Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-08-09
State l1eps.

The new electric road at Brattleboro
has been formally opened.
Newport has ladies' bicycle club,
with enough members to fill all the offices.
An eight-room public school building
to cost $4,000 will be erected in Bur-
lington this summer.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
Organization of the Congregational
church in WIllamstown will be observed
August 10.
The Fall Mountain Paper company of
Bellows Falls has just finished driving
to that place six million feet OF logs
cut on the White river.
The Vermont Chronicle is to be issued
from the press of the st. JOhnsbury
Caledonan. The paper was formerly
published at Montpelier.
The Methodsts of Swanton, whose
church was burned in the recent big fire,
have begun the erection of another. 1t
will be of wood veneered with brick.
The CID annual convention OF Yer
mont and provincial Universalists will
be held in the Universalst church in
Morrisville the 9th, 2sth and 10Th inst.
The Congregational church at Dan
vile, near st. Johnsbury, and the barns
of Fred Frye at the same place were.
burned Saturday. Cause of fire un-
known.
f. j. Thomas died suddenly while
eating in Rutland few days ago. The
autopsy showed that he choked to death,
large piece of potato being found in
his throat.
Owen Raymond, a man so years of
age, and an inmate of the Woodstock
poorhouse, committed suicide by hang
ing, last Sunday. His mind was tempo
. rarily deranged.
The new three story business block
which was being built by ii. c..
Morton on North Main street, st. AL
bans, collapsed the night of the lst.
No one was hurt.
Vermont and New Hampshre's inter
state fair will be held at Billings park,
White River Junction, Sept. and ,.
Six purses of 5000 each and one of $1,000
are guaranteed by the association. There
will also be coaching parade.
Mrs. Gertrude b. Jones of Barre has
petitioned for divorce from her hus-
band, Rev. |. Jones, who was pastor of
the Congregational society at Williams
town from 1888 to 1890, on the ground
of intoerable severity and nOn-support.
Willis X. jackson, who has for some
time been in the employ of the Central
Vermont railroad company as telegraph
operator and ticket agent at Barre, is
said to be an embeZZler to the amount
of $3.50. He will have a hearing the
goth.
Search for the missing lnman of White
River Junction has been abandoned.
Mrs. Inman has not given up hope yet
that her husband is not alive. The only
reason to suppose he has absconded is
the fact that he had some @. A. r. funds
in his possession.
A Frenchman whose name is Frank
Myers in English and who claims
Springfield as his home got drunk in
Rutland the other night and went about
town shooting a revolver in regular
cowboy style. He was arrested before
he had Injured any one.
One day last week as Spaf1ord Stanhope
of Richford was turning his cows into the
pasture he was attacked by a bull, which
threw him to the ground, goring him
about the body and breaking three ribs.
But for the timely arrival of his faithful
dog he would have been killed.
The Vermont Novelty company mills
at Springfield have been purchased by
W. II. IL. Slack 81 Bros. This mill has
been baby carriage and toy factory for
upwards of thirty years. The new COM
pany Is to place extensive shoddy making
machinery in the building so as to treble
their usual output of shoddy wool
Miss Honora Brown of East st. Johns
bury, aged about 20, went to the pas
ture on a recent night to get the cows,
and did not return As the pasture is
wild and rocky, searching parties were
organized and n hours later the old
lady was found several miles from home
much exhausted, but otherwise unin-
jured.
The bell lost from the old locomotive
st. Johns, which ran into the river at
EnOsburgh Falls in 1888, was fished out
of the stream with considerable difficulty
last week, the water having been let out
of the pond. The bell was found en-
bedded in the mud in five feet of water,
and looked as if it had been there but a
few days, being perfectly bright.
There is to be new bridge over the
Connecticut river from White River
Junction to Lebanon, n. ii. 1t is to be
a Plat truss bridge of three spans, $50
feet over all, to be completed 90 days
from date of contract. The contract
price is S2l, 547 80, which includes re-
moving temporary bridge from the
Lebanon side of the river and two piers,
the Vermont town sharing the cost of
building the abutments and about lC
feet of the superstructure on the Yer
mont side of the river.