Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-11-28
State 11epS.

The work of building the hospital to be
used in connection with the soldiers
home at Bennington will not begin until
spring.
The horses owned by DR.. w. Seward
Webb of Shelburn Farms captured a
score of prizes at the horse-show in New
York city.
Preparations are being made to open
the quarries at Malett's Bay next spring.
Work was discontinued at the quarries
about two years ago.
In the northern Lake Champlain region
ducks and geese are reported to be found
in unusually large numbers and the
hunters are holding high carnival.
Oscar o. Wheelock of Brattleboro, 20
years of age, hung himself on Friday.
He had been chief of police and was a
prominent Mason and Odd Fellow.
j. II. Dunbar of Hartland has resigned
as supervisor of schools for Windsor
county and George Z. johnson of Spring
field has been appointed in his place.
Mrs. Isabel Poland Rankin, daughter
of the late Hon. Luke p. Poland, has
given to the town of Morristown one
thousand dollars toward library which
is being established there.
"Aunt" Patty Richardson of Bethel,
3 I,a lnct - ,f Lat;
soldiers living In Vermont, has nearly
completed her Dist year, but is still a
brisk and active woman.
The Bennington and Glastonbury rail-
aoad has been sold to Col. NJ. S. Colburn,
manager of the Bennington and Rutland
road, for $4,000. The sale was by auction
and includes eight miles of railroad and
$4,000 acres of heavily timbered land. 1t
will be placed in first-class condition.
Curtis d. Sweet of Bennington is the
owner of Spanish coin, original value
about 20 cents, bearing date 1922. Span
ish money circulated freely in this coun-
try up to and about the time of the war.
Mr.. Sweet found this coin while digging
potatoes. 1t is probably relic of the
revolution.
Col. Z. NJ. Mansur of Island Pond. de-
partment commander of the Vermont
G. A. R., has issued general order in
which he says: 1.-THE officers and COM
rodoc of tb;c donor time for chic
year have shown a commendable inter-
est in our order. Six new posts have
been organized, ana net gain in mem
bership, at the close of third quarter, of
lS6. The order also assigns the number
of delegates which each post will be enti-
tied to at the oath annual encampment,
to be held at Burlington, the date not de-
termined upon. They, with an equal
number of alternates, will be elected at
the first meeting of posts in December.
At Fair Haven the other morning Pat
rick Foley discovered man in the brick
yard who had been almost burned to
death. 1t seems that MervIn Munroe of
Castleton had wandered into the brick
yard while on his way home, and it being
cold had started fire and had lain down
alongside of it and gone to sleep, and
had either rolled into it or was so close
to it that his clothing caught fire and
burned his flesh. When found he was in
horrible condition. His left arm was
burned to the bone and the flesh was peel
ing off his hand and fingers. There were
also great burns on his back and breast
Everything possible was done for the
suffering man, but he died.
The annual report of the Central Yer
mont railroad company for the year end
ing June 30 shows the following: Gross
earnings, S5,245, l35; increase, S464 ,223
operating expenses. S3,636, CPS increase
27S, 294; net, Sl,609,l Joy; increase, Sls6,
929. The net revenue has been applied al
follows: Expenditures over ordinary
working expenses, S204, 1000; interest OIL
bonds, $751;, 1852; taxes, S97 1856; rental
leased lines, 1855, 026; interest paid, $50,
616; balance, S5,066. The increase il
gross was principally from freight, 1921
6S3, and necessitated large expenditur
for motive power and for additional sid
ings. The rate per ton declined fror
9l-l00 in 1897 to Sl-l00 in 1890.
General )1emS