Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-01-03
STATE NE VS..

The Birthday Social club uf Williams.
town has Tor upwards Of 30 years held
Christmas exercises and ls-t week was
40 exc' ptiun. Seventy five gath, red at
the home of MIR. and Mrs Percy Sanders
and $50 presents were distributed
Friends of Stephen Hallock Of Bristol
/ took pity on him Christmas eve uud paid
his fine Of $50 imposed Tor an assault ur.
on Crime Dumas. Halock was anguish
ing in jail when he received this very
satisfactory Christmas present
An additional speaker at the annual
meeting of the Vermont State Daifynen's
association at Rutard January s and
is announced in Ivan {. W,ld Of Wash
ington. u. c.. recently sppnni'd assist
ant dolrNmIl to the United Stat,- te-
partment # agriculture.
Bostun & Maine detectives are investi-
eating singularly bold burglary COM
united at the North Pownal railway sta
ton Christmas evening. The whole sash
of window was broken out and no at
tempt was made TO work quietly Speed
was the main thing and i'm the few min
utes that the thieves had to themselves
they got away with $50 in cash
The Readsboro Chair company has been
awarded the contract for seats for the
new Academy of Music mt Brooklyn, N.
Y. -Four thousand chairs are called for,
by far the largest order the Readsboro
company ever received. The backs and
seats are to be upholstered, frames are to
be of wood instead of iron and new
stain will be used called silver maple.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Hill of Lincoln
present the following summary of bust
ness done at their hennery in 1907 Hens,
200; cost of feed $500; sale of eggs, $3.50;
net profit, $3.50; profit per hen, S1.75.
Figuring the hens 20 be worth 80 cents
each, or 500 in all, profit of $175 was
made on the business. q man working
at $l.25 day will earn $500 in a year.
Or only $40 more than M. and Mrs. Hills
hens.
Fire from an unknown cause destroyed
the engine house of the Vermont Unfad-
ing Green Slate company's plant at Fair
Haven Friday night entailing a loss of
-, 500. The plant is one of those affected
by the strike of slate workers and under
ordinary conditions employed about IS
men. One-third that number have been
engaged there the past six months.
The announcement by Charles De F.
Bancroft of Montpelier that he had kept
"a diary for Al consecutive years attract
ed the attention of G. II. Bacon of West
Berlin who to morrow will have kept
dairy every day of his life for an even
half century. Mr.. Bacon is now 81 years
old, and commenced the diary habit
when he was II years of age.
The Hon. Theo. n. Vail. president of
the American Telegraph & Telephone
company, entertained over 100 children
at SOeedwell Farms, Lyndon Center,
! Christmas afternoon. A big tree in the
spaciuu hall was loaded with gifts and
a real live Santa Claus arrived Just in
time t. distribute the presents. Follow
ing this refreshments were served. The
children were transported to and from
Mr.. Wallis home in big barges.
Mrs. Benjamin billiard of Boston is
making anxious inquiries as to the where
abouts Of her husband, man of go years,
whom she believes may be wandering
through the small towns of Vermont. He
has been mentally unbalanced, she says
and information from a railway conduc-
tor leads her to the belief that he has re-
turned to his home in Evansville, vii
lage in the town of Bloomington. 1t is
said that he was seen to leave a train at
st. Johnsbury Friday after a weeks dis
appearance during which it was feared
that he was victim of foul play,
The trial of Alfred Mahan, charged
with the murder of his little niece, Ethel
Mahan, at North Bennington, April %,
was resumed in Bennington county court
Dec. 80. The cross examination of Ger
man Mahan, father of the murdered
child. was continued by counsel for the
respondent. He was followed by NJ. d.
Middleton, a civil engineer, who made a
map of the scene of the crime for use in
the trial and by Alfred Hunt, brother
in-law of Mahan, who with the father
was fishing in Lake Paran the day the
crime wac committed and was the first
person to find the body of the child.