Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

One of the unpleasant features in con
nection with the National Guard muster
at Camp Gov. Stickney, last week, was
the complaint of the men regarding the
commlssary supplies. Formerly each
company was allowed to contract for its
own supplies and each company com
mander reserved the necessary amount
to cover this expense, out of the mems
pay. Under the new rule the regmental
commissary officer contracts for the food
supplies of the entire regiment and the
state deducts 80 cents a day for each
man; this leaves the men S1.50 day,
rations paid. The fault seems to lie
mainly in the want of experience of the
officers, who did not know Just how
much it would require to feed 500 hungry
men for eight days.
The project of Il electric road from
Montpelier to Warren and Waitsfield is
being revived. Civil engineers have re-
Gently gone over the route to make an
estimate of the cost. A New ! ork COM
pany, with heavy financial backing. is
looking the matter up, intending to build,
1t is understood, if the prospects warrant
it. A company has recently been formed
to develop the tale and asbestos deposits
| in Waitsfield, which would afford consid-
cradle business. Another plan the pro-
moters are considering is to buy the eX-
isting electric road between Barre and
Montpelier and extend it through to East
Barre and Williamstown. A charter has
been granted for such line, but no
steps have been taken toward building it.
Frank A. Briggs of Burlington will
soon begin the construction of big hotel
at Grand Isle. 1t will be located on
Robnson's Point. The property has
been occupied for several years by Dan
iel Dixon. but was recently purchased
by Mr. Briggs. The hotel will be erected
on the top of high bluff, which projects
out into Lake Champlain nearly half a
mile, one of the finest points on the lake.
Associated with Mr.. Briggs in the man
agement OF the house will be George II.
Allen, former proprietor of Hotel Burl-
ngton, where Mr.. Briggs was at one
time head steward.
hearing was held before Gov. w. W.
Stckney last week, on petition for the
conditional pardon of Mrs. Rose Four
Lier from state prison. 1t was repre-
scented by Mrs. Fournier's counsel that
the woman has been practically helpless
the past five years, having had stroke
Of paralysis. Gov. Stickney took the
papers into consideration. Mrs. Four
nier was sentenced in the fall of 1891 to
20 years imprisonment at Windsor for
the murder of her husband, Fred Four
nier, by poisoning, in completely with
Efiie Whalen. The latter died in prison
about three years ago.
Several months ago the Hon. Edwin
5. Isham of Chicago promised that If the
trustees of Burr and Burton seminary
would raise $4,000 for increasing the
endowment fund, befor July ,, 1902, he
would add $1,000. Soon after the same
offer was made by Mayor j. B. HOLSTER
of Rutland. and now Mrs. Henry ).
Willin Of Chicago adds the third one of
the same amount. The trustees are GO
ing to make heroic efforts to raise the
money. so as to secure the other Slj,0 900.
Herbert Nanderwerker, who has a
summer cottage at Lake st. Catherine.
has captured an enormous turtle in that
lake, propably the largest one ever taken
in Vermont. He was taking party
around the lake in his naptha launch
when the monster was espied. 1t showed
fight and was shot through the head by
Mrs. Nanderwerker, who Is an expert
rifle shot. The turtle weighed 2G3
pounds, and Prof. b. f. Waite estimates
its age at more than POO years.
Geo. +. Royce of Rutland has purchased
the Thayer marble quarry at Brandon.
The property consists of sixteen acres of
land containing fine grade of marble.
The quarry was opened eleven years ago,
but was soon after abandoned. Recent
investigations have shown the marble to
be of excellent quality and the vein very
extensive.
W. W. Clapp of Stafford has two hens,
three years old, of the Houdan and White
Leghorn breeds (mixed) which this sea-
son have made quite fair record for
eggs. They have laid l20 and l23 eggs
respectively from the last week of March
to the present date, one of them having
laid Just 100 In the last 100 days.
The descendants of John Gouldsbury.
one Of the first settlers in the town of
Barre, held a picnic and reunion at the
old Gouldsbury homestead in Barre town
last week Wednesday. This farm is still
owned by the Gouldsbury family, and
occupied by Joel Gouldsbury, lineal de-
scendant of the original settler.
Fish and Game Commissioner Z. A.
Davis of Bethel received very hand
some young deer that was found wander
ing apart from Its mother in the outskirts
of Rochester village. Search was made
for the mother but it could not be found.
The young animal will be taken to the
state hatchery at RoXbury.
Commander Wells Latin Field, L. S.
N, who is in command of the cruiser
Ranger, now enroute 10 Panama, is a
Benningtonian. and the owner of a fine
place near Bennington Center. His fam
lily are expected here soon from San
Diego, CAL, where they have been pass