Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-03-03
STATE OF VERMONT.
It's News condensed and Rewritten
for Our Headers.

August Klebeck, while working in tho
yards at the Proctor quarries, had the toes
on his right foot crushed by a falling die.
While saving wood by power, Ed
Morris Of Dorset had one leg broken Just
above the ankle by cut of log falling on
it.
It is estimated that ! 900 people are i'll
with the grip in Vergenues and Aicinity.
/ In some cases whole families are suffering
with it.
Morton Pratt slipped on the ice recent
ly, as he was chopping wood in Frank
lin, nearly sesering the meek finger cf
his LEI, hand.
A heller belonging to Orrin Lawrence
OF Monkton Ridge slipped through a hole
cut In the ice few days ago and later
was found frozen, with her head out OF
the hole.
As Charles Tstro was helping 10 load a
car OF lime in barrels at SWanton juno
tion recently the upper one fell, pinning
Mr.. Tatro between the car and barrels,
breaking the large bone in the lower arm.
Mrs. James Stevenson was quite badly
injured recently in Peacham. her heel
catching as she was coming down stairs.
She fell the whole flight and injured one
side severely, besides receiving several
bad bruises.
Harry Armstrong, colored. and Mat
thew Smith, Rockingham farm b nds,
were fighting Feb. %, when Armstrong
hit smith over the head with club, lay
/ ing his scalp open. He was taken to the
Keene hospital Armstrong escaped.
The town OF Somerset in Bennington
county reports to the state superintend-
ent OF education not a single person in
town between the ages OF and is, and
inasmuch as there are no children of
school age in that town no schools are
supported therein.
Harry Graves, employed In the bakery
OF e. A. Scott at st. Johnsbury, caught
his arm in baking machine Friday and
had the bones broken and the tendons
cut OF. lie was taken to Brightlook hos
pitaI where the wound was dressed. but it
is uncertain whether he will regain the
use OF his hand.
The Morrisville News and Citizen says
that a weather observer in that place re-
ports that 93s4 inches Of snow have fallen
during the past four months, not Includ-
ing those OF the past two weeks. Old
residents claim that there has not heon so
much snow on the ground at one time for
twenty-five years.
The plant OF the Vermont Lime com
pany at Sbermans, a small settlement two /
miles south OF Readsboro, was completely I
destroyed by fire last week Tuesday |
night. The loss, which is total, IL under I
stood to be $4,000 with partial insur- /
ance. The main Office of the company Is |
at Greenfield, Mass.
The chances are more than even for the /
recovery OF the three-year-old son of Mike 4
kanskey Of Worthwhile, who fell from a .
sofa into a brass kettle Of boiling water
recently. The skin was practically all /
burned Cd the child's back and his
shoulders. bead and arms were also badly
burned. His body is encased in cotton
and oil.
That mice started the fire which de-
stroyei his house in Rutland recently is
the opinion OF Mai. II. e. Dyer. There
was insurance OF &c, 900 on the house. In
he attic of the burned building were
desks containing valuable papers, many
Of which we're 200 years old. and relics OF
every var in hich the United States
has been engaged.
Henry Blanchard, who received serious
injuries about three weeks ago, when
struck on the head by truck at the plant
Of the Vermont Shade Roller company ia
Vergennes, has been brought back to his
home there from the Mary Fletcher hos
pital in Burlington, where he failed to
receive any benefit Both his arms and
one leg are paralyzed.
Gny |. Rowe of Danyille has received
an appointment as second lieutenant IN
the regular army and has been assigned
10 the 18th regiment Of infantry. He
will go TO Fort Leayenworth, Kan, where
his regiment is located. Mr.. Rove is a
graduate Of Peaeham academy and Nor
wich university in the class OF 1909,
v here he won highest military honors.
Fire at Lyndonville early Thursday /
morning in the block owned by George
P. Ide did a. 600 worth OF damage in sew {
,ral stores, The principal loser being II. {
l. Parker, a ieweler. The loss was well {
covered by insurance. The blaze started 7
BY the explosion OF gasoline stove In I
Farrnr's restaurant and, being confined to !
he partitions mostly, was hard 10 extin- 1
yuish. 7
At the final meeting OF the Montpelier e
gANtM ~ AANh ANNAA ~
reared before the board and exhibited
lnal naturalization papers desiring TO /
axe the freeman's oath. When asked to 4
einove his hat, however, be demurred, {
aging THAT il was against his religion, he a
,oing q Hebrew, 70 90 so and as conse- a
Iuence the board refused to administer a
be oath. 4
Hugh Henry OF North Fayston met v
nth a serious accident recently while
hopping for the Boyce 3 Perkins Lum-
,er company. he cut his foot with an b
xe, severing an artery. He was alone
nd nearly two miles from any house. He q
tarted down the mountain and reached q
be nearest house. almost exhausted from g
be loss OF blood. A physician was b
allied and be Is now comfortable.
John Nelson, aged about 80 years, II
those family history Is unknown, died d
D Rutland Feb. % az a result Of drink y
az wood alcohol. He was employed as y
painter at l. +. Miners carriage shop II
nd while at work Monday took frequent b
ips from a bottle kept for use in the n
hop. he felt no bad effects until be sud g
enly became blind while working the q