Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-10
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

A Canadian Criminal wanted-Other
Notes of Interest.
The Vermont Dairy school opens on
Monday, January 10, this being the
seventh annual session. The school
lasts four weeks. No tuition is charged,
nor are entrance examinations required.
Thorough instruction is offered in hand
ling separators, ripening cream, making
butter, testing milk, in pasteurizaton
and in general dairying. There are three
courses Of lectures, aggregating over
fifteen in number. There will be from
eight to twelve separators in use, while
the churning and milk testing rooms are
thoroughly equipped with all modern
appliances. The course is open not only
to professional creamery workers but to
anyone who may wish to learn the newer
methods in dairying. The capacity of
the shool is limited, and all desiring TO
take the course should apply at once to
Prof. j. L. Hills, Burlington, Vt.
Thomas Cannedy and two companions
shot two bear cubs and the mother at
Hartwelville last Friday, and placed the
meat of the old bear on sale at North
Adams, Mass. The three men first came
upon the cubs in tree and brought
them down from their perch permanently.
They had just finished this Job and had
but one shot left when the old bear came
furiously upon them. The men saw
danger ahead and waited with con-
siderable courage until the old bear was
within good range of them. The last
shot was fired and the old bear got it
fair in the face and rolled over.
Canadian officers have been near
RichfOrd for a week looking for a man
named Martin of Bedford p. O., who is
wanted for assaulting an officer. 1t
appears that Martin had been arrested
for assauting his father, and while
being conveyed to Jail at Sweetsburg he
attacked the officer and both fell from
the wagon. Martin knocked the officer
senseless and escaped to this side of the
line. Martin killed a man in a drunken
row at the Bedford fair four years ago,
and served two years in the penitentiary
for his crime.
Frank Pellerin, a carpenter, while
working on a house in Bennington, made
mlsstep Saturday afternoon and fell
from the ridge pole. A sca1folding under
him was broken and he went to the
ground a distance of about 40 feet. lie
was picked up unconscious and taken
home. Examination showed that his
spine was injured and he was otherwise
hurt. He died Monday afternoon. lie
leaves a wife and children.
Bradley c. Newell. the blacksmith
healer of Vermont, has bought three
large farms, comprising about 800 acres
in the town of Rowe, in Franklin county
and will stock it with a large number OF
cattle which he has bought from the
c. |. Hood farm at Lowell. Mr.. Newell
will start in about six weeks on triE
through the West, going to Chicago ant
possibly to points beyond.
The young child of Mr.. and Mrs. Johl
Ayers of Rupert, came near losing its lit,
a few days since, having swallowed thir
teen headache pills. 1t is thought th
child took them for candy. The littl
ones hands and face became purple, ant
upon finding out what she had eater
medical aid was summoned. Will
prompt treatment she was restored ant
is now out of danger.
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenu
Arthur l.. Weeks has received notice o
his reappointment to that positson iron
the new collector for the new district o
New Hampshire, James A. Wood. MI
Weeks territory embraces the state o
Vermont except Windham county, an
the appointment is during the pleasur
of the collector.
Frederick S. Ladd, who has Just bee
nominated in Springfield, Mass, for tn
council, went there from Montpelier
years ago to learn the jewelers. trade vi
der his brother, +. +. Ladd. He has al
ways since then taken an active interes
in political affairs, but this is his frs
venture tor office.
Reports that several Cinnamon, dis
guised as women, have recently crosse,
the Canadian border and made their wa
safely into the United States hav
, aroused fresh activity on the part of tn
governments secret service men. LAX
Memphremagog is being watched.
The case of DR.. w. II. Gddings, forme
superintendent of the Waterbury Insan
r asylum, charged with cruel and abusiv
; treatment of female patients in that inst
p tuition was ended Saturday, when a nOll
2 prosequi was entered by States A
= torney f. A. Rowland.
Deeds were passed Wednesda
afternoon transferring the poor farI
: owned by the CITY of MOntnplipr
e Berlin to William Il. Granfed. TIL
I city received its money in full, Sl35l
= the amount asked for the place.
Peter Tirrell of Hartford, aged
q years, still does odd Jobs for the negl
| bors. lie has just finished chopping
cords of wood for NJ. b. Hazen, and live
e in shanty in the woods and boare
i himself while doing it.
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