Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-07-25

Louis Ducharme of Plymouth, who
was arrested last week charged with
assault with criminal intent on Mrs.
Della Murray, wife of Albert =. Murray
of Shrewsbury, was arraigned before
Justice Wayne Bailey of Rutland and
held in $1,000 for the county court.
The Coolidge & Stevens Casket Co.,
is new corporation at st. JOhnsbury
for the manufacture of Baskets and I'M
dertakers' supplies, that has began work.
The business will be owned and man.
aged by j. +. Coolidge of Waltham,
Mass, and G.. II. Stevens of st. Johns
bury.
The Cabot creamery paid its patrons
DOB cents per pound for June butter, or
23i cents fat test. Milk received,
il9,4lO pounds; cream. lj.6S3 pounds
butter manufactured. 2G.423 pounds
highest test, ) GO; lowest, 800; aver
age test. -; gain. lG per cent; aver
age cream test, 10 80.
The prohibition party has secured the
services of the Rev. B. 5. Taylor, known
as the cyclone preacher, to stump the
the state for six weeks prior to the state
election He has had large experience
in prohibition work in the northwest,
being one of the chief workers in consti-
tutional prohibition in North Dakota.
West Fairlee is greatly excited over
the discovery of well developed case of
small pox in the Copperfield district.
The unfortunate man who is the victim
is Henry Hodge. Many people are sup
posed to have been exposed. a strict
quarantine has been placed around the
patient and the people are now waiting
for further developments.
Three petitions in bankruptcy were
filed July l6. Elmer J. Leach, a laborer
of Watervile. has liabilities of 500 and
assets of $50, all of which are claimed
exempt. Ulysses G. Sprague, a teamster
and farmer of BrOokfield. has liabilities
of $500 and assets of S2l5, all of which
are claimed exempt. Daniel A. Fisher,
a farmer and iobber of Concord. has
liabilities of S96i.l7 and assets of S4l5.
Mrs. Rhoda Blake, aged Of years, who
died July 10, was the oldest resident of
SaXtOn's River. She was born IN Wal
pole, but practically all her life from her
fourth year had been passed at SaXtons
River. Her husband was Leonard W.
Blake, proprietor of the paper mills at
the Forest, in the town of Westminster.
He died more than half a century ago
Mrs. Blake had been an Invalid for many
years.
1t is said that the sentiment in Wind
ham county in regard to moving the
county seat from Newfane to Brattleboro
is about equally divided. If the change
is made, Bratteboro will be asked to
raise $4,000 toward building new
court house, and the sentiment ia Brat
tleboro is not altogether favorable to
such action. If the county seat remains
where it is the old Jail at Newfane will
be entirely remodeled.
There is prospect of stock company
being formed in Rutland to mine gold at
Bridge water. a New York company has
been at work on vein there for several
weeks and is said to be meeting with
good success. \ strip of land about a
mile long has been bought, some of the
purchasers being Rutland men, and ii is
now stated that the gold vein extends
through this land and that the specimens
which have been taken from it are the
most valuable of any ever found in that
section. Specimens of ore that have
been analysed average S737 81 to the ton.
The annual State convention of the
various Baptist organizations in Vermont
will be held at Bennington Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. %. %
and p. 1t is expected that the speakers
will include President Faunce of Brown
University and DR.. Morehouse of New
York city. The Rev. w. A. Dawson,
superintendent of missions for the con-