Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-07-17
THE STATE.

| Bessie Stringham has been appointed
postmaster at Fowler
W. II. Root, prominent citizen of
Wrightsville died July 8.
John ID. Rockfelow, ir., is spending
the summer at Bennington.
Earl Brown, Z, of Duxbury, died from
tuberculosis suddenly July 8.
There were 1902 births and A deaths
in Colchester from Jan. to July /, 1908.
The small pox scare in Orleans county
is over and the patients have recovered.
The Haywood Chair Co. has just
bought lot of oak lumber in Benning-
ton.
Mrs. ID. L. Herrick of Brattleboro is
bankrupt with assets of S155 and owing
Sl029.
Gilbert o. Smith, Il prominent G. A.
R. man, died at Williamstown, July 8
aged So.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Gay of Elmore
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary July 3.
| Mrs. Florence Burke, 40, of Randolph
wife of farmer, committed suicide by
hanging, July 8.
The Babcocb-Coy, wax paper, com
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nington, Aug. |.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Turner and son of
Arlington were poisoned last week by
eating paris green.
The hay crop in Bennington county
is proving to be above the average in
quality and quantity.
The next meeting of the Vermont
Dairymen's association will be held at
st. Adams, next January.
William A. Mcdonald of Montpelier,
truckman, has been arrested for steal
ing hay. He is out on bail
w. E. Mcdonald was fined SOFT. in
Guiding costs, for intoxication and lar
ceny, at Montpelier, July 10.
John d. Pickering, 81, of Burlington
died July 10. He had been sexton of
Elmwood cemetery for several years.
The contract for the new city half
at Bellows Falls has been let for $4,000
and it is to be finished by Feb. l, 1904
Cairo Temple Mobiles of the Mystic
Shrine at Rutland has been granted a
charter. 1t will start with 100 members.
/ A petition in bankruptcy has been
| filed by Henry w. Jennie, farmer of
Cavendish; liabilities, $6339.52, assets
S4555.44, exempt $4l5.
p. McManus, Esq. of Rutland went
bail for two Cinnamon, clients of his,
and they skipped. Now he wants the
bail reduced to a nOmial sum.
The sales at the five fifth-class license
drug stores i'll Franklin county in June
were 231. The highest number of sales by
any one store was 81, lowest /.
The annual convention of the Baptist
churches in Vermont will be held at
the First Baptist church at SaXton's
River, September p, % and %.
George o. Vaughn, who assaulted
George w. LedouX of Bridgewater at
Woodstock, March 10, was sentenced
in Windsor county court to two years at
the house of correction.
The old freight house at Montpelier
Junction was totally destroyed by fire
last week. The building had been oc-
cupied by Italians. a spark from an
engine started the blaze.
Cecil, six-years-old son of G.. II.
Watts of Barre, while passing through
a covered bridge was run over. One of
the occupants of the carriage was intoX
icated. The boy will recover.
The jury in Caledonia county court in
the case of state against Jennie Aldrich,
charged with the murder of Mrs Mary
Massey at East Hardwick, April II,
brought in verdict July II, of not
guilty.
Clare Turner of Moretown, aged 20,
was drowned last week in Mad river
while swimming Roy Hutchins, his
companion, was taken out of the water
unconscious. but was revived. Hutch
ms is unable to remember anything of
the circumstances.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Deyett of Shelburne,
who won so sometime ago in dot con-
test, recently won a head prize from
The Springfield Union, and $50 from
The Troy Times in similar contests. The
contests We're on different diagrams one
containing as many as 1900 dots.
The midsummer outing of the Ner-
mont Bar association will be held at
Newport August 5 and 6. Receptions
will be held Wednesday evening and
Thursday morning. There will be a
sail ON Lake Memphremagog and car
riage drives. c. A. Prouty will give an
address in the evening.
The Lyndonvile journal has been
sold to J. II. Fuller and Allen C. Hol-
brook of Newport, and possession given
Mr.. Holbrook is an experienced printer
and newspaper man having been con-
nected with the Caledonian at ST. Johns
bury and more recently with the En-
press and Standard at Newport.
The money drawer of Arch Batchel-
der's mill in Plainfield was relieved of
$40 while Nelson Morse was at supper
July 8. \ roll of bills and quantity of
silver We're untouched but two $50 bills
had been taken. Entrance was gained
through a trap door in the floor The
arrival of several customers frightened
the thief away. George Whitcher has
been arrested.
The five-years-old son of Thomas
Lynch, of Montpelier was accidentally
shot in the side Saturday evening.
Lynch was fooling with loaded revol-
yer at his home when one chamber was
discharged. The ball went through a