Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-10-13
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


tory Holds Worlds sRecord-senator Proc
tors GRANDMOTHER.
The government building at st. Adams
now completed was started in 1890.
Congress on March 3, 1891, made an APP
preparation of 100000 for it. On March
3, 1898, it appropriated $4,000 to COM
plete it. In the fire of 1895, the building
was partially destroyed. On June II,
1896, congress voted $4,000 for rebuild
ing and repairing it, making the total
amount appropriated $4,000. The
amount expended for the site and Incl
dental expense was S,7SS 40, and the
total cost of the building, rebuilding and
repairing, was Sl46,2l1.60. The Yer
mont Marble company furnished all the
marble for the building.
Bridget Fletcher, wife of Isaac Parker
and grandmother of Senator Proctor,
died and was buried in Weathersfield in
July, 1901. As she was the only men,
Der of the family buried there, the sena-
tor on recent visit went to Weathers-
field and made arrangements to have the
remains moved, and last week they were
brought to Proctor and buried in the
family lot. The body had been buried
95 years, and when dug up handle up
on each end of the coffin and parts of the
coffin were found. The bones were in
remarkable state of preservation, showing
her to have been large woman at the
time of her death.
The corn canning season at Windsor
closed last week, with a record of nearly
| 400. 900 cans of corn and succotash for
this year, an output far ahead of that
of any corn canning factory on the
globe. The best previous record was
about 100000 cans of corn and sue
cotash. Huskers had to work in snow
squalls Monday morning and afternoon,
but this did not seem to interfere with
their programme. Work has now COM
menced on labelling the cans and pack
ing them for market, the output having
been mostly disposed of in advance to
iobbers and wholesale dealers. The
amount paid farmers for corn has been
upwards of S2l 900.
Since the death of Gardner Upham at
Windham, aged 102, Hollis Nichols of
Townshend is the oldest man in south
ern Vermont, If not in the state. MIR.
Nichols will be 90 years old in Novem-
ber, is hale and hearty and mentally well
preserved he was born, and has always
lived on the farm where he now resides.
His birthday will be made the occasion
of town celebration.
Emilio Guerra, the Cuban cadet at
Norwich university, saw snow for the
first time Sunday morning. He is al
ready wearing two sets of heavy under
clothing with an overcoAt thrown in, and
is chilly most of the time. Getting ac-
customed to the comicalties of a Yer
mont winter promises to be pretty
serious affair for Mr.. Guerra.
George n. Annls, an essence pedler,
well known in Vermont, committed sui
eide at his boarding house in Barre
Tuesday morning by shooting himself
through the head with revolver. He
lived until 6 o'clock in the evening. He
was G5 years old, and leaves wife and
children in Lowell, Mass. The suicide
was caused by poor health.
The north bound Montreal sleeping
train on the Fltchburg railroad was
wrecked at II)osick Junction shortly
after midnight Sunday morning. In the
coaches were several Burlington ex
cursiDnists who were returning from
New York. One of these, A. johnson
of the wreck.
An ancient pitcher which DR.. Hill OF
Bellows Falls recently brought from
England, relic in the Hill family, l.
over 300 years old and is covered viii
unique decorations and inscriptions
among the latter being the following
"Success to the fleece, the plow and thu
pail, may taxes grow less and the tenan
ne'er fail
An accident occurred Monday on tn,
Saranac Lake railroad near Baybrook
| y. Y. The Wagner sleeper and coacl
, Jumped the track and rolled down tn,
embankment. There were eight passen
gers on the train, but only Miss Margare
b. Reed of Arlington, VT, was seriousl.
injured.
The remarkable demands for all grade
of pine lumber has not diminished ant
many of the mills in Burlington ar
working night and day, trying to I'll
their orders. The price of lumber ha
not advanced during the past week ant
, there will not be another rise.
John Fielder of Burlington, subject t
} cateleptic fits, went on to the roof of hi
house Saturday to do some shingling
While at work one of his fits came o
and falling to the ground he receive
! injuries from which he died in tw
= hours.
Rudyard Kipling will sell his home a
Brattleboro, "Naulahka' and that yillag
will see him no more. He had mad
l great improvements to his country plac
y there and general regret is expresse
= over his decision not to make it hi
r home.
t William H. Cary, Jr., son-ln-law of D