Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-02-20
st. Adams has 1910 children Of school
| age, 769 bows and 74l girls.


age, 769 boys and 74l girls.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
| Anti-Saloon league will be held In Bur-
| lington Feb. %. An address will be
given by the national superintend-
ent, Rev. Howard II. Russell, Of New
| York.
The Vermont association, of Boston,
have opened headquarters at the Hotel
Westminster, Copley Square, where all
visiting Vermonters will be gladly wei.
coined, and where all the state papers
will be on file.
The Kimball free public library build
ing at Randolph will be dedicated Feb.
%. 1t cost over $4,000 and Is a gift to
the town BY Col. Robert j. Kimball, a
successful New York banker whose
home Is at Randolph.
The annual report of the chief Of
police of Montpelier for the year ending
January 81 shows that the total number
of arrests within the city limits during
the past year has been 1872, of which Sc
were for intoxication.
Henry G. Marsh, an inmate of the
soldiers home at Bennington, died In the
hospital February IL from a compli
cation of diseases. He was Go years of
age, served In Co. A, Sd Vt. Vets. and
was admitted to the home from Brat
tleboro.
A news despatch from Burlington
states there is likely to be an ice famine
next summer on account of the scarcity
of that article in Lake Champlain. 1t
has taken about ten thousand tons Of
ice to supply the the Queen city In the
past year.
Dorman B. f. Kent of Montpelier has
come into possession of q valuable lib
rary of 5000 volumes by the death of
Dorman B. Eaton of New York city.
Mr.. Eaton was so years collecting the
library and it Is said to be one of the
finest collections in the county.
BENJAMIN G. Chatfield, aged 7S years
and five months, died 10 Dunstable,
Mass, Saturday, JAN "a. MIR. Chatfield
was born In ROxbury of this state but
was resident of Randolph for nearly 20
years, moving In 1875 to Lowell, Mass,
where he resided until 1895 and then
went to Dunstable.
Lester II. Greene, for the past year
president of the Montpelier city council,
and for two years alderman from ward l,
is a candidate for mayor. There are now
three candidates for mayor in the field,
Mr.. Greene, Fred L. Laird and Martin
w. Wheelock. Both the latter are
former members of the board of alder
men.
Gounod's "Faust" will be rendered by
the St. Johnsbury Choral Union chorus
of 100 voices during the festival that is
to be held March 2-7. Great care has
been taken to secure artists who can do
full justice to each part. A feature of
one of the matinee programs of the fes.
tival will be a chorus of 200 school
children.
Ned, the 17-year-old son of Charles
ROwell, who resides in the Jones brook
neighborhood near Montpelier was in
stantly killed Feb. 13 while drawing
wood. The boy was driving pair of
steers and when his body was found by
his father the load of wood had
passed over the boys body crushing his
life out.
The returns for the town of Charlotte
were received Wednesday at the Chitten-
den county clerks Office, after having
been sent to F. G. Fleetwood of Morris
vile, secretary of state, by w. w. Hig-
bee the town clerk of Charlotte. There
were 50 yes votes and 126 no. There is
no way for the vote to be included In
the canvass.
1t cost Montpelier $4,000 to run the
schools during the past year. The cost
Of caring for the poor has been S5494 %.
The city liquor agency sold in round
numbers $4,000 worth of liquor more
than it has any year since it has been
opened. The total receipts during the
year have been 1914, 600 with net profit
of about $1,000.
A large quantity of lumber is being
ha, lnI
bOrO railroad station for shipment to the
Portland Star match factory in Portland,
Me. This lumber Is cut in WardsbOrO,
Dover and other towns adjoining New
fame, anu is taken to Brattleboro rather
than shipped by narrow gauge from
Wllliamsville.
The Rev. Charles E. Hitchcock, who
has been pastor of the COngrega-
tional church at Benson for 10 years,
has resigned from that pastorate, his
resignation to take effect the last of
March. Mr.. Hitchcock's pastorate has
been the longest of any since that of
the Rev. Mr.. Hyde, who left there in 1856.
Mr.. Hitchcock and family will 20 to
Ohio next month.
There are at present l22 rural free
delivery routes in operation In Vermont.
Enosburg Falls has and Middlebury
has routes running into the country
and other towns have from to 4. All
the carriers are paid from the Burlington
Office and the business is conducted from
that point. That the service is eminent
ly satisfactory is shown by the few com.
plants that are received.
HOOsac Tunnel & Wilmington railroad
together with the Deerfield River Lum.
Der Co., established by the Newton Bros.
OF Holyoke, has been sold to Moses ii.
Newton and Martin A. Brown. Messrs.
Newton and Brown have recently ac-
quired several large lumber tracts in
Somerset and Glastonbury, giving them
control of the most extensive Jumper
interests in that section of Vermont.
The three Burlington boys who robbed
the Northern Provision company and
the Burlington Grocery company were
sentenced last week. Eugene Maple
was given not less than five or more
than six months tho hnuca of nor