Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-02-07
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Elizabeth T.. DenlsOn, aged VA
years. who died in Leyden, Mass, Janu
AIRY 26 at the home of her daughter Mrs
sawyer, was born in Putney April Is,
1914, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza
be tn Hapgood. She had been remark
ably active during the latter part of her
life and was apparently in excellent
health until attacked by pneumonia a
week before her death. She is survived
by eight children.
The initiatory banquets of the Greek
letter fraternities at Norwich University,
Mortified, were held Thursday night,
the Alpha Sigma at the Mortified house,
the Theta Chi at its chapter house, and
the Commons Club at the club house.
At each banquet long list of toasts was
responded to by active and past MEM
bers. The Delta Kappa Psi hold a ban
quet at Barre Friday night at the City
hotel.
Mrs. Peter McGinnis celebrated the
95th anniversary of her birth at the
home of her daughter, Miss Nellie c..
McGinnis in Randolph Saturday. Though
rather deaf Mrs. McGinnis is in compare
lively good health. Other residents of
Randolph who have reached the age of
80 years or more are William Holmes, 81;
Railroad business at this place is the
best it has been for years, says a New
port correspondent. At one time last
week there were over 200 loaded cars in
the yards waiting to be forwarded and
no available train crew to take charge of
train. Nearly all the sidings of the Can
adian Pacific railway between Newport
and Farnham are full, making it diff
on 70 fro inc 70 %
real express was delayed thirty minutes
one day last week from this cause.
The arrest by the Burlington chief of
police at Essex Junction of F. E. Lewis
for the larceny of mileage books, dis
closes the fact that he jumped board
and livery bill at the Montpelier house
self there as telephone inspector. hired
teams, and had them charged to his ac-
count at the hotel January 81 he
skipped without settling his hotel bill.
After Burlington justice is satisfied Mont
pelier will take hand, as A. S. Sparrow,
proprietor of the Montpelier house, IN
tends to push the case against Lewis.
John II. Gowdev, who has been man
ager of the Franklin County Telephone
Co for the past few years and who left
will act in the same capacity for the
New England Telephone company was
presented handsome gold ring and a
solid silver match box by the operate tors
and employees of the local telephone COM
pany before his departure from St. AL
bans city. Mr. Gowdey was one of the
most popular managers the company has
ever had.
West & Burke ba Der shop in Rutland
were entered by thieves Sunday night
and about $l25 worth of pipes, cigars,
cigarettes and razors were stolen. The
burglars gained entrance to the rooms,
which are on the second floor, by means
of ladder and the fire escape and
breaking a pane of glass in window.
This is the fourth robbery there in a
week where entrance was gained by the
glass breaking method and the eev' nth
i'll month without an arrest being made
or clew secured by the police.
The saw mill of johnson Bros, Water
ford, was burned to the ground January
25 under circumstances that indicated
inceDdarism. 1t was necessary for the
firm to secure mill at once and the Kel-
logg mill at North Littleton, n. H., was
purchased. Repairs were being rushed
preparatory to starting last week, but this
mill was burned last Saturday before a
fire had even teen started in the boiler.
The loss was $500 Opinion is divided as
to whether hard luck or a firebug is pur-
suing the firm.
States Attorney r. A. Lawrence, of
Rutland, has had assurances from the
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Co. that it
will pay its Vermont workmen weekly
before March l. MIR. Lawrence has re-
quested the slate producing corporations
at Pawlet to set an early date for the in
auguration of weekly payments as re-
quired by law and the probability is that
within four weeks every corporation in
Rutland county will wheel into line with
out litigation.
The Rutland Railroad Co. Saturday
paid f. w. Savage $4,000 damages at
the result of injuries which he suffered
in the wreck at Vergennes in December,
1906. The verdict was given in federal
court at Rutland last October and was
to be heard in United States circuit
court appeals this week, but the railroad
attorneys decided Saturday morning t.
withdraw.