Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-09-29
State 11ems.

strikers on two churches is being put in
at Barre
Editor Humphrey of the Journal has
been made postmaster at Poultney and
w. L. Howard at Fair Haven.
The 80 Vermont exhibits of maple
sugar at the Worlds fair took 30 prizes
Ohio had l3l exhibits and got 81 prizes.
1t is said that beer or liquor is sold in
go tenement houses in Barre. The law
and order league has taken the matter
in hand and is causing the arrest of Of
Tenders.
Mai. Allen Spaulding, who died IN st.
Johnsbury last week at the age of SO
years, was born in Roxbury and was one
of the oldest Grand Army men in the
country.
An appropriation of $1,000 for concrete
sidewalks has been voted by the village
of Enosburg Falls. The village is soon
to have electric lights and a system of
water works.
John P. johnson. a native of Hines
burgh, died last week in Ogdensburg, N.
Y, aged 81. He was one of the best
known architects in that section of the
State.
The body of Thomas Layden, a we'll
known character, was found in barn
at North Bennington last Friday. No
marks of violence were discovered, and
it was decided that his death was due to
alcoholism.
A sale of Vermont-bred horses is to
be held at Barre the third week In
October. 1t will be the largest sale ever
held in Vermont, the object being to
establish yearly sales market for YER
mont horses.
The survivors of the 18th Vermont
regiment had well-attended reunion at
|Lyndonvile on Tuesday. Senator Proc
tor was chosen president of the reunion
Organization and made speech that was
heard with pleasure.
The supreme court has appointed these
men to assess the value of property in
Rutland which belongs jointly to the
town and city: w. w. Stlckney of Lud-
low, Amory Dawson of Craftsbury and
j. w. Brock of Montpelier.
The house. barn and all outbuldings of
E. w. Bugbee, a farmer who lives two
miles north of Montpelier, were burned
last week. The property was ins ured.
The fire caught from an engine used
in running an ensilage cutter.
Harry T. Matthews and Edward E.
Estey of BrattleborO, who were sum-
mering at Fishers island, on the Con-
necticut coast, died there on the 10th
inst. of malignant diptheria, disease
which caused several other deaths on
( the island.
Windham county has will case on
trial IN the county court. 1t is that of
all her property to the Baptist churches
of East Dover and South Newfane,
leaving an aged mother penniless; and
the brothers and sisters and heirs are
trying to break the will, claiming that
she was of unsound mind.
The mid-year convention of the New
England Woman's Suffrage association
will be held in the Unitarian church,
Burlington, Thursday evening and Fri
day, October and 6. An elaborate
programme has been prepared. Hon.
al Il ho Il Il
Of welcome. Mary A. Livermore of
Melrose, Mass, and H. B. Blackwell OF
Boston are other speakers.
George Parsons. a stone-cutter, elopet
from Montpelier last Friday with the
15-year-old daughter of H. H. Ayers, {
prosperous farmer of the adjoining tow
:. of Berlin. He had been boarding in tn,
Ayers family and was arrested, wher
about to take train at Montpelier will
his bride. on the charge of trying to leav,
the State without paying his board bill.
The National Fibre Board Co., having
large works at various places Throughout
New England, with headquarters IN Bos
ton, has secured possession of the larg
building at Morrisvile formerly a pull
mill, latterly a leatherboard manufaC
tory. 1t is moving machinery and outfit
men, ETC., from Salem ana Lynn, Mass
and is to increase the works. The Unite
States Truss Co., lately organized a
Morrisville to manufacture local inven
ton, also has building nearly in read
ness to begin operations.