Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-01-30

moved from Rutland to that city when
the lease on the buildings in Rutland ex-
pires, which will be May !, 1903.
These petitions in bankruptcy have
been flied Dennis +. Rood of Jericho
with liabilities of 50 GGl % and assets of
81 500, of which S2lG 81 are claimed ex
empt. Andrew :. Mckay of Barre. liza
bilities of 50. 1877 81 and assets of S2,57S.44,
of which $720 are claimed exempt.
stephen Avery of Barre, liabilities of
S275 OS and assets of sips. all of which
are claimed exempt.
The Troy Methodist conference will
meet Mt Saratoga Springs. y. Y, April
l4-20, Bishop G.. G. McCabe, of Omaha,
will preside. The conference comprises
the counties of Chittenden, Addison.
Rutland and Bennington, in Vermont :;
Berkshire, in Massachusetts Washing
ton, Rensselaer,. Saratoga. Warren and
Essex, in New York. This will be the
third consecutive time that the confer
ence has met in Saratoga.
Among the passengers on the steamer
Lain. which went aground near Gibral-
tar sunday, was Miss Elva Mabel Brow
nell, daughter of Hon. Chauncey NJ.
BrOwnell of Burlington. Miss Brownell
has been spending six or seven months
at Athens and in travel on the Continent
and a postal from Naples just before the
sailing of the vessel announced that she
had engaged passage on the Lain, due
at New Y ork, January 26.
ID. Noyes Burton, IIlghgate's Repre-
sentative in the last Legislature, has sold
the property on College street, Burling-
ten. known as the Burton House, to o.
Il. Mason of Burlington. 1t has been
unoccupied except by caretaker for
about ten years. Visitors to Burlington
will remember this place by the two
stone lions at the College street entrance,
and the large dome shaped conservatory
at one end of the structure.
The following officers were chosen at
the biennial election of the Department
of Vermont, Patriarchs Militant held re-
Gently: Colonel and department com
mander, O. II. Henderson. of st. Johns
hurry; lieutenant colonel. f. A. Spear, of
Woodstock major first battalion. F. L.
Houghtop, of Rutland; major second
battalion, A. f. Spaulding, of Wood
stock: major third battalion, James
Campbell, of Barre.
At meeting of the friends and direct
ors of the Mansfield Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Co. chartered by the Legislature of
1896, held in Burlington recently. those
present were of the opinion that the time
was ripe for the company 10 organize
and begin business. The board of direct
ors. as named in the charter, is as fol-
lows Ii. w. Allen. c. u. Smith, ID. w.
Robinson, J. J. Flynn, Hobart j. Shan
ley, of Burlington; III. NJ. Mcfarland of
Hyde Park and Frank Howe of Jericho.
The chairman of the board, it is expected,
will call meeting for organization with
in the next few days.
John Leclair, night watchrnan at st.
Adams Street Railway Co.'S car barn,
narrowly escaped death by electrocution.
He was on top of car and grasped the
trolley wire with both hands to prevent
himself from falling. II. n. Files,
mOtOrman, was near and realizing the
situation he Immediately raised the
trolley poll to the wire, thus shifting
the current. When the trolley wheel
touched the wire, Leclair's hold on the
wire looseued and he fell from the car
to a pit beneath, distance of about
fifteen feet. He was unconscious and
badly burned about the arms and hands
but will recover.
The Woodbury. Granite Co., holders of
the Harlow granite quarry in Bethel,
have Just closed a contract for furnishing
Bethel granite for two palatial residences
on Fifth aye, New York city. facing
Central Park. The first will be built for
j. ID. Lyon and the second for Harry
Payne Whitney, son of William G. Whit
ney, a former secretary of the navy.
This contract calls for 10000 cubic feet
of granite and it is understood that the
price is not far from 100000 The first
granite must be delivered bV March |
and the last by October |. This work
will employ from thirty to fifty quarry
men at Bethel at once. The finishing
will be done at IIardwick until the snow
is gone, when 1t is expected that plant
will be erected at Bethel which will en-
! ploy from l25 to $50 cutters.