Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-10-04
STATE NEWS.


boys recently, the careless use of a 3d.
calibre rifle by one of the boys sent bull
let through his foot.
Four dozen bottles of Indian Rheuma-
tic and Kidney cure We're seized by the
customs officers at Island Pond. At
public auction the stuff brought SIG.
Deer damages to the amount of about
$50 have been awarded in Bennington
county by Warden Harry Chase. Two
of the claims were for buckwheat and
the third for eighty-hve cabbages.
The Rev. S. II. Barnum, who has ten
dered his resignation as pastor of the
Congregational church in Cornwall, hav-
ing accepted a call to the Congregational
church in East Jericho, has held the pas
torate III Cornwall for seventeen and one.
half years.
The truant officer in Montpelier dis
covered an organization of boys devoted
to the 'simple life in preference to halls
of learning. The six charter members
had their headquarters in "a shack on the
outskirts of the city. The club house
has been burned and the boys are now
attending school,
Permission of the descendants of Gov.
Moses Robinson, who is buried in the old
cemetery at Bennington, is being await
ed before placing over his grave new
tombstone to replace the old one which
is in bad condition. The new stone will
be an exact duplicate.
1t is predicted in Burlington that the
coming winter will be warm one.
The husks on the corn are said to be
very thin this season, the squirrels
~ NOR Gfn lor Nlx-
of nuts as usual, and the bees have
not made much honey, all of which are
said to be sure signs of warm win
ter.
Murray Thompson. of Colchester. was
robbed of his pocketbook containing
about So while boarding a train at the
Central Vermont station at Essex juno
ton Saturday noon AS Augustus Po-
land of Underhill, was buying hogs at
the depot Friday his pocketbook contain
ing about $40 III cash and some papers,
was stolen.
In connection with the last run Sat
urday for the season of the White
Mountain express, which has been on
daily between Burlington and Faby-
ans, it is said negotiations are pending
between the officials of the Boston &
Maine, Montpelier & Wells river, and
Central Vermont railroads. whereby a
regular through train from Burlington
TO Portland, Me, will soon be put on, to
run every week day in the year.
Football games played Saturday re-
suited as follows: At St. Johnsbury-
Lebanon, y. H., high school, 5; st.
Johnsbury Academy, o. AT Hanover,
\. H.-Dartmouth College, 20 Norwich
University, Mortified, 0. At Middle
town, Conn Wesleyan University, II:
Middlebury College, O.. In a game
played in Montpelier Friday the seminary
team won from the high school boys by
a score of Is to o.
The Gem Pure Food Co.. announces
that it has decided to locate its plant i'm
Morrisville providing the Board of Trade.
will give one acre of land in addition to
that already pledged the company, make
the street running parallel with the rail
road one rod wider, and extend the vii
lage water to the site of the factory this
fall SO that 1t may begin work immedi-
ately. The necessary funds for the pur-
chase of the additional land has been
pledged.
This week will probably see the COM
pletlOn OF the work of redecorating Dor
tons of the interior of the state house at
Montpelier. This work has been in pro.
gress for several weeks, and among the
rooms that have been newly frescoed and
painted are the ante rooms and corridors
leading to the senate chamber and to the
hall of the house of representatives., the
office of the secretary of civil and mill.
tary affairs, the stairways, and lower
corridors. After the work now in hand
is completed c. H. Ferrin, sargeant-at-
arms, will confer with Gov. Fletcher ID.
Proctor and State Auditor H. p. Graham
in regard to other work along this same
line in other parts of the interior of the
building
The Burlington Maternity Aid Associa-
ton has been organized by some of the
leading physicians of Burlington. The
enterprise originated with DR.. II. c.
Tinkham, dean of the department of
medicine of the University of Vermont.
The association is a charitable body, de.
signed primarily to carry relief to people
whose circumstances are such that they
cannot pay for professional services.
Nurses will be furnished from the Mary
Fletcher hospital and the association is
assured of the cooperation and aid of the
Howard Relief Society. The promoters
of the new organized society look for
ward To a time whan a maternity hos
pital may be secured. Such hospital
has long been thought to be necessity.