Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-05-15
THE STATE.

Barre has voted to build a SOS, 900
school house.
Burglars are busy in the vicinity of
Wilmington.
Charlotte will turn church into a
free public library.
The house of John Wynn of Bethel
was burned last week,
II. A. Adams has been appointed post
master at North Chester.
Work on the new federal building at
Newport is progressing fast.
Cornelius Perrin, prominent farmer,
of Williamstown, is dead, aged TO-
Rev. B. E. Smith, pastor of the Ran
dolph Baptist church, has resigned.
The new steamer Vermont will make
her trial trip next week on Lake Cham
plain.
The Congregational parsonage at
Gaysville was burned May Z. Loss
$1,000.
Edward c.. Huling, formerly of Bur-
lington, died in Chicago last week, aged
go years.
Willis Sweet, formerly of Alburgh, has
been appointed attorney general of
Porto Rico.
NnOulJSlltI Will SODu tame llledSuIeS W
prevent the pollution of the waters of
Berlin Pond
A. F. Andrews, the veteran Central
Vermont station agent at Gouldsville, is
dead, aged "a.
Edward Grout of Gouldsville fell
twenty feet in granite shed and was
seriously injured.
Willard Holman of Randolph has Sc
cured a fine position as civil engineer
at Buffalo, n. Y.
Clarence Graves, of East Wallingford,
fell on an ice axe last week and was
seriously injured.
The machinists' strike at Barre has
been settled. The minimum scale is So
per day of hours
Burlington had big chow WOW"
show this week. Some of the dogs were
especially noticeable.
Israel Katz of Burlington has been
jailed, having lost his mind through the
excessive use of cigarettes.
The barns of George Raymo, of New
port were burned last week, with con-
tents, including three horses.
Clinton Nelson, 81, of Barre is charged
with criminal assault on Glenner Cush-
The four ear-old child of F. P. Curtis,
of sheldon fell in a well one day last
week and just escaped drowning.
J. II. Sternbergh of Reading, Pa. is
to erect $50 900 summer home on prop
erty two miles north of Burlington.
Angus Nicholson. a lineman for the
Mortified Electric Co., fell 80 feet from
a pole May and was seriously injured.
A petition in bankruptcy has been filed
by E. A. Fraser of Brattleboro: liabilities
$325.71, assets 1928, claimed exempted
5000
The annual meeting of the Wash
ington County Veterans association will
be held at Dewey Park on Thursday,
June %.
Dr. Rachael H. Allyn, of East Charles
ton, the oldest female doctor in the
state celebrated her 93d birthday ami
versary last week
The school directors of st. Johnsbury
have engaged Clarence II. Demsey as
superintendent of the public schools for
the coming year.
The stockholders of the America
Fidelity company of Montpelier have
voted to increase the capital stock from
800, 900 to $250,000
Miss Lizzie Langdon has been engaged
as stenographer and office clerk at the
| headquarters of the State Anti-Saloon
league in Burlington.
The annual meeting Of the Vermont
Undertakers' association will be held at
Montpelier Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday June %, "a and 25.
Miss Mildred NJ. King, who has been
head nurse of the st. Adams hospital
since last December, has been appointed
matron to succeed Miss Miller.
Adelar Martele of Burlington has been
arrested charged with stealing leggins
and other articles from a house. He was
convicted of a very similar crime year
ago.
Gov Mccullough has pardoned John
F. Kimball of Boston and Randolph con-
victed of bigamy, and Randolph people
who know the circumstances are mad
clean through.
Harley l.. Bates of Montpelier. while
unloading crates containing the altar rail
for the Catholic church, narrowly
escaped being killed. One of the large
crates fell on him.
j. r. Booth, the great Burlington
lumber dealer, lost $3.50, 900 in the great
fire at Ottawa, which swept over 60
acres Sunday. 1t was the same district
burned over in April, 1900,
Minnie, 10-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Taylor, who lives on
the Billings farm, near Rutland, was
fatally burned early May II, while
lighting fire. She died in the after
noon.
Owing to Misunderstanding of orders
two freight trains on C. V. Ry. met in
head on collision near Milton May 6
which resulted in the death of A. l..
Ranney engineer and the injury of two
other men.
Tuesday, May 5, was the sixty-frst
anniversary of the marriage of Mr.. and
Mrs. II. A. Hodges, of Richmond. Mr..
Hodges looks to be about sixty-five,
although he is eighty-two, and his wife
about the same age.