Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-11-06
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South Carolina cleared $780, 900 by its
state liquor dispensary last year, and the
money goes to the public schools. Bur
lington Free Press
The shooting accident at Walden, by
which young lady lost her life in the
twnkling of an eye, is an awful lesson
against carelessly leaving fire arms with
in the reach of children. -Hardwick
Gazette.
Which is the worst afflicted, st.
Adams with its Blocks" Rutland with
its innumerable DRINKS, Barre with its
Anarchists or Burlington with Mayor
Jim Burke, is question offered for the
consideration of debating clubs this fall.
Randolph Herald.
The Rutland News will kindly issue
chart with its jokes hereafter, or else
arrange for few operations of trepan
ming in certain newspaper offices. Its
attempt to have little fun with style in
st. Adams has been taken altogether too
seriously in some quarters. -Brattleboro
Phoenix.
A New York correspondent of the
New York Sun Says:
Observing recently that Gov. McCul-
Tough of Vermont has a New York office,
l should like to ask if the metropolis has
reached the point that governors of the
No
York offices? Amt we large"
"a Brutal Murder" was the heading
which appeared in half of the news
papers last week over the article telling
of the tragedy in West Rochester Did
anyone ever hear of a murder which
was not brutal? One would hardly
expect a murder to be described as
polite, NICE" or even good. =
Phoenix.
1t must require mind of extraordin-
airy suppleness to thunder, as does the
Messenger, against the frghtful de-
prayity of the smaller towns, while
the unspeakable vileness of the
Blocks episode has made the name
of st. Adams stencil in the nostris
of decent people and goes today
unpublished. Concentrate your batteries
on your own natural enemy, Br. Green.
Ludlow Tribune.
The Middlebury Register is right and
it says none too much for Mr.. DeBoer.
What it says of him, however, may be
said with equal truth of many other
men in public and private life in Yer
mont. Men who have battled with adj
versity and overcome the obstacles which
have discouraged a nature less deter.
mined are entitled to the highest respect
and confidence of their fellow men.
Mortified News.
Brattleboro may rejoice again for the
period of her drought will soon be over
The commissioners have decided that
because the original licensees have
offended against the law, is no reason
that a city which desires to be wet
should 90 dry. New licenses will be
issued IN place of the ones revoked
These will not run a year from date, as
usual, but will be for the balance of the
year and will be pro ata-Bellows
Falls Times.
Bright paragraphs from the Benning
ton Banner: "A politician with "A pull
is envied. \ razor with pull is des
pissed
Most people say they don't like flat
terry but they leepright ON listening.
Charity covers "a multitude of defects
so do these new fashioned dropping
wells
Dainties of the autumn season: pump
kin pie, sweet cider, chestnuts and colo
in the head.
The recent disastrous fire at Bristol
by which one of the largest industries
of the town was burned out, has not
discouraged the business men there
Already plans are being made to replace
the large building with another equally
as good, so that the business of the Bris
tOl Novelty Works may continue with
but temporary interruption. 1t takes
considerable confidence to repair sc
serious "A damage as this was to Bristol