Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-02-09
IN OUR OWN STATE

Trout River Grange was organized at
East Berkshire Monday evening with Il
charter members
At the annual meeting Of the Mortified
Slate company plans and arrangements
were completed for resuming the manu-
facture Of slate at the Union quarry in
Mortified this year
J. q. Gibson and j. s. Holden have been
appointed by the Bennington Battle
Monument and Historical society COM
mittee to secure plans for the janitor 9
house which will be erected the coming
summer. The cost of the building will
be $4,000, toward which the state legisla-
ture appropriated $500.
The Journal Publishing company of
Montpelier has leased the entire lower
floor Of the Irish building on State street
and the Journal office will be moved there
as soon as the building can be prepared
for occupancy. This building is the one
between Christ church and the old Ex-
change hotel and just across the street
from the pOst-ofiice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Clarity of West
Pawiet were killed instantly by a train
at a railroad crossing near their nome
Friday On account of the cold they
were muffied up so that they did not hear
the approaching train, which was on the
Delaware e. Hudson railroad Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarity were hurled several feet In
the air and were dead when the train
hands reached them.
According to figures given out from
Washington 18 new rural free delivery
routes were established in Vermont. In
the six months from June 30, 1905, to the
first of January, 1906. During the last
fiscal year rural carriers in Vermont de-
livered on 258 routes some OF which did
not operate for the entire year, S,736, All
pieces Of mail matter. OF these 217,S14
were packages.
The Rutland railroad company has taken
an appeal to the supreme court from the
recent order of the railroad commission,
which directed that after Feb. 1, the COM
pany should stop running the tender
ahead of the locomotive on the branch line
between Bennington and North Benning-
ton. The order was part of the re-
port on the accident Of Aug. IA, 1905, in
which Deputy Police Commissioner Harris
P. Lindsey of New York and his finance,
Miss Evelyn p. Wiling of Chicago. were
struck by a train and killed at Pies cross
ing.
A Rutland despatch says that Moses
Jones, assistant postmaster at Poultney,
is serving a years sentence in the house
of correction for stealing money from let
tiers. He was indicted a year ago and
was released on bail. At the session Of
United States court last october his bail
was called, but he failed to appear. 1t
has just leaked out that Jones was COM
mitted to the house Of correction a few
days ago. He had long been suspected Of
crooked work and post-of1ce inspectors
sent marked bills through the mails In
order to detect him.
Henry B. Hagar Of Weybridge was ar
rested last Saturday by Deputy United
States Marshal e. S. Whitaker and was
arraigned before Commissioner James A.
Merrill, charged with misrepresenting his
age in taking a civil service examination
for rural delivery mail carrier. He was
bound over in $3.50 to the federal grand
jury, which sits at Burlington the 9th.
The government requires that candidates
for the rural free delivery service shall
be under IS years Of age. United States
District Attorney claims that Hagar is
older than this, though he gave his age
to the examining board as So.