Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-07-19
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

About Vermont Artist-New Golf
Course for Rutland Country Club-Other
Items of Interst.
Norcross Bros. of Worcester, Mass.
who recently completed the Warner
Science Hall in Middlebury and are
building a $4,000 house in Bennington
for j. G. Colgate, and who have Just
closed a S3,000,000 contract to supply
South Dorset marble for library build
ing in New York, have bought several
acres of land on Mt. Ascutney near
Windsor, on which they will open
green granite quarry. They expect to
take from this quarry 200 columns, each
80 feet long, that will be used on the
library building. This granite is COM
ing into use quite prominently. The
firm are also preparing to erect large
finishing shop near Manchester station.
where the marble to be used on the
library building will be finished, and
where they will employ some 200 men.
The picture which the late Col. Julian
Scott painted for the state house at
Montpelier represents the action of the
Vermont troops at Cedar Creek, and not
as stated by many papers in connection
with a notice of Colone SCOTS death last
week The Legislature of 1874 passed an
act authorizing the state auditor to draw
an order on the state treasurer for $1,000
in favor of Colonel Scott, sin payment
of extra money and labor expended" in
completing this historical painting
"The Rear Guard at White Oak swamp"
was formerly owned by the Union
League club of New York. Several of
Colonel ScOtt's paintings are in the art
museum in Boston.
The new golf course of the Rutland
Country Club, at the old Baxter farm
north of Rutland, has been staked out
and force of men is at work making
the greens. The plan of the links was
made by George Low of Brooklyn, a
golf expert, who SAYS that the course
when finished will be one of the most
picturesque and satisfactory in the state.
The course will have nine holes, seven
on the east side of East creek and the
remainder on the other side. The play
ers will start near the club house. 1t is
expected that the links will be ready
for use about the middle of next month.
4 shocking accident happened at the
home of Arthur Whiting of Lunenburgh
on the morning of the Fodrth. Two of
the boys charged stick of wood with
powder in the yard about eight rods
from the house. When it burst. a liece
flew backward from the way it was
pointed, striking their mother, who was
sitting on the piazza reading, killing her
!, instantly, her skull being crushed. The
stick continued on through screen door
splitting the casing, then struck steel
range, leaving a large dent in the stove.
: Charles 4. " heller, a former Barton
boy, now resident of Boone, Ia, has
; sent to the Barton Monitor a picture of
the Boone viaduct, an extensive and
costly piece Of engineering, which has
recently been completed. Mr.. Wheeler
states that he had the satisfaction of be-
ing the first man to pull the Colorado
special "a fast passenger train) over this
structure and also had the pleasure of
plotting President Mckinley through
Iowa.
II. B. Emery of Boston. of the engi-
neering department, New England Tele-
phone and Telegraph company, is in
e Burlington arranging for the work of
: putting the telephone wires on all the
principal streets underground, in COM
! pliance with regulations made by the
board of alderman. Work will be COM
! menced at once. \ force of 80 men will
be put on and the Job is expected TO oc-
cupy about two months.
} The town of Stowe is to have a 500
| 600 opera house. 1t will be a gift by
2 IL. c. Akeley of Minneapolis. Mimi,
who was born in Stowe. Mr.. Akeley's
/ offer is this: He will erect on a site TO
e be purchased by the citizens of Stowe a
z ST, 900 opera house, complete in all its
= details. IL is needless to say that the
= offer will be taken and already a site
suitable for the handsome building is
trying to be procured.
Albert Cakes of South salisbury was
= badly injured by the down sleeper last
4 Tweek. lie was on his way home from
Hoosic, y. y, and beyond North Ben
Y nington laid down by the side of the
e track. One arm was cut of below the
e elbow. and he was injured about the head
and otherwise bruised, probably fatally.
e He was taken to the hospital in Troy.
s A. Griffin Hughes, former Fair
: Haven boy, now residing with his mother
: in New York, is rapidly coming to the
: front as baritone sOloist. He has sung
e his way TO fame In many watering
place and is in great demand for encore
: engagements. just at present he is
j touring with the Demarest Brothers,
S musical prodigies, aged II, II and 0.
Rollin Wood of Brandon had his right
= leg broken between the knee and ankle
at his farm south of the village. He left
e a pair of colts without hitchlng and they
J, ran away. In trying to stop them he
was thrown down and the wheels of a
= lumber wagon, heavily loaded, passed
over his leg, breaking 1t very badly.
y The Rutland Herald says that Charles