Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-09-15

The canning of corn at the factory il
Essex Junction has commenced with
more than the usual force at work. The
company Is sure OF over 700 acres OF corn,
and the output bids fair to be larger thar
last year, when the seasons product wal
! 100000 cans.
The agricultural school, in connection
with Lyndon institute, will open Sep
TENDER 20. Twenty-seven applications
have been received and accepted for en-
trance to the new school. All the appli-
cants but one have entered on the work
payment system.
The village Of Poultney is the recipient
OF a large clock and bell from Mullen
Beaman. The dials of the clock, which
will be placed in the tower Of the village
ball, are four and one-half feet in diam
eter and the bell weighs 1000 pounds.
A fire alarm apparatus will be attached
to IL.
Fred Miner, employed by Parker &
Stearns in their hard wood dressing mill
in johnson, fell Sept. from platform
and came in contact with telt, causing
bis neck, arm and side to be blistered,
and then struck against a cement post,
injuring his spine. He was seriously,
but not critically, injured.
William streeter started from st. Johns
bury 10 his home in Barnet in a runabout
Sept. but before he had passed the viii
lsge limits the machine ran over a high
embankment, turned two complete somer-
saults and landed in a meadow. Streeter,
who has two wooden legs, escaped serious
injury, although severely shaken UP.
Fred Scott, aged Y, son OF Fred 7.
Scott OF Barre, was run over and instantly
killed by an electric car Saturday after
noon. The boy was riding his bicycle on
Brook street and came out on North |
street and started across the tracks just as
a car came along. The boy was lodging |
a wagon and it is thought that he did not
see the car.
DR.. z. II. Buttles, who has been for |
some time sanitary inspector at the state
laboratory OF hygiene, has been made /
special laboratory assistant at the medical 4
college OF the University Of Vermont and |
win begin his duties Nov. /. DR.. Buttles
will be assistant in three laboratories,
that Of baeteriology, embryology and his
.ology and pathology.
James w. Walsh, aged 25 years, Bur
ington young man, jumped from the
,oping Of a bridge at Hartford, Conn,
distance Of fifty feet, Sept. 5, fracturing
hree ribs. Walsh is said TO have been
BADLY intoxicated at the time and proba-
,ly had no thought of committing sui
ide when he made the leap. He was
AIKEN to the city hospital.
Colonel F., one OF the few descendants
4 Aristos, the famous Vermont Morgan
tallion and track horse, dropped dead OF
ieart disease while being driven by his
wner, Fred A. Fish, in West Rutland,
ept. 5. A peculiar coincidence lies in ,
be fact that the animal died almost at ,
be exact spot where his sire breathed his ,
lst from the same disease. !
Fred Thompson and Mr.. Lewis had a
arrow escape from serious injury Sept.
] Beaver. As they drove through q Gov {
red bridge and came into the light, II
linded them and they ran against the Z
uard rail, which broke through, allow /
lg horse, wagon and men 10 60 over the 4
Ugh wall. The horse's neck was broken, /
ie carriage wrecked and the men slight i
/ injured. @
Closely following the announcement of a
lie proposed retirement of City Judge e. /