Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-05-05
STATE BRIEFS.
KALEIDOSCOPE of Happenings within the
Borders of Vermont

boTueTs OF vermont.
Edwin w. Henry has been appointed
postmaster at Underhill Centre.
Governor Bell instituted Pomona
Grange at Hardwick last Friday night.
The State convention of the Foresters
of America will be held in Bennington
May 18th.
Congressman d. j. Foster of Burlng
ton, will deliver the address at the COM
mencement exercises of the Bratteboro
high school, June %.
Twenty-four horses were shipped by
Maxwell Evarts from his farm in Wind
sor to New York last week.
The 5-year-old son of Charles Nc
Altman of White River Junction died
last week of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Miss Minnie Edith Williams of Mont
pelier, is the first woman in Vermont to
be granted license to operate an auto
mobile in this state.
James S. Rogers. editor of The Green
Bag, the lawyers magazine, died last
week in Boston. He was sixty-fve
years old and was born in Dandy, Vt.
Diaries and cheese plants that have
been closed during the winter have re-
sumed operations again and more butter
and cheese is being placed on the
market with prices firmer than for
several months.
Bennington people are wondering
what has become of the money of
Stephen j. Grady, prominent farmer
of Pownal, who was supposed to be well
off but who has been found to be insol-
vent as the result of civil suits brought
against him. Mr.. Grady was a member
of the Legislature of 1902.
The Ri. Rev. Arthur C. A. Hall,
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Yer
mont, who has been at the Mary
Fletcher hospital in Burlington since
undergoing a severe operation for appen-
dicitis March II, has gone to his home
at Rock point. The bishop has been
slowly but steadily improving since the
operation.
Work will not begin at present upon
the proposed municipal dock at Burling-
ton on account of an injunction issued
by Judge Watson restraining the city
from building such dock. The in
junction was issued on petition of the
Rutland railroad company which alleges
its property will be damaged should a
municipal dock be built as proposed.
One of the largest marble deals ever
made in Rutland County was concluded
last week when George G.. Underhill
purchased for clients all the personal
property of the late George E. Royce
located at West Rutland and Brandon.
1t includes two farms in West Rutland,
the Corona MILL several tenement
houses and two farms at Brandon. The
development at Brandon of the property
will be commenced at once.
~
have purchased land above West Wood
stock and in addition to going in for
fruit and forestry to some extent will
make an interesting experiment this
season with nitro-vapor, the newest dis
covery in fertilizers. Remarkable powers
are claimed for it, as few ounces of it
are said to be enough to fert,lize or inocu-
late an acre of land and largely increase
the crop.
A thorough canvass of the maple
sugar situation throughout the state
indicates that the crop will average in
the vicinity of II pounds to tree. Be-
cause of the season dragging along so
slowly many of the farmers apparently
became tired and gathered their buckets
before the last run. Quite a number,
however, re-tapped their trees and in a
few cases made as much as a pound to a
tree during last week
Truman R. Gordon, of Montpelier
says the reports about the change OF
ownership of his house on State street.
the old Dewey homestead, are not en-
tirely correct. He says the second mort
gage of $500 held by T. j. Deavitt was
foreclosed and the time of redemption
expired in March and that there i:
: another year for the first mortgage tc
run before the time expires and by thai
time he expects to be able to take care
of it.
f. g. Lind, of South Ryegate, has mer
} clearing the trees and brushwood from
the hill in the rear of his premises fol
the culture of grapes. He is probably
the first in that section of Vermont t.
cultivate grapes extensively. He has
selected eight different varieties, darl
color and white, which are well known
in ermont to be desirable and to sue
cee1 in a northern climate. The vines
two years old, are in the cellar ready Il
plant when the frost is out of the ground