Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-09-11
State 11eps.

The Vermont factories for canning |
corn are in full blast now.
There is an unusually good crop of
tobacco in the southern part of the State.
The secretary of war has directed the
construction of band barracks and adj
dtional officers quarters at Fort Ethan
Allen.
Calvin ID. Bigelow, prominent farm
er and president of the LyndOnvllle ma
tional bank, died Saturday night OF
cancer.
The State Christian Endeavor conven-
ton at Rutland has again been posipon-
ed from September % and % to Septem-
Der 20 and 30.
The steam sawmill of w. r. NOrthrup,
in West Dandy, was burned to the
ground Saturday night. The loss is
$1,000 and the insurance $1,000.
A bear has been seen several times of
late by residents in the vicinity of Prices
and Chambers farms at MiddleseN. 1t
is supposed to be black bear.
The docket of the Washington county
court has 80 cases, II of them in
chancery. There are % cases under the
prohibltory law and 20 divorce cases.
A movement is on foot to organize a
stock company of 500 shares, with cap
ita of $1,000, for the purpose of carrying
on the bakery business in Burlington.
During the month of August. llG i'm
migrants from Europe arrived in the
United States by way of the district of
Vermont. There were 50 Russians in
the lot.
Deer are so numerous in the hill
towns of Bennington county as to be
nuisance. In East Dover they have done
considerable damage in orchards and
grain-fields.
The French statesman, NJ Ribot, is
visiting Edward S. Isham at Manchester.
NJ. Ribot's wife is cousin of Mr..
Ishams deceased wife. Nine. Ribot was
Miss Burch of Chicago.
c. Angler of Montpelier, stone cutter
for G. u. Gill 81 Co., has recently received
notice through an attorney at Montreal
that he has fallen heir to an estate in
France said to be valued at S., 100000.
Kittredge IIasllins of Brattleboro. w.
A. Lord of Montpelier, George NJ. Pow
ers of MorristOwn and Henry G. Bates of
St. Johnsbury will be candidates Tor the
speakership of the house of representa-
tives.
The body of VIM. Nero of Pittsburgh
was found in the lake at Burlington Fri
ing about the docks in an intoxicated
condition. He was 80 years old and
married.
Frank Densmore, a young man en-
plOyed by Willard Weeden of Windsor,
was feeding a threshing machine the
other day when one hand became caught
in the cylinder and his arm was so bad
~ manged that amputation was neces-
sary.
y ten-pound pickerel was caught in
peculiar manner at Silver lake, Bethel,
last week. A boy on the shore noticed
two large fish fighting of shore and soon
the larger fish pushed the smaller one
and the latter took to the land 10 escape,
thus easily falling victim to the boy.
a brakeman narrowly escaped being
crushed under the cars in the railroad
yard at RoXbury on Saturday. lie was
thrown from the top of the cars to the
rails in front of moving cars and stun
ned and would have been run over but for
the presence of an associate who sprang
and pdllcd him from under the cars.
Among the voters at Randolph last
week was Hon. j. p. Cleveland, who is
81 wears old. Mr.. Cleveland, in his day,
has seen the election of eighteen presi-
dents, John Quincy Adams being the
first, and has a vivid recollection of
going when a boy with his father to
South Royalton to catch a glimpse of
James Monroe.
Rev. DR.. Isaac n. Sprague, a retired
Presbyterian Clergyman, died at his home
in POultney on Wednesday, He was %
years and months old, and was proba-
bly, the oldest living Clergyman in YER
mont. He graduated from Middleburv
college in the class of 1922. He was the
only member of that class living, and
with possibly one exception the oldest
living Middlebury graduate.
As the result of a controversy between
the Rutland railroad and the Central Yer
mont, two locomotives, representing the
respective roads. engaged in a tug of war
at Burlington last Friday morning over a
car loaded with machinery from the re-
pair shops of the Rutland road. The
Central Vermont engine finally won, be-
cause some one slipped the coupling of
the other locomotive, and the contested
cars, with their load, were taken to St
Adams.
Frank Ploof of Burlington, the 10.
years-old son of Louis Ploof. a laborer
died at a hospital Friday night from in
iuries received by being run over by an
The lad was with other boys chasing
some ducks around the street and pay.
ing no attention to the car, which was
running slowly. He ran in front of il
and was knocked down. Both legs were
cut of at the knee.