Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-11-23
State (1ems.

The Bennington battle monument is
now 120 feet high.
The Champlain Valley Poultry associa-
ton will hold its ninth annual exhibition
at Burlington Dec. IL to ID.
Myron Reed while driving cattle from
a railway track in Underhill, was struck
by an engine and his arm was broken.
The house, barn and contents belong
ing to II. P. Hutchinson of Boston. in
Chester, have been burned. Loss, $4,000.
The docket of Caledonia county court
shows ninety-one civil cases, ten criminal
cases and twenty-seven cases in the chan
Gerry docket.
The annual meeting of the Christian
Workers of New England will be held at
st. Johnsbury on Thursday evening, Dec.
10, and holding over Sunday.
w. S. Streeter, cashier of the Mer-
chants national bank of st. Johnsbury,
has resigned to 60 to Minneapolis as vice
president of the Northwestern Guarantee
Loan Co.
At Brattleboro, the other day, j. NJ.
Baldwin wheeled Fred Richardson to
Guilford and back to pay an election bet
Four years ago Richardson wheeled Bald
win over the same course.
Hopkins Horton of Clarendon has vOt-
ed at 10 of the % presidential elections.
He is 95 years old and though in feeble
health managed to get to the polls on
election day and vote for HIIrisOn.
Vermont's official vote for President,
as shown by the complete returns from
all towns, is as follows: Harrison, 49,
1872; Cleveland, 16,7ss; Fiske, 1859. The
Republican plurality, therefore. is u.s.
4O4.
S. NJ. EstabrOok's three barns, contain
ing 60 tons of hay and farming tools,
were burned Tuesday morning at st.
.Johnsbury. Loss, $1,000; insured for
$1,000. The fire was undoubtedly incen-
diary.
w. II. H. Murray's new volume Day
light Land" descriptive of Canadian
scenes and experiences, is about to be is
sued 1t has 40 handsome illustrations.
Mr.. Murray has spent the summer in
Canada.
The Vermont Division of Sons of Vet
Grams held its first public meeting in Re-
representatives. hall, Montpelier, last
week. There were addresses by Gov.
Dillingham;, Lieut.-Gov. Woodbury., Hon.
William w. Grout and others.
The sale of the lwelden House at St.
Adams has been completed by the trans
fer of the property to Messrs. Greenway
and Bell in consideration of 100000. 1t
is still maintained that it is to be kept
open as a summer hotel only.
While Winnie Thayer and Tracy Phil
lips of Newport were seated on rustic
bench in B. F. Moore's grounds, bullet
whizzed between them and buried itself
in the back of the seat. Some men on
the railroad bridge did the firing.
"A young TAU hathOu w hi'Sono VI DN"
vile, while playing with calf in pas
ture, tied one end of rope around his
own neck and the other around the neck
of the calf. He was dragged all over
the pasture and nearly strangled.
1t is understood that some of the New
York ice companies are negotiating with
the idea of procuring ice from Lake
Champlain the coming winter. They
have an idea that the ice will be purer
than that taken from the Hudson river.
The trustees of the Vermont Live Stock
company held their annual meeting at
Brattleboro recently and voted per
cent dividend on the capital stock OF
s25O, 900, carrying $1,000 surplus. TWAS
also voted to buy 1900 steers to replace
an equal number sold for beef.
There were assessed In duties at the
port of st. Adams during the month OF
October the sum of 59,224.6s. Two
million feet of lumber, $500 sheep and
lambs, lis horses, 1871 cattle and 1000
tons of hay were among the dutiable
articles. Two million eggs came In free.