Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-06-17
STATE NEWS.
st. Johnsbury has 2O16 nolls.

day last week.
The body of William James, who was
drowned in Lake st. Catherine, Poultney
was recovered June 10.
The Burlington board of aldermen
have authorized bonds for 5000 for
the Archibald street schoolhouse.
Brother Simeon, a teacher in the
Catholic school at st. Johnsbury was
drowned while bathing in the Passumpsic
Saturday.
The directors of E. G. T. Fairbanks &
Co., st. Johnsbury, have declared
quarterly dividend of So share, payable
June 10, 1904
Pawlet had $40, 900 fire June 10 that
destroyed the grist MILL hotel and two
dwelling houses. 1t is thought to have
been incendiary.
Amos w. Eddy of South Walden is
dead from heart disease, aged II years.
He represented his town in the legisla-
ture in 1S90-1S92.
Joseph A. DeBoer president of the
National Life Insurance Company has
returned from a trip through the west
in the interests of the company.
Judge and Mrs Wendell P. Stafford,
OF st. Johnsbury, went last week to
Washington, d. G. where Judge Stafford
has assumed his duties as Judge in the
District of Columbia.
Three burglars attempted to enter the
house of d. l.. Nichols of Roxbury one
night last week. Mrs. Nichols who was
alone, fired three shots from a revolver
and the men left hastily.
A summer school for teachers in Rut-
land county and some of the adjoining
counties will be held at the high school
building in Rutland July Is to 80, in
elusive The plans are as yet embryo.
The total number of arrests in Barre
for May was 80, being eight less than for
Der % were for intoxication, being ) less
than for the same period last year.
Seven persons We're prosecuted in Rut-
land city court during May under the
no-license regime against 6S in May a
year ago, when the other part of the
local-option-license liquor law was
operative.
Henry Valiquette of Montpelier was
discharged Wednesday in city court,
there being no evidence that he stole
500 from his employer, Clarence E.
Bugbee, recently. He returned to work
lOl MI DuSDee'
Miss Katherine Hutchinson is expected
in Montpelier soon from New York
where she has been playing an important
part in THE Girl From Rays" After a
visit with relatives there, she is to 90 to
Bar Harbor, Me-, for the summer.
The Washington county conference of
Congregational churches was held in
Barre June s. The officers elected are.
Moderator, Rev. w. S. Hazen of North
field scribe, Rev. w. F. Bisell; registrar
and treasurer, Rev. F. B. Kellogg of
Waterbury.
Fred Rousseau, prisoner who was
being taken to the house of correction
at Rutland to serve Il sentence for a
breach of the peace, escaped from
Deputy Sheriff c. II. Wardwell of Wi
nooski, by jumping from the flyer at
Shelburne Wednesday shortly after
noon.
Barre sports are sore because they
spent their money to see the wrestling
match between Duncan C. Ross and a
Barre Scotchman, which resulted in
Ross walking off the stage saying his
opponent tried to choke him. After
trying in vain for some time to get their
money back the crowd dispersed
Senator w. P. Dillingham; addressed
an audience which filled the opera house
in Barre the evening of June 8. The
occasion was the graduation of a class
of sixteen from the Spaulding High
school. Harry Jackson, son of eX-
Mayor j. Henry jackson, delivered the
valedictory address and Miss Carrie
Bemis the salutatory.
E. & 7. Fairbanks & Co.. the st.
Johnsbury scale manufacturers, have
offered twenty-five prizes, amounting
to S4So. for the most valuable sugges-
tions submitted by any of their l,0OC
employees in regard to doing the work
better, easier or cheaper. The prizes
will be awarded in December, and the
men are already taking much interest il
the contest.
Owing to the heavy rain of last week
about forty feet of the highway known
as the dugway above Forestdale dI
Brandon) on the Goshen road wa:
washed into the river below. The bank
at this place is very steep and high and 6
part of it was washed out two years age
leaving gully about thirty feet deep
That part of the road was permanently
fixed at that time, costing the town
S1,275.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the National Car company a
st. Adams these directors were elected
E. c. Smith, B. B. Smalley of Burlington
F. Stewart Stranahan and w. Beechel
Fonda, Albert futile of Fair Haven
Farrand S. Stranahan and f A. Chitten
den. The directors elected these officers
President, B. B. Smalley; secretary anC
treasurer, F. Stewart Stranahan; auditor
+. A. Chittenden; assistant secretary
and treasurer, NJ. d. Greene. to serve
during the illness of Mr.. Stranahan.