Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-01-04
A GLANCE OVER THE STATE
happenings ola Week Among the Citizens
of the Green Mountain state.

WI 8 Oaran IL Daring OF MOrriSville.
mother of Mrs. Ex.Gov. u. A. Wood
bury of Burlington,di recently aged 9G
years.
The exports of United States products
through tire port of Rchford for the
year 1900 amounted to nearly 81 .OOO. 600
in value. This is an average Of about
Sll 1000 day.
The Congregational church at WIN.
ooski is the recipient of beouest of
$1,000 left by Mrs. Julia A. Gibson.
whose will was probated in Cambridge
Mass, this week.
The river and harbor bill made puhlic
recently appropriated as follows: For
vermont, Otter Creek. $1,000; Narrows
OF Lake Champlain, $l7,500; Burlington
harbor, $4,000.
"A. u Blanchard is preparing to erect a
tive-story brick block with three stores
ana Offices and tenpmcnts on the site of
the building at Barre that burned last
week. The cost will be $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel n Fisk of Ran
dolph celebrated last Friday the G0;h
anniversary of their wedding. Their
Masonic friends gave them large party
Mr. Fisk Is SO and his wife Sc years of
age.
George Briggs and G. II. Young of
Brandon were in Nillamsport, Pa, this
week, looking up the status of the
Backus Manufacturing company with
view of Offering it, on behalf of Brandon,
inducements to locate in Brandon. This
company at present employs 80 men.
Vermont Academy at Saxton's River
has received a communication stating
that John D. Rockefeller will make a
gift of $4,000 to the school, provided
SO 900 additional be raised by the insti-
tuition. An appeal has resulted in sub
scriptions aggregating SIS, 900 and it is
believed the rest VIII come easily.
Wesley II. Chafler. who has been
cashier of the Central Vermont railway
since 1856. has been appointed treasurer
of Che company to succeed II. II. In
gram. who has resigned to go as secre-
tary with Charles NJ. HAYS, president of
the Southern Pacific Railroad company
A Willisron youth. Octave Tarrant. is
recovering from effects of five spoonfuls
of paris green selfadministered last
week. The overdose and milk as emetlc
prohaly tended to lengthen his stay upon
earth. Tie cause of tie ar' is slit 70 be
afiettion on young Tarrant's part for
Helen Bartmer. l6 year-old daughter Of
Austin Bartimer, who lives near him
Not quite one year married, Mrs,
| 4 M ,t bo ,,T
70 was wed to Montpelior's alleged ACTOR.
Willard II. Hutchinson, % years old,
now claims that he induced her to make
deed to all her property, which is aid
to be worth 50 600 600 to him and Paul
Sheldon, a LAWYER, and sues for ID divorce
and the annulment of the deed.
Capt. Robert Y. Holev. native Ver-
monter and long resident of Washington,
where he has held clerkship in the
navy department, is dead and was buried
in Arlington cemetery. At the begin
ming of the civil war he was a cadet from
Vermont at the naval academy in Ann
apOis, but went into the service and
made a brilliant record. He was consul
to Barbados for Is years after the civil
war.
Burlington may have in the near fu-
ture IA series of novel winter amusements
and sports. 1t is proposed to have an
exhibition of animals from all parts of
the world, moose, caribou, deer, bears,
snakes, and reptiles and Indian villages
will be built showing the true life of the
red man as he lived in Vermont 100 years
ago. There will also be ice skating. in
connection with which there will be a
fancy costume ice carnival and Ice sports
of all kinds.
1t is reported by sportsmen in various
parts of Bennington county that foxes
have thnned out partridges and other
game TO large extent during the past
season. The ANIMALS are numerous and
have become something of a NUS lnce in |
some localities. The recent rise in the
price of fox skins is sufficient induce
ment for most hunters to make efforts to |
capture the game. Buyers in several |
towns in the county have offered from s. |
to So for fox skins, and extra fine ones |
are worth nearly twice that amount.
The annual convention of the first
district Order of the Eastern Star of |
Vermont, will be held with Adoniram
chapter In Manchester Center Jan. 10 |
next. The deputy grand patron for the
district Is f. II. Holden of Manchester
Center and the deputy grand matron is
Mrs. Helen Stillson of Bennington. |
Several of he grand chapter officers will |
he present. AT the evening service Mt |
chapter of Bennington will
pXempify the work. The local chapter
will furnish u banquet for the visitors
There are five chapters in the district.
The Union 20th Century convention.
held in Burlington the last day of the !
old year, and the two first of the new.
was largely attended by the Christian
workers of the Congregational, Babtist
and Methodist churches of Vermont. |
Had il been thoroughly advertised, so
that all the intelligent Christians of the
state had understood the design of the |
harinU and fha ayaalIant ,,,o,....s,