Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-06-26
STATE NEWS.

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has over 1000 subscribers.
The East Montpelier creamery paid its
patrons 234 cents for May butter.
John G. Foster, a Vermonter has been
appointed consul-general at Ottawa.
The monthly pay roll of the Vermont
Marble Co, Proctor was $9l 900 for May.
Barre gets two new trains daily. each
way under the new time table of the G.
V. Ry.
A car ran off the track at Randolph
one day last week and demolished a shed
near the road.
Horse thieves are at work in Rutland
and Addison counties and several teams
have been stolen.
John Kelly, criminal patient of the
Waterbury asylum, escaped last week,
but was recaptured.
Edward Hatch of Swanton, while
fooling with rifle last week, was shot
through his left hand.
A dividend of 10 per cent is being paid
the depositors of the defunct Farmers
National bank of Vergennes.
DR.. Geo. A. Dutton, well-known in
Rutland, Randolph, etc, as teacher
and physician, died at Chicago recently.
Henry Tucker, the son of prominent
Brattleboro physician, was arrested last
week charged with stealing a lot of
jewelry at Bellows Falls.
Bennington Jail, intended to hold eight
persons, now has within its walls II pris-
oners. All are charged with states
prison crimes except three.
The Red Lion Inn. the only hotel in
Randolph that has been closed for some
time. was re-opened Monday with c. W.
Hayward as proprietor.
Principal Davenport of the Montpe-
lier Methodist seminary has agreed to
stay another year and Prof. Howe has
been elected vice-principal.
The following fourth class postmasters
have been appointed in Vermont, East
Randolph, Harry f. Sprague; Marlboro
Merton f. Baxter; North Fayston, Eliza
Eaton.
OF the II divorces granted at the
present term of Bennington county court
three are for adultery, two for refusal TO
support. five for desertion, one for in
tolerable severity.
The National bank of Barre has de-
Clared an extra dividend of $50 a share
| from the undivided profits. The bank
has atcapital of 500, 900. and there is
5 divide d. ''' u '-''''' 'i''' '"F extra
Mis- la Niles of Morrisville left last
week FOR New York, where She will begin
rehearsals for the production of The
| Singing Girl, in which she has secured
the contralto role of Lady Maria for the
coming season.
Mrs. Henry Kinney of Planfeld has
"A lemon tree which possesses. besides its
beautiful foliage. buds and blossoms, a
| lemon whose circumference is L l-2
inches one way, and 70 81 the other and
is still growing, although showing signs
of ripening.
At a hearing in Ludlow in the estate
of James +. Gill late of Boston, and
owner of the Ludlow wooden mills, To
determine the amount of collateral in
heritance tax due the state. before
Judge f. A. Walker it was decided that
tax of S305l.4l should be paid the
state.
The corner stone of the Catholic Old
Ladies' Home of Rutland was laid last
week The home was blest by TIE Rev
I. j. Gaflney, rector of st. Peters church
1t is expected the building will he com
pleted November /. Lorette Home will
be the name of the institution.
Miss Lulu F. Morse, a St. Johnsbury
Young woman who has Just been gradu
ated from Hartford Theological seminary
has received the degree of master OF
sacred theology from that institution
and Immediately received an appoint
ment as teacher in the Biblical depart
ment at Mount Holyoke college.
Eugene Shea of Bennington came neal
losing his life recently. While eating
supper with the family, a piece of meal
lodged in his throat. and neither he MOI
, anyone present could remove it. A ply
stefan was hurriedly sent for and sue
ceeded in getting it out just in time t.
save him.
The Brigham creamery at Randolph
paid "a cents net pound for butter fa
in May. The Cooperative paid 2
T cents net "A pound for butter fat
or 2l4 cents for butter. The cost t
made was Is cents This creamery
made $1,000 pounds of butter, and paiC
$S425. 1t had $50 patrons last month
the largest number it has ever had
William r. Adams, town clerk o
Bethel for the past 80 years, died jun
e - the result of paralytic stroke sut
= fered June T. Mr.. Adams had beef
S engaged in business in Bethel longe
a than any, man now there. For abou
5 thirty years he had been trial iustic
! before whom nearly all the cases, bot
!. civil and criminal, were tried. Nh
}, Adams is survived by his wife and eigh
children.