Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-05-29
STATE NEWS.

The Chittenden county Republican
convention will be held in Burlington
Saturday morning, June 20, at II o'clock.
The committee named June 10 as the
day for holding caucuses and decided
that the basis of representation should be
one from each town and one for each
twenty-five votes or larger fraction
thereof cast in the last gubernatorial
election.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Horticultural Society will be held
in Montpelier in November during the
session of the legislature instead of in
December as usual. The society will ask
for legislation providing for uniform
packing of apples and correct labelling of
all packages according to a standard of
quality.
Sampson S. Emerson, of Fairlee, was
run over by the train and killed Thurs
day night. May IA. He had been chop
ping wood on Wright's mountain that
day and started for home by way of the
railroad track, at nj hit. He was helped
throl gh the railroad bridge, when he
Emerson was born October 8. 1860, at
Newbury. Twenty-six years ago he
was married and he is survived by his
wife and five children.
The Vermont Letter Carriers Asso-
citation, which will meet at Rutland in
annual convention Memorial day, will
vary its usual program of strictly bust
ness session by inviting the wives and
women friends of the mail distributors.
There will be a business session at 8
o'clock, followed by supper and a must
cal entertainment and informal dance in
the evening. The Rutland branch is
making preparations to entertain sixty
guests.
The residences of Eurico Gherngelti
and f. Ala, of Montpelier, were raided
Saturday evening At the home of
Gherngelti two barrels of bottled lager
were seized and at the residence of Ala
a case of bottled lager was found. The
stuff was carried to the grand jury room
at the court house. Judge E. M. Har-
vey was called out of bed shortly before
midnight. and city court was opened.
Bail in the sum of $500 was fixed in
each case. E. Bonnazzi recognized for
the appearance of both respondents in
I city court and they were allowed to de-
part.
The discovery was made Saturday
that a daring burglary had been com
mitted some time the previous night at
the grist mills of l.. H. Pendleton and
at the jewe.ry store of Elbridge Nealy
in Underhill, the joint haul by the
thieves amounting to some $500 in cash
and iewelry beside valuable papers. The
safe IN the office of Mr.. Pendleton WAS
blown open and about 800 secured in
cash and papers and notes taken. The
burglary was discovered by Charles
Scrbner, who works for Mr.. Pendleton,
and the latter, who had gone to Winoos-
XII, was recalled by telephone. The
jewelry shop of Elbridge Nealy, who is
in the near vicinity of the mills, was
also entered and about $500 worth of
watches. rings and other jewelry taken.
that of professionals but as yet no trace
of them has been found.
The postoffice department, at Wash
| ington has notified Postmaster j. q.
Brown of Montpelier, that after June 10
the post office at Berlin Corner, which
accommodates about twenty-five families,
will be discontinued, and that the pa
irons of that office will be served by
carrier from the Montpelier post Office
EN- route No. /, provided suitable mail
boxes are furnished.
B. U. Wells, who recently bought the
general store of G.. V. Frasier in West
Danvllle and will take possession about
July l, has petition signed by about
eighty patrons of the village post office
asking Congressman Kittredge Haskins
to recommend him as postmaster to sue
coed Mr. trasier, who has resigned the
office. MIR. Wells was the former editor
and publisher of The Lyndonville Jour
nal and for the past few years has had
grocery store at WoOdsville, N. Ii.