Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-08-17
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Hope for Investors in Defunct Granite |
state Provident Association-Fort Ethan |
Allen Again Garrisoned Small Boy EN
plodes IL Torpedo-Notes.
The state board of normal school com
missioners have Just issued a handsome
little illustrated brochure of the three
Vermont normal schools at Castleton.
Randolph and johnson. 1t is u pages
and contains in brief the principal facts
of interest concerning the advantages of
these Institutions. The state board are
Walter f. Howard, president, Middle
bury; Francis A. Bagnall, secretary, st.
Albans; Frederick W. Pierce, treasurer,
Chester Mason S. Stone, state superin-
tendent of education, Montpelier.
A Chicago broker recently sent cir
cuar letter to the various certificate
holders in Vermont of the defunct Gran
ite State Provident association, Offering
| 20 per cent for their claims against this
concern. The proposition was referred
70 David A. Taggart. receiver of the
Granite State association. He advises
that he expects to pay from % to 30 per
cent of the claims of certificate holders.
1t will probably be paid in two dividends
one in September of October and the
other about Jan. |, 1901.
Company ID, Eleventh infantry. on
special train of five cars from New Gork,
arrived at Fort Ethan Allen Monday and
will garrison that post for the present.
The Eleventh infantry has been in Porto
Rico for the past two years and two bat
talons are still there. The strength of
the company is 81 men and two officers.
A detachment of 10 men from the
Fifteenth infantry, which has been at
the fort, left for Oswego, y. Y, where
the remainder of the company is To-
Gated.
Edward Graves, the l0-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphus Graves Of
Winooski, met with a serious accident
Monday morning. In some manner he
got hold of large railroad torpedo,
such as used to signal trains, and taking
a hammer exploded the same with DIS
astrous results. He was thrown against
the side of the shed and considerably
bruised his face and hip being badly
lacerated.
Mr.. and Mrs p. =. Williamson of south
Pomfret celebrated their Goth wedding
anniversary last week. They held a re.
ception for friends and neighbors IN the
afternoon and evening. entertaining them
with "reminiscences of so or more wears
ago. They are a very remarkable old
couple living by themselves and are both
hale and hearty.
Capt II. W. Hovey, formerly mlllt,rr
instructor at Norwich University IS
expected to remain in Alaska for an
other year. He has been with the
governor general of Canada and the
governor of Alaska during the past week
on business connected with the Amer
ican-Canadan boundry line in that
section.
A dynamite mine containing six large
cartridges and fuse Is feet long. with
cap for firing. has been found under an
old house in she rear of l.. +. Holden's
house at BrattlebOrO The mine was evil
IDENTIFY placed under the house years ago,
but no satisfactory explanation has been
given.
DR.. X. a. Wtthaus of New York,
well known as a former professor of
chemistry in the University OF Vermont
medical department. has sent in a bill for
SIS, 800 for his services in connection
with the Molineux trial.
Sunday Roy Smith of Randolph, aged
l3 years, went swimming with a party
of boys in the Eldredge pond and fell
over the dam TO the rocks below, dis
tance of 20 feet or more. He sustained
a bad cut near the waist.
In one of Rich's kilns at Swanton the
lime is now being burned with soft coal
instead of wood. Compressed air is used
; TO blow the fire. The use of coal is in
the nature of an experiment, and so far
has proved success.
Marion Tuttle of East Wilmington has
a yellow marguerite which has nearly
200 buds and blossoms on il. 1t is 81
inches high and has all grown from a
tiny slip she picked last fall after frost
came.
During the past year the Internation-
al Paper companys daily product of fin
ished paper at Bellows Falls has increas-
ed nearly 20 tons. 1t now aggregates
about l2O tons daily during the year.
Henry Thayer of Mallet's Bay says
that $1,000 will not cover his loss in the
storm of early last week. His entire
orchard is destroyed and the damage to
to his buildings and fences is large.
] The Willard Manufacturing company
of st. Albans is filling out an order for
10000 coats and trousers of khaki, for
the use of soldiers in the Philippines.
WEST SALISBURY
| Mabel Noyce has returned home from
Brandon.