Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-04-11
State Veps.

The Ryegate Granite works are now
employing about 40 men.
building concrete sidewalks the coming
season.
Martin Martin, aged n~inety-four years,
Brattleboro's oldest citizen, died on
Thursday of last week.
Preparations are being made at SPRING
field for the Windsor county veterans
reunion to be held there August l.
Postmaster George r. Mooney of st.
Adams died last week Friday of pneu-
monia, at the age of forty-two years.
Arrangements are making for the for
nation of a county union of the Chris
tian Endeavor societies of Rutland coun-
ty.
Freight traffic over the Bennington &
Rutland railroad was never before so
heavy as since the movement of ice COM
menced.
\ special grand jury has been sum-
moned for the April term of Franklin
county court on account of the Fairfax
and Fairfield murder cases.
The largest Congregational church and
Sunday-school in the State are claimed
by the Rutland church REV. G.. w.
Phillips, ID. D., pastor), the membership
of tie former having reached G33 and the
latter 40.
Fred Lasure of West Windsor, while
pitching hay in his barn recently, found
four packages of postage stamps, valued
at 5000. with some small change. The
packages were marked Bridgewater Cor
ners. They were stolen from the post
Office a few months ago.
The Nermonters in Minneapolis have
had a meeting and appointed a commit
tee consisting of L. a. Grant, c. ii. Ben
ton, A.. c. Belden, j. c. Griffin and b. l..
Perry, to confer with st. Paul people in
terested and form an organization of
Sons of Vermont.
As Mrs. B. C.. Hall and a siX-year-old
daughter of Peter Blair were crossing
the river at Enosburgh Falls. Thursday
afternoon, they broke through the ice
and the little girl was drowned. Mrs.
Hall was rescued in an exhausted condi-
ton after being in the water nearly half
an hour.
y five-year-old son of Gus Bowen of
Stevens Mills was accidentally shot in
the face Saturday, March 30. receiving a
serious injury. An elder brother was
firing a revolver and the little fellow ran
in front of the weapon just as it was
fired, and the ball struck him under the
eve. intiicting a serious wound.
At the st. Adams village meeting. last
week. the treasurer was authorized to
take measures to apply 100000 to the
payment of the village debt and to refund
the balance at Il rate of interest not eX-
ceeding o per cent. \ sum not eX-
ceeding ST. ,0G0 was voted for the expen-
,es of the coming year and ten per cent
additional to the fifteen per cent required
by law for highways.
The following fertilizer companies
have been licensed by the State treasurer
to sell their several brands of CONNER
cial fertilizers in Vermont for the year
1890: Pacific Guano company wv. d.
Stewart n Coz, Boston; Quinnipiac com
pany, New London, Conn: Bradley
Fertilizer company. Boston; Cleveland
Dryer company, Cleveland, o.: Listers
Agricultural Chemical Works, Newark.
\. j.; Crocker Fertilizer and Chemical
company, Buffalo, y. Y: Standard Ferti-
lizer company, Boston; Cumberland
Bone company, Portland, Me-; Bowkel
Fertilizer company, Boston; +. Frank
Coe, New York Williams Il Clark Ferti-
lizer company, New York; Clark's Cove
Guano company. (John 5. Reese & Coz
Baltimore. Md.