Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-10-11
State 11eps.

During the past year ll6 new houses
were built In Barre.
Rev. B. Fay Mills is holding revival
meetings in Bennington.
Miss Parloa is trying to teach the wo-
men of Burlington how to cook.
Mrs. Lyman Randall of East Lyndon
has white petunia with 70 blossoms.
A telephone exchange has been estab
lished at st. Adams with 30 subscribers.
The citizens of Swanton are trying to
raise money to introduce electric lights.
The extensive chair factory owned by
NJ. A. Davis at Felchville has been
offered for sale.
Burglars entered the store of Dwight
=. Gates at Bennington, Monday night,
and secured 800.
Mrs. Mary l.. Clement of st. Johns
bury, who is said to have been lis years
of age, recently died in that town.
Two deer were seen at Richford last
week. They were together and one far
mer drove them from among his cattle.
The Bennington knitting industries are
being pushed to their utmost capacity.
All the mills are running over time and
some of them day and night.
The Vermont Savings Investment COM
pany, with a capital of 5000, has been
organized at Montpelier, with E. B.
Thomas of Topeka, Kan, as president.
The United States Screen company
has started it's works at West Randolph,
although the new addition is not nearly
completed, because of a rush of orders.
c.. |. Hood of Lowell, Mass, has given
the Congregational church at Chelsea,
which recently celebrated its centennial,
$1,000, in memory of his father and sis
ter
J. f. Smith & Co. are making arrange
ments to rebuild the mill and bobbin
factory recently burned at Montgomery,
and are now at work preparing the
foundation.
n. f. Wilson, graduate of the Maine
State college in 1883, has been chosen
assistant chemist at the agricultural ex-
pertinent station at Burlington. He is
now taking an advanced course at Cor
nell.
The Vermont Construction company
of St. Adams has Just completed an iron
truss highway bridge for the town of
Alstead, n. H. 1t is 774 feet long,
weighs Il tons and has capacity of 20
tons.
The 10Th annual meeting of the State
Medical society opened at Burlington
Yesterday and continues through today.
Among the speakers was DR.. w. II. Vim
cent of Orwell who gave "Some obser-
vations of country practice.
The most severe rain-storm OF the sea-
son fell at Bellows Falls Sunday morn
ing, keeping up Il steady pour until Tues
day morning. During Sunday night a
large portion of the abutment at the Yer
mont end of the toll bridge gave way
and cut off communication with the New
Hampshire shore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Billings of
Woodstock have again been bereaved by
the death Tuesday at the family home of
their third son, Ehrck, a promising and
attractive lad of Il. 1t is little more
than year since their oldest son, Par
melee, died suddenly in Chicago, on his
way home.
A ife-size medallion in white metal
called "Pasquecia.' who was a celebrated
model in Rome, has been presented to
the university of Vermont by Col. lie
Grand B. Cannon. Senator George F..
Edmunds and other leading citizens of
Vermont. 1t is the work of Miss Mar
garet Foley, a native of Hinesburg, who
attained distinction as an artist in sculp-
ture, and who died in Rome few years
ago.
The Mt. Mansfield Hotel at Stowe was
completely burned Friday afternoon.
The origin of the fire is unknown, but
it was discovered in the attic. The hotel
was built twenty years ago at cost of
5000, 900. and would accommodate three
hundred guests. 1t was owned by the
Mt. Mansfield Hotel company, most OF
the members of which live in Boston
Repairs to the amount of $4,000 were
made on the house year ago. The in.
surance was small.