Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-12-28
A GLANCE OVER THE STATE.
Ha openings of Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain State.

Ha openings of n Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain State.
The first public hearing to be held by
the new state board of railroad commits
sioners was at Bethel, when the case of
Alfred Curtis, who was killed by the
cars near that place, was taken up.
The state cattle commission con-
demned ~ cows in the herd on the
Malvern Stock farm at MorrisviIle and
the animals were slaughtered. They
were tested and found diseased with
tuberculosis.
Mrs. Ida II. Read of SheIburne, state
president of the w. c. L. T., was pre-
sented Saturday with handsome fur
coat by the members of the Vermont
organization as mark of their ap-
probation of her services during the
past year.
Alpha Messer of Rochester, A. j..
Croft of Enosburg and E. l.. Bass OF
Randolph met at Randolph recently TO
make arrangements for the annual meet
ing of the Vermont Sugar Makers asso-
citation, which has headquarters there.
The meeting is to be held IN Morrisville.
1t is announced that Gen. Il. 5. Peck
of Burlington has withdrawn his can
didacy for collector of customs for this
district. He claims to have strong sup
port, but withdraws because of the
announcement of the president that there
will be very few changes among office
holders.
The war against the supplying of milk
from dairies not tested for tuberculosis
has, it is said. resulted in the use of con-
densed milk by the family of an editor
in Vermont town. a crusade in favor
of testing all herds from which milk was
dispensed resulted in the supply of the
editor being cut of entirely by the local
milk dealers.
Fifteen portable saw mills are now ia
operation in Bennington county. The
early fall of snow and good sleglrng in
the mountain towns have been of great
benefit to the lumbermen, and operations
are now in full swing. Spruce and hard
wood timber is in good demand and bring
good prices, and large tracts of land COW
cred with trees of that description are be-
ing leveled.
There was a tragic death the other
day at North Hero. An Italian laborer,
while blasting, left an iron bar or tamper
in the drill hole. The blast went oft pre-
maturely and the bar was driven clean
through the mans chest from front 70
back. He lived less than an hour and
was buried without ceremony. Civil
Engineer Lloyd was the funeral director.
No one knows about his family, if he
had one, and his name even remains a
mystery.
The report of A. A. Priest of Ran.
dolph. the state grange secretary, showed
that there are now 7G oranges in the
state, with a total membership of 1000.
There has been gain of nine subordl-
nate oranges and one Pomona grange
and nearly 400 members in the state dur
ing the past year. Protective grange of
Brattleboro has the largest membership,
37S, followed by West Randolph grange
of Randolph with 29S. There has been a
gain of 5000 in the receipts this year and
800 as compared with two years ago
and there is no deficit.
Mrs. Frank l.. Parsons of Essex
Junction met with e serious accident
Saturday. She was backing the kitchen
range when the brush caught fire,
which resulted in the igniting of a can of
benzine. The woman's clothing quickly
caught fire as also did the furnishings
of the house. She ran out doors en-
veloped in sheet Of flames and her cries
of pain could be heard for IA long dis
tance. Mrs. Parsons's mother, who was
in one of the upper rooms, called to the
suffering woman TO roll over in the snow
which she did and eXtingui-hed the
flames.
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