Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-28
State lleps.


Mount Holly.
Swanton has just completed a system
of water works at cost Of $4,000
There are 1875 students registered at
the Vermont Methodist seminary at
Montpelier.
Ex-Gov. Redfield Proctor starts in
few days for California with his family,
to be absent until about March l.
Madame La Farrar of Swanton died
last Sunday at the age of los. She was
the Oldest person in Swanton.
Rev. Rufus C. Flagg of Fair Haven has
been called to the Congregational church
Welatls River, and will begin his
pastorate January l.
The contract for building an extension
of 400 feet at the north end of the Bur-
lington breakwater has been awarded to
Willard johnson of Fulton, n. Y, for
S3l ,s60.56.
At st. Johnsbury Mrs. Ellery Chamber
lin, while making preparations Thursday
to give birthday party to her son, was
taken sick at 3 o'clock, and died at 6,
from neuralgia of the heart.
States Attorney Dana of Rutland is
conducting lively liquor crusade, max
ing very frequent raids on the sellers.
Several cases have been brought in the
police court this week.
An agent of the Standard Oil company
has been at Rutland recently, arranging
to establish station there. A lot of land
will be bought on which two large stor-
age tanks will be built to supply the trade
in that vicinity.
Gov. Dillingham; has appointed Levi
X. Fuller and Adjutant-General Peck
commissioners to represent the Green
Mountain State at the centennial of
George Washngtons Inauguration in
New York city.
The Union copper mine in COrinth, for
which the old Ely Vermont Copper Min
ing Co. paid about SIS 1000, has recently
been sold for $1,000, including valuable
machinery and several buildings added
by the Vermont company after its pur-
chase.
st. Johnsbury's electric light plant is
now ready for use, 81 of the 2000-can-
die power lamps having been placed in
position this week. The citizens will
hold a meeting to see if they will ratify
the contract made by the village trustees
with the ThomsOn-HOuston company.
Charles II. Rice of Bennington plead
ed guilty in the county court there on
Friday to impeding an officer, and was
sentenced to two years in the Rutland
work-house. While crazy drunk Rice
shot at Chief of Police Hurley, who had
been called in to arrest him, the ball
grazing the officers hip.
The temporary trestle over the Pas
sumpsic river at East Barnet was moved
out of line about six inches by the ice and
high water this week. An engine and
several cars loaded with stone were
placed on the bridge and remained sever
al hours till the structure was brought
INV ooSOhSNio WHY
for while.
Hon. Reuben r. Thrall of Rutland at
tanned the 93d year of his age on Sunday.
He is probably the Oldest practising law
yer in the United States. Last March he
was in court and answered to his cases
on the call of the docket. During the
past year his mental faculties have been
failing, but his bodily health is good.
George l.. Spear of Rutland, Dean c.
French of Barton Landing and George
Caswell of Derby Line have bought
5000 acres of timber land in Maine, 81
miles east of Megantic, P. @. and AZ
miles west of Moosehead lake on the
Canadian Pacific road. An immense
steam lumber mill has been built and will
be running in few days. About 5O,-
OOO, 900 feet Of lumber will be cut this
winter.
A Tunbridge dispatch says: A petit
ton, asking for the removal of the Con-
cord, N. H., pension agency to some
Vermont town, and for the appointment
of Major John G. Stearns of Bradford,
VT, AS pension agent, is being circulated
in Vermont posts of the Grand Army.
This is alleged to be direct violation
of the rule forbidding any comrade using
= sin any manner" the organization for
partisan purposes, and the attention OF
, the department officers is to be called to
1t.