Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-09-23
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


Granite Work-FIotsam and .Jetsam
The gang of thieves, who are operating
in the state, made the Fair Haven post
office visit early Tuesday morning anC
took about $50 in money and stamps
They gained an entrance by rear win
dow by using carpenters tools which
were left near the window. There is nc
question but the work was that of pro
fessonals, as the safe door was blowr
nearly across the Office and no marks left
to show where the explosive was insert
ed. 1t was not discovered until O'Clock
when the office was opened for the day
business. Nothing in the way of clue
was left.
The Mack Granite company of Hard
wick is working on a piece of granite
style of novel design. 1t represents an
old hewn-out log water trough, such as
were seen along the highways of this
territory century ago. 1t is about
eight feet.long and upwards of two feet
in diameter and will hold more than a
barrel of water. 1t will be erected on
two granite supports representing
stumps. 1t is to be set up near the CEN
ter of the village of Lyndonville and is a
gift to the town of Lyndon by the Merry
Sickers of that town.
Frank G. Ives, the champion billiard
player of the world. was the guest of II .
E. Woodbury. of Burlington, coming from
his camp in the AdirOndacks Saturday
afternoon. Mr.. Ives was accompanied
| by Mrs. Ives and Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson is a brother-n-aw Of Mr..
Woodbury.. Mr.. Ives visited the Ethan
Allen club rooms Saturday evening and
gave few exhibitions of fancy billiard
shots. Mr.. Ives is in the mountains for
his health and as yet has no matches
arranged for the winter.
Mayor Senter of Montpelier has two
thoroughbred Irish settlers who are
brother and sister. One afternoon last
week the sister was found to be missing
from her accustomed haunts, but a little
later she made her appearance proudly
bearing a plump partridge over her
shoulder which she had gone forth and
captured unaided
Conversation was carried on last week
between Brattleboro ana Chicago via the
long distance telephone. The speaking
could be heard as distinctly as over an
ordinary short circuit. The man who
did the telephoning used the instrument
four minutes and the price was IS 50.
An inscription on an old stone in the
Randolph cemetery reads:
"My days we're short, my years were few,
paid my debts, and so must you"
Whether the shortness of the life of the
departed was in any degree due to his
paying his debts the reader is left to sur
mise.
II. w. Powers of Hardwck lost a val
liable COW Saturday afternoon by pecu-
liar accident. The cow had started to
cross the sidewalk and in attempting to
turn around the foot became fastened
and she snapped of the hind leg at the
CANNON joint.
Henry BOstwick and Mrs. Sarah Glib
son of Pawlet are firm believers in mat
rimony. They have each been married
three times and being left alone in the
world they were married last week.
Bostwick is 81 years old and his wife a
year younger.
William j. Cummings, a BrattlebOro
man, is suffering from the effects of his
politeness. Meeting two ladies at the
foot of Estey hill he stepped back to let
them pass, when he stepped on a rolling
stone and fell, breaking one leg In three
! places.
L. \. Drew of, Burlington took the
oath of office as a deputy United States
marshal last week. The appointment
was received from Marshal Fred A. Field
of Rutland. Mr. Drew was county sher-
III l3 years and has also been chief of po-
/ lice.
The venerable George Hubbard of st.
JOhnsbury, who has reached the age of
93 years, was unable TO vote this year
because his name had been accidentally
omitted from the check list. He cast
his first vote for Andrew jackson in
1928.
Some of the boys in the village school
at Barnard were playing ball the other
day, and one of them knocked high fiv.
A large hawk seized the ball and carried
it some distance before it found that it
was not fit for hawks food.
Countess de Jotemps came to Brattle-
bOro two weeks ago, accompanied by
her four-year-old daughter, Miss Smith,
of Brooklyn, and her servants. The
countess will remain at The Hemlocks
about six weeks.
A Brattleboro painter named f. S. Grew
was sent to Chesterfield, n. H., to do a
job recently, and before it was done was
arrested and convicted of lewdness and
general cussedness and will go to prison
for 500 DAYS.
The annual meeting Of the Vermont
Federation of Women's clubs will be
held in BrattlebOro, Oct. and 6. En-
tertainment will be provided for the
executive board and two delegates from
each club.
H. C. Green of Fair Haven, who en-
listed In the navy at the beginning of the
war, served as quartermaster on the