Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-04-10
AROUND THE STATE.

Rutland this year.
l. T. Pratt of Bennington shot a big
wild cat last week.
The South Ryegate creamery paid 80
cents for February butter.
The Western Congregational club will
meet at Castleton May IL.
There were Is deaths, 8 males and
females, in Rutland in March.
The new masonic hall at Mortified
will be dedicated April % or 23.
The Champlain canal season will not
open this year until about May 1.
Eight marriage licenses were.issued in
Rutland in March and 40 dog licenses.
The Cowdry will case in Washington
county court resulted in sustaining the
will.
Captain Edward Baker has been
appointed state store keeper at Mont
pelier.
Judge John II. Watson has sold his
residence at Bradford and moved to
Montpelier.
The Grand Isle bridge near Adams was
damaged $1,000 by the high water and
severe wind Saturday.
George O. Vaughan of Woodstock is
under arrest charged with attempting to
shoot his hired man
Gov. McCulloughs daughter, Miss
Ella, gave $3.50. to st. Peters church
Bennington last week.
Nine old soldiers were admitted to the
Soldiers Home at Bennington in March;
| . died. There are SO inmates.
The steamer Reindeer which sank at
her dock in Burlington last week is
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Patrick Lucia was sentenced to states
prison by the Chittenden county court
for criminal assault on his II year old
niece.
f. f. Proctor of Bellows Falls, for
over 80 years in charge of the wreck
train on the Rutland railroad, died
March 30.
James Izard of Brattleboro has a re-
markable hen. a White Plymouth Rock
that recently laid 1G eggs in 1G consecu-
tive days.
The unoccupied farm house west of
Pittsford know as the Ann Cooley place
on Cooley Hill, built in 1889, was des-
troyed by fire.
Capt. Winifred b. Carr, Z. S. A., for
merry of Georgia, recently promoted from
first lieutenant, has been assigned to the
coast artillery.
The state railroad commissioners have
had hearing at Bellows Falls on the
petition from the board of trade asking
for new depot.
Alfred Rousseau of Winoosli was
sentenced Saturday TO the House of
Correction for four months for assaulting
an officer while drunk.
The Jacksonville creamery paid %
cents for February butter fat. The
Donahue creamery at East Monkton,
paid for February milk SLIP.
Margaret O'Donnell, 1S, had her hair
caught in weaving machine at the
Winooski Wooden Mills last week and
her scalp was nearly torn off.
Julia f. Cummings, a boarding house
keeper of Lyndon is bankrupt. She has
liabilities of 1872. 81 and assets of SAT- 80,
of which $3.50 are claimed exempt
The petition in voluntary bankruptcy
of Chauncey B. Newhall Of Barre,
granite manufacturer, has been filed;
liabilities $500, assets $95, exempt.
Ralph Smith of Groton, is the owner
of hen that recently laid an egg
measuring 3X6l inches in its two cir
conferences and weighing 4 ounces.
Henry Bond of West Minister, dug
potatoes over a week ago in perfectly
sound condition, with flavor equal to
any dug from the same field last fall.
Over seventy fowls have been stolen
from coops in West Rutland within the
past few days. One man lost 30 in one
night. There is no clue to the thieves.
The Rutland Railroad company has
purchased several acres of land adjacent
to its holdings in North Bennington and
will Immediately increase the capacity of
the yard.
William II. Cav of Brattleboro, has a
novelty in rare collection of $50 news
paper headings, including many head
ings from England, Germany and
Sweden.
John Carey, an inmate of the Soldiers
home, Bennington, died March 81.
have been 80 years old. He was the
oldest inmate of the institution.
Burt Bull of st. Adams has been APP
pointed division roadmaster on the Cen
trial Vermont railroad to take the place
of John DAILY, deceased. Mr.. Bull will
make his headquarters in Montpelier
Congressman d. j. Foster has been
in New York to confer with District
Superintendent Hazard about laying out
by July /. about % rural free delivery
routes in the first district for which pc
titions are pending.
The promoters mean business about
that Highgate and Swanton electric road
Propositions have already been made
to the village of Swanton, which owns
one of the best water powers in the state,
for their prices ON supply of power.
Rev. Carl NJ Gates was ordained to
the Congregational ministry in the
Congregational church in Dorset. his
native town, Monday evening. The
young man is son of Rev. NJ. 4. Gates
formerly of Barton Landing and ST.
Johnsbury.
The following petitions in voluntary
bankruptcy have been filed at the office
of the district court clerk in Burlington:
George ii. Morrison of Buelrs Gore
Liabilities S4O0.57, assets $35. Charles
IL. Mcleod, IA bookkeeper of st. Johns
bury Liabilities $3.50 Assets $40 ok