Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-09-30
STATE NEWS.


Montpelier and other towns, the god.
The First Baptist church of Burlington
celebrated its 10th anniversary Sept. 81.
Mrs. w. r. Ovitt, West Enosburg, !
had a rib fractured 10y falling from a
chair
Angelo Cordini, Barre had some tar
get practice killing some birds. The
pastime cost him just S4S.S9.
a. W. Simpson of White River juno
ton, who has been in the railway mail
service 80 years, has retired.
The annual convention of the state
federation of women's clubs will be held
in Bellows Falls October and 6.
The election of Mark Kenyon as town
representative from Westford has been
contested; grounds, illegal election.
c.. Paul Rivers, of Montpelier, well
known to Vermont National Guardsmen
of fifteen and twenty years ago, has
been appointed fish and game warden.
Thomas II. Hall of Pownal, who in
tended to contest the election of Fred
Potter for town representative, has de-
cided not to do SO, evidence being insult
ficient.
Alvin Fink, defaulting manager of
| Ly HUI " UellhS TeSJduTduI, w llJS
River Junction, has been arrested in
Lowell, Mass. His wife and child were
with him.
Nathan Macky, Z West Dummerston,
is dead from injuries received by being
run over by narrow gage railroad train.
His right arm and leg were cut off, and
his head was badly bruised.
By the additions and corrections
made to the Barre grand list since it
was made up in June by the assessors,
the same is increased $412.40, making
the total list this year S4S, 36703.
A farm house belonging to Mrs. Mary
Driscoll, situated on the Middletown
road three miles from East Poultney,
was destroyed by fire Thursday morning.
There was about $500 insurance on the
property.
DR.. Henry d. Holton of Brattleboro,
was unable to accept an invitation to
read a paper before the congress of arts
and sciences at the st. Louis exposition
last week, as he is recovering from a
recent illness.
George Fitzsimmons has resigned the
position of secretary of the Burlington
Young Mems Christian Association,
after year and a half of service, and
will go to the Passaic, N. j., association
in the same capacity.
The list annual convention of the
Universalists of Vermont and Provi-
dence of Quebec, the 14th annual con-
vention of the Y. p. G. U. and Woman
Missionary society of the same territory
will be held in Morrisville, Sept. 26 to 80.
Ann Story Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, at Rutland, has
decided to place a marker on the site
of the "oid Jail line" on the road to
Mendon. This line in Revolutionary
> times was the boundary beyond which
people owing certain amount of money
could not go.
At the annual meeting of the Bur-
lington cotton mills, Messrs. j. H
Gates, r. G. Severson, Edward Wells,
b. B. Smalley, A. E. Gates, and Henry
Greene were elected directors for the
year ensuing, j. H. Gates was elected
president, Edward Wells, vice-president
and r. G.. Severson, clerk and treasurer
AT the annual meeting of the Wells
& Richardson Co., of Burlington
Messrs. Edward Wells, Henry Wells,
W. j. Van Patten, F. H. Wells, and
F. r. Wells were elected directors fol
the year ensuing. Edward Wells was
elected president; Henry Wells, vice
PRESIDENT F. H. Wells, secretary
w. j. Van Patten, treasurer; and F. R.
Wells, assistant secretary.
Ebenezer d. Harlow. an inmate OF
the soldiers home at Bennington. died
. last week after an illness of several
years, aged rs years. During the Civil
War he was member of the One Hun
: bred and Eleventh Ohio infantry, and he
entered the home from st. Johnsbury
} He is survived by his wife. His is the
one hundred and sixty-fourth death
that has occurred at the institution.
About 80 delegates, representing Barre
, Rutland, Bellows Falls, White River
Junction, Fair Haven, Burlington anC
Montpelier were in attendance at The
convention of the Vermont branch of tn,
American Federation of Labor at Below
Falls. These officers were elected anC
installed: President, E. d. Bathrow O
White River Junction; vice presidents
John Lynch of Bellows Falls; d. A
Bruteu of Rutland, Alec Ironside of Barre
l.. E. Smith of Fair Haven; secretary
d &. A. Smith of Rutland; treasurer, N. A
l. Malmgren of Rutland.
!, The fall term at Norwich Universit,
!; opened last week with freshman elias
e of over 80. President c. H. Spooner /
!, the new head of the university. TIL
u old faculty including Charles &. Brill
Il NJ. A., II. R. Roberts, NJ. A., E. A
I; Shaw, c. E., NJ. A, C. S. Carleton,
4 E., A. f. Winslow, c. E., C. V. Wood
= bury, b. A, has been retained. TIL
IS university has secured the further de
h tail by the war department of II. W
=. Hovey, major, 23rd infantry, U. S. A
It who as an instructor in militar
IS science and tactics, it is conceded, has II
10 superior outside of West Point, tn
- United States military training school.
is a tablet in the memory of Truman {
le Phinney, for 81 years sergeant-at-arm'
e. has been hung in the lower corridor c
m the state house near the Office of tn
y sergeant alarms. The legislature c
IN 1902 by joint resolution introduced i
sr the house by Z. II. Porter, the represer
Z, tative from Wilmington, authorized tn
to purchase of this tablet. 1t was made b
Of the L. +. McGann & Sons Co. of Boston