Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-01-10
STATE BRIEFS.

The commissioner of internal revenue
states that 442 special liquor licenses were
Issued by the federal government to retail
dealers in Vermont last year, as against 500
the year previous.
A telephone line is to be established be-
tween South Londonderry and Bondville.
The line will run to Goodellvlle, thence to
Winhall station by loop, then to Rawson-
vile, Bondville and Burbae's Mill.
The annual convention of the second
district, order Of Eastern Star of Vermont,
will be held in Manchestt Center, January
22, Instead OF January 10 as announced.
evening.
Lieut.. Charles H. Burritt OF the Eleventh
caVairy, who has charge OF the mining bu-
reau at Manila, has unearthed some min
ing frauds in the Phil pine Islands.
Amor those accused are Oscar F. Will
hams, who was United Staes consul at
Manila. Lieutenant Burritt is Manches-
ter boy.
The SO cigar factories in Vermont last
,aar used 45 215 pounds of tobacco, ont Of
which they made 2,132, 476 cigars of size
weighing more than three pounds per 1000.
There were 80 factories in the state having
a separate account the previou, year, but
they used only 80, OH pounds of tobacco
and made only 1865, 056 cigars.
Fish Commissioner Titcomb announces
that he has completed an arrangement with
the Canadian authorities whereby no sein-
irg license. will be issued thi, spring for
Missisquoi bay. Just the same the Can
adam fshermt are going ahead with their
preparations for fishing and have been
assured by their representatives in parlia-
meDt that they will be allowed to fish as
usual.
The business men of Stowe who worked
SO hard to get the Mount Mansfield cleo
trio railroad through, ard the townspeople
who bonded for $4,000 to promote the
enterprise, are highly pleased with the re-
suits The road has much more than paid
it, own expenses during the past year and
it has during the past three doubled the
output of lumber from Stowe, while the
buSine,s in that line is now far more pros
ptrous than ever before and rapidly IN
creasing. Stowe is on the boom, for not
only are the business interests most pros
porous, but the indications point to an
enormous increase OF patronage from sum
mer boardprs ard residents.
| Miss Marg L. Titcom of Rutland, who
has TO- the past few months cen IN charge
o. The cataloguing of the new Fletcher
Memorial library in Ludlow, has &C ,epted
a position as Librarian of a NJ W Tree library
a. Hagerstown, Mary land, and will leave
Vermont to d UNI her new dules about
February |. MISS Titcomb is a sister OF
John W. Ttcomb of ST.. Johnsbury, pre- ST.
dent of the Fish and Game League, and
state fish commissioner, ard she WAS hb-a-
RIA of the Rutland Free lib airy from 1888
to 1899; during her serv CT there the CIR
culatiun of he library increased IN ten
years from 20 900 to $4,000 books annual
ly. She resigned that position about TWO
year, ago and ha, since been engaged IN
special library work in Vermont, also
serving as secretary OF the commission.
The firm of E. w. Jewett & Son OF
Swsnton, manufacturers of wire specIalt'es'
has sold out its business, including manu-
iactured and unmanutactu ell stock, ma
chn-ry and .hafr ny compl Ito the Sptn-
Ger Manufacturing company OF Worcester,
Mass. Tn. stock and machir cry IS being
moved and Col.Jewett will 60 to Worcester
to suprrintend the work OF getting the bus
ines. estsbli.hed there. Henry L. Sargent,
who has been Tor. man of the establi'hm mt
for several year, will move TO Worcester
and serve the new company In the
zane capacity The town OF S"anton
rrgrets the ll.s of an industry, which
has contributed so much to its prosperity