Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-08
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

| Annual Fish and Game League Meeting
More Destruction of Vermont Forest
Land-Fatal Shooting of Barre Italian
| Poor Hunting in BENIN gton-Items.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Fish and Game League, which will be
held at the Brooks house, Bratteboro,
Wednesday evening, Nov. ID, has for its
object the election of officers for the en-
suing year, to hear reports, and to re
ceive annual dues. 1t is also the inten-
ton to bring up the question whether
the league shall entertain the members
of the North American Protective asso-
citation on the occasion of the latter's
annual meeting, which is to be held In
Vermont some time in the month of
January. Should this be done, a special
meeting of the league, with social func-
tions. will probably be held for the pur-
pose suggested.
Read Brothers of New Boston, n. H.,
the well-known lumber dealers, have
purchased 5000 acres of timber land in
the towns of Windham and Stratton, in
southern Vermont, which is estimated to
contain 99,O00,00O feet of spruce and
cherry birch. The purchase price was
$4,000. The tract bought Is situated
between the Bennington & Rutland rail-
road on the one hand and the Central
Vermont on the other and is down grade
about six miles from EACH Read Broth
ers will work this land with force of
$50 men, 100 pairs of horses, and four
steam mills this winter, and will ship the
lumber mostly to the New York market.
The deer season was very unsatisfac-
tory in Bennington. 1t is estimated
that fully 100 people from out of the
state were on the mountains during the
season, besides local hunters, looking
for deer. So far as heard from, only
one deer has been killed in the county.
Last season there were 10. One party
who were out eighty days said that
they hunted carefully over section of
20 miles, and did not see trace of
deer. Bears have been much more nu.
merous, and six have been killed. One
of them weighed 300 pounds.
At the flower show held at Madison
Square Garden recently the highest prize
for American Beauty roses was awarded
to DR.. w. Seward Webb, and also the
first and second prize for vioets. p. j..
Fay, Dr. Webb's florist, is very sue
cessful grower of high grade flowers of
various kinds. The roses which took
the prize were remarkable specimens of
their kind, some of the stems being
fully five feet long, while the blossoms
were of remarkable size and perfection.
The violets were all that could be desired
in their class.
Henry Broggi of Mortified, Al years
old, was accidentally killed Sunday after
noon. In company with others he was
out hunting. Joseph Berniccni ap-
preached him and began to demonstrate
how he had recently shot rabbit. In
moving his rifle the trigger caught on his
clothing, the weapon discharged, and
Broggi dropped dead, heavy charge of
shot having entered his side above the
heart. He leaves wife and three
children. The parties are Italians en-
ployed in the granite works.
A. d. Harris at Montpelier has novel
machine almost completed. 1t is his in
vention and he is constructing it at the
supplementary machine plant of the
Lane Manufacturing company of which
he has charge. This machine is of the
lot order. By use of its attachments
gum, sailed peanuts, lead pencils and
shoe strings are to be sold by dropping
from one penny to nickel n the slot.
William II. Silsby, who owns the
Horace Aver farm near Cole Corner,
has put in six trout ponds on the farm.
ranging from % to 20 feet in length, 10
to y feet in width, with a depth of , to
feet, which have been stocked with
"fngerlings." This farm has an album
dant water supply, and later Mr.. Silsby
may go into the trout industry on a
larger scale.
j. E. Staley of Skaguay, Alaska, who
, is visiting relatives in Rutland, has re.
| ceived Skaguay Daily News of Oct. II,
giving detailed account of an immense
flood caused by the overflow of the Skag-
uay river, which inundated large por-
ton of the town and did great damage to
property. Among the property injured
was the hotel owned by Mr.. Staley.
DR.. III. Nelson Jackson of Burlington
: has purchased 300 acres of marsh land
l near Sandbar bridge. This land COM
prises some of the best territory for duck
? hunting to be found on Lake Champlain.
. The property has been leased by Benajah
Phelps for many years heretofore.
5 Theophilus Grout, former editor of the
Newport Express, has been appointed
special inspector of customs and attached
to the staff of Converse j. Smith of Bos-
: ton, who has charge of the New England
a districts.