Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-10-07
STATE NEWS.

Miss Catherine f. Manning, of Rut-
land, has been appointed a laborer in
the patent Office, which is branch of
the interior department.
The 105th opening of the University
of Vermont, Burling ton was Sept. %.
In the entering class, 1875 students were
enrolled, the largest in the history of
the university.
DIR. NJ. j. Wiltse, formerly director
of the state laboratory of hygiene at
! Burlington, has opened an Office for
the practice of medicine in Burlington.
He will make a specially of chronic
cases.
City Clerk NJ. d. MaMahon, of Bur-
! lington, granted three marriage licenses
Tuesday morning which makes TWEEN
ty-three for the first twenty-six days
in September, an unusually large num-
Der, and nearly as many as in June
which is generally credited with being
the month of many brides August,
too, was prolific of matrimony, aver
aging nearly a wedding a day.
1t was announced that unless some
unforeseen complications set in Gov.
j, G.. Mccullough will attend the open
ing session of the legislature this week.
nington, will go to Montpelier next Mon
day and Secretary of Civil and Military
Affairs E. l.. Bates, with the governor,
will go the following day. The condi-
ton of Governor Mccullough is inn
proving satisfactorily.
Howard Parker, of Bellows Falls,
has been granted a patent on pulp
treating machine; William H. Kidder,
of Colchester, on device for box cover
supporter and holder Rolla NJ Chase,
of Bethel, on a dental tool; Charles @.
Walker, of Poultney. on a rub roller for
vehicles; Thomas j. Wallace, of Albany,
on stanchion; George Leblanc, of
Beecher Falls, on compasses, and Walter
j. LeBarron, of Barre, on device for
heating flat irons.
An abstract of the report of the comp
troller of the currency, showing the con-
dtion of national banks in Vermont at
close of business, September last, has
Just been made public in Washington.
1t shows that the loans and discounts of
= Vermont hanks that day aggregated
S11 1877 ,795; that the gold in reserve was
( $40 ,535, and the total specie, $679,816.
Legal tender notes aggregated l,012,9O5.
. The individual deposits were S12, 1872, 645
and the percentage of legal reserve to
deposits II 49,
The post-office at Websterville will
become domestic money order office
October /. On that date there will be
established three new free delivery
routes i'll Vermont. One will be an adj
ditionai route out of Lyndonville, Gale
n donia county, PAT miles long, passing
the doors of 103 houses in which dwell
1873 people; the other two will be new
routes out of Plainfield, Washington
county. One will be "a and the other
231 miles long, covering an era of 2e
Z square miles and serving a population OF
:, S5S people living in 203 houses.
u John Cotton Dana of the Newark, N
j., library, native of Weatherstield anc
a former librarian in Springfield, Mass
was conspicuous in the proceedings Of
'' the recent conference of the British Ii
brary association at Newcastle on-Tyne
He spoke in favor of the librarian enter
ing the field of criticism. He expressed
, his belief in official library lists OF
} books accounted of value by the librarian
Librarians are inevitably regarded by
the people as literary censors, he de
clared, and they should not hesitate t
: put trustworthy information before the
public. Mr.. Dana believes that in a few
years public libraries of a million vol
ums will exist. In this country, he said
there are now 40, 900, 900 people with thu
reading facility, but only 100000 dc
ID the reading. The 30,O00,00O are all com
i. ing into the reading field. Within a few
G. years 1000 900 copies of popular bool
a. may be sold in six months of its publ
II cation. These are snowy figures, bu
,e Mr.. Dana is something more than an en-.
=, thusiast in library work. He evidently
m is not alarmed, AS is the president of thu
Of British Library association, DR.. Thomas
4 Hodgkin, by the perils of "book- chokeC
a world" and does not fear that the Thu
1; man intellect" may be "snowed under.