Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-29
STATE NEWS.

Mortimer WEIGH, of Bartonville, a rail.
, road section foreman, has filed petition
in bankruptcy. He has liabilities of
S315. 81 and assets of $149.13, with 1856
claimed exempt.
The house occupied and owned by
Wesley Church, of North Groton, who
hanged himself few months ago, has
been sold by the town to defray the fu-
neral expenses of the suicide.
Although Margaret Doty, the eight
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. V. A.
Doty of Montpelier, is still seriously i'll
of ptomaine poisoning, her condition is
said to be little more favorable.
Requests amounting to $2O, 1000 to two
burlington institutions, the Home of
Aged Women and the First Congrega.
tional (Unitarian) society, left by the
late Edward Wells, of that city, have
just been paid.
Bobert Bourne, of Burlington, who
while at Pleasant Valley several weeks
ago at the opening of the deer season.
accidentally shot himself, has returned
10 MS nome. he is recovering rapidly
and Will be able to be about in short
time.
North Hero farmers believe that be-
fore summer hay will bring $50 ton and
they are holding for the high price.
Last week 2lO tons were shipped from
the North Hero bridge by boat to New
York, the price paid being SIS a ton
loose.
Montpelier dealers are retailing choice
turkeys for from 30 to 80 cents a pound.
with prospects that the price will 20
lower. This is from two 70 three cents
a pound less than they were sold for last
Thanksgiving time.
o. b. Hinkley, of South Randolph.
who was arrested, charged with not
providing proper shelter for his cattle,
pleaded guilty and his fine and costs
amounted to Sll.35. He also had to
agree to furnish better accommodations.
Senator w. P. Dillingham; and his
friends have never been satisfied with
the oil portrait of the senator which
was hung a few weeks ago in The
executive chamber at the state house.
Montpelier, and the portrait has now
been shipped to New York to be re-
touched.
Following the request of the state
board of railroad commissioners that
the Central Vermont railway passenger
station at Montpelier should be put in
more tidy condition, an additional man
has been engaged for this work, and the
station already shows the result of his
labors.
The Hon. Chester B. Mclaughlin, of |
Port Henry, N. Y, who has been re- |
designated as justice of the supreme
court, appellate division, third depart
ment, New York city, his term of office
to expire in 1909, is a graduate of the
University of Vermont, Burlington, in
the class of 1879.
The result of the census of st. ,Joseph's
Roman Catholic parish Burlington.
shows that there are 1855 people in the
parish, which comprises 1918 families.
This Is the largest parish in the state
and the work of enumerating its men,
oers was difficult because of the extend
ed territory occupied by the parishioners,
some of them living in Underhill, Col.
chester, Shelburne, Jericho, Essex and
Williston. The work was ACCOMPLISHED
alone by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Cloarec, who
will be rs years old next June and who
July will celebrate che golden anniver-
'ary of his conservation as priest.
Fire which broke out in the PEOPLES
aundry, Newport, Saturday morning.
did about $4,000 worth of damage.
Three alarms were sounded, bringing
'ut the entire department whose valiant
Efforts prevented serious conflagration.
As it was, most of the damage done was
rom smoke and water, two laundry ma.
'hines being destroyed. The laundry is
in the rear of the RAYMOND
house stables with only few inches sep.
irating the buildings. The fire caught
outside the dryroom from some unknown
'ause, and spread rapidly.