Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-03-24
STATE NEWS.


will open May 10.
Perry S. Curtis has been appointed
postmaster at East 1 fletcher.
The Vermont Marble Co.. paid its
employees $S1, 900. for February work.
Mrs. Roxana Dewey of Chelsea is 80
years old and as lively as many girls of
twenty.
Myron Stearns of Rutland was fined
last week $40. and costs for keeping bob
veal for sale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ashley Farman of West
field celebrated their 54th wedding an
niversary March II.
NJ. J. Barnes of Winooski was fined
$500 and costs of $10.10 for illegal liquor
selling March 10. He paid.
John Ayres of Bennington started Sat-
urday for the Philippines, where he has
secured government position.
The new national bank at Enosburg
Falls will be ready for business April A.
II. F. Kimball will be the cashier.
The fish and game commissioners are
hot after the illegal fishermen in Lake
st. Catherine and Lake Bomoseen.
Capt. II. B. Chamberlin, U. S. quarter
ildoOCl iOl OdhOUd, VI al lScs
has been transferred to Columbus, o.
G. NJ. Taggart of Middletown has been
appointed as superintendent of the Bur-
lington municipal electric light plant.
Joseph Richard, age II years, native of
Quebec, for many years a well known
builder of boats at Burlington, is dead.
Arthur L. Field of Bakersfield has
successfully passed the entrance ex
aminations at Oxford college, England.
John Williams of Lowell was struck
on the head by the limb of tree he was
Telling, March IA and seriously injured.
w. H. Sabin of Rutland has the most
powerful telescope in the State. 1t mag
nifies $50 times.
The Brandon NJ. E. church has voted
unanimously to request the return of its
pastor, Rev. R. L. Thompson for another
year.
This promises to be record breaking
year at Mortified in the building line
Several blocks and houses are to be
erected.
Col. A. c.. Brown of Montpelier has
been appointed chief of staff by Dept.
Commander S. H. Wood of the Vermont
6. A. r
The Vermont academy girls of Sax
tons River gave an entertainment IAN
Open Secret in Fuller hall Saturday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zebra Quackenbush of
Bennington. who have been spending
several weeks in Italy sailed for home
Saturday.
Rev. J. X. Fuller, formerly chaplain at
the States Prison at Windsor, has &C
cepted a call to johnson and entered
upon his work.
Thomas Mullin, so, of st. Adams, who
slipped at the head of a flight of stairs
at his boarding house one night last
week, breaking his neck, is dead.
Major H. E. Dyer of Rutland has
taken a four months course of military
instruction at Fort Ethan Allen and
passed way up in the examinations.
F.C. Williams of Newport,a member OF
the state court of claims, has undergone
an operation for the removal of a fever
sore from his chest at the Royal Victoria
hospital, Montreal.
The Vermont Marble Co. of Proctor
was the lowest bidder for the marble
work on the new Capitol building a
Washington, d. G. Its bid was 1891 900
and it has the contract.
During the month of February thu
Cooperative creamery at Randolph made
25,740 pounds and paid patrons "a cent
net per pound for 22, 00pounds of butter
fat. The creamery paid patrons S7.54S
Seven pounds of dynamite left under
stove at Marsb's grist mill, at Enosburl
Falls, to "thaw out" became overheateC
and caught fire. Some excitement wa
caused but damage was averted by coo
work on the part of those present.
Harry Rice, son of the late Willard
Rice of Mortified and ward of Henr,
C. Averill, has been missing since
August last. He left the employ of Ira {
Fleming at that time saying he wa
going to visit his sister in Randolph
The 73rd annual session of the Tro.
Methodist Conference, of which the Bur
lington district is a part, will be held il
the Methodist Episcopal church a
Saratoga Springs. n. Y, beginning Tues
day, April II, Bishop Henry Whit
Warren, d. D., Ii. D., presiding.
These concerns have filed articles c
incorporation with the secretary of state
Owls Head Creamery company, Enos
burg Falls. capital stock $40, 900; Danb,
Cornet bank, s1400; Syndicate Clothing
company, Burlington, 10000; Congrt
/ gational church of Pittsford and Brio
port grange, no capital stock.
John Macy, of Mortified, has a reli
of Revolutionary days in the form of
tlint-lock pistol. He has traced il
ownership in this country as far back q
e eighty years. The weapon was made
London, Eng, by w. Ketland & Co
and it is made of brass with bore larg
/ enough to admit an ordinary marble
The pistol is really small cannon
weighing four pounds, and was Probabl
the property of some of King George
, soldiers Mr.. Macy prizes the relic Yer
highly as it is in a good state of prese
walton.
A Remarkable Clubbing Offer.
} Realizing that many Of our reader
who are now in daily touch with IL