Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-07-26

house. The body was found in badly
decompoeed condition and bruise on the
head caused an autopsy to be performed
by DR.. B. H. Stone and Prof. H. l..
White. The cause of death, however,
was given as accidental drowning.
The Rutland Kennel club has elected
the following officers President, Senator
Redfield Proctor; vice presidents, DIR.
w. w. Townsend and DIR. G. A. Gale;
secretary, DR.. w. K. Farnsworth. F. B.
Dole of Boston, has been secured as judge
of the show in September Entries are
coming in from all over the State.
Brattleboro will build nurses home,
20 feet long, 40 feet wide and three stories
high. 1t will be of brick, granite and
marble and will cost about $685. 900.
The boat houses of c. R. Moore in
Newport were recently searched on two
occasions and liquor was found both
times. Mr.. Moore pleaded guilty to both
offenses before Judge Cushman and
fine of $500 with costs of 500 was imposed
by the court
This is great strawberry season in
Barton. Mrs. II. J. Stannard raised one
that measured two inches across and
weighed over an ounce and j. K. Colli-
son picked a basket of record sized ber-
ries, many of them weighing an ounce
and half.
j. A. Giddings of Andover discovered
an adder three feet and five inches long
while working in his potato field. The
reptile stood on its tail and showed fight
before Mr.. Giddings dispatched it with a
hoe.
Louis Gingras of ST. Johnsbury claims
lol h. ~, hi
He started a two-tenement house six
weeks ago and the structure, with the
exception of little needed painting, is
now completed.
James Reed, while surveying for the
Fair Haven water works at 1nman pond,
killed one of the largest rattlesnakes ever
found in that section. 1t was over four
feet long, eight inches in circumference
and had 10 rattles.
Harry Towle, young man of Barton
was badly hurt in the mills last week
while edging boards. A board thrown
| from the saw struck the man with great
force in the abdomen and the chances are
now against his recovery.
While c. L. Derby of Ludlow was
blowing the other day, his wife picked
up from the dirt, thrown out by the
pillow, British copper coin OF the issue of
1747, just 100 years old.
An increase in the amount of drunken
ness is noticeable in many no-license
towns on the. border of the State, the eX-
press companies across the line furnish
ing the liquor
John F. Roberts of Fair Haven was
drowned at Whitehall, n. Y, while en-
gagged with a night shift unloading boats
on Lake Champlain. He fell into the
water on leaving his work and two men
who fell in with him scrambled out and
left him. He was 90 years old
Saturday Carl Russ and Fred Finn of
st. Johnsbury hired livery team and on
Sunday the rig was found in the street
badly demolished. Both young men
were arrested in East Burke for intoxica-
ton and paid fine of 1887 each.
G. Clinton Cary, aged eight years, and
Kenneth S. Flint, aged eleven, of st.
Johnsbury have formed partnership as
milk merchants and are doing business
on big scale. They deliver over 4C
quarts of milk day, night and morning
with milk cart and pair of Shetland
ponies.
William Sheridan, aged IS years, EN-
ployed in the A. E. Bruce & Sons quarry
at Graniteville. vas instantly killed Mon
day morning, shortly after going to work
} Mr.. Sheridan was working in pit sixty
feet deep. A large stone had just beer
brought up by derrick, and in swinging
it out it struck marker, weighing 81
pounds, knocking it over the edge int
the pit. This struck Sheridan in thu
middle of the back, nearly cutting hi,
body in two. A wife and four children
survive him.