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

+ turned to get the other one. His liteless
/ body was found in the stall beside the
d horse. There we're evidences that the
c beast had injured him, bot Inc physician
attributed his death to heart disease. He
Was ~ years Of age and leading citizen.
> As Mrs Belle Lovejoy, aged 80 years,
started to go down cellar for a hod OF
D coal at Burlington Jan. IS, she stumbled
g over a clothes basket and fell the length
D of the flight. The lamp ignited her hair
I and when her daughters, Blanche and
: EsteIie, rushed to her assistance she was
6 mass OF flames. Before the fire could
be extinguished Mrs.-- Lovejoy's clothing
was burned from her body, nothing but
, her shoes remaining. Her hair was con-
sumed and her body was bruised and
blackeued. She lived until the next fore
noon.
The cars Of the Barre and Montpelier
street railway are being equipped with
search lights in place OF the present head
lights. The new lights are to be the
same powerful kind that is in use cd the
interurban roads. They can throw a
strong light 1900 feet so that it will be
possible to pick up q pin at 100 yards.
they will be burned to their full capacity
10 the country, aud in the city and light
ed streets can be reduced TO one-half tile
usual lighting power. Danger OF acct
dents and collisions will then be reduced
to minimum.
George II. Brown, the Island Pond i'm
former, who worked up the liquor cases
against several young men, and was him
self arrested at the time of the liquor
raids, appeared before Justice Clarke.
charged with illegal furnishing, and was
bound up in the sam OF $500 TO await the
action OF the county court. Bonds were
furnished and Brown and his counsel, r..
A. Cook, we're at once driven TO Newport
A large crow asse mbled az the station on
his arrival from Guildhall in the custody
Of Deputy Sheriff Dodge, and while no
violence was offered him he was greeted
with cries OF derision.
The Penrhyn Slate company OF Middle |
Granville, N. Y, has broken ground for
slate mill on the east side OF the creek |
at Hydeville, VT, TO be 100 by "a feet in |
dimensions, making it the largest mill of
the kind in that district Il will have
three rubbing beds and Is machines for
finishing slate. The concern has hereto
fore done all its mill work at Middle
Granville but will hereafter do 1t at
Hydeville, nearer its quarries at Cedar
Mountain, Lake Bomoseen. The firm
handles mostly billiard table tops and
stationary tubs. Fifty men will get en-
ployment at the new mill.
As one of the heavy lumber teams
owned by George May attempted to cr6 IS
on the ice at Peacham with load OF logs,
the whole team went to the bottom OF the
pond. This is the second accident tina,
has occurred there; about Christmas time
another pair OF horses was lost, one being
drowned and the other so badly chilled
that Il died. The ice was considered nm
safe, as it was full OF air holes, and II is
understood that one teamster had refused
TO venture and been discharged in conse-
quence. The team and harnesses that are
in the pond are said to be valuable and
the loss somewhere in the neighborhood ,
OF $500.
Milton Daley Of Bridgewater has
tame crow, that is a very amusing and in
telligent bird. When asked II he is cold,
he will shiver and walk into the house |
and stand by the stove until he gets /
warm. He amuses himself by initiating ,
true to life the crow OF the rooster, and
the cid hens cackle and viii COO like a
dove. When he has finished showing on
ass AaACUAH AN ohhhNr nho wing Aha NhN1 :
several times az II TO applaud. He has
taken great delight in stealing and hid ,
ing various small articles, clothes pins, ,,
etc, and il not interfered with will re-
move the pins from the neighbors' ,
clothes lines.
Charles Devlin, the man who is charged
with trying to set fire TO shed Of the :
Standard Coal & Ice Co., on Pine street. :
has been charged with arson. !
He waived examination and was hello for
trial before the county court. Judge e. !
c. Mower fixed the bail at 81, 900 and in !,
default Devlin was committed to jail. :
Deylin, il Is charged, placed combustible :
material, saturated with oil, under the !,
planking OF q shed and then set fire to it. :.
After the fire had got under good head I
way II was discovered and extinguished. !
Oevlin was among those who helped to !,
the blaze. II is thought that
he man Is unsound mentally.
Frances Hobart OF Cambridge, VT, y
writes Interestingly in the Woodstock u y
Age concerning pioneer book clubs In the .
tate, organizations having been formed y
n several towns as follows: Bradford
7s6, Brookfield 1871, Pittstord 1896, Bel a
ows Falls 1893, Montpelier Center 1894, n
y AtilameAoMn louAt Atacudut AoAus -
pringfeld 1919, Calais 1881, Hinesburg n
s22, Brattleboro 1912, Grafton 1858, II
Wells River 1855 The state library was
established in 1925, MiddIebury college
bray in 1900 and the University Of YER n
lont library in 1895. Several of the So II
ieties named declined and gave place to
Their associations or institutions, which
vist &c public libraries today, but Calais,
eacham, Brookneld and Williamstown
ill have their original societies, which g
re running with but little change.
Gov. George II. Prouty and Mrs. Prou- Z
! were in Washington last week in at
lndanoe upon the conference OF govern ~
Re. With them were Mr.. and Mrs. Olin 81
Ierrili, Roger Hubbard, and Mr.. and s 81,
Irs. W. II. Gilpin, who have been at Gle
inding these conferences and those Of so
ie Civic Federation. Mr.. Gilpin is the an,
Of the Barton Monitor. Sena- ]
y Carroll 5. Page was the host at a %
Incheon at the Capitol in honor OF the Ma
Dvernor and his friends. The senator io.
IS accompanied by his daughter, Miss TX
lice Page, and their guests were Gov. " =