Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-06-22
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The Vermont Delegation at Philadelphia
A Bethel Man Corrects His Aee-New
Convict Labor Contract Made Flotsam
and Jetsam of IA State.
The Vermont delegation to the ma
tiOnal Republican convention at Phila-
delphia organized by electng James w.
Brock of montpelier national committee
man in place of George r. Chids of st.
Albans, who declined a nomination. The
delegation selected J. G.. Mccullough
chairman; l.. NJ. Read on the committee
on resolutions; w. II. Slack on the COM
mittee on permanent organization; w.
y. Platt on the committee to notify the
president and F.. NJ. Bartlett on the
committee to notify the vi, e president.
John Marshall Shaw, Bethel's oldest
resident, had supposed that he was born
Dec. 81, 1902, but investigations of the
town records of Stockbridge, his birth
place, prove that he was born Dec. 81, ,
1901. Mr.. Shaw is still as hale and
hearty as boy GO years of age, and per-
forms considerable labor with the hoe
and AK. 1t is his great ambition to round
out 100 years, which he seems to bid fair
to do.
f. II. Town of Chubb's Crossing comes
to the front with probably the longest
unbroken row of corn in the state of
Vermont. 1t takes up three acres of
land. On his farm is a big cone-shaped
knoll. Commencing at the base Mr..
Town drilled round and round cork
screw style, clear to the summit, and so
gets one continuous winding row that
covers the whole piece.
Harvey Hall of Lyndon and Fred Car
ter Of st. Johnsbury were deep water
trolling in Caspian lake one day recently.
Carter had occasion to pull in his troll
and found long auburn cOlored hair
and several shorter ones attached to one
of his hooks. Considering the fact of the
supposed drowning accident that took
place there last season these hairs are
significant.
The contract for the convict labor at
the states prison expired recently and
new contract was made with \. f. Mann
~ Co., shoe manufacturers. the present
occupants. for five years. The price per
man in the last contract was - cents a
dav. The present contract is for - cents
a day. The institution pays a profit to
the state of about $1,000 "A year.
John Clark of Lincoln was taken vio-
lently insane at the residence of his sis
ter. Mrs. Edison Tart in Bristol, Friday.
He attempted suicide by trying to Jump
tr1m the same place where his brother
in-law, Edison Tart. lost his life last win
ter. He has been placed in confinement
and will probably be taken to Waterbury.
He has family.
lockwood Barrett, who purchased the
Burlington Manufacturing company's
plant. has begun to develop the quarry
on the Maxwell farm to ascertain if the
marble there is of sufficient soundness
and of such quality as to warrant work
ing.
The body of Charles Williams of
Waterford, who ran into river and was
drowned in an attempt 70 escape from
officers who had arrested him for intoXi-
cation, has been found on the bank of the
stream in Barnet.
Emerson Hall, president of the Pas
sumpsic Savings back at st. Johnsbury,
died Monday, aged ST years. Had he
Ii ed until the next day he and his wife
would have celebrated their golden we'd
ding.
a third attempt is being made to raise
the schooner j. G.. Wetherbee which
sunk last fall in the Shepard Il Morse
Slip. south of the Lake Champlain Yacht
club house in Burlington harbor.
The Republican convention of Chitten-
den county 10 select candidates for
county offices has been called for
June %.
Eight hundred bushels of Strawberries
are received in Burlington weekly for To-
cal consumers.