Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-04-24
AROUND THE STATE.

The Easter Offerlng at SJ. Augustine
Catholic church, Montpelier, was about
So. 900.
The pay roll of the Vermont Marble
Company for the month of March was
about $50 1000. n
George Mears, of Quechee, has a
pullet that recently laid an egg that
measured 81 by inches.
Miss Hattie Roberts, a young girl in the
employ of Herman w. Rice of Westford,
committed suicide April 10 by taking
carbolc acid.
F.. A. Platt of Highgate recently |
caught sturgeon. The fish meas /
ured five feet four inches, and weighed
one hundred pounds.
The house and barn and other build !
ings belonging to Samuel Spaulding
i'm Brownsville were burned April ID. I
Several head of cattle persisted in the fire. !
Since the present term of Washington
county court opened March 5, eighty-nine
petitions for divorce have been filed with
the clerk of the court, the largest num-
Der ever presented at one time
Capt George H. Rushlow, superin-
tendent of the Champlain Transports
ton Co.. has returned from Concord, n
H.. greatly improved in health and is
In no-icense Caledonia county, three
druggists licenses have been taken
out TO date The licensees are F. f.
| Dwinnell of Lyndonvile and o. J.
Paquette and NJ. r. Kimball of Hard
wick.
The gross receipts of the Bennington
post office for the quarter ending March
81 were So 1904 81, small increase over
the same quarter for the preceding year.
There were 154 special delivery letters
received
Joseph j. NARROW, joint manager of
the Castle Square hotel, Boston, died of
hemorrhage of the brain after IA brief
illness. Mr.. NARROW was born in Under
hill 81 years ago and went to Boston -
years ago.
George NJ Powers, of Morrisville, was
injured Monday by being thrown from
a wagon on the fair grounds, and dis
locating one knee. Mr.. Powers is at
present confined to the house suffering
from the accident.
Herbert II. Daniels, one of the largest
luinbermen in Windsor county, was
badly hurt April - at one of his saw
mills at East Barnard. With Fred Leas
he was running the saw and. slipping on
plank, fell in front of the moving car
riage and was pinned between the car
riage and skid.
Mrs George r.. Andrus, of Bradford,
has in her possession a sleeve button,
which was worn by her great grand
, mother Morse when she was taken prs-
? oner by the Indians at the burning of
Rovalton in 1880. 1t is cut glass, or
crystal, enclosing a fine set in silver
and is in "A perfect state of preserva-
, ton.
l Patrick Rogers who is i'll of small pox
and was in quarantine at his home on
Foundry street. st. Adams took French
leave of the town sometime during the
night and his whereabouts are at present
5 unknown. An effort is being made to
! locate him and if found he will be i'm
: pressed with the seriousness of his
; offense.
II. f. Tinker has offered his resigna-
e ton as agent of the Central Vermont
q Railway Co.. at White River junction
to take effect April 21. His duties as
. agent and ticket seller have brought
c him in touch with very many Yer
monters during his long service in each
capacity. He has been connected with
the road 36 years, during 30 of which he
has held his present position.
Col. Silas W. Cummings formally
= retired from the office of general pas
senger agent of the Central Vermont
e railway April IA and is succeeded by
- John f. Bentley. Colonel and Mrs
Cummings left the city April Is fol
l Providence, r. l.. where they will make
c their home. Their plans for the inn
o mediate future are not perfected yet
@ but they hope to enjoy a trip abroad
| soon.
The partnership firm of f. C. Fisher
> q CO., which owned and operated the
y large tannery at Bethel have organized
j. as corporation under IA charter granted
n in the state of New York and have con
V veved their local property to the cor
e poration. The firm has been doing {
= large business the past few months EN-
p!oving about seventy hands and hal
been hampered some what by the diff
Guilty of getting sufficient help.
MIS-. Marguerite f. Crossett died Apr
d lG at Montpelier. She was So years o
e age and had been totally blind for l.
years Her husband died 81 years ago
She was born in Milton She was tn
y, mother of - children, four of whom sur
II vive her. They are Mrs. Samuel Howard
IF Mrs G.. Smith of Montpelier, Mrs
. Samuel Chandler of West Berlin and Il
G. Crossett of Spokane, Wash. She wa
- the grandmother of % children am
)r the great Grandmother of Il.
t, Mrs Robert Dixon of Stowe was throw
" from "a carriage April II and almost IL
% stantly killed. Mr.. and Mrs. Dixon, VIII
have moved within week from til
Lewis Mayo place on the Laporte road t
lg Brownsville, We're driving down the hi
I'd when the horse began kicking. In gettlnl
O. out of the wagon Mr. Dixon, who had
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