Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-03-17


!. and returned Friday to Wallingford
Conn. where she has purchased place
and expects to make her home in the fu
ture.
Nelson NJ Gay left last Friday for !
two months trip. Mr.. Gay expects to &c
, first to Cheyenne, Wyo., and later to &C
to San Antonio, Texas, and will cover over
5000 miles before his return.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Francis Waldo
will have been married fifty years March
22nd next and will receive their friends
that day at their home, The Films, on Riv-
er street. from till and to 10 p. m.
The town clerks wish the attention of
dog owners called to the fact that all male
dogs have to be licensed by April in or
der to get the benefit OF the reduced price
OF the registration fee OF q. After that
date .he fee is 81.
There is to be a wrestling match to-
night Thursday at Gushing hall when
Jimmie Freebourn wrestles Lon Mahan of
Bethel and Young Gotch of Randolph
wrestles Young Rogers of Bethel Free
bourn will wrestle Gotch at Rochester
Wednesday, March %.
The work OF laying the new hard wood
/ floor in the Town hall was completed Sat
urday and makes a very decided improve
ment over the old material. 1t is OF birch
and maple The cost to the town is
S125, all work done. The first dance on
the new floor will be the second annual
~ and lu'dance, which will he given
Friday evening, March IS.
There has been a great hustling for ice
the past week. Many have laid in a sup
ply from the bountiful stock laid up by.
the river on its banks on the first day of
March. This ice is quite thick, some OF
it being three feet thick, but is more or
less honeyeombed from exposure to the
weather. A few persons have procured
their supply from Silver lake at Barnard.
Robert Heating, a stone cutter at the
Woodbury. shed, got a piece OF steel in
the joint OF the middle finger two years
ago. II had not troubled him much un.
til lately when the Joint began to swell
and become painful and last week DIR. o.
V. Greene made an incision and removed
a piece OF steel half an inch long. The
joint still caused trouble and on Monday
DR.. o. d. Greene made another ineision
and removed another piece OF steel.
There is no change in the strike situa-
ton at the quarries, and there does not
seem to be any Immediate prospect OF a
settlement. in the meantime the loss to /
both men and companies is quite serious.
The MEN have been out over two weeks at I
a weekly pay roll Of about S2700. On the 4
side Of the companies it throws such an
atmosphere of doubt and uncertainty that
no new contracts can be sought and il the
strike is OF sufficient duration will cause
delay in existing contracts.
Charles f. II. Moore, head printer in
the railway mail service, New England
division, died March s at his home in
somertilIe, Mass, aged 80 years. lie had
been in poor health about three years.
Mr.. Moore was born in Barnard, Vt. In
1856 he was appointed head printer from
Concord, n. II. He was prominent in
Masonic and Odd Fellow circles at Con-
cord. At the time Of his death he was
treasurer OF the Winter Hill Universalist
church. Mr.. Moore is survived by wife,
two sons, and daughter. The Oldest
ION is the Rev. Fred A. Moore, pastor OF
he Uniyersalist church at AItleboro.
Mr.. Moore was son OF Alonzo Moore OF
Blrnard and was well known to the older
OF this vicinity.
At a meeting Of the directors of the 7
own school district held Saturday, con !
iderablo consideration was given to the !
proposal 10 have an expert school superin- :
eudent It is understood that Rochester
s willing TO join in forming a school dis I
riot union and employ a man who shall d,
Ievole his entire attention TO the superin- /
endency Of ths schools in the district
iy the provisions OF the law, the salary OF
he superintendent in order to get state
10, shall Be not less than $3.50. and at :
hs end Of the year the state pays back
1000 OF this. There shall be not less
han IS nor more than so schools in one /
nion. The power OF forming unions is
~ with ths school directors OF the town. Z
Traded schools districts can become mem
ers Of the union. n
The Matson Bros. Tool and Machine &
%. have devised and are putting on the
'arket a new cutting OF machine. de- ,,
igned for metal work, for bard or soft 3
,eel. bronze, brass, copper, nickel or any
ietal not softer than soft brass. The cut a,
ing blade Is thin circular wheel OF car 4
orundum aud silicate, 1892 Of an inch
hick, and makes about 1000 revolutions
er minute. II Is fitted with safety de- =
ice and a special attachment for feeding "
Or which patent has been applied.
cuts through the hardest steel such as 4
le steel with as much rapidity as an ordi- p
AIRY saw cuts through wood. When NJ
!. Harrington, one OF the largest manu- bt
lcturers in Philadelphia, was in Bethel h
ist January. he saw the machine and its Ia
'orkings aud be ordered at once one for his
hon and thought he would want more.
Is claimed that a man with this saw
Ill do more work in two hours than a -
IAN With hand work viii do in two days.
Andrew Stewart, a stone cutter. shot =,
imseli with q revolver Tuesday morning,
ihicting 3 wound from which he died
bon after noon that day. The bullet en-
'red the head above the right ear and
assed diagcnaily down. Mr.. Stewart N
ime 90 Bethel last November and rented
be- house situated in the rear OF the N
oNn hall His wife Is dead and his
lung daughter. M1retta Stewart. kept A
luse Tor him. he had teeD ia iu health =,
ld not able to work for several months
1d had been heard by several 20 threaten
take bis life. he was born In Scotland Pa
% was 5s years Of age. lie worked for e
e Woodbury. Granite company several 'e
.ars ago and at that time lived ia the