Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-27
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Mrs. Lamon Saunders died at Shrews-
bury last week, aged 67 years.
Pawnee Bits Wild West will show in
Vermont during the week of July 10.
Micah II. Stone, one of Burlington's
Oldest and best known citizens, died in
Pomona, Cal, Thursday.
Closing exercises of the State Normal
School, Castleton, were held this week.
The next school years opens Sept. O..
The Brigham creamery, Randolph,
paid 2l.3 cents net for May butter. The
cooperative creamery paid 25 cents for
butter fat.
The net earnings of the Bennington & |
IIoosick Valley Electric Railway COM
pany for the quarter ended March 81
were Sl731.
Cambridge creamery paid 9G 1-3 cents
for standard milk in May and 2l5 cents
per pound for butter. The churn gain
was II per cent.
The Cobble Hill creamery, Barre, paid
% cents for May butter. The Riverside
creamery, Bristol, paid Sc s cents a hun
dred for per cent milk.
The Central Vermont railway will span
the four great washouts in MiddleseX
with steel bridges. The loss is estimated
Dy luS Olnclals at SlUU,UUO.
L. j. Bolster of Barre will probably
soon build a business block which will
be the finest in the city. Mr.. Bolster is
the largest Taxpayer in Barre.
At the office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, Montpelier, over
$4,000 words were transm united June 10
= and about II 900 words June IS.
| a petition in bankruptcy has been filed
e by E. o. Smith, a farmer of Sheffield.
He has liabilities of SG7G and assets of
1881 80 of which 1927 is claimed exempt.
Brattleboro will raise $4,000 bonus,
4 furnish site and exempt b. Souto IL
/. Co. the Randolph-New York furniture
: manufactures from taxation for five
: years if the company will locate there.
= Alvah NJ, Spat1ord died at Ludlow last
!. week. He was born there in 1919, and
e lived there all but four years OF his life.
e He was carpenter by trade, and highly
!. esteemed. lie leaves widow, also three
h children by former wife.
e II. b. Bottum of Craftsbury, while
e trying to get in to dinner at the Pavilion,
$ Montpelier, June 10, was relieved of
e S2S.35. j. w. Peck's pocket was picked
< of purse containing about $40 in money
and $500 in checks and notes as he
boarded the train for his home in West
r Cornwall. 1t is reported that several
g smaller sums were taken, one of which
1t was IS from a delegate.
n The strike at the Howe Scale Com.
81 pany's works, Rutland, by which 42i
'r men were affected, was settled June 20
The men returned to work on nine
W hour basis at O'Clock Monday morning
he Both the strikers and the company refuse
re to discuss the terms of settlement in any
tinn ,-a1y nv q
y mutual agreement, apparently, to the
re expression that the strike is settled or
. terms satisfactory to the company and
the men.
The Escanaba (Mich.) journal has the
following editorial of interest on an OLD
Is Mortified boy who is making his mark
re- in his profession as a lawyer and Incl
IN dentally in politics in his adopted state
~ Mayor George Gallup was unanimously
81 rendered the nomination for representa-
of tive from Delta county at the county
n convention. Mr.. Gallup is well qualified
m to fill that responsible position will
o. credit to himself and his constituents
m His election Is assured. In fact it il
al doubtful if he will have any opposition.
lg All Of the men killed in the wreck OF
i'd the Central Vermont railway near Mid
dleseX June 10 were insured. Georg
OuTtN, lut engineer. HeIu Il pOIlCN u
d. $500 in the Brotherhood of Locomotiv
or Engineers; James \. Ferguson, the fire
lit man, held policy of $500 in the Broth
re erhood OF Locomotive Flremen and 500
in the Foresters; Francis Clarke, tn
- conductor, held $500 in the Order o
Railway Conductors; George +. Rounds
the brakeman. was member of tn
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen an
held policy of $1,000.
= The state convention of the Prohibito
party was held in Barre Thursday, Jun
y 10, with about fifty delegates present
The organization consisted of DR.. l.. W
. Hanson of Barre, president. and G.. /
- Story of Essex Junction, secretary. O
motion of f. ii. Field of Charlotte, sec
onded by a. o. Ferguson of Burlington
a committee on resolutions was chosen
consisting of Rev. ii. ID, Howard c
~ Wilder. ). l.. Swasey of Newbury an
n f. H. Field of Charlotte. The cOmmitte
j on nomination consisted of c. b. Wilso
of Bradford, \. O. Ferguson of Burline
ton and c. 5. Wallace of Barre. The
reported as candidates: Governor, Joe
t. o. Sherburne of St. Johnsbury; lieuteI
ant governor, Noble l.. Ball of Ferris
burg; secretary of state, C. B. Wilso
of Bradford; state treasurer, +. n
=. Campbell of Lyndonville; auditor, E. Il
no Field of Charlotte: congressman in frs
~ district, II. NJ Seeley of Mlddlebury;
'c- second district, 5. J.. SwaSey of New
ne bury. The platform affirmed contidenC
in the prohibition laws of Vermont an
10 opposed the referendum proposition &
III tn local