Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-04-21
STATE NEWS

Gov. Bell has designated April 70 as
Arbor Day.
A new paper mill is to be erected at
Enosburg Falls.
Mrs. Nancy A. Ross of Rutland died
last week aged 10.
The Grand Isle court has adjourned
after a short term.
Fully an average amount of sugar has
been made in Franklin county
Gov. Bell has had a good sugar season,
making about the usual amount.
The accounts of the village officers of
Fair Haven are to be investigated.
DR.. Samuel n. Beemis, 50, formerly
prominent physician of Brattleboro, is
dead.
Louis Muir of South Burlington, 90,
committed suicide last week by taking
paris green
Ezra Brooks of st. Johnsbury, tailor
has been bound over to the county court
for swindling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Fitzpatrick of
Pittsford celebrated their golden we'd
ding last week
The Rutland County Medical Society
voted to hold the annual meeting at
Lake Dunmore in July.
Rev. S. p. Wilder, formerly pastor of
the Congregational church at Brandon,
is dead at Delavan, Wis.
Claude H. Burt of Sunderland has
been fined s. and costs of S1S.29 for
keeping dogs that chase deer.
White River Junction will profit by
the experience of the past winter and
will build an additional reservoir.
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Wilmington and veteran of Co. F. 9Th
vt. Vols, is dead at Greenfield, Mass.
Ray Smith the "Boy Wonder" mind
reader was found guilty of stealing $50
from Thomas Mercer of Barre, last week.
Benjamin Bashaw, 10, of Sheldon who
shot Lawrence Trudeau March 30,
installing him for burglar has been
discharged
Tripets, three boys, weighing 9, u
and Z pounds respectively were born
April 10 to Mr.. and Mrs. William j.
Darcy of Bratteboro.
The twenty suspended students of the
South Royalton high school have been
taken back and dancing during the
school term has been given up.
a. w. Kennson of the firm of CHM &
Co. school book publishers of Boston, is
dead. His remains were brought to his
native town, Barnet, for burial.
Fred Droun of Sodom, granite settle
ment III Calais, threatened to shoot Miss
Mary Lawrence because she would not
promise to marry him. He was taken
to Waterbury.
a son weighing eleven pounds was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Burgess,
of Chelsea, April 4. This makes ten
children for Mr.. and Mrs. Burgess, the
age of the eldest being nearly twenty
years.
George Partlow, an electrician of
Essex junction left home for Burlington
one night last week saying he would be
home in the morning and has not been
heard from since. He left a wife but no
children.
R. j. Beatty, private in the Twenty
third Battery of Artillery at Fort Ethan
Allen, has deserted and skipped because,
it is alleged, he received word that wife
! No. was coming to Burlington to meet
wife No. ., whom he married last fall in
Burlington.
The amount of duties collected through
the customs port of Burlington for the
month of March amounted to S57 ,0S1 IA
over last month but is a slight decrease
as compared with the corresponding
month last year. The exports during
March amounted to $1,012.533
, While going across the mountain from
, Rochester to Bethel last week the Rev.
Homer w. Hildreth met with bad &C
cident. His horse slipped on some ice
while going down the mountain and
, horse, carriage and man rolled down an
enbankment. Although they landed in
: a heap the Rev. Mr. Hildreth was able
to extricate himself. He went back to
farm house and secured aid, so that
they got the horse and wagon righted.
Two hundred and thirty cases of con.
tagious diseases were reported in Rut-
: land, in March, as follows; German
measles, 1879; humps, So; scarlet fever,
s; measles, 5; erysipelas, A; chicken-pox,
, 3; typhoid fever, 3; cerebo spinal menin-
F gifts, ?; whooping cough, 1; diphtheria,
l ; and pulmonary tuberculosis, /. This
+ month three cases of measles. four OF
German measles, and two of scarlet
fever have been reported. There were
90 deaths in that city last month.