Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-10-10
THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The Unlversaists of Vermont heC
their annual convention at Bellows Falls
last week and elected the following
officers for the year ensuing President
+. +. Marggraf Of Derby Line; vice
president. w. ID. Ball, Springfield; sec
rotary, Rev. |. p. Booth, Morrisville
treasurer. Ira X. Caef, Washington
trustee, for one year, ii. c. Slocum
Worthwhile: trustee for three years, f
+. Brown, st. Johnsbury. The follow
ing committee on fellowship was
elected: Chairman, the Rev. A. Nj
Smith. West Concord; the Rev. John
Kimball, Lyndonville; the Rev. j. Il
Reardon, Ludlow; |. y. LeBarron, Nor
risville; II. w. Blackmer, Stockbridge.
c. w. Norton of South Wallingford.
has been arrested on a charge of using
the United States mails for fraudulent
purposes, and taken before L. 5. Com
missioner James \. Merrill at the Office
of L. 5. Marshall +. A. Field. Rutland.
AS District Attorney James l.. Martin
was not present the hearing was adj
lourned. Norton was held in $1,000 bail.
f. NJ. Butler appeared as his attorney.
The charge against Norton is based on
evidence gathered by a collection agency
into whose hands have come for the past
few months many complaints from diff
ferent parts of the coULtry that Norton
had secured from them merchandise by
fraudulent means.
Papers have been served on the mana
ger of the Burlington Free Press in Il
suit brought for $4,000 damages for
libel against the Free Press association
by +. c. Sturtevant of Weybridge. The
suit is returnable at the December term
of Addison county court. The grounds
on which the suit are brought are under
stood to be the statements made by the
Free Press calling Sturtevant a black
mailer and eXtortioner on account of his
suit brought against Gen. Mccullough
to recover for money spent in the late
campaign.
f. F.. Langley. editor and proprietor
of The Barre Times has had papers
served on him in a suit for libel brought
by eX-Mayor Harvey Hersey of Barre,
with damages placed at $4,000. 1t APP
pears that about two years ago a state
ment was made in The Times that Mr..
Hersey was stealing city water by con-
Meeting certain houses owned by him
with the city water system without per-
mission from the authorities and without
their knowledge. This suit is the result.
A remarkable escape from instant
death happened on the road between
Somerset and Bennington, few days
since, which. by the overturning of their
carriage, Mr.. and Mrs. Ora +. Gibson, of
the latter place. was thrown over
precipice over 100 feet high. Although
both fell under their carriage at the bot
tom of the hill and were rendered un-
nscious, neither sustained any broken
bones and will recover.
The "Rosh IIashona" or Jewish New
Years day began at shutdown October |
and ended at shutdown October ,. The
day is observed much the same as
the New Years day of the Christians,
being feast day. In communities
where there is considerable Jewish
all business is suspended for
the day and services are held at the syna-
gogues. According to the Hebrew doc
trine this begins the 5GG3d year since the
creation of the world.
The w. c. 7. L. held its convention in
Rutland last week and passed resolu-
tons favOring the retention of the pro-
hibitory system in this state. The
officers elected are: President, Mrs. Ida
III. Read, Shelburne; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Gracia f. Dawson, New
fame; recording secretary. Mrs. Ahbie
Wyman, Cambridgeport; treasurer, Mrs.
f. NJ. Denny, Montpelier; auditor, Mrs.
Abbie NJ. Richardson, Montpelier.
Lieut.. Ernest A. Greenough of the ODD
Coast Artillery. L. 5. A.. residing in
Whitehall, who is well known in this
section, has gone TO San Francisco and
from there to Fort Warden on Puget
Of 80
Wash, where his regiment is located.
This is Uncle Sans most northern
sentry box.
The Vermont experiment station has
issued bulletin in which it assets that
apple pomace, put in silO and fed to
COWS through the winter Is equal to
corn feed, if fed in proper proportions
with hay and corn and moderate
quantity of grain. Persons interested
may procure the bulletin by addressing
experiment station at Burlington.
kGov. Stickney has given a hearing on
the petition for a pardon for Walter
Bailey, of Peacham, who was sentenced
to three years in state prison for forgery,
two years and more of which he has
served. The pardon Is sought on the
ground that he has already been sufIic-
lSntly puulsIeu. Inc governor TOOK the
petition under advisement.
William Cummings, an empoye of the
card room at the Holden mill, Benning.
ton, received serious injuries to one arm
a few days since, while cleaning off the
cards. The arm got in the machinery
and was mangled from the elbow down.
No bones were broken and it is hoped
that the arm will be saved, although the
injuries are quite painful.
The abandoned farm idea of few
years ago has become dead letter in
Vermont. The advertising the state has
received the past two years and the
good prices farmers have obtained for
their products will have tendency to
prevent Vermont farms from being
abandoned.
The October issue of The Christian
Herald contains an account by Gen. O.
o. Howard of Burlington, of his visit
and experiences among the little known
mountain whites of the Cumberlands.
The article is illustrated with a number
of photographs taken while making the