Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-06-05
AROUND THE STATE.


niversary.
Six victims of the measles epidemic |
have died IN Richford. In many cases |
bronchitis is coupled with it.
Many cases of small pox are reported |
at Irasburg. Eight new ones have
broken out recently. The schools are
closed.
There were IS prosecutions for intoxi
cation in Rutland in May SOB and 20 in
April. A year ago there were about one
fourth as many.
The three-year-old son of Edward
Buck of st. Adams was seriously injured
by falling from a wood wagon and strik-
ing on his head and shoulders.
The Montpelier license commissioners
have held their first hearing under sec
ton 45, and Intercepted all officers as
to enforcement of the license law.
John w. Titcomb of ST. Johnsbury.
of the federal department of fisheries,
has been appointed overseer of the fish
cries of Argentine Republic and will leave
for there soon.
Barney Smith, 70 years old, of Plain
field Is IN Montpelier Jail charged with
nameless crime, the victim being "A girl
II years old. He barely escaped lynching
in being taken to Jail.
As Mayor Frank G. Phelps was investi-
eating the possibility of securing "A water
supply Tor Nergennes from nearby
farm one day recently he killed black
snake that measured six feet four inches
in length.
The contract fer building the sewerage
system in Fair Haven has been awarded
to Golden Il Hall. of Troy, n. y. whose
bid was S33, 3S9.1S. Work will be begun
June and must be completed before
December /.
Alexander Shea of Montpelier fell so
feet with an elevator at f. W. Bailey *
CO. S mill and received internal injuries.
The cable was unwound at the bottom
and caught at the top enough to hold the
elevator until he got in.
Frank Hemenwav was arrested near
the Canadian border on the charge of
setting fire to the buildings of f.
Skinner of Bloomington Center which
were burned. There had been trouble
between Skinner and Hemenway.
Rev. Joel II. Metcalf, who for ten
years has been pastor of the Unitarian
church of Burlington. has resigned, his
resignation to take effect October l. He
will take an advanced course at oxford
university, England, and will study his
speciality, astronomy.
Some excitement was caused at the
Barre opera house when two MOntpe-
lier girls with "A craze for the stage and
who were sitting in front seats enjoying
the play We're chased around the opera
house by their mother. With help of
the policeman she got the girls.
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Fairlee has issued orders for the annual
company drill and inspection, with the
yearly parade for drill, discipline inspec-
ton. and review of the artillery, Nor
witch university. as provided by law, to
be held at Mortified. June ID to %.
n l.. Sheldon, of Boston, whose name
has been connected with the presidency
of Norwich University, Mortified, in
the event of vacancy, says, Il have
never been, | am not now, and have no
intention of becoming a candidate for
the presidency of Norwich University"
George Robinson of Burlington has
! been convicted of third Otlense of in
toxication and sentenced to the house of
correction for 30 days. The saloons have
been notified not to sell him liquor i'll
the future as by the conviction he be
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posted under the new law.
Edwin w. Lawrence of Rutland has
been appointed assistant attorney i'm the
Office of the assistant attorney general
for the post Office department To succeed
Daniel V. Miller recently removed. Mr..
Lawrence is "A member of the Vermont
bar, now in the employ of Senator
Proctor as assistant secretary
Some Montpelier men have been sub
poened to Windsor to testify in the
case of the United States against Charlie,
f.. George charged with using the mail.
to defraud. 1t is alleged that Georg,
buncoed the members of legislature OF
1902 and others on a write-up boob
which never appeared. lie was iineo
5000
The Rt. Rev. Arthur c. a. Hall, o
Burlington, assisted Bishop Potter OF
New York. Bishop Walker, of western
New York, Bishop Colman, of Delaware
Bishop Whitehead, of Pittsburg, anC
Bishop Talbot, of central Pennsylvania
in the annual commencement of tn,
General Theological Seminary, New
York.
Anna G. Sawyer has been granted b,
Judge Dickey, OF New York, on com
plant am action of annulment OF mar
rage from Herbert X. Sawyer, of Brad
: ford, on statutory ground and bigamy
Mrs. Sawyer says she was married t.
Sawyer at Lebanon, y. H., in November
1900, not knowing he was already mar
ried until May 10 last.
The Strong Hardware Company, Bur
= lington, are selling nails at l - cent
per pound; chisels, planes, hammers
shavers, roofing and sheathing paper
poultry netting. lawn mowers, am
hundreds of other articles correspond
!, ingly ow.rwhile they last. The abov
+ are slightly damaged by smoke. If in
e terested, write or call at once. adv'r
t, William T. Dewey, chairman of tn
Il Montpelier license commissioners,
Il authority for the statement that it wa
g brought out at the hearing Monday Nigh
II that the night patromen reported one
h tenth less drunkenness in the city unde
d the license law than under prohibition
II Every man intoxicated is now arreste
v while under the old plan he was sent o