Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-25
STATE NEWS.

Barton.
Mrs. j. d. Denison of Randolph died
Sept. Is.
The C. V. Ry. was blocked Friday at
West Berlin by n freight.wreck.
Rev. James II. Rabbit a prominent
Brattleboro clergyman died September
Il.
James Roales of Montpelier was killed
by the cars at Brighton, Mass, Septem-
Der 16.
James Lester of Putney is bankrupt
with liabilities of 500 ,05S.50 and assets
of S304.
The pay roll of the Vermont Marble
| Co.. Proctor, for the month of August
was 500, 900.
Miss Sophia Park, an aunt of Mrs. j.
G.. Mccullough of Bennington died
September IS.
The state convention of the Kings
Daughters will be held at Swanton
October s and 8.
Three car loads of cattle. two of cows
and one of oxen, were shipped from
Randolph Friday.
The fall term of the United States
district and circuit courts will open in
Rutland October 6.
c.. II. Lalor of Rutland, wholesaler
has been arrested for selling liquor to a
party in no-license town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Moskin of South
Londonderry celebrated their 50th we'd
ding anniversary, September 8.
Gov. j. G. Mccullough has recently
sold valuable house and lot in New
York, not his Park Avenue house
No new cases of smallpox have
broken out in the last week at Benning
ton. Twelve cases in all were reported
a. A. Norton of Burlington has 6
dahlia grown from one bulb, which has
forty open blossoms and ninetytwo buds
Rev. J. s. Upper, a prominent Meth
odist minister, and G. A. R. man, dice
September II at the Soldiers home al
Bennington.
Mrs. Lydia Briggs died at her home
in Clarendon September 16 at the az,
of 81 years. She died in the same room
in which she was born.
The Barre National bank is in the lis
of seven New England banks designated
+ as government repositories and will
receive 100000 on deposit.
c.. c.. Cheney. a prominent farmer o
| Washington 50 years old, was gored b,
: a bull September l6 and seriously in
jured He died September 10.
Senator Proctor was fined so an,
costs of $3.50 for shooting coon las
= week out of season at Corbin Park. n
( II. This is private game preserve.
Walter C. Jewett. son of Col. E. w
3 Jewett of Burlington, was killed Ser
! TENDER IA, while coupling cars in tn
g. No., Al.
ampton, Mass.
n The Chttenden county Jail at Burling
+ ton has prisoners sleeping in the corr
T.: doris. There are over 30 inmates an
S the number is steadily increasing
e Most of the offenders are drunkards.
9 The Strong Hardware Co.. Burlington
+ are selling Tar Paper and Sheathin
: Paper, slightly damaged by smoke an
: water, below cost. If you are buildin
II or repairing, send for samples and price
. at once.
y Rev. j. d. Beeman for many yeal
y principal of the Methodist Conferenc
- Seminary at Montpelier died at Unto
+ village Sept. IS. He was for many veal
- one of the presiding elders of the We
mont conference.
i Harold Parker, the nine year-old SC
- of Guy Parker, of Middletown Spring
y was cholled to death Monday mornir
e by collar button becoming lodged
it his throat. All attempts to dislodge
were futile until it was too late.
The seven-year-old daughter
Joseph Shepard of st. Albans was il
stantly killed in the railroad yard, Sc
TENDER 10. The child was playing {
: the track and was run over by a freigl
train. Both legs Were severed from tt
y body.
n These petitions in bankruptcy we
d flied September II: Annie II. Emery
ID Topsham, liabilities $592.73, insecure
Sc S343. %. amount of real estate $500, pc
" sonal property, S29S0, exempt SIG
George +. Demars of Lyndon, a freig
brakeman, liabilities secured so, u
n secured S37l.96, personal property S
r. all exempt.
OF Mrs. W. Ii. Stevens of Burlington h
at a cent in her possession which bears Il
e. date of l1SS 1t was found a few da
~ ago in making road at Bolton. T.
to date is plainly marked and is almost
If clear as though but recently coined.
ir one side is the word Commonwealth
- and on the other Massachusetts" 7
figures of an Indian and of an eagle a
also stamped upon opposite sides of t
Is COIN
IN Thomas T. Aucty of st. Albar
r. messenger for the American Expire
company, has been taken to the Watt
bury retreat. He was injured about Z
nc head in the wreck at Shelburne in ia
N uary IN which four men were kille
Il Aucty had been unable to work until
al few weeks ago and since that time
= has gradually become insapA lie h
been employed by the express compa
over 20 years.