Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-11-11
STATE NEWS.

han0S.
At a dance given at Granville, Eleazer
Hubbard, aged 80 years, led the first
figure.
No trace has been found Of M. G. Ken
yon and Emile LaFountain, missing Bur-
lington men.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Grange will be held at Bellows
Falls, Dec. 1916.
The Methodist church at Bellows Falls
has raised money enough to pay the en-
tire church debt of $500.
Ex-Gov. j. G. Mccullough has closed
his North Bennington house and gone to
New York for the winter.
Mrs. Bell, wife of Governor G. J. Bell,
will attend the meeting Of the National
grange at Portland, Ore.
Town Representative Adam w. Hurl-
burt of Georgia has gone to his home,
from Montpelier, seriously i'll.
For shooting a doe which he mistook
for a buck deer, Elmer H. Brownson of
Arlington paid 500 and costs.
The Vermont Dairymen's association
and Ladies' Auxiliary association will
meet at Montpelier January 9, 10 and II.
Horace Campbell of S%helburne has
been arrested, charged with stealing a
watch from Peter Lake at the Shelburne
hotel.
Charles Bleau, aged Is years, while out
hunting near Bennington pond shot a
handsome loon, a bird seldom seen In
that section.
Of a herd of "a cows belonging to N.
Bigelow of Stowe, given the tuberculin
test recently, the whole number passed
the test successfully.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
has been filed by Edward II. Slayton of
Barre, a merchant; liabilities, $1511.22,
assets S401, exempt $50.
The circulation of books in Randolph
village and Randolph Center from the
Kimball public library during October
was 1851, giving a daily average of
70 1922.
Frank Chopper, the Republican nomi-
nee for member of assembly from Essex
county, N. Y, received his preparatory
education at Troy Conference Academy,
Poultney.
The house and Darn of Kimhall Will
liams of Randolph were burned Wednes-
day night. The loss is heavy, with only
small insurance. The fire was of incen-
diary origin.
The Brattleboro home for the aged and
disabled observed Thursday as harvest
day. About $50 people left donations,
including $40 in cash, a set of dining
chairs, silverware, china and eatables.
Champion Colonel Monte, a Boston
terrier that captured several first prizes,
has been sold for $1,000 by E. p. Wood
bury and c. H. Mower of Burlington to
Nf-.o, Wy DoL;oco, &c Nnr, Var1y for "
hibition purposes.
Fire last week destroyed a large barn
on the farm of Bishop A. G. A. Hall al
Rock Point, together with 70 tons of hay
and $50 bushels of oats. The loss is
$4,000, insurance $1,000. The cause OF
the fire is unknown.
AS the plans for %remodeling the Rut.
land railroad depot call for a plainly fin.
ished waiting room, money is being raised
by popular subscription for the purpose
of finishing the interior in marble in a
manner that will be a credit TO the city
The Woodstock Inn livery at Wood
stock was burned Friday. The harnesses
fine rigs and a large quantity of hay
were destroyed. The loss is about
$12 900, insurance only $1,000. The fire
was caused by imperfect insulation o.
electric wires.
Bishop David Hastings Moore has beer
assigned to preside over the Vernon
Methodist Conference to be held at Enos
burg Falls beginning April 10, 1905, an(
Bishop Henry White Warren to the Troy
Methodist Conference which will open a
Saratoga, N. Y, April ~, 1905.
On a little less thar one and one-fourtl
3 acres of ground, Corydon Parker o
Sutton has raised nearly five hundred
bushels of potatoes, or at the rate of fou.
hundred bushels to the acre. The larges
one weighed two pounds and sever
ounces, and others were nearly as large
States Attorney A. F. Schwenk O
Brattleboro has asked Gov. C. j. Bell t
issue a requisition to Gov. John L. Bate
of Massachusetts, for the return to Yer
mont of Harold Holbrook who was ar
of being one of the Newfane bank rob
bers. ,Holbrook is held under bonds il
the sum of $4,000.
. Silas Bushey of North Hero was Use
riously injured but will ecover. He wa
on a load of unhusked corn, and Will,
driving along the edge of a steep EN-
wagon and boy falling 25 feet. The loaC
buried Bushey and it was some tim,
before he could be reached. He regainet
consciousness after several hours.
Fourteen marriage licenses were ISSUED
in Rutland during the month of October
During the open season for deer only TIVE
licenses were issued in that city to dee
hunters from outside of the state. Their
were 10 deaths in the city durin,
the month. OF contagious diseases
eight were reported, four of typhoit
fever and four of whooping cough.
Strict, but necessary measures hav,
been adopted by the Rutland city healtl
officer that an epidemic of whoopin,
cough may be prevented among tn
kindergarten pupils of the city. One o
the schools has been closed and a clos
watch will be kept of the disease and ex
IRENE measures adopted where new case
are not reported to the local health off
cials.
Fire in the Pollard building, Windsor
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