Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-01-31
STATE NEWS.

Charles Douglass wound upa big spree
Sunday morning by going home and
beating his wife and boy until they were
more dead than alive. Douglass is the
boss wife beaten of the city and has al
ready served two or three terms for sim
liar offenses. His name is posted at the
saloons but he seems to get liquor and
plenty # 1T from some local source.
Charged with violating the postal laws
by sending obscene matter through tho
ma lis, Amedio DeAngelis of Brattleboro
is held under 500 bail for hearing this
morning. His attorney alleges family
feud. DeAngelis. although married is a
mere boy and having received comic pos
tai cards thought he knew who sent
them and proceeded to renal them with
unprintable words added.
Col. Horace s. Haskell of Derby Line
has formally presented the handsome
free library and opera house, recently
erected by him. to the villages OF Derby
Line, Stanstead, Que, and Rock Island
Que. 1t is endow ed by him to the ex.
tent of $4,000 The building is said to
be one of the finest structures for library
use in New England and represents cost
of about 100000.
Fred L. Davis, secretary of the State
board of agriculture, announces the fol.
lowing dates for Institutes this week {:
Tuesday, Georgia; Wednesday, Richford;
Thursday, Coventry; Friday, Lyndon
Meetings will be held each day at two in
the afternoon and at seven in the even
ing. Specialists will speak on these sub
jects; Stock raising, dairying, potato
grain and grass culture, forestry, good
roads, sanitation, fertilizers and fruit
growing
A report issued by c. NJ. Freeman of
Tippecanoe City, Ohio, secretary of the
National Grange, shows that in the
three months just closed the number of
Oranges organized in Vermont was more
than were organized in any two other
States. Forty-three subordinate Oranges
and one Pomona Grange have been or
ganized in this State since State Master
George w. Pierce of Brattleboro began
pushing the work of organization year
ago. The work will be continued through
the present winter.
The Bradford toothpick factory has
been closed for an indefinite time owing
TO an injunction from the Bradford Elec-
trio Lighting company to prevent waste
matter from the factory being thrown
into the river above the electric lighting
company's dam.
banquet. literary exercises and dane.
ing marked the celebration of the 149th
anniversary of the great Scottish poet,
Robert Burns, by the Burns club of
Barre Friday night. The attendance was
large.
The newly organized Grange at West
Dummerston is planning to own hall
1t will either buy house and make il
over or build new the coming spring. AT
present there is no public building in the
village and the Grange meets in private
houses 1t has membership of 66.
Fire in Barre tenemt mt house early
Saturday morning drove 25 scantily clad
Italians from their beds. The tempera
ture was IL degrees below zero and the
tenants as well as the firemen suffered
severely. The house was owned by Petel
Owens and his loss is estimated at ST. 900
partly covered by insurance. An over
heated stove caused the trouble.
C. NJ. Winslow, of Brandon; was elect
ed secretary and editor of the Ayrshire
n Breeders Association at the recent an.
+ nual meeting held in New York city
q In the award for prizes in the home
a dairy test for last year c. NJ. Winslow &
= Son received third herd prize of $25 fol
. five cows giving 38,373 pounds of mill
and 1873 pounds of butter.
q Maj and Mrs. Henry w. Hovey hav,
= arrived in Mortified from Spokane
4 Wash. Major Hovey, formerly com
!. mandant at Norwich Uni sersity, wa,
y detailed to the Philippines in August o.
a 1905, where he has been until recent,
retired because of ill health. At presen
his plans for the future are undecided.
The program for the fourth annua
, . meeting of the American Breeders Asso
l. citation to be held in Washington Janu
}. airy $3.50 contains a paper by F. L
@ Houghton. of Brattleboro, written at tn,
h request of Secretary Willet N. Hayes o.
d the association. The subject treated il
9 methods Used by the Holstein- Friesiar
n Association IN Perfecting the Breed.
i Hon. Joseph Battell of Middlebury will
i also read paper, THE Morgan Horse
g The loss by the fire which destroyec
the blacksmith shop, office building ma
Q chine shop, and storage building Of the
Vermont Condensed Milk Co.. Rich
:. moEd. January 90, is estimated at about
!, $50 600, with partial insurance.