Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-01
State l1elps.

ery day with scores of men hunting for
employment.
MANY Vermont farmers are holding
Il their maple sugar, hoping to get 10
cents per pound.
Lvndonvile is raising money by
popular subscription to purchase IA
Sl5O0 electric fire alarm.
Rutlands elaborate plans for a new
= opera house have proved something of
bubble. The project has been given up.
President Kennedy of the St. Johns
bury electric railroad hopes to see the
abroad in operation by the Fourth of
July.
The only aud original blank White,
when not distorting his mouth as an end
man, earns an honest dollar by posing as
pm auctioneer.
A. II. Marley of Enosburgh Falls
places his loss by the recent high water
there at $4,000. He Is clearing up the
ruins of his mill and will rebuild at once
Walter B. johnson has reOpened his
hotel at Essex junction as temperance
mousse. 1t is one of the two closed re-
GENTLY because interfered with in the sale
Df liquor.
By the advice of his physicians Bishop
Hall has Cancelled all his engagements in
Vermont until MAY Is. His health is i'm
proving, but it is deemed unwise for him
% resume work at present.
Work is going on upon guard wall
which will surround the grounds at the
house of correction at Rutland. The
wall, to be built of stone, will be faced
With brick and be l6 feet high.
! Wells River is agitatng the subject of
water power and electric light system.
good water privilege with 30 feet fall,
nd only half a mile from the upper end
lf the village. can be bought for $780,
Considerable building is going on in
Bennington. Already seven houses
nave been commenced this season. One
If them is to cost from $4,000 to Sl5,-
100 and the rest will range from $1,000 to
$500.
Rev. Merritt Hulburd, formerly pastor
bf the Methodist church in Burlington,
but now at Wilmington, Del, is mention
ID as likely to be chosen bishop of the
Methodist church at its next general con-
erence.
The citizens of Rutland held a mass
meeting Friday evening to decide
whether the tax rates should be increased
i r bonds be issued to continue the city
permanent improvements. Both of these
propositions were voted down.
Fred w. Boyd of Randolph objected to
eing listed and when the assessor asked
i'm how much property he had Boyd
licked him. Boyd was promptly ar
ested and convicted of an assault and
ound over to county court in the sum OF
4 $500.
The Barre members of the Granite
tate Provident association are making a
nove to secure "A permanent Injunction,
that the 5000 now on deposit in one
f the local banks can be kept in the city
nd not allowed to be taken into the gen.
raj fund.
The Prohbitionists of the State viii
meet in mss convention at Capitol hall,
Iontpeler, Thursday, May I, to nom
ate State ticket, presidential electors
nd nine delegates and alternates to the
ational convention TO he held at Pitts
urg, Pa. May p, 1896
Ira G.. Calef, "A prominent citizen o.
Washington. Orange county, was so wei
leased with what he saw of the man
cement of the Mary Fletcher hospita
Burlington during q month that hi
ster WIS there AS patient that he ha
iven the Institution $1,000.
r. +. Byrnes of Minneapolis, who wa
Eoseu b. the Republican national com
lttec a. its serge 4It-at-arms for tn
reat couyentioG at 81. Louis, is Bel
pwS Ftl'4 boy. He went to MiHneapo
: many years ago and Is one OF tn
eadiug lawyers of the ~ rthwest.
Healer Newell was in Burlington las
Eerll, and the Daily News says: "Dur
hg his stay here Mr.. Newell treate
early two hundred cases. As far as ~
49, an ascertain, he did not effect a singl
urc. At the same time cpnslderabl
umber of patients were helped to
reater or les extent"
The cifiz Hs OF Fair Haven celebrate
y fire works and BEN ringing Frlda
light the news Chat the Bisby Bell an
'ool Manufacturing company of Bosto
AS decided to locate there. The con
any's capital stock i, $50, 900. of whic
25,OOO is subscribed in the village
bout l25 men will be employed.