Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-11-09
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Increased Number of Deer Killed During
Open season-The Speakers at the Gen.
q. o. Howard Banquet Last Night
Chester's Centennarian Hale and Hearty.
John w. Titcomb, chairman of the
State Commission of Fisheries and Game,
gives a statement of the number of deer
killed in Vermont during the open sea- i
son, which closed Nov. |. lie reports the
number killed to be Ill, divided by coun-
ties as follows: Addison, ) Bennington,
o; Caledonia, 1; Chttendon, l Essex, l |
Franklin, |; Lamoille, |; Orange, 3; Or
leans, 4; Rutland, 80; Washington, 4
Windham, /; Windsor, Is. In 1898 the
open season consisted of the entire
month of October, when 1870 deer were
killed. In 1899 the season lasted 10 days,
and 80 were reported killed. As in pre-.
vious years, the largest number reported
were from Rutland and Windsor coun-
ties. This report will doubtless be added
to later by returns from some of the
back towns.
+ The committee on speakers of the din
ner given to MajOrGen. O. O. Howard,
United States Army, in honor of his
seventeen birthday, on Thursday even
ing, at the Waldorf Astoria in New
| York had the following list of toasts,
and the following responded to Them
| The Hon. Chauncey NJ. Dcpew' who pre-
sided; Thomas b. Reed, Gen. Daniel
L. Sickles, Capt, Alfred Y. Mahan, Gen.
Grenville NJ. Dodge, the Rev. John II.
Barrows, Bishop Wesley Z. Gaines,
Comte de SABINE de Lafayette, Gen.
Wager Swayne, the Rev. j. j. BurIill
and Booker 7. Washington. Nearly
all Of the boxes to be occupied by women
guests in full dress were taken.
Charles Amsden, the Amsden capital
ist found dead last week In the Hotel
Metropole at Detroit in kneeling atti.
tude before his bed, was 60 years of age,
and was engaged in Detroit in settling
up the estate of his half brother, the
late John Ward, of which he was exc
cutor. lie had been in Detroit since
December. a wife and daughter sur
wye him. Heart disease is supposed to
have been the cause of death.
Prosper Morris of Chester, who will
be 100 years old July -, 1901, can be
ettll VII lllt Sllttl UCdIlN ever udN =
when he walks from two to three miles.
Mr.. Morris says he is tough and hearty
and his appearance does not indicate
over - years. Mr.. Morris hobby is
astronomy. He can tell at any time the
date, hour and minute that the changes
of the moon occur, also explain all the
important stars.
The late George II. Blanchard of New
York had at Proctorsville one of the
most unique summer homes in Vermont.
"Nalemont," the family homestead, was
transformed into a museum, and here
Mr.. Blanchard gathered one of the
finest private collections to be found in
the country. The house is completely
filled with antique furniture, crockery
and curos from foreign lands.
Mrs. Sophia Lawrence, shout Go years
of age, committed suicide by drowning
at Weston Friday morning. Not max
ing her appearance that morning search
was made for her and she was found
about quarter of a mile from the house
in a deep part of a brook. Mrs. Law
renee was widow and has been de-
mented at times for two or three years.
A special meeting of the Barre city
council was held last week to open bids
for the S2j,0 600 81 per cent refunding
water bonds. w. j. Hayes & Co. of
Boston submitted bid at Sl02.S0 and
the Barre Savings Bank and Trust com
pany at 500. The bid of the former
was accepted.
j. Edwards Bailey's horses, f. +.
Knott and Susan, which have won large
sums of money on the race track this
season, arrived in Montpelier last week
from Westfield Mass, where they closed
the racing season for the year Mr.. Bal
ley refused an offer of $1,000 for Z. f.
Knott.
The Hon. b. Frank Stevens, for the
past 10 years a resident of London, has
presented the library of his native town,
st. Johusbury, with 200 volumes. The
library was founded by Mrs. Horace
Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury IN memory
/, of he husband, a native of Barnet.
The stone work for the iron bridge for
the Rutland Canadian at the mouth of
the river at Burlington is completed
The iron work will be constructed i'm
mediately as the iron is on the ground.