Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01
State 1lepS.

toboggan slides.
Bennington has a special prosecutor,
Franklin Scott
The total county tax in Windsor county
this year is SOB.
The Salvation army has re-opened its
campaign in Burlington.
The new Burlington city directory con-
tains $500 names, 400 more than the old
one.
The State Spiritualist association holds
its next quarterly meeting at Ludlow the
22d, 23d and 9th of this month.
John Meigs, the st. Adams boy who
shot side of his face away accidentally
recently, has died of his injuries.
The house of +. G. Fay in Jericho was
burned last week. 1t has just been re-
furnished and the loss is large. Not much
was saved
Rutland's village trustees have no
money to use and a meeting called to see
what sho uld be done about it adjourned
without action.
Considerable improvement has lately
been made in the asylum for the insane
at Brattleboro. The present number of
inmates is 434.
Thomas Fox, employed at the wooden
mills in Winooslli, fell into tub of hot
dye-stuH Saturday afternoon and was
badly scalded.
Burglars blew open the safe of Denn-
son Bros, merchants at Pittsford, last
Thursday night, but were frightened off
before they had taken the contents.
There was $500 in the safe.
Martin Griffith was unloading a safe at
Wolcott, the other day, when the skid
gave way and the safe fell upon his arm,
crushing it so that amputation was nee
essary.
During game of polo on the ice at
Enosburgh Falls recently Don Fasset and
Irving Lawrence came together with
such force as to break young Lawrence's
collar bone very badly.
! An unusual number of DRINKS, at St.
Johnsbury Christmas day, caused raid
on the saloons, the result of which was
fines for selling amounting to Sl64 and
the confiscation of 60 bottles of beer.
: Winooski is good place for home mis-
1 sionary work. Only a few months ago
, it was the scene of prize fight and last
} week cock fight, in which 80 rounds
| were fought, took place there.
George f. Pelton and Fred. \. Field of
1 Rutland announce their intention of start
: ing The Termonter, monthly of 81 pa
ges, in which the literary lights of the
State will have chance to shine.
The State committee of the Y. NJ. c. \.
+. has organized with Prof. Henry Fair
banks for president, c. l.. Page, secreta-
q ry and ID. NJ. Camp, treasurer. State
h secretary is to be employed to look after
- the old and organize new associations.
4 Mortified brakeman named Moody
the other day received Il dispatch intend
ded for the noted evangelist, whose home
-, is at Mortified, Mass, asking him to go
10 l1OulSNlllt. ~ anu Iplt lNNiNbi ihNNN-
ings.
: The Green Mountain Stock Farm COM
y panv has been formed under the laws of
" Connecticut to carry on the business
; started three years ago by the Moulton
Bros. at West Randolph. The concern
keeps large herd of Jerseys and makes
y butter for the big New York hotels.
II The Rutland Horse Railroad company
i has reorganized. The present directors
e are NJ. Quinn, Il. j. Lyon, G. IL. Cheney
p NJ. McKeogh, 4. III. Tuttle, j. w. Cram
z ton and j. c. Dunn. NJ. Quinn is presi
dent; \. ii. Tuttle, treasurer and j. y
r, Woodtin, secretary of the corporation.
? Judge Poland and wife, it is said, vii
Il spend the winter at Washington. The
h Judge has been president of the FRS
IL National bank in st. Johnsbury since
10 its organization, and it is expected tha
he will resign the position when he
leaves, and there may be other changes
in the board of directors.
II The customs report for the district o
d Vermont for November is Value of goods
imported for consumption, S354, 9l6; du
es ties, S43, 63S .03; for warehouse and trans
6, pOrtation, s47, l64; duties, SIC, 1927. %; TO
transportation and exploration, Sl72,s45
H. duties, S42, POP; value of domestic exports
Z. Sl30,SS0.
al Frederick May and his younger brothe
of Hancock and Eugene Spencer of Roeh
H. ester were arrested the other day ON TIN
OF charge of robbing clothes lines and steal
IN ing in the latter place. Spencer owne'
he up and implicated the older May. Bot
these were fined and the other May bo,
d was discharged.
st 4 "haunted house" mystery in Hines
IN burg is solved. For ten years Elias X