Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-12-02
STATE NEWS.

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Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Burr of Spring
field celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary Nov. 0.
Daniel Merrill of Proctorsville came
near being Isuffocated while fixing q
spinning machine last week.
Rev. DIR. f. B. Fairfield, father OF
Charles T. Fairfield of the Rutland News
died last week at Oberlin, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphus P. Rowell Of
Corinth celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary Monday evening, Nov. 2s.
In the New York horse show Miss
Frederick V. Webb showed one horse
Ell Queen, and he won three first prizes
worth $500 in all.
One hundred and eighty-seven arrests
have been made by the Montpelier city
police since February of this year
mainly for intoxication.
The law partnership heretofore exist.
ing between Rufus L. Brown and Russell
w. Taft of Burlington has been dissolved
except as to pending cases.
Leslie's Magazine for December con-
tains a sketch of Rear Admiral George
A. Converse, chief of the bureau of nav
igation in the navy department, who is a
native of Vermont.
A corps of civil engineers from Spring
field, Mass, has been at work for some
time on the route for the proposed extern
sion of the Hoosac Valley street railway
from Williamstown to Bennington. The
men are at work at present between
Pownal Center and Bennington.
Earl Boyce of Island Pond, while
hunting in the woods a few days ago,
standing beside a tree watching for
game, was considerably startled at see
ing wild animal jump over his head
from the tree, and before he had recov-
cred from his surprise it had made good
its escape.
j. s. Roberts of Charlotte, who has
charge of the slate quarry opening on
the Stone farm has a slate fan made
from piece of slate from quarry in
Wales THAT was two and a quarter by
seven and a quarter inches and that
opened into sixty perfect leaves COM
posing the fan.
The boys of Seymour Camp, Modern
Woodmen of America at Morgan feel
proud over their latest member, Richard
Maplesden, who is 80 years old. They
claim he is one of the Oldest, if not the
oldest, member in the state. He is hale
and hearty and enjoyed the fun of being
shown the secrets of woodcraft.
Herman Coulbeck, a farm hand en-
ployed by S. S. Hildreth of Jonesville,
was seriously hurt Friday morning. He
was driving to the creamery and it is
thought that he lost his balance and fell.
striking the ground on his head. His
injuries proved fatal and he died Friday
night He has one sister in New York
city.
One hundred pounds of honey reward
ed the efforts of Edward Perdy of the
electric light station, and R. l.. Brough,
jeweler, who recently discovered a
wild bees nest in a hemlock on the
Lincoln Ellis farm IN Springfield, and
who climbed fifty feet to reach the hive
The tree was three feet in diameter at
the base, and was practically filled with
honey. The presence of the bees had
previously remained undiscovered. The
bees gave the men no trouble.
While shingling the bottling works of
the Equinox Spring Co. at Manchester
Charles E. Buck and George Reynolds
fell about IS feet, resulting in painful in
juries to both. Buck struck on his feet
on marble walk and injured both
ankles, splitting the bone in one Rey-
nolds struck on his side and is badly
bruised but with apparently no serious
injury. The accident was caused by
lag screw drawing out of the staging
bracket which the men had put up them.
selves only an hour before.
Lewis Young of Rutland, a former
resident of Mendon, died at his home
after brief illness of blood poisoning.
caused by sticking a silver into one
thumb about two weeks ago. The injury
which resulted in Mr.. Young's death was
SO thrilling that no attention was paid to
1T until about a week ago when the
wound began to pain him considerably.
When the true character of the trouble
was discovered, it was impossible to
check it. Mr.. Young, who was IS years
old, is survived by three sons.
j. H. Minard of West Newbury has an
document in his possession.
1t is a land patent issued to Solomon
Scott, private in Fink's Co., 18th regi-
ment OF infantry, granting him certain
tract of land in the territory of Illinois
from the tract appropriated for military
bounties in this territory. This act was
passed by Congress May 1912, and
granted land to the late army of the
United States. 1t bears the personal
oueoSioPh vi OF
the United States, and is signed on the
twenty-second day of November, 1917.
By the arrival of the second squadron
of the 18th cavalry at Fort Ethan Allen
Nov. 2l. that garrison becomes the
largest cavalry post in the department of
the east and one of the largest in the
United States. The post has been occu-
pied for more than year by two squad
rons of the 18th cavalry and by two
batteries of artillery The plan of max
ing the post headquarters for regiment
has necessitated the expenditure of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars, and this
work has been completed to such an
extent that the troops can be quartered,
although there are many details yet 10
be finished. The four troops that have
Just arrived from Fort Meyer, Va, were
E, F, G and II, and the band. The num-
her of enlisted men in the four troops is
293. There are 10 officers and nine ladies
and % men in the band This band is
considered to be the best in the United
States army and has the distinction of
being mOuntpl antiralv on white horses