the Vermont
board OF library commissioners were:-
President, NJ. NJ. Wilson, Randolph; /
NJ. Goddard, Montpelier.
Mrs. W. c. Smith, st. Johnsbury, Miss .
Fannie B. Fletcher, ProctorvilIe, Mrs. G.
VI. Winslow, Brandon; secretary, Miss I
frances Hobart, Cambridge. !