Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-04-28
STATE OF VERMONT.
Its News condensed and Rewritten
for Our Resders.

At a meeting April IS. the village Of ST.
Johnsbury, by a vote Of 2s0 to 50, recon
sidered its vote authorizing a central fire
station and the purchase OF a combination
automobile chemical engine.
Miss Bertha Bodine, winner of a Smith
college prize for the best musical com
position by an Undergraduate. is a gradu-
ate of the Bellows Falls high school in
the class OF 1904. She is specializing in
music at Smith.
Henry Hill lost recently by fire his
sugar house 10 %stannard, together With a
nearly new evaporation, sugaring of pan,
sap tank, pals, about half OF his buckets,
r quantity OF dry WOO and nearly all OF
the sugar made this spring.
Newton Williams of Putney had one
eye badly injured on a recent evening,
when some boys jumped out from behind
a fence and threw an egg at him, striking
him in the eye and cutting 1t badly. 1t
is thought that the Sigh is uniniured.
In digging away the ruins OF the Amer
can House. Burlington, a quantity Of
money In half dollars aud quarters we're
un~earthed. These we're kept by the work
men and at times it was difficult to keep
them shoveling, as they preferred to sort
over the dirt.
The village OF Lyndon Center has just
accepted the gift of a house from I. y.
Vail, made on the condition that the viii
lage remove the house, build a brick hose
house where the present building stands,
and keep the remainder OF the grounds as
a little park.
Mrs. Allen Fetch was fatally burned
Aprii IA at her home in New bury. She
was trying to put out a fire in the yard at
her home, when her clothes caught fire,
and before assistance could be rendered
she was so badly burned that she lived
only a few hours.
The passengers on the Green Mountain
flyer were badly shaken up and fright
ened last week Tuesday when that train
crashed into two box cars and a switch
ing engine at Bellows Falls. The cars
we're reduced to ~kindling wood and both
engines we're badly damaged.
In 1T OF worry and dependency,
Morton Farnsworth, a man in the employ
of Clayton Cove at Charlotte, attempted
suicide April 10, by taking a quantity OF
paris green. A physician was called but
an emetic, promptly given before the
OF the doctor, probably saved his
life.
Fire caught April % at the house OF
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dean three miles
from Springfield, from an incubator in
the attic. The house, shed and eorn-barn
were burned 10 the ground. The loss is
81, 200. ard the insurance IN the house
$500, barn $3.50 and on the furniture
200.
A new dormitory for Troy Conference
academy at Poultney is made possible
through the conditional gift OF syst 600
BY II. A. Moses, who has made substan-
tial contributions TO the institution here
Mr.. Moses stipulates that an adj
ditional $50, 900 be raised to make his gift
available.
While attempting to save a boat from
going over the Vernon-Hinsdale dam re-
j. A. Baker, an employe, who WAS
working on the %hashboards OF the dam,
the wire rope, with which the boat
was being handled. under his little finger
and that member was instantly torn from
his hand.
Joseph Favero, an employe at the
Marble company's mill in Swan
was seriously injured April q when
be fell from a staging to a moving pitman
saw gangs. Favero's left arm
was horribly crushed, necessitating am
putation above the elbow. He has other
injuries.
Excavation for the Colonial Inn at ST.
Adams to replace the Weldon House,
which was burned thirteen years ago,
las started April IL. The work Of dig
cling the cellar will be slow, because of
he debris from the former fire, but it
is expected that the cellar will be ready
BY the time the plans for the structure
are completed.
AT the recent examinations for regis
Tered pharmacists held at the state house,
only three OF the IS candidates we're sue
which emphasizes anew the stin
examinations the board is putting up 10
years. The successful ones were
Peleg A. Mattison Of Bennington, Hubert
W. Humphreys of West Rutland and Ray
Irving Kinne Of Springfield.
Romano Morse started a bonfire April
IL on his farm in Mendon, which got be-
vond his control and burned over rs acres
land belonging to his neighbors, re-
the efforts OF twelve men to extin-
the fire. The damage don was
to the young trees in the
orchards, and it was with consider
able difficulty that the sugar houses in the
we're saved.
Mrs. Fred e. Smith has decided as a
gift to Christ Episcopal church, Mont
pelier, the land and buildings thereon at
he rear of the church. The office of The
Journal was formerly on the ground hoot
these buildings and there are tene-
uents up stairs. The properly is valued
# IS, 1000. 1t is possible that the build
InRs will be torn down and the church
be thereby extended and beautihed.
James I. Wooster Of Eden and Mrs.
Harriet B. Wood of johnson were mar
lied at the latter place April 8. Quite q
romance is attached to this marriage, as
he couple a been married when very
but, owing to objection Of parents,
we're divorced. They were married later
other parties, but, as both the husband
Mrs. Wood and the wife Of Mr.. Woos-
.er are dead, the couple have returned to
heir early love.
The struck jury in the Larrow Doolittle
alienation OF affections case returned a
Iealed verdict at the opening OF the
Yindham county court, April p, giving