Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-05-18
A GLANCE OVER THE STATE.
Happenings of IA Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain State.

of the Green Mountain state.
Arrangements have been completed to
give Fair Haven a new shirt factory,
employing from $50 to $50 men and
women. James =. X. Pine, large real
estate owner in the vicinity, also large
stockholder in the United States Shirt
and Collar company of Troy. n. Y. last
year purchased the shirt factory, oper
ated for the previous five years by the
Fair Haven Shirt company, and tins year
it was found that they had so far out
grown their accommodations that it was
decided to build new factory, much
larger and better than the old one. He
was enabled to buy the site of the Fair
Haven Marble and Marbleized Slate
mill, recently destroyed by fire, and will
erect two story solid brick building on
the site. 1t will be 80 feet long by 30
feet wide, with basement under the en-
tire building. The work of cleaning up
the premises has already begun under
large force of men and the erection of
the building will begin as soon as ma
terials can be got upon the grounds to
commence operations.
The meeting of the state board of rail-
road commissioners at Alburgh last
Wednesday was held at the request of
the selectmen of the town to have an eX-
animation made of a grade crossing
which is being put in by the Rutland
Canadian railroad by filling in the high
way to a depth of about II feet. This
is objected to by the town, which desires
an underpass. The commissioners found
the matter at this stage out of their
Jurisdiction. An Injunction against the
railroad is contemplated by the town
authorities.
An uncommon event In the annals of
| longevity was celebrated recently in
Chester at the home of Mrs. Lucretia
Clark and her mother, Mrs. Mary Wells
Burdick, at FactOryvlle, the occasion
being the 9Gth anniversary of the birth
of Mrs. Burdick and the 18th anniver
sary of the birth of the daughter, Mrs
Clark. The aged Mrs. Burdick is well
preserved and retains her mental faculties
in a remarkable degree, can read without
glasses and is a diigcnt Bible student
The state convention of the prohibition
party of Vermont will be held at Mont
pelier TODAY. The convention will be
held in G. \. II hall and will convene at
> II o'clock for the appointment of com
mittees. In the afternoon the conven-
ton will be addressed by Oliver w.
Stewart, chairman of the prohibition
national committee nominations for state
officers and presidential electors will be
made and campaign plans discussed.
dealers of New York city, are arranging
for the purchase of 2S.330 acres of tim
Der land in one body. located in the
towns of Dorset, Manchester, Peru, Win
hall and Sunderland. Judge Darling of
Bennington is looking up the titles, and
if they are found satisfactory the trade
will 90 through This is the largest
land sale that has taken place in the
state for many years.
The recent death of the venerable Jacot
Ide of st. Johnsbury, IN his 9th year
suggests the fac; that the ldes are long
lived family. During the past year FL
more 7. Ide and his wife of that tOwr
have attended nine funerals of near rela
tivcs. the average age of whom has beer
over 90 years. The Youngest of the nine
was 81. the eldest 81.
A l5-vear-old son of Daniel Mitchell o
Burlington was placed in Jail Friday fo
bicycle stealing. The boy was caught a
the Methodist church. For several even
ings bicycles that have been left at the
church, while the owners were inside
have been taken. Mitchell was accom-
panied by companion who escaped.
f B. Eddy. who recently lost owe
81 600, 600 in the destruction of his mattel
and paper factories at Hull. Ontario. il
remembered in Brattleboro AS TN ped
dler years ago. He started in the papel
manufacturing business with "A Hines 4
Newman machine. made in Brattleboro
Mr.. Eddy was horn in Bristol.
Harley NJ. Chatterton, guard at the
house of correction, Rutland. shot Al
eagle on the wing Monday afternoon
The bird measured six feet five inche,
from tip to tip. 1t had been lowering
around the premises for a number of dav.
and had been shot at several times.
Andrew Farrell, son of Mrs. Andrew
Farrell and John Foster, a nephew o
Milo Foster of Middletown Springs, lad
about If years of age, disappeared from
their homes a week ago Thursday anC
there has been no trace of them dis
covered since then.
The immense bridge now being con
structed near Mandalav i'm Burmah. India
and described as the highest bridge in tn
world. is being erected under the direc
I personal supervision of J. c. Turk, sol
of Bennett Turk of Burlington.
Cheney Prentiss, the oldest Odd Fellow
., In Vermont, died at his home in North
~ field Monday of gastritis. He was s
d years of age. He Joined the Odd Fellow
In Brooklyn, y. Y, in 1887.
Representatives of the Baker Under
wear company, which recently located a
l. Richmond, purchased $500 worth q
: sewing machines in Burlington the othe
day for their new factory.