Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-03-10

At the annual March meeting, acting
it is said. on the supposition that th
town OF Berlin owns Berlin pond froT
which Montpelier obtains its wster snr
ply, the voters Of that tow adopted dras
tic resolutions. These resolutions pro
vide that no flash boards shall he alloweI
on the dam at the foot OF the pond, tia
unless certain conditions, not named, ar
complied with, the town will never ALLOW
the pond to be raised, and that the tow
will charge the water department $40
day damages whenever the pumps ar
used TO pump water from the uppe
pond. II is thought that the animus o
Berlin toward Montpelier, as shown il
these resolutions, Is because the city i
gradually acquiring title 10 land around
Berlin pond, thus decreasing the CRANE
list OF that tow n. The fact is unless Der
lin tries to force issues the city is willing
TO pay to the tow OF Berlin a fair tRz
rate on property il owns around the
pond, but it is safe TO say the city will
fight 10 lover and higher courts any at
tempt to obtSin $40 a day for the priVi-
lege OF pumping from the pond when
necessity demands.
Louis Borette was a%rraigned in Burline.
ton city court last week Tuesday on five
charges for theft. The first charge. OF
stealing harness, wal continued for SEN
tenee, he being found guilty. The sec
ond charge was for stealing 100 pounds OF
corn meal and 300 pounds OF ground oats
and corn from Frank Bates and Charles
Forbes OF Wiilistoo. He was found gull.
ty and this case was continued for SEN
tence. Sentence was suspended in the
third case, in which be pleaded guilty to
the charge OF stealing fur robes form Mr..
Sweeney OF Colchester. To the charge OF
stealing 80 chickens from Frank f. Spear
Of South Burlington, he pleaded not gull
ty and was bound over to the county
court, under $500 bail. The next charge
was for making the famous raid on Fred
A.. Drew's clothesline in South Burling-
ton. He pleaded guilty and was sem
tence to serve not less than six nor more
than seven months in the house OF corree-
ton al Rutland. Among the articles TAX
en- at this raid we're three table cloths.
four dozen napkins, 80 towels, two
sheets, 20 pillow covers, linen table COW
er, two night gowns, two mems shirts,
two bath towels and three shirt waists,
TO the value Of $50.
A rather peculiar circumstance hap
pened in Cabot last Thursday morning,
in which Eugene Patnam's little girls.
one aged 9 aud the other Z, were in
volved. Ella. the older, dreamed that
there was a robher in the house and had
killed her father and mother. The dream
seemed so real to her that she awakened
her sister. got her up, and they vent
downstairs and out the back door. Then,
dressed only in their night clothes, they
ran to a neighbours, William Houghton.
One OF the girls had grabbed a pair of
knit slippers, but Ella went bare-fcoted
through the snow, SD tfering greatly be-
cause OF the cold and freezing her feet.
Arriving at the Houghton house the girls
gave the alarm that their parents bad
been murdered, SO Mr.. Houghton and
Mr.. Adams went up to the Putnam
house. They found the front door locked
and they made so much noise that the
door was opened and Mr.. and Mrs. Put
nam stood before them, unframed.
Everything was explained, and the girls
went back TO bed but not until Ella had
had her feet attended to. One foot was
frozen worse thar the other, and il will
be some time before she will be able to
get her shoes and stockings on. Besides
the chilling, the fright nearly made the
girl sick.
At the annual town meeting in Hart
land. a resolution was adopted by a vote
OF 1875 to l protesting against a change in
the name Of the village of North Hartland
to Evarts. in honor OF Maxwell Evarts.
The protest is made on the grounds that
the Inhabitants are attached to the old
name and that a precedent would thereby
be established which would endanger
many other villages. The resolution
states that the postofice department has
been induced by certain inhabitants to
change the name of the postoffice, for the
being at least, to take effect April l,
1910. II also mentions a certain United
States senator from California, who form
erly lived in New England, as having
been instrumental in bringing about the
change and suggests that the Vermont
delegation in Congress, to whom a copy
Of the resolutions win be mailed, should
have as much interest in Vermont affairs
and as much influence with the p~ostofiee
department as the senator from Cali
Through this document the Yer
mont delegation is called upon to secure
IN impartial and thorough examination
the case by the postoffice department
Dr. an investigation by the Congressional
oostofice committee. Copies of the reso-
will be sent to the postmaster-gen-
srsl, his first assistant, to the president,
to each member of the Congressional
,osfofiea committee.