Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-14
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

The Congregational church and society
of Rutland held meetings in the chapel
last evening and heard the reports of
the members of their joint committee
who had conferred with the pastor, the
Rev. DR.. G. w. Phillips, regarding the
reconsideration of his resignation. The
committee reported that Doctor Phillips
had consented to withdraw his resigna-
ton and to continue to act as pastor OF
the church, with the aid of an assistant,
and the church and society voted to ac-
cept the reports of the committees and
secure an assistant. After July | the
salary of Doctor Phillips is to be $1,000
per year.
The state cattle commission, which
will begin again next week to test cattle
for tuberculosis, has concluded not to
make any more tests in Williston for the
present. That town has been hOtbed
of the disease and hundreds of cattle
have been condemned there by the com.
mission. There are still more to be
tested, but there are so many other
towns in the state that have not as yet
been visited by the board that Williston
will be given rest. Hundreds of appli-
cations have been received by the board
from dairymen all over Vermont asking
the commission to visit them.
The factory of the Unity Collar and
Cuff company at North Bennington and
machinery, with large stock of manu-
featured goods and raw material on
hand, was burned Sunday morning.
The factory was running full handed,
and had large orders on file. Nearly
two hundred hands are thrown out of
employment. The origin of the fire is
unknown at present. The loss is esti-
mated at so 900; insurance, $4,000.
Mrs. Sarah Burnham, so years old, of
of Montpelier, was overcome by coal
gas Saturday night, and her recovery is
not expected. She lives alone. Sunday
noon the neighbors noticed the curtains
in her house were still drawn and sent
for City Sheriff Bancroft. An entrance
was elected By breaking in window.
Mrs. Burnham was found in bed barely
alive.
Edward j. Hall of Bennington, who
has charge of pro-Boer petition for Yer
mont, has placed petitions in circulation
in every town in the state. y large
number of them have already been re-
turned numerously signed. i he petition
asks congress to pass resolutions of
sympathy for the people of the Transvaal
and the Orange Free State.
Mrs. Alva Hathaway of Bakersfield
seems to be very successful in the Guilt
walton of plants. She has an orange tree
that has ISL buds, IS blossoms, and -
oranges. and also nicotine plant that
has - blossoms and % buds. She has "A
plant, the Bird of Paradise, that stands
> feet high.
Mrs. Betsy Sinclair of Essex June
ton has an orange tree which has
lately borne three oranges, two of
which reached their full growth, be-
ing sweet and Juicy, and the third about
half developed. One of the larger
orarges measures eight inches in circum-
ference.
j. Harry Enges of Rutland has Just
finished musical setting for the one
hundreth Psalm, to be sung by Mrs.
Cameron Beck at an entertainment at the
Congregational church next Wednesday
evening. No music for this Psalm has
been composed before except In chant
form.
L. S. Grant Post, G. \. r., of Ran
dolph has ordered three hundred
markers to be cast at the Chadwick
foundry, at an expense of $50, which
will be placed at the soldiers graves.
They will bear the inscription, Post
&c.
. Henry O. Carpenter of Rutland has
, retrned from five weeks trip along
, the north coast of Cuba. Mr.. Carpenter
f had an enjoyable trip and visited all the
points of historical interest in that sec
ton.
l Among the pictures at the annual ex.
= hibit of the Brooklyn Art club is land
t scape by w. II. Snyder entitled "A
Roadside, Moscow, VT" Moscow is a
7 hamlet in the town of Stowe.
Congressman Kittredge Haskins has
, been chosen by the Vermont delegation
\ in the senate and house as the member of
the Republican congressional campaign
r committee.
Roscoe Patterson of Waterbury
recently shot a white owl that weighed
five pounds. This species of an owl is
seldom seen in this part of the country,
The greatest wonder is that we can see
these trees Gin Iosemite) and not wonder
= more.
No man ever stated his griefs as lightly
as he might