Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-11-01
State l1erps.

State l1elps.
The Methodists of Rutland are discus
sing the question of erecting new
church.
st. Adams people are about to petition
congress. asking that the federal build
ing burned last May be rebuilt.
Richard Philipott, Il years of age,
dropped dead at Bennington Monday.
He had suffered from heart disease.
The twenty-third annual reunion of the
Survivors of the First Vermont cavalry
regiment will be held in Burlington today.
A Lynn, Mass. shoe firm wants to To-
cate at Montpelier. 1t will bring Sl3,OOO
capital if Montpelier people will put 500
4 600 into the business.
Mrs. Edwin Burdett OF Shrewsbury
was blown off her bicycle by a heavy
gust of wind one day last week and had
shoulder dislocated.
Rev. DIR. Geo. b. Stafford, pastor of the
. College street Congregational church,
Burlington, from 1850 to 1882, died at his
home in Brooklyn, n. Y, Oct. p.
The ferry scow between Alburgh and
F. Swanton was blown over and sunk by
the high wind Monday. The ferryman,
the only person on board, got safely
ashore.
The annual meeting OF the Vermont
Press association is to be held at Burling-
ton the 18th inst. The newspaper men of
the city will entertain the brethren at "A
banquet.
One day last week A. Z. Bowen and
4 jay Bentley of Sunderland saw large
panther The animal came within five
or six rods of them and disappeared in
4 the woods.
Mrs. Honora McCarty, said to be lO5
years of age, of South SALISBURY at
tended mass at ST. Francis de Sales
church in Bennington Sunday morning.
She walked home after the service
The large ice house of the Central Yer
mont Railroad company between White
River junction and Hartford was dam
aged to the extent of $1,000 by fire Friday
morning. The fire was probably set by
tramps.
Charles Conant of Brattleboro has a
. fine old brass clock which was ticking
out the time, when Paul Revere took hi
famous ride 1t was owned at that time
by Capt. Andrew Conant of Concord
Mass, great-grandfather of the present
owner.
Henry A. Dawley, Mount Holly boy
who went to Colorado Is years ago, re
Gently arrived in town. having made the
entire journey from Fort Collins, Col,
on his wheel. He was about three weeks
on the way.
George \. Colby of Ludlow committed
suicide Monday morning by drowning
himself in the canal of the Black Rive
= Wooden company. He had not beer
/, well and is thought to have been TEN
pOrarily insane.
Douglass Patten. a Rutland black
smith, killed himself Tuesday with oil o
wintergreen. This is the second suicide
committed in the family within three
weeks and the third wi hin five years
Pauen was about 30 years old and leaves
widow and two children.
The Brattleboro Reformer is to repub
llSh ID. Il. ThOmpSOu's historical romano,
of early Vermont days, entitled 9Th,
Rangers or the Tory's Daughter.' Judg
II. IL. Wheeler, who knows more of tn
unpublished history of those times thai
any man living. and c. IL. Davenport
will add supplementary notes.
j. w. Way, Il photographer of Man
chester. has in his possession pOwde
horn that is 100 years old, aS an engraved
name on it shows that it was made b,
William Ferris in l7G5. 1t was pickle,
up by the grandfather of Mr.. Way tn
night before the battle of Bennington OF
the spot where the 100 men under War
ner that went from Manchester campo,
the night before the battle.
The Vermont Farm Machine Co. o
Bellows Falls has just shipped one of it
e. largest sized fruit-drers to the island 0
Jamaica to be used for the drying of tn
coffee beans of that country. Its capa
city is 60 bushels of apples per day, and
will dry many more bushels of bean;
A few weeks ago two of these larg
driers were shipped to the island q
Trinidad for the purpose of evaporatin
bananas, when is coming to be IA gTea
industry there.
The second reunion of people over :
years of age living in the town of Maj
e. chester was held last week Thursday
The first reunion was at the residence {
j. +. McNaughtOu five years ago.
that time there were 40 people in tow
over 20. Fifty have since died. Thel
were then six over 80 and 81 between {
and 30. Eighty were present at that r.
union and many of them were present
this. There are now in town l5l pc
sons over 90, two being over 80. III
Oldest person is "a. One hundred al
ten persons sat down to dinner.
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