Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-02-06
AROUND THE STATE.
ITEMS GATHERED HERE AND THERE
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

Concord, n. H., Jan. 80 aged 10.
Claiming Day, 43, of Derby, commit
ted suicide January % by hanging.
! Henry II. Demlng of Montpelier is
dead. aged 81. He was born in Danville.
/ Mason & Co. of Burlington have the
contact to rebuild the academy buildings
at Fairfax.
Lieut.. p. j. Rogers, of Barre, succeeds
Frank ID. GLADDEN. as captain of Company
! e, V. n. G..
The house and barn of Prof. Eli Edge
comb at Derby were burned January 10.
The loss was $1,000.
Tim Holland, of Barre, was fined 1912
and sentenced to 30 days in home of cor
rection for selling liquor last week.
Poultney has mysterious disappear
ance case that of Owen Ellis. He dis
appeared Jan. q and no trace of him
has been found since.
No trace has been found of Nahum
Bemis of Gazzets who left his home six
weeks ago and wandered away although
search has been made for him ever since.
The Rt. Rev. A. C. A. Hall, of Bur
lington, has sent to the Rev. A. N.
Lewis, rector of Christ church, Mont
pelier, a check for $50 as a subscription
to the building fund.
DR.. w. Seward Webb has refused to
accept the conditions imposed by the
city meeting of Burlington contingent
on the removal of the headquarters of
the company to that place.
A warrent is out for the arrest of
Louis Trudeau of Swanton, charging
him with shamefully abusing little
waif, boy eight years old, from the
Catholic orphan school at Boston.
1t is of singular co-incident that there
were two DR.. Vincents in the last legis-
lature. DR.. w. S. Vincent of Burlington
and DR.. w. H. Vincent of Orwell. Both
lost their wives by death last week.
The loss on Christ's church, Mont
pelier which was burned last week, has
appraised at $4,000 and the loss at
$7,602, so the society will receive $685.
insurance. Here is where the co-insur-
ance clause gets in its work.
&. F. White, who carries on NJ. G.
Rowell's farmer in Randolph is doing a
tidy little dairy business. His check for
the milk taken to the creamery during
December amounted to S24S.37; for
November it was S1S3, and for October
S1S6.
The Rev. f. M. Chapman, pastor of
the North Congregational church in st.
Johnsbury. will sail from Boston Feb. ii
for three months trip to Palestine.
During his absence his pulpit will be
supplied by Rev. DR.. David N. Beach, of
Cambridge, Mass.
Sherman p. Allen, for several years a
member of The Burlington Free Press
staff, and now private secretary to Con-
gresham ID. j. Foster, was married in
Washington, d. c., recently to Daisy
Greer, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Snow
den w. Robinson, of that city.
Mrs. d. Mellinelli, wife of an Italian
physician at Barre, accidently swallow
ed some carbolic acid Tuesday night
while trying to relieve toothache, and
after being under four doctors care all
night was brought through. Her friends
deny that it was a case of attempted
suicide
Pomeroy LOOMS, of Burlington, has
by inheritance, come into possession of
an interesting memorial, in the shape of
hickory cane, presented to his grand
father, the late Horace LOOMS, by Henry
| Clay on the occasion of the visit of the
famous statesman to Burlington in 1899.
The cane was cut by Mr.. Clay at his
home in Ashland.
William Schuster, the well.known bari
tone singer, is visiting his mother in
Brattleboro. His next engagement be-
gins in about six weeks at the Orpheum
theatre, Brooklyn, where he will take
the part of Poo Bah in "The Mikado."
The company will make tour of all the
leading cities in the country.
Governor Mccullough has appointed
as delegates from the state of Vermont
to the international conference of Ameri-
can Road Makers at Detroit on Feb
ruary - and IA, 1903: j. O. San
ford, Stamford; Prof. j. w. Votey,
Burlington; c. B. Roberts, Montpelier
j. B. Wells, Randolph; F. NJ. Moulton,
Vergennes.
Mrs. Alice NJ. Ruble, member of the
lower house of the Colorado Legislature,
who distinguished herself by making the
nomination of Henry NJ. Teller for
United States senator, Is former YER
mont woman, who is having her first eX-
perience with official life. Mrs. Ruble
was born in Vermont, and is a member
of the old Brush family.
A unique feature of the Vermont
Maple Sugar Makers convention in
Montpelier Feb. II and II will be a
maple sugar banquet the last evening of
lIlt seSslODs VIII Dt sugar hui
and sugar cold, sugar waXed and sugar
grained, maple sugar candy-in fact all
the different forms of this delicious
dainty. There will also be speeches,
and 1t is expected that DR.. w. NJ. Kelly
and Miss NJ. Blanche Sparhawk of Ran.
dolph will sing.
C. C. Warren, of Waterbury. who was
thrown from an automobile In New York
city few days ago, has about recovered
from the shock, which he received from
the fall. Mr.. Warren In company with
Erwin Cooley, was riding in an automo-
bile driven by an expert operator, when
it became unmanageable, and while GO
ing at high rate of speed ran into al
iron post. 1t is said that Mr.. Warren
was thrown about twenty feet. He
struck on the concrete and was picked
up in an unconscious condition, in which
state he remained for about: two hours
Mr.. Cooiey escaped with slight bruises,
The machine was damaged to some extent
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