News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-02-20
STATE NEWS,

The Fairbanks Scale Company, of st. Johns.
bury, has just completed "a large special
track scales to be used in the Anaconda mines
in Montana.
Harlie O. Cummins of Montpelier is achev-
ing fame as a short story writer. He has
story in the February number OF the BLACK
Cat" magazine entitled the "Sins of Sims"
and another has been accepted by that mag
azine in which it will appear later. Hereceiv-
ed 10 for these stories He has also writ
ten a short story for the "Argosy" which has
been accepted.
Ivan W. Goodner formerly stenograpber
in the Office of the Estey Organ Company at
Brattleboro and who is now practicng law
yer in Pierre, s. D., was recently appointed
one of the two regents OF education for that
state. MIR. Goodner is also states attorney
for Huges county, in which Pierre is siuaf-
| ed, and holds the military rank of colonel
through service on the governors staff.
The tannery of Phelps & Harrison, of Beth
ell, has cut down its daily output of hides from
| $50 to 100 hides. There is general stagna
tion in the leather market and the company
| has an immense stock in it's Boston ware
house, not sold. In fact it has sold scarcely
$4,000 worth of products of the new tannery.
| The state Of affairs is nothing alarming. as
the leather market has its dull days and this
| is one of them.
The Boston & Maine railroad company 10
| pursuing vigorous campaign against pen
ny .iD-the-slot machines on it's system The
result is that nearly all of them have been re-
moved, and in few days it will beim possible
to buy candy or chewing gum by machinery
| In any station in this company system. The
| machines are quite profitable to the com.
paDy owning them, but of little profit to the
railroad company.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Henry C. Bates has been
notified of his appointment as district Judge
in the Philippines. He has accepted and wi
go to that country April 1. Mrs. Bates a.
companies him His salary will be from $4,000
to $500, according to the district to which
he will be assigned upon arrival with trana.
portation for himself and family. He will sell
everything here. The appointment was made
through Judge Ide.
Marvin A. Mcclure was sentenced by Judge
Hoyt a. Wheeler, in the United States dis
trict court at Rutland Wednesday, to serve
seven years, without labor, in the Vermont
house of correction in Rutland. Before pro.
nouncing sentence the court oyerruled the re.
spondent's motion in arresting of judgement
when the jury brought in verdict of guilty
last Friday. Mr.. Mcclure was convicted o.
assisting to wreck the Merchants National
Bank of Rutland. He hung his head when he
heard his sentence and appeared very much
detected. he was taken to the house of cor
rection at once. By good behavior he may
shorten his term by one-sixth.
From the Barre Times: The vital statisticG
of the hill towns of Vermont show some in
teresting things For instance, in the towns
of Windbam county and having population
of only about 500, during the year 1906
there was but one marriage, indicating tht
absence of young people, most OF whom have
doubtless gone away to larger centres o
population. That the conditions in these hill
towns are conducive to longevity is demon
strated, however, by the figures relative &c
deaths in this same town of Dover. During
the year 1900 the deaths numbered nine. o
these three were infants less than four years
old while the other six had all passed thret
score years and ten. One was 90. two were
over eighty, while the other three were be
tween 70 and 80.