Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-08-15
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Neruonu Is picking up llttle IN the |
shoemaliing line, according to census
bulletin Just issued. We have now S47S,-
lSi Invested in the business, against |
S34S,S27 ten years ago. The industry
employs an average of 355 wage earners
and the annual product Is valued at
SOP 07. A single Massachusetts city,
Brocton, turns out annually boots and |
shoes to the value of twenty million |
dollars; so that it is evident that Yer
monts progress to the head of the list
will be question of long time-sev-
eral centuries, for instance. Still, even
small gain in our manufacturing in
terest Is always acceptable.
Miss Ruth Draper of Randolph has an
Angora cat that rejoices in the appella-
ton of Boots and is so renowned as
warrior that distant glimpse of his
athletic figure is sufficient to cause the
hair on the back of any cat in the neigh
borhood to assume a perpendicular pc.
sition and send the animal flying through
the nearest Orifice for a season of quiet
meditation. Boots military genius is
not his only claim to fame, for he is also
a mighty hunter and has lately killed
mink measuring l6 inches from the nose
TO the end of the body and 22I inches
from the nose to the tip of the tail.
Frank Skodowski of Proctor, Po-
lander about 26 years old, VINO has been
In this country only since March last,
lost his life early Tuesday afternoon by
getting on top of pile of sand some 80
feet long by 80 feet wide and 10 feet high
and then being drawn by the sand into a
wooden shute from which the teams in
the mill are loaded, the sand filling in
after him and suffocating him within
short time. How the accident happened
is unknown. as the man was all alone on
the upper floor of the mill where the
sand heap is situated.
The Barre city directory, which has
just been issued contains 1892 Names a
net gain of 43S names over last year.
The total number of changes is 4G15.
The total number of new names added
was 1910 and the number taken out is
l01l, making the net gain 43S As show
ing the shifting character of the people
there 1t Is stated there are only 81 names
printed as they appear in the 1901 direc-
tory.
Chittenden county court will open at
Burlington for the September term
Wednesday, Sept. 3, and Judge Henry
Il. Start of Bakersfield will preside. The
last day for settling cases for trial by
jury and courts is August II ana the day
for assigning causes for trial by Jury and
court is Aug. 10. The civil docket con.
tains 2S3 cases, the divorce docket 30
cases, the state docket GO cases and the
, new entry docket Is cases.
a catalogue of VermOnt's three normal
schools, at Randolph, johnson and Cas-
Teton, recently issued, gives brief
account of each school, telling the history
of the transformation from grammar
schools to normal institutions. The
three schools had an aggregate of 306
students enrolled in all the classes during
the past year.
Luke Rice of Westminster, farmer,
filed petition in bankruptcy Saturday.
His liabilities are S30S7, with assets of
S2592 and SOL exempt. James Maloney
OF st. Adams, laborer, also filed a
netition in bankruptcy with liabilities of
q. ,4O3.55 and assets of 5000.
A. n. Swain has been elected president
: of the Bellows Falls Savings Institution
to succeed the late Judge Lavant NJ.
Read, and George h. Wales has been
elected a trustee to fill the vacancy
9 caused by the death of Judge Read.
Gov. Stickney has pardoned Pat Ken
nedy. 20, sentenced to the House of Cor
fection, on the ground that he is an ire
sponsible pauper that the town of Castle
WI SHON'N SNBPpANf NV iiAC Stubt'
j. ). Kenerson of Barnet now has on
: exhibition freak of nature in the shape
of colt with two perfect heads. The
animal was alive when born, but died in
l short time. 1t is well mounted.
Lightning struck In Randolph during
the storm Friday and killed Is chickens
= for NJ. NJ. Wilson, esq. They were
j., found near an iron pipe that probably
l acted as a conductor.
; George Leavyme, quarryman at
Barre. was fatally injured Saturday by
"A big block of granite falling on him.
George w. Flanders, married man
aged 40, of White River Junction, is
missing; also young girl of II.
j. II. Lincoln of Rutland has been re-
moved as street commissioner and an
r other city muddle is started.
Malcolm f. Elliott, 80, car repairer,
was run over and instantly killed by the
. cars at Richford, Aug. I.
DR.. l.. j. Dixon, a well-known physic-
, ian of Milton. died suddenly Saturday
from heart disease.
The farm house of Elmer Fraser at
South Woodstock was struck by light
ming Aug. IL, and burned.
: The farm buildings of Florence McCar-
thy at Waitsfield were burned Aug. IL,
loss $1,000.
Daniel hurry, %, was fatally injured
a by blast in granite quarry at Barre,
: Aug. :.
Bert Hubert of Belvidere. who was
4 arrested for burglary, has confessed
Swanton's school house has been con-
. demned by the state board of health
C, A, Adams, the Chester burgler, has
been placed in Woodstock jail.
T The mouders in the +. Il. Patch Mfg
Co., Rutland, struck Monday.
: Work has been commenced on the new
= $4,000 station at Newport
e Vermont Pensions.
Original, Thomas A. Hutchins, Ben
nington, Sl2; increase and reissue,
: Gporpp w KNIGHT Post Mills Sl-