Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-10-01
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

d. Billiard, aged IS, gallant bachelor
bf Wells, gave two remarkable dinners
couple of weeks ago, one to his male
friends who were 81 years or over and
bne to his female acquaintance who
We're 80 years of age or over. AT the stag
Lartv the combined ages of the ancients
MAS 1903 years. 1t was jolly old crowd
Ind many gray-hared jokes were re-
|urrected for the occasion, and enjoyed
Is they were more than 80 years age, when
he Green mountains were shade
treener than they are now and before
hany of those present had raised hirsute
|ppendages. MIR. Billiard was the only
han present when the 20 aged bellies
tathered around him. Their combined
|ges was 1892, or an average under 80
ears.
Some unknown parties entered an
richard of small trees belonging to Will
lam CULVER about three miles from
Bennington and cut down every tree,
yer hundred in number. The trees
Eere set out only about two years ago.
they were apparently first bent over and
hen cut. CULVER is a veteran and
fought small farm with his pension
honey three years ago. lie put flag
! ole in front of his house soon after
|noving there and some one cut the
billiards not long after. He has no idea
Who cut the trees.
George VI. Percival, who had been
Employed as a blacksmith at Highgate
Springs, went to st. Adams looking for
work. lie registered at the Exchange
tuesday and was given room. lie
vent to bed about S o'clock. At 6
o'clock next morning the proprietor
segan to call the boarders. He smeled
as in the hall and traced it to Percival's
Dom. He knocked, but got no response.
| lie then broke in the door and found
I'ercval stretched out on the bed dead.
Probably blew out the gas.
Mrs. Phoebe Frye, the oldest person in
Essex county, was buried at Concord last
Friday. She was born in 1906, was a
member of the first Sunday school organ
kation in the state and had been a men,
er of the Free Baptist society for more
han - years. She leaves several chill
rem, among whom are James Frye, a
merchant of Boston, and Mrs. Clark.
wife of the superintendent of the poor of
ledford, Mass.
While searching through an old chest
short time ago George Marsh, of Ben
! ington, found one of the first maps of
he town ever issued 1t was prir ted in
$50 by Joseph y. Ilinsdell. At that time
here were only two meeting houses in
he village; now there are seven. Then
he Center village was the principal part
f the town; now it is only a suburb, the
ummer home of many city people.
For some time Ollie Olmstead of Hard
|vick has suspected that coons were
Plentiful in his territory out along the
Woodbury. road. Recently he set steel
Trap nicely covered with leaves, at a
] oint where he suspected game was ac-
.ustomed to pass. He evidently theorized
correctly, as examining the trap the next
horning he was surprised to find two
'ull-grown, fat coons, caught each by a
'oreleg.
Charles l.. Thompson, eldest son of
Ir. and Mrs. John G. Thompson of
Fl. JOhnsbury, was found dead in bed
+ Wednesday morning. The cause of his
cath is thought to be apopleXy. He was
i years old and unmarried, and had
been chaplain of the Frost Camp Sons of
Veterans for ten years.
. Il. Il. Robertson of Springfield exhibits
I curious freak of nature in an ear of
Orn which, unbusked, appeared of mann
10th proportions. and on removal of the
Suter covering developed twenty per-
.ectly formed ears from two to four
inches long, attached to a single cob.
. George Whitney of North Shrewsbury
ound a swarm of bees in the woods one
ay las. week and took from them Il
bounds of honey. Harmon Balch took
2 pounds from another swarm and Al
non Russell found third.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Teachers association will be held
It Woodstock, Oct. 14-lG, 1897. Among
he prominent speakers at this session
viii be Hon. W. Il. Harris, L. S. COM
nissiOner of education.
The Bennington and Rutland Railway
company is about to build new passen-
ger and freight depot at Bennington. 1t
s said that the cost of the entire work
contemplated by the company will
Emount to $1,000,
Carl Sears, of Ludlow, drove his COW
nto her stall one evening last week, when
omething dropped on the animals back
nd she turned Suddenly. One horn
truck HIM in the abdomen and made a
painful wound.
On Monday Burlington was put in tel.
9phOne connection with Montreal, Buff.
0alO, Toronto and Quebec.
They are digging for gold at Bolton
nd claim to have discovered another
E [londike.
Up ON the I[IondyLe River.
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