Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-06-10
STATE NEWS.

The water in Lake Champlain rose 10
inches during May.
The thunder storm of May 25th did
much damage at st. Adams.
Agnes Gibson was arrested recently at
Winooski charged with tramping.
Mrs. Patrick McGrath an elderly lady
of Winooski, fell and sustained fracture
of the thigh
The annual commencement of Yer
mont Academy at Saxons River will be
held June 11-15.
A lodge of the American Federation
of Labor has been organized at Richford
with 60 members.
Burglars made an unsuccessful attempt
to break into the store of Charles Thurs
ton at Randolph last week
The 22nd annual encampment of the
Vt. Division Sons of Veterans, was held
at Burlington June s and 8.
Rev. j. r. Henderson has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the Congrega
tional church in Waitsfield.
Robert son of a. F. Stone of the st.
JOhnsbury Caledonian, was run over last
week and seriously injured.
Nelson Bordo of Winooski, while
dancing enthusiastically at a ball fell
and broke a ley in two places.
Lieutenant w. A. Wickline has been
ordered from New York city to take
| command of Fort Ethen Allen.
The 9th annual gathering of the Yer
mont Central Baptist association will be
held at Montpelier June 16 and II.
Barre has ., 73S taxable polls and 90
exempt a loss of 1871 in the past year.
! There are 100 tax payers whose list is
! over $4,000.
+ The annual convention of the New
| England United Brotherhood of Carpen-
r tiers and Joiners will be held at Burling-
a ton June 21, 90 and %.
o George Sherman of Burlington has
been missing since May 4. On that day
he left for work at Fort Ethan Allen but
has never been seen since.
Carl Kimball, aged II, who was ar
rested at Burlington for stealing has
been taken back to the Massachusetts
reform school at Wiliamstown.
Fred H. Hyde. one of Poultney S
leading business men, died May q of
heart failure after weeks illness with
e pneumonia He was born there in
20 ISIS.
e ToIy Cross college and the University
=
Worcester, Mass, and after twelve
= long, hard innings. the result was {
1t tie, to 4.
5 Members of the state board of health
and Prof II. GoodnOugh. chief engineer
st of the Massachusetts board of health, il
- making trip through Vermont have
:, found many polluted streams.
~ Rev. F. u. Penney of Burlington has
1
le sermon June II at Vermont academy
Y SaXtons River, and an Grafton at Bakers
q field academy commencement June 10.
II 1t is probable that the headquarters o
III the State Odd Fellows will be at Burlng
H. ton instead of Montpelier, if the plans o
il EX-Gov. L. \. Woodbury. of Burlington
are carried out in the erection of Cd,
~ Fellows home
10 The annual reunion of the Thirteenth
= Vermont Regimental Association will b
u held in Morrisville July /, a letter to tina
effect having been received from Col
II Henry O. Clark, of East Orange, \. j.
IL president of the association.
ID Gideon Bunham, age IS, of Woodbur
committed suicide last week by shooting
al himself with a revolver. 1t is believe
,le he was temporily deranged from the Us
oo of liquor. His wife endeavOred to gt
Nc the revolver from him but could not.
IN Rev. Frank X. Morris of Benningto
tir has been elected delegate from the Nel
z mont Baptist Young Peoples union t
Cd the annual convention of the lndustri;
union which will be held at Dctroi
tie Mich, July to 10.
en- The total value of real estate at Mon
an peler is S3,415,OO0 and personal propert
&C. 81, 1913. This is a large gain ov,
tie last year. The total number of lists
We BIS, a gain of l25. The real estat
OIL exempt from taxation is Zoo.
one arrest and six warrants have bee
n- the result of a fractional fight at Mon
IT,, pelier among Spanish stone cutters.
"a, "a. Fernandez was attacked with a revOlV
eNW and knives near E f. Cravens stol
O. shed and was badly cut and bruised,
; The farmer who anticipates labor
DISCRIMINATING the potato bug may re
easy if the assurance given 10y nature
lists be correct. They assert that Il
ground has been penetrated with fro
to "a depth exceeding four feet killing ;
the pests of years.
f Fish Commissioner II. G.. Thomas,
Stowe, reports that conditions ia {
- fish and game line in the state are e
cellent. Wardcns are active and arres
aud prosecutions for violations of t
s. short trout section of the law are bel
pushed vigorously.
)od. The village of Gageville is somewl
agitated about the change Of its name
ugh North Westminster. The new elect
road depot is labelled that. The pl5
our Yves named for William Gage, who beg
fill the menufacture of baskets there
or years ago. The business is still runnu
'od. f. L. ingalls,, superintendent of t
out state industrial school, while returni
do from New port with an escaped lad, st,
ped off the train at Morrisvile f
leu- minutes aud when he returned the
ex- had gone. The prisoner was handcuh
the and although thorough search was ma
cted it failed to reveal his whereabouts