Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-11-22
STATE NEWS.

Plans for new library building are on
exhibition in Quechee.
1t will cost the town of Ludlow about
81 900 to repair damage done by recent
heavy rains.
Lake Champlain at West Swanton was
frozen over for the first time Friday
night.
A young man Of 10 years inveigled Il
valuable ring from a Rutland woman at
a dance and pretended he could not get
it off his finger. He later returned the
ring with piece of glass in it having
sold the diamond for $50 TO a jeweler
THE jeweler had to give up the stone
The names of the principals in the in
teresting affair are withheld from the
public.
j. A. Parker of Windham, who is rs
years old, has made record for men of
his years by digging 105 bushels of pota-
toes in nine and one-half hours.
Beulah Day, aged six years, narrowly
escaped drowning during the high water
in East Wilmington. After floating
down stream for some distance she was
rescued by her two brothers Beulah
bears the distinction of being born on
the first day of the week, the first day of
the month, the first day of the year and
the first day of the century.
South Londonderry trappers consider
this a poor season for their business.
Charles Aldrich has caught eight foxes
and 20 skunks which is considerably less
than his usual fall record. December l
closes the season for hunting small game.
A continuous close season for several
years is urged by hunters as game ap-
pears to be about extinct over large
stretches of good breeding places.
A large house and successful per-
Torrance of Aunt Jerusha's Quilting
Party" rewarded the efforts of the wom-
en- OF the Ernest Workers society at
West Brattleboro Saturday night. The
proceeds of the entertainment will be de-
voted to sprinkling the village streets.
Last year the men of the society got up
a minstrel show to help push the water
wagon and this year it was the womens
turn.
Henry DeGest of Bennington is in Jail
to await developments on the charge OF
having stolen bicycle and attempting
to sell it within plain sight of the home
of the owner, G. D. Gibson. DeGest de-
MES the theft, but says he received half
the proceeds of the sale.
For years the amusing custom has
prevailed in Windham county court OF
the sheriff furnishing box of pepper
minis for the lawyers and court officials.
Sheriff A. H. Thompson of Bellows Falls
had to supply three boxes of the odorouE
, sweets at the term just closed at New
fame on account of the unusual length Of
, the session.
Interviews with Rutland manufactur
ers show that they do not expect t
shorten hours or discharge men, that they
J have work enough to keep their plant
? running and that they have experienced
no serious difficulty in obtaining currency
for their payrolls. DIR. John A. Mead
t president of the Howe Scale company
however. says that he can not remembe
} time when business has fallen of as i
= has in the last two weeks.
The presiding elders of the Vernon
Methodist conference have decided T.
hold its next meeting in Barre commenc
. ing April Is, 1908. Bishop Earl Cranstol
1 of Washington, D. c., will preside. Tn
conference met iii Barre in 1896 and 1897
At the meeting, lay delegates will b
1 elected to the general conference to b.
helc in Baltimore in May, 1908. Tn
j Vermont conference is entitled to tw
: clerical and two lay delegates.
J, The International Slate Workers Union
. in session at Fair Haven last week, mad
provision for raising sufficient funds t
carry on the strike in the Vermont Stat
belt declared May when about 500 me-
, in Fair Haven and vicinity went out o.
the refusal of their demand for a min
hour day. 1t was also voted to use tn
union label on all slate manufactured b.
union firms.