Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-18
STATE NEWS.

The strike at Hardwick has been
settled
There are said to be about 60 cases of
measles in Morrsville.
John B. Durkee, a prominent business
man of South Royalton, is dead.
A Cambridge, Vt, man is to put a
one-ring circus on the road this season.
Work is progressing rapidly on
Whalen Bros new theatre at Burling-
ton.
Elisha Moody, of Waterbury, cele-
brated his 9lst birthday anniversary last
week.
Mrs. Betsey Walston, of Nashville,
celebrated her Goth birthday anniversary
recently.
A company has been formed at Mont
pelier to manufacture nickle-in- the-slot
machines.
Morton A. Parker has been appointed
postmaster of the fourth class at
Bloomington.
The No majority in Caledonia county
in 1908 was 1869 and 1434 in 1904, says
the Caledonian.
Hon. Hiram Fairfield Stevens, prom
inent citizen of Franklin county, died
March 10, aged SO.
F. A. Mansfield. a prominent farmer
and the road commissioner of Waterbury,
dropped dead March 10.
Mrs. Eta Brown Benjamin, II years
old, was arrested at Bradford last week
for passing forged check.
Mrs. Penus White, %, of st. Johns
bury, who was deserted by her husband,
committed suicide March 10.
F. H. Howard, a member of the Brat
tleboro license board, has resigned. The
selectmen appointed his successor.
| G.. st. Armour, business man of
Barre, took strychinine powders by mis-
take for headache tablets March 10 and
is dead.
The Rev. 7. A. Harwood has accepted
call to the Congregational church at
Bakersfield and will begin his labors
Immediately.
The tenth annual reunion of the
Daughters of Vermont in Boston was
held last week at the Vendome and over
200 were present.
Senator Redfield Proctor has con.
tributed $4,000 to the million dollar
centennial endowment fund of the Uni
versity of Vermont.
Dummerston's license vote is to be
contested on the ground that six illegal
ballots were cast and that one voter had
his vote rejected at the polls.
Miss Susan Bates, of East Barre, a
student in Goddard seminary, died
March 9th, after being treated for seve.
raj days by Christian Scientists.
Capt. Norman F. Estes, for half a
century identified with boating interests
on Lake Champlain, is dead at his home
in Burlington. He was ~ years old.
Walpole, N. Y, voted last week to dc
its part towards freeing the toll bridge
across the Connecticut between North
Walpole and Bellows Falls and IN build
ing new bridge above the falls AS
Rockingham has already voted to do its
part, work will soon be commenced.
The town of Rockingham has brought
suit in the county court to recover from
the Bellows Falls and SaXtons River
Street Railway Co. the money due the
town. The town has been out, it seems
about 81 900 because of the cut in Pine
street. The road agreed, it is alleged,
to pay all but $1,000 of whatever the
cost was.
Mrs. Mary Mulhearn, of West Rutland
died March 10th, at the age of 101 years.
Mrs. Mulhearn was born in Roscommon
county, Ireland, in 1903. After the
death Of her husband 80 years ago she
came to this country. She had never
worn glasses and had always been re-
markedly healthy. She leaves two sons,
two daughters, thirteen grandchildren
! and seven great-grandchildren.