Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-01-17
STATE NEWS.

| A petition in bankruptcy has been filed
by Martin j. MCGOWAN. of Barre, grocer
He has liabilities of $6,715 65 and assets
of S5,3l5.25, of which 1858 is claimed
exempt
The collector of the town Of Sunder-
land has been paying visit to delin-
quentt taxpayers in Bennington. He
| asserts there is one man living there
who owes Sunderland $1,000 in back
taxes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walton II. Farr, of West
minister, have sold their farm in that
4 town and February l will become assist
ant superintendent and assistant matron
Of the Kurn Hattin homes where there
are now forty boys.
A bill has been introduced in the House
of Representatives by Congressman d.
j. Foster to extend immediate transpor-
tation facilities to East Alburg in the
customs collections of the district of Yer
mont.
County Clerk f. d. E. Stoves audit
of the expense of the last term of the
Windham county court shows that it
was S6,00l4O. The items were: Grand
jury, $l71.52; petit jury, $2,2l4.64;
witnesses, s., 606.93; county Judges,
S4l420. reporters, S674.21.
Jeremiah Brown, Rutland hostler, is
under arrest, charged with larceny.
Carpenters working at stable where he
was employed have been missing tools
some days and il is said that Brown has
stolen little by little enough for full
outfit.
During the month of December the
duties collected in the customs district Of
Vermont amounted to SAT ,938.52. For
the corresponding period in 1906, the
duties were $36, 02S72. The merchan-
disc exported through the district last
month was valued at s529,736.
II. o. Bixby, of Chelsea, we'll known
throughout the state as a former COM
mander of the Vermont Division, Sons of
Veterans, who has been seriously ill of
rheumatic fever for several weeks, is
slowly improving in health.
Washington county prisoners during
the year 1907 earned S1,400 of which
sum more than $500 was net gain to the
state. When the wood lot, which the
prison board is to purchase, is ready for
business, the large number of prisoners
now idle in the Jail will be put to work
The report of P. j. CAVITY, building in
spector Of Rutland, shows that % new
dwelling houses were erected in that
city between April and December 81
1907 This is a decrease of four over
the preceding year Although there
were six business buildings constructed
during the year 1906 only one was erect
ed during the period covered by Mr..
CAVITY report.
At an eisteddfod held at Columbus,
Ohio, recently, Thomas Z. Edmunds, of
Poultney, received prize of S25 for the
best short story. Robert W. Roberts,
formerly of West Pawlet, directed the
male chorus which won the first prize of
$500 and gold medal for the best rem
dition of + t.. ard Germans 80 Peaceful
Night" and The Fisherman" by Price.
Because CT the illness of the wife of
the responde mt IT, case of State VS.. Eddy
Barr, CT Wood ury. for allowing his
beagle hound 10 chase a deer, which
was to have been tried Friday at Wood
bury. has been continued for few days.
] Barr had been notified by the State that
his dog had been chasing deer, and to
this it is said he paid no attention.
Stephen w. Kimball, clerk of the Cen
ter Rutland Congregational church at
Brattleboro for twentythree years, gave
a report at the annual meeting last week
covering twenty-five years. In that
period 800 persons have united with the
church, ia have died, and the present
membership is 315. Mr.. Kimball, who is
50 years old, is one of the most constant
attendants the church has
After the freight bills on the James
town exhibits, which are now all back
in Montpelier, have been paid. the state
exposition commission will he able to
close its accounts and make a detailed
statement of its expenditures which will
be filed in the office of the state auditor.
The commission is confident it will be
able to meet all bills out of the original
appropriation of $4,000
By skilful presentation Of arguments
against vivisection, Miss Lena a. Brit
ton, of Springfield, has won a prize of
$500. 1t was awarded to her by the
American Humane Education Society in
a competition which sought to gain es-
says both for and against vivisection for
general distribution. The prizes were
y awarded on the merits of the essays
alone, the names of the writer's being un,
4 known to the judges until after their de.
. cisiOn was made.
! The New England Telephone & Tele
- graph Co., Rutland, moved into its new
. modern exchange late Saturday night
II making the ''cut-over" from the old one
v which has been occupied great many
q change is on the fourth floor of the
!, Mead building 50 as to be away from the
u noise of the street, and it cost the com
:, pany S35, O00 The common battery sys
!, TEN is used