Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-12
STATE NEWS.

| in the BACK room OF ". JangraWS DarDer
shop in the Rialto block on State street,
Montpelier, started a lively blaze on July
g. Prompt discovery and the use of
chemicals prevented flooding the build
ing with water. The damage was nomi-
nal
A rattlesnake four feet six inches long
and four inches in diameter was killed
recently by Miss Eliva p. Batcheder, of
Rutland. near Inman's pond. She saw
the reptile cooled ready to strike and
Selling stick struck it blow on the
head, killing it instantly.
The Rev. DIR. A. l.. Cooper, Of Ran
dolph, was unable to be present at the
services held in the Methodist church in
Mortified Sunday in recognition of the
sixty. first anniversary of his work in the
ministry. because of the critical illness
of Mrs. Cooper. Mrs. Cooper remains in
critical condition.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Rogers, two
children. Mr.. Wilson, and stranger
were approaching Barton Landing in the
early evening recently when they met
an automobile. The machine stopped
but the horses backed over twenty-foot
embankment Mrs. Rogers sustaln6 a
| fractured hand and all were severely
bruised
In the immediate locality of Wood
stock during the past four months there
were issued 80 commitments to the Wind
sor county jail at Woodstock, the various
offenses being as follows: IntoXicauion,
26; rape, 3; grand larceny, 2; kidnapping
|; breaking, entering, and burglary, 81;
tramping, B; attempting to burn build
ings, l.
I The mounting of two old coast defense
guns at the base of the Bennington Bat
tie monument has been completed. Col.
DIN Scott, president of the monument
association, has been influential in pro-
curing the relics and has footed the bills
incidental thereto In 1905 Colonel Scott,
through Judge Darling, then assistant
secretary of the navy, secured two NOR
tars from the Portsmouth navy yard,
but these were not satisfactory and
Judge Darling effected an exchange for
the pieces Just mounted, which were
once used in defence of Boston harbor.
The custom of singing from the Dor
set church tower on the morning of the
Fourth was INDUCED IN as usual by the
townspeople at o'clock. This is pleas
ant feature of Independence day and has
been practiced for several years.
While driving through the Lane" re-
Gently Mrs. Ira Glover of Dorset met
with an exciting experience. After
slowly passing herd of cattle and sup
posing the road clear, she started her
horse, when cow dashed out of some
! bushes throwing itself and the horse to
the ground. Although clever horse
woman, Mrs. Glover could not eXtricate
the tangle OF horse, harness and thills, so
she quietly sat on the horses head while
the small boy who was driving the cat
tie ran foI help half a mile distant.
Postmaster Collins NJ. Graves has in
creased the staff at the Bennington post
office by the addition of new clerk.
G. Lynn Wood, who has been in the
office for some time received his official
appointment Friday morning from Wash
ington anu will assume his duties at
once at salary of $500.
The report of the Vermont soldiers
home, Bennington, for the first morn
ing of the quarter beginning July l,
shows that there are III the home 6S
present for duty and % in the hospital
During the last quarter there were eight
members admitted. Twenty-Five We're
lost by discharge and other causes
Forty-eight We're granted absence with
leave and 40 returned from absence with
dutyduring the three months was 70,
and average present and absent, so.
A woman named Brousseau. who re-
Gently jumped her bail at Chester, was
arrested in Newport, Wednesday, and
placed in Jail. When she skipped from
Chelsea she went to Stanstead, Quebec,
to visit Her desire to see the wonders
of the circus proved her undoing, for
her appearance on this side of the line
was noticed and she was taken into GUS
tody. Her child, about seven years old,
is in Jail with Mrs. Brousseau.
State Auditor H. F. Graham and
State Inspector of Finance, L. A. Cobb
have finished their work on the state
treasurer's books and Mr.. Cobb has gone
home. State Treasurer, +. II. Deavitt
and Deputy Treasurer Jayne are busy
preparing their annual statement for
publication. Mr.. Deavitt said that un.
til that was completed he should give
out no statement and all papers of the
state would receive that at the same
time as has been the custom in past
years.
Norman Adams, a young brakeman,
received painful injury to his right foot
while at work in the railway yards in st.
Adams Friday forenoon. The foot was
caught by moving car, and though nc
bones were broken, the ligaments and
muscles We're severely crushed. DIR.
Alan Davidson attended the injury and
the patient is doing well.
The inventor of the automatic cashier
and discount machine manufactured by
the Yale Wonder Clock Co. of Burling-
ton is Charles Easton Yale, son of c. A.
Yale, who is in Colorado Springs. Col,
for his health. Mr.. Yale, Jr., was re-
Gently awarded 81 patents in the United
States patent office. This is one of sew.
eral machines invented by him.