Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-08-25

q capital stock of 1920, 900 organized TO
the purpose Of buying, holding aud sell
ing timber lands, and manufacturing
lumber, in Quebec and at Wells River, haI
filed articles of association in the Office O
the secretary OF state. The Vernon.
office will be located at Wells River.
Interest in forestry among the farmers
OF Vermont is beginning to spruce up
The forestry department of the agricuI
tural experiment station OF the University
OF Vermont is receiving many request.
for the seed Of the white pine. There ii
an abundant crop Of this seed only once
in three or four years, and 1910 is q seed
year.
The contract for the building OF tbs
new Vermont hotel in Burlington has
been let to a New York firm, the w
Sheldon Swallow Co., and the contract
calls for its completion between now and
the first OF next May. The firm is one
which has erected many large buildings
and Is known as one which is quick Il
accomplish things.
Two Of the party OF campers at Camp
Champlain near Burlington, Councillor
Miller and Camper Thomas Edwards
caught the largest muskellunge heard OF
in that vicinity recently. The hsh, which
is usually found in the Great Lakes, the
northern lakes and the st. Lawrence
river, weighed nine and one-half pounds
and measured 81 inches.
Five hundred persons attended the held
day OF the Changers OF southern Vermont
and Washington county, n. Y, at Lake
Bomoseen Friday. Congressman Frank
Plumley OF Mortified, spoke or the
oleomargarine fight in Congress. Lieut.
Gov. John A. Mead gave an address on
stThe Grange as an Educator and the
Ways 1t can Help the New Vermont"
The completion OF the quadrenuial re-
valuation OF property in the town OF
Hartford shows the following results:
Property OF the first class, 1905, sos;
property OF the second class, which in
cludes farms OF over ten acres, s455, 235,
making = total OF 81 6 9, 34o. This is an
increase Of 1855, 1876 over the list OF 1910
and an Increase Of 1888, ITO over the list
OF 1906.
Mrs. DeIilah Barber, widow Of General
Merritte Barber, U. 8. A., died the 18th
in Pownal at the age Of IS. She was well
known in army circles and had accom-
panied her husband around the world
and was With him in China during the
Boxer uprising. The remains were taken
to Washington, d. c., for interment in
the National cemetery, where General
Barber is buried.
At the summer meeting Of the military
court in Center Belmont, Me-, il was Civ
en- out that Archie Piper, ~, was made
- ~. L. TnFn.11 af the Gnn-
necticut Agricultural college military
companies. Mr.. Piper lie a Springfield
boy and prepared for the Connecticut
Agricultural college at the Vermont
academy at Saxtons River, where he held
the rank OF corporal
Fifteen natives Of other lands have just
been naturaIized in Montpelier, and 81 in
Barre. Applicants in Barre for hrst
papers we're divided among the following
n~ationaIities scotland, 2Oi Italy, 49,
Canada, 8; England, 3; n each from
Greece, Germany, Austria and Scotland.
Applicants for second papers were OF
countries:-Scotland, Is Italy, u
Canada, /; Ireland, 1.
Another German singing society, the
wmiamsburger Sangerbund Of Brooklyn
will make q three days pilgrimage 70
ChampIain, using Burlington as a
gateway, in the early part OF september.
The excursionists will leave Brooklyn
September 3 and make their return the
9Th. Headquarters will be established Of
the Van Ness House, and excursions to
Au Sable Chasm, Fort Ethan Allen, etc.,
will be made.
Louis etiquette was fatally injured
Aug. II by falling from the ROOT OF
house which he was sbinging in New
mort. The distance to the ground was
only about nine feet but Chiquette struck
on a bunch Of shingles and received in
ternal injuries from which be died some
hours later. The cause of the accident Is
said TO be an improperly built staging
etiquette is survived by one son, his par
and one brother.
Joseuh Kelley, q trusted and popular
employe OF the Vermont Marble COM
many. was crushed to death at the COM
pany's mills in Weybridge Friday even
ing about S O'Clock. His body was found
$50 BY william Ford, another en-
pIoye OF the company, iammed between .
large wheel, which drives the marble
saws, and the surrounding guard
KeIley's body stopped the wheel, which
is driven By a 25 b.. p. engine
After a long search, Mrs. Kate Hung-
kind OF Burlington has located her niece,
Minnie Eibl, l3 years old OF Chicago,
lately became heir TO money lett oy
Mrs. Yungkind's mother, who died ~
Germany last fall. Five heirs we're men
toned and all were located except Minnie,
who was anaIly found by means OF police
aid and newspaper notices. Mrs. Nung-
kind has written her brother IN Germany
and expects the will to be settled early.
The hose company OF Springfield was
called out early Aug. II to fight ire IN
he two-tenement house owned by Mrs.
Mary whitney and occupied ey Z n
I onee. c. c. Scales and r. o.. spauldinR.
The Are was under control shortly and
the damage did not exceed 1900. Mr.
who was recovering from IN
inries which had necessitated the cutting
IN Of one leg, was carried from the house
IN nearby shelter. Rats gnawins
are blamed.
thirty tons OF hay stored in the barn
=, Michael Driscoll in North Audover ex-
nloded last Thursday, blowing on the
az the barn aud starting g IRE which
il. All OF the live stock, m
sIrs;ng two horses, was saved. but car
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