Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-23

A Bellows Falls dispatch of Friday
says: The Windham county court should
have convened Tuesday. Owing to the
storm no trains, stages or teams coult
reach the county seat at Newfane, ant
Judge Taft was unable to reach there til
today to adjourn it, which was done til
the 9th inst. Since Tuesday it has beer
impossible to reach the court house, ant
according to law the deputy sheriff, il
the absence of the superior officer, ha:
been adiourning the court from day tC
day.
There are ia persons in the town OF
Barnard, town of 1900 inhabitants, who
have reached the age of so years withi,
the last % years. Ninety persons have
died in Barnard whose ages aggregate
1872 years. One has died at the age OF
100 years and four months; two at IS
years; one at 81; two at 90; one at "a
two at 93 two at Oh three at 80; and
% at ages between so and 80. Eight
persons, four men and four women, are
now living in Barnard whose ages range
from Sc to 80 years.
The members of the Democratic State
and district committees held meeting at
the residence of Collector Smalley in
Burlington the other evening and decided
to hold the State convention for the cleo
ton of delegates and alternates to st.
Louis and to nominate State officers and
elect State committee at Montpelier on
Thursday, May 10. and the district COM
mittees voted to hold the district conven-
tions to select delegates and alternates
and nominate candidates for Congress at
the same time and place.
Rutland has an interesting question to
settle in deciding how many grand jurors
were chosen at her last election. The
statute-book provides that one or more
shall be elected. A petition was given
to the moderator on the day of the elec
ton, asking that three be chosen by bal
lot. No action was taken on this petit
ton, signed by 20 men. and the aspirants
for the office of grand juror have come
out supported by legal authority and
claiming that they were all elected. They
say no action was taken on the petition,
and that no vote having been taken to
limit the number, no candidate for the
office of grand juror was defeated. They
declare that they will take the oath of
office prescribed by law and proceed to
their duties.
Hon. Horace Fairbanks of St. Johns
bury, ex-governor of Vermont. died at
the Fifth Avenue hotel. New York, Sat
urday afternoon. He was 6S years of
age, having been born in Barnet, VT,
March 2l. 1920. His father was the late
Hon. Erastus Fairbanks, who was gov
ernor of Vermont in 1852 and again in
1860, and who had previously removed,
in 1925, to st. Johnsbury, where the son
was educated in the common schools and
the academy of the town. Afterward his
was completed at the acade-
mics in Peacham and Lyndon and at An
dover, Mass. In 1926 the firm of f. & L.
Fairbanks & Co. was established, and the
growth of the famous Fairbanks scale
works began. At the age of Is, Horace
entered the office of his father and uncle,
as confidential clerk and agent, and so
until 1913. when he was adj
mitted as a partner. So he began his
career in charge of the financial depart
ment of the house of which he was after
ward to become the head. In middle life
he came into political prominence. In
1869 he was elected State senator from
Caledonia county. but serious i'll health
prevented him from taking his seat. Sew
ell years later he was elected, as Repub-
lican, governor of Vermont. Mr.. Fair
banks was man of liberality and did
much toward building up his portion of
the State and especially st. Johnsbury.