Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-06-02

and in some way loosened the arbor that
runs the board saw causing the saw,
arbor and feed pulley to go up through
the floor and cut one of the cross beams
partly off. The saw and other machine
ry were badly damaged, causing quite a
loss. Luckily no one was Injured.
Eli Pierce of Plymouth was in Wood
stock the other day and displayed a
genuine rarity in the form of gold mug
gets to the value of S25 or $50, which he
had washed from the sands of the brook
running through his premises. The
mine on the Nahum Baker farm at
Bridgewater is in full blast and they
now have tunnel 200 feet deep in the
hillside.
There was an unique method of ad-
vertising an entertainment exhibited in
South Royalton one day last week. A
man, said to be hypnotized, apparently
in deep sleep, lay in the store window
of one of the merchants for ten hours
and was then awakened by the hypnotlst,
a young lady. An entertainment was
given in the evening.
The work of erecting the new build
ing for the Jaquth public library in
Montpelier will commence at once. Ac-
cording to the terms of the will the
library building will be built by the
town. OF the $4,000 left by Mr.. Jaquith
$1,000 will be used at once to purchase
books, while the remaining $1,000 will
be invested for recruiting fund.
Joseph Peavey of East Braintree. 20
pounds of milk, sowed five bushels of
barley, went five miles to Randolph with
a load of freight, helped furrow out a
large garden, ground ten bushels of
corn. besides doing the work around his
small place.
w. II. Geddis of Brattleboro is the de-
signer of the official flag to be used at
the international Epworth League con-
vention, which will ne held in Indian
apolis July 20 to %. He will go to In
dianapolis the first week in June, and
expects to dispose of 10000 flags.
While watching a ball game from a
slab pile Charles Viking of St. Johns
bury, boy aged 1G, grasped a live
electric light wire and was terribly
burned. He Is barely alive as the result
of the shock and his recovery is doubt.
full.
Elmer A. Darling of East Burke.
proprietor of the model stock farm,
Mountain View, in that town, is pres
ident of the American Jersey Cattle club.
The 3lst annual meeting of this club was
held in New ork recently.
The second soldier of the Spanish
American war to be admitted to the
Douglass of springfield, who was in the
Santiago campaign with the "a Mas
sachusetts volunteers.
Mrs. Winslow Hall of Barton Landing,
through mistake, threw can of powder
into the stove with some papers last
week. The stove was blown to pieces
and Mrs. Hall quite badly burned.
The Estey organ company of Brattle-
boro has marked the completion of 300,-
900 organs, by issuing handsome
souvenir catalogue.
John Marshall Shaw of Bethel, aged
81 years, in one cay last week dropped
corn for BOSS hills, by actual count.
A steamer has been put on the Hos
mer pond in Albany and the grounds are
being fitted up for summer resort,
Mrs. L. d. Poland of Wlliamstown
has an English ivy four years old that
measures $50 feet in length.
An electric stamp cancelling machine
has been set up in the postof1ice at
Brattleboro.
T. II. Chesley, a Lyndon boy, twas re-
Gently nominated for Judge of Henry
county, Ill.