Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-07-12
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Type Begonia with 105 Buds at
TaftsvilIe-A Long House Boat Trip to
End in Lake Champlain.
A houseboat cruise of 1900 miles will
soon be commenced by L. G. Billings,
pay director, United States havy, retired,
with his wife and party Of friends.
The route will be up the Hudson to
Albany, through the Erie canal to
Buffalo, where the part will visit the
Pan-American Exposition. They Will
then proceed across Lake Ontario to
Hamilton and Toronto, down the St.
Lawrence river through the Thousand
Islands, thence to Montreal and by way
of the La Chem canal to Lake Champlain,
down the lake to Whitehall and then
back to Spuyten Duyvil.
Another case of smallpox in Rutland
was discovered by DR.. II. L. Newell in
the home of Herman Peryea, the patient
being Miss Rena Clark, who came re-
Gently from Poultney, where the disease
has prevailed. DR.. G. S. Caverly, presi-
dent of the state board of health, and
Health Officer Moore were summoned
and pronounced the case mild one and
the danger of contagion to be very slight
Miss Clark will be taken to the isolation
hospital, located about mile east of the
city. Two mild cases of the disease are
rapidly convalescing there.
Mrs. w. f. Merrill of Taftsvile has a
begonia having one hundred and ninety
five buds and blossoms. The leaves
measure ten and one. half inches in
length, and one cluster of the immense
pendant blooms will fill quart bowl.
1t is called the Maxii begonia, and was
originated by Mr.. Mass of Woodstock.
Mrs. Merrill also has an Otraheite orange
tree now in bloom, with small green
fruit also. This had at one time two
hundred and fifty-two buds and blossoms.
The First National Bank of Brandon
hss Just paid its seventy-fourth semi
annual dividend to stockholders. This
latest dividend was 3 per cent and
none of the other seventy-three dividends
were less than per cent and ranged
from 3 per cent to 10 per cent. The
Brandon National Bank has also paid its
stockholders its semi-annual dividend of
3 per cent.
j. X. Elwell of Santiago de Cuba is
the guest of ). l.. Griffith at Dandy. Mr..
Elwell was the escort and interpreter for
Senator Proctor when he made his visit
of investigation to Cuba previous to the
Spanish American war. He also accom-
panied Mr.. Griffith on trip to the
mountains of Cuba. He is engaged in
numbering in Cuba.
Humane Officer John Fuller caused the
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on the charge of cruelty to animals, and
Mr.. Leach was fined by Justice Deber-
vile 81 and costs of SG.l0. This he paid
and agreed to provide pads for his two
horses, which had CALLED shoulders.
About six hundred pounds of dead fish,
which have been killed by the same par
asites that affected the fish two years
ago, have been taken out of the North
Branch. at Montpelier, under the super
vision of Superintendent of Streets &. b.
Roberts, within the last few days.
Edwin r. Cleveland, aged a years,
late of Company d, Third New York
Cavalry, died at the Vermont Soldiers
Home, Bennington, July >. He was adj
United from Lyndonvlle, May ,. The
burial will be in East Cons table, y. Y.
This death was No. 1873.
The second quarterly dividend of %
per cent of the total amount of deposits
in the Farmers National Bank of Yer
gennes will be paid by Receiver Sullivan
in about four weeks.
\ charter for national bank IN Bristol
has been granted F. X. Dickerman and
associates, with capital stock of S25,-
600. The prospect of starting at present
is not very bright.
Bishop y. c. A. Hall of Burlington is
one of the signers Of the appeal in behalf
of constitutional liberty issued by the
anti-impearialist leagues of the United
States July 1.
Buyers of wool have recently been
through most of the towns in Bennington
county. From II to - cents pound is
the most that has been offered for wool.
Henry Shatlner of Ludlow is the
owner of Il calf about four weeks old,
born with three distinc chainlinks
marked in red upon white forehead. =,
Mrs. Hetty II. Il. Green and her
daughter have arrived from New York
and are staying at the Green homestead,
Bellows Falls.
The doctors of Vermont and their
friends are to have an excursion to the
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo
July %.
DR.. II. Ii. Lee of Wells River, who has
been doing service as a surgeon IN the
Philippines, has returned home.
The heat and dry weather ruined over
$50 bushels of straw berries In A. NJ.
Manum's garden at Bristol.
Panton creamery paid 20 cents for May
butter, which is claimed as the highest
price for that month.
Waterbury has already sent out $50
invitations to her Old Home Week
celebration.
G. a. Sargent of Lincoln has q COW
that gives forty pounds of milk daily and
tests 4.20.
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