Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-08-23
State Vens.

II. E. Powell has been appointed post
master at Milton.
The free delivery system is to be estab-
lished as st. Johnsbury Oct. l.
North Hero farmers are making good
thing by raising seeds for Boston dealers.
There are 81 old soldiers residing with
in the delivery of the post office at Castle
ton.
The annual fair of the Springfield Agri-
cultural society will be held September
10 and IL.
The production of the 80 quarries in the
Vermont slate trust will be reduced to
two-thirds Sept |.
During one day, recently, Fred g.
Marsh of North Springfield killed 80
striped snakes on the Boynton farm.
Marcia G. Beach, wife of Rev. j. w.
Beach of Essex, drowned herself in the
river at Montpelier Friday night. She
was insane.
The State Woman Suffrage association
held its annual meeting at North Dan
vile Tuesday. 1t is a small and harmless
organization.
The annual meeting of the trustees OF
the Soldiers Home will be held at Ben
Grams in the institution.
Leading speakers at the temperance
mass meeting at Mortified last week de-
clared that great contest between high
license and prohibition had begun IN the
State.
William Temple of South Londonderry
fell from a scaffold to the barn floor,
striking on his head. His skull was
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afterward.
The battle monument at Bennington
has reached the hight of nearly 200 feet.
The principal lookout of the shaft is at
this point although the full hight will
be 301 feet.
Fred ,Hamblet of Morgan has been
bound up in $1,000 for appearance at the
county court to answer to the charge of
assaulting hired man with pitchfork
and seriously wounding him.
"The Green Mountain State" is the
name of new paper, the first issue of
which appeared this week. Its publisher
is L. z. Thayer of West Randolph, and
its purpose is to boom Vermont.
Mrs. Chamberlain of Wells River has
retained lawyer and proposes to sue
the general government for $3.50 of pen
sion money which she says she never had
and which she claims is due her.
Harding Spencer, 40, son of David
Spencer of Wilmington, committed suicide
by hanging to one of the rafters in his
house at Readsboro last week. Domestic
difficulties are said to have led to the act.
Three-card monte men tried, Monday,
to work their game on Hiram Phelps, an
aged and well-to-do resident of Williston.
He didn't like the game and refused to
take hand in it, One arrest has been
made.
Napoleon Gaudette, a horse-thief, es-
capped from st. Adams jail late Thursday
morning. He used chisel to dig his
way out under the Jail wall and to the
street. A prisoner named Brooks refused
to accompany Gaudette.
DR.. Otto II. Ritzman, a prominent
Albany On. W physician, was drowned
at North Hero, Monday. He was out on
the lake with party fishing, when the
boat capsized All the other occupants
of the boat succeeded in getting ashore.
Charles r. Sortwell of Montpelier,
brother of DR.. SOrtwell of Cambridge,
and president of the Montpelier and
Wells River railroad, was struck by a
backing engine and instantly killed at
Montpelier Tuesday afternoon. The
body was horribly mangled. He was
deaf and was intently watching a train
Oh the track near by, and probably had
not the slightest warning of his fate. He
was about 50 years old and unmarried.
The annual excursion of the Vermont
Press association took place the 18th to
Saranac lake in the Adirondacks, the ex-
cursionists numbering so, including a
number of guests. At the business
meeting these officers were chosen for
the ensuing year President, l.. O. Greene
of Woodstock; vice-presidenus, ID. X. ST.
monds Of Manchester, G. f. Crowell of
Brattleboro, f. c. futile of Rutland
secretary, G. T. Walter of st. Johnsbury
treasurer, l.. II. Lewis of Hyde Park
executive committee, G.. 5. Forbes of St
Adams, r. j. Humphrey of Poultney, Ii
Z. Parker of Bradford.
; The first annual meeting and banquet
of the Vermont society of Sons of the
Revolution was held at the Van Ness
house at Burlington Thursday evening
the 10Th. Twenty-eight new member:
were elected, and the reports of officers
were read and accepted. These officers
were chosen: President, G. G. Benedic
/ of Burlington; vice-president, Redfielt
!. Proctor of Proctor; secretary, G. 5
Forbes of st. Adams; treasurer, w. ii
Zottman of Burlington, and a board o
seven managers. Fifty covers were lait
for the banquet. Toasts were Responded
to by Lieut-Gov. Woodbury., DAME
Roberts, A. G. Pierce, Col. q. W. Hooke
and e. G. Benedict.