Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-02-08
STATE NEWS.

German measles are prevalent in Will
Jamestown.
The postotfice at East Roxbury
discontinued February 1.
As the result of two weeks wal
services at the Baptist church in Adli-
son, ter people have been baptized
"Aunt" Mary Howard of East Wal.
lingford who has just celebrated her
ninetieth birthday anniversary, is very
ill of the grip
Passes on railroads lost their value
February |, according to the anti-pass
law enacted by the State legislature and
officially known as act No. 122.
The cantata "Queen Esther" is to be
presented in Ludlow Monday and Tues
day evenings, February II and 10, by a
chorus of fifty or sixty local people.
F. E. Langley, of Barre, State print
ing commissioner, has awarded the
printing of the tax inventories to Dean
w. Edison, of Montpelier, at $3.50
thousand
The village of Bellows Falls finds that
not enough tax was voted last year and
that there is now a deficiency of 81, 200
for the new administration to pay.
An epidemic of whooping cough is
prevalent in Burlington among the
small children in the north end of the
city.
Peru claims to be the hot town of
the State with a minimum tempera
ture of only 16 degrees below zero to
date.
Luther NJ. Averill Que of Barre's
oldest merchants, has decided to retire
after thirty-seven years service The
first carload of flour shipped to Barre
was consigned to him, and he has seen
the city grow from a struggling group
of villages to its present hustling form
State Treasurer E. H. Deavitt. of
Montpelier, has called the attention of
town officials to the provision in the act
creating permanent school fund which
states that interest must be paid on
United States deposit money from De-
cember Ia. 1906, the day the act was ap.
proved.
The senior class of the Bellows Falls
high school, numbering twenty mine
members, will start March 30 for a tr-p
to Washington. The cost will be about
$236 for each student of which from
$l2 to $15 will be furnished from the
class fund.
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week
4O, wv feet of logs were received at the
mill of the Vergennes Manufacturing,
Co.
The appointment of the following
fourth class postmasters has been an.
nounced: Roscoe NJ. Cowles at ALBANY
to succeed B. M. Cowles. resigned; and
William A. Brooks at South Newfane,
vice Z. E. Brown, resigned.
Rock maple body wood, dried under
cover, is finding ready market in White
RIVER junction at 81 a cord Two car
loads OF green rock maple wood delivered
IN that place recently was bought of
West Hartford parties for 81 so cord on
the cars.
Congressman ID. j. Foster, of Burlinp.
ton. will speak before the Union League
Club of Philadelphia Tuesday, February
~ at celebration of Lincoln's birthday.
Inc speaker last year was Judge Wen
dell +. Stafford, also Vermonter.
Atty. Gen. Clarke c. Fits, of Brattle-
boro, gave the principal address at the
recent monthly meeting and banquet of
the Young Mems Club of the Congrega-
tlonal church in Bellows Falls. His sub
Ject was Good Citizenship"
Bellows Falls has been selected as one
of the two places in Vermont in which
William Jennings Bryan will spe k, ac.
cording to John Donnely. of Vergennes.
The other place will probably be Burling-
ton Mr. Bryan is to speak in ten places,
all told, in New England the early part
of April,
Judge James L. Martin has been ask
ing TO hold special session of United
States district court in Montpelier some
time this month for naturalization pur-
] poses. large number of prospective
citizens in Montpelier and Barre are
anxious to take out their papers.
One Vermont boy is making his mark
as debater at Brown University, Provi-
dence, r l. Harry Duane Bruce, '07, of
Moretown, is on the varsity team to de-
bate with Dartmouth College, Hanover,
| N. H., and he also won the Hicks prize
of 800 for greatest ability shown in the
preliminary trials.