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the coming state convention of the Y.
p. S. G. E. which will be held in that
city next September. 1t will open Mou-
day evening, the 18th, closing on
| Wednesday evening, and an attendance
! of fully 1000 is looked for The meet
ings will probably be held in the armoTy,
since that is the largest hall in the city.
The State officers, acting as a committee
on arrangements, are corresponding
with some of the best religious speakers
| in the country, such as Francis Murphy,
B. Fay Mills and j. W. Chapman, in an
effort to get them to attend. The first
State convention Of the society was held
in Burlington 10 years ago. 1t was
comparatively insignificant affair then,
with organizations in only foW of the
larger towns. Now there are 100 So
cieties,
Vermont is credited with the largest
wool clip, per sheep, east of the Missis
sippi river, which is Z! pounds, with
other states much lower.
George Milow Douglass, ex-postmas-
ter of West Rutland, whose whereabouts
has been matter of conjecture since
July 1894, was arrested Wednesday night
at Barre, charged with embezzling gov
ernment funds, but when brought be-
fore the United States Circuit court
Thursday at Montpelier pleaded guilty
to the charge. Judge Wheeler imposed
a fine of 500.
The Woman's Suffrage association of
| Vermont met at Peacham last week and
discussed the subject in its several
| lights. The result was the adoption of
| resolutions declaring that the Organiz-
alton would work for the full enfran-
chisement of women on the ground that
it would add to the moral and intelli-
gent vote of the state. The resolutions
affirm that the common sense of the
civilized world is working towards
woman's enfranchisement, and invite
the cooperation of all individuals and
associations interested in the social and
political reforms to this end. The resO-
| lutiOns also declare that the same stand
ard of morals be required from men as
from women, and that like transgres-
sions should be visited with equal penal
| ties.
James Gazeley of Albany, Y. Y, the
millionaire quarry-owner and the larg-
est tax payer in Barre, has been looking
over the quarries there. Mr.. Gazeley
has recently been travelling around tn
world and taking particular notice of
the granite quarries in old countries
and in the United States. He says he
has not seen anything in the granite
line that will compare with the quarries
at Barre.
Rev. George Thatcher ot Bakersfield
preached a week ago last Sunday on
the evils of attending a circus, directing
his remarks especially against a circus
which was soon to exhibit in the place.
Some of the young people of the place
were not pleased with his remarks and
when the village awoke last Thursday
morning it found the minister's house
plastered with circus posters from caves
to foundation.
The village of Randolph can probably
boast of having the Oldest Mason in
in point of membership of any place in
New England in the person of James P,
Cleveland who is member of Rising
Sun lodge Of Royalton. He was made
Mason in June, 1924 and is thus men,
Der for Il years and one month. He is
also a memper of Haswell Council and
a Knight Templar. Mr.. Cleveland has
son who is a Mason of over % years,
in the person of James =. Jr. who
is past grand master and
ter and has been the treasurer OF Phenlx
Lodge of this place nearly 20 years,
Frank II. Cleveland, a grandson of the
elder Cleveland also belongs to the Ma
sonic fraternity. Mr., Cleveland senior
is in his 03d year, and is quite hale and
hearty.
The case of State of Vermont vs.
Henry Pratt the Newfane hotel pro-
L, prietOr, for selling Eddy & Co.'S hop
beer, was tried before Justice Burditt at
Newfane Friday. The State claimed
that it was malt liquor within the stat
ute. The beer is taxed by the United
States as malt liquor and Eddy & Co.
hold license as wholesale dealers and
advise their customers to secure retail
dealers licenses. Eddy & Co. testified
that they did not know whether the
liquor contained any malt, and Druggist
Chaplin, an expert testified that he knew
no way to ascertain the presence of malt
in the beer. The State claimed that these
facts brought the beer within the statute
and made Pratt guilty of violation of the
prohibitory law but the court held other
wise, and he was declared not guilty
and was discharged.