Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
State 11eps.

Farmers in the south part of the State
have been ploughing during the past
week.
The recent term of Windsor county
court granted IL divorces, while IL new
petitions for divorces were entered.
The caucus of the Republican voters of
Bradford has settled upon the next can
didate for the postmastership, recon-
mending Henry E. Parker, editor of the
Opinion.
The annual school of officers of the 1st
regiment is to be held at Montpelier some-
time this month-the date to be fixed by
the governor. One of the chief features
of the meeting will be the target practice.
j. Julius Harrison, aged 20, and Frank
Geenan, aged 10, were drowned Thurs
day morning while skating on the river
in Hydeville. The ice was only two
inches thick and the bodies were recover
ed.
The Brattleboro maple sugar exchange
is quite an institution. The first years
business shows good quantity of sugar
handled. Considerable of the product
went West and South and the sales
included ia gallons of syrup, 21,3OO
pounds of cake sugar and 1851 pounds
in pals and tubs.
Arrangements has been completed for
the 9th annual festival of the Rutland
Music Festival association, May 9, 10 and
IL, with Emma Juch, soprano; Nine.
Herbert Forester, soprano; Rosa Linde,
contralto; William Ludwig, baritone;
Adele Ausderohe, pianist, and Paul IA
fish, tenor. There will be two concerts,
one devoted entirely to Wagner's music.
The Vermont electoral college met at
the capitol in Montpelier Saturday after
noon at o'clock, all the members being
present. The college organized by elect
ing II. c. Wilson president and D. j. SAT-
ford secretary. A ballot was then had.
which resulted in four votes being cast
for Benjamin Harrison of Indiana for
President and Levi P. Morton for Vice
President. H. C. Wilson was chosen mes
senger.
The Vermont Baptist year book shows
that there are in the State seven Baptist
associations, with ia churches, having
an aggregate membership of 9l4S.
There are g. pastors and 32 other ordain-
ed ministers who are without pastoral
charge. In the Sunday-schools there
are 1922 officers and teachers and
SO41 scholars. The total amount of the
benevolent contributions of the churches
and Sunday-schools for outside objects
was Sl0,7l2 for the last year and of home
4 expenses S67 ,59l, total of S7S,3l2.
Gov. Holbrook of Brattleboro, says a
correspondent, remembers that about 80
years ago they had only about two weeks
of sleighing during the winter, and on
the 18th of January he took his team and
pillow and finished breaking up field not
finished the fall before. The venerable
war governor recalls that in the winter
of 1923 the government hospitals were
established there, and the 30 barracks
were moved to their several foundations,
which had been laid in January, and the
buildings were plastered and the water
was brought to them. In the winter of
1874 the ground was free from frost on
the Sth of January and there was no
snow, but there was much illness.
Ada Walker, %, a teacher in the gram
mar department of the Springfield high
school, committed suicide by drowning in
the Black river Saturday evening. She
had for some time been respondent and
a trifling trouble with her scholars re-
Gently had, it is supposed, unsettled her
mind. She left her boarding place before
o'clock, saying she was going to spend
the evening with a neighbor. She was
last seen alive, however, hurrying In the
direction of the river. A general search
was made Sunday morning and her body
was found with her head through the ice
in three feet of water, though her feet
rested on the bank, indicating desperate
plunge to death. Miss Walker was the
daughter of James L. Walker, prom
inent Springfield farmer.