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

Mrs. Isabelle Brock of Barnet celebrat-
ed her Goth birthday Wednesday. She is
still vigorous and enter tanned her friends
In the most pleasant manner. There are
living on the same street with her two
ladies aged SO and 80 respectively, and
Mrs. James Stevens, aged 81, lives in the
town.
Frank A. Leland. a prominent citizen
of johnson, and for several years mail
agent between Swanton and Portland,
met with a fatal. accident recently. He
was sliding down from a hay NOW in
his barn and fell upon pitchfork, which
penetrated his body to the depth of sew
era inches.
The Central Vermont road is fitting
out several cars with the Sewell steam
heating apparatus connecting directly
with the engine. The regular mail train
leaving Rutland at 11.30 a. M, and going
to Boston, will be the first equipped and
the Fitchburg road will have a similar
train in the opposite direction.
Rev. Uriah Maynard of Castleton, who
has been in the Congregational ministry
for 65 years, celebrated his Goth birthday
Saturday. He breaches occasionally now
and is one of the most remarkable and
well-preserved clergymen in the State.
He was graduate of Middlebury college
in 1919 and of Andover Theological SEM
mary in 1923.
Louis Fredette, aged 81, formerly of
Winchendom, Mass, but employed at
Rutland since May, has been arrested
there after three weeks clever detective
work by Officer Crawford, for the lar
ceny of $40 worth of tools from f. RI.
Whitney, his former employer at Win
chendon. He has confessed and was
held in bail for trial. He was one of a
gang of thieves who stole tools valued at
$500.
st. Johnsbury Republicans Thursday
night celebrating the result of the cleo
ton, Notwithstanding the hard rain. A
torchlight procession paraded through
the principal streets, and fireworks were
displayed along the line. After the par
ade the crowd assembled in Music hall.
where addresses were made by Congress
man Grout, Capt. Parsons of Virginia
and others. A banquet was served at the
st. Johnsbury House.
A Brattleboro dispatch says: On Nov.
6 the Boston Globe published the unique
wager made by two Brattleboro young
ladies, by the terms of which the loser
was to notify two young men, who had
for two years courted the young ladies',
that they must talk business before the
end of the present year or cease their
visits. The young men read of the wa
ger and at once proposed, but as they
live in distant part of the State, did not
imagine that they were the young men
on whose account the wager was made.
1t hit their case, however, they said.
Both gentlemen were accepted.
North POwnal turned the paying of an
election bet into grand parade and cele-
bration the other day. 1t was the usual
wheelbarrow wager, but it is seldom that
it is paid in such an imposing manner.
A drum corps was borrowed from North
Adams, Mass, and the Grand Army vet
Grams, marshaled by Thomas Macomber
led the procession. f. Lille was the
Democratic victim who had to wheel w.
II. Matson half-mile. He wore a hand
some new hat and carried a broom with
the national flag. Behind him came
discontinued sheep labeled No free wool
on this sheep" Mr.. Lille is an extensive
tin peder and one of his carts bearing
the maxim "free rags" brought up the
rear. A cannon borrowed from Benning-
ton kept up constant booming. A sup
per was served in the evening and the
day ended with speech-making.
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