Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-05-17
STATE NEWS.

Myron w. Hayes, of Montpelier, ar
electric road employee, has filed peti
ton in voluntary bankruptcy. He ha.
Liabilities of 1927 80 and assets of $40
claimed exempt.
Returns to the city clerks office
show that during the month of April
there were thirty births in the
city of Burlington. Of this number
twenty three were boys and fourteen
were girls.
AT a recent meeting of the trustees
of the village of Bellows Falls it was
voted to ask the voters of the village at
the annual village meeting next Tuesday
evening for sum not exceeding 81, 600
to purchase new combination chemical
and hose wagon.
Fillmore & Slade, of Bennington,
have begun work on the foundation
for new wood pulp and tissue paper
mill to replace the one destroyed by
fire a few weeks ago. The mill is to
be 90 by 40 feet in size and made of
concrete 1t is expected that the mill
VIII be in operation by the middle of
August.
Miss Louisa Bayley. the young wo-
man who was badly bruised and cut in
the railroad wreck at Hardwick April
III, and who has been i'll at the hotel
since, was able to go to her home in
Peacham, May 3. Mr. and Mrs. Gale
also left for st. Johnsbury May 4. Mr.
Gale travels with great deal of diff
hculty, being compelled to use
crutches.
L. X. Paine. of Bethel, is the owner
OF one-half dozen sterling silver tea
spoons that were brought to this
country by Robert Lyon, an ancestor.
before the year 1900 a descendant
of Robert Lyon settled in Stockbridge
and, from him sprung the numerous
branches of the Lyon family in that
vicinity, Mr.. Paine being descendant
of the family.
w. A. Jacobs, son Of Mrs. E. C.
Jacobs, of Hardwick, has recently in
terested parties at Albany, n. Y, in
druggists prescription file of his own
patent, and company Of which he is
president has been formed for its manu-
facture. The file is made in the form
of cupboard, of quartered oak, and
lined with aluminium, and nickle trim
mings Mr.. Jacobs also has several
other patents under way.
News has been received in st. Johns
bury of the death Friday morning at his
home in Malta of Henry L. Capp He
was in his ninety-ninth year. Mr.. Clapp
was educated in st. Johnsbury and
entered the New York saleshouse of E. &
I. Fairbanks & Co., and later became the
manager of this house. He was the only
brother of the late Mrs. Franklin Fair
banks of st Johnsbury.
All traffic on the West River rail.
road between Brattleboro and South
Londonderry was held up Thursday I'M
til nearly night. The north-bound pas
senger train Wednesday night was
stalled at Jamaica. the engine leaving
the rails. wrecking crew from Brat
tleboro worked all night and nearly all
day Thursday clearing the track. A
broken strap was said to he the cause
of the derailment.
DR.. H. d. HotOn. of Brattleboro.
secretary of the state board of health
says there have thus far been total
of forty-one cases of smallpox in West
Berlin, Mortified Falls, and North.
field. but that all are doing well and
the quarantine is being strictly en-
forced. He does not fear any further
spread Of the disease. Miss Carrie
Loveland, of Mortified Center, and who
taught school in West Berlin. is i'll of
light form Of the disease. Miss Love-
land was known to have been exposed
and has been under quarantine for the
past two weeks.
In the pasture of Herman Willard,
of Norwich, are two curious animals,
three-year-old horse with one d.
vided hoof which has grown to such
a length that it resembles an old cows
horns; and COW with only three legs.
The cows body, the two hind legs, and
the left fore are perfectly formed. but
the right foreleg is lacking. The animal
gives good flow of milk and in every
other way is a normal COW. In Mr..
Wizards stable is found the body of a
calf with two perfectly formed heads
The animal lived only three days and
the body is mounted and preserved in a
glass case.