Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-10-09
STATE NEWS.

Edward Lockwood, aged 70 years. a
retired hardware dealer, native of Ma
drid, N Y, died suddenly in Burlington
Tuesday morning of shock of parays
He is father of j. II. Lock wood. of Lock-
wood Bros. carriage dealers here.
The water in Lake Champlain has
risen slightly during the past week, it
now being two inches higher than the
lowest low water mark The boats con-
tinue to have difficulty in making land
ings at Port Kent and Plattsburgh, while
the Richelieu river is nearly impossible
to canal boats with cargoes.
The National Society of United States
Daughters of 1912, state of Vermont, has
issued invitations to the unwilling cere
monies of the memorial tablet in recogni-
ton of the soldiers and sailors of the War
| of 1S12-15. The ceremonies will take
place in the Hall of Representatives at
the state house, Montpelier, Wednesday
evening, October 81.
The farmhouse of j. H. Currier. two
miles from the village, occupied by Au-
gustus Martell, burned early Tuesday
morning. Someone carrying a kerosene
lamp stumbled and the lamp was over
turned. Part of the furniture was saved.
Mr.. Curriers' loss is $1,000, with insur-
ance of $500. Martell's loss has not been
estimated.
The report of the Vermont soldiers
home, Bennington, for the ten DAYS end
ing September 30 shows that the average
number present was "a with a total of
50 members present and absent, / 4 cling
on furlough. AS soon as the real cold
weather arrives the number of inmates
will be largely augmented and will prob
ably reach the one hundred mark before
the winter is over.
c.. A. Sanders of Morrisville, who has
made careful note of the weather for
many years, gives the following figures
on the amount of rainfall during the
summer: In May there was rain during
eighteen days, with a precipitation of
504 inches; in June it rained thirteen
days, $40 inches; July rain fourteen
days, 5.2S inches August rain thirteen
days, 1926 inches; September rain eight
days, LA inches. The rainfall in Sep
tember 1903, was less than this year
A $4,000 maj practice case has been
filed in Rutland county court in which
/ Harlena Giddings of Pittsford, is the
/ plaintiff and DR.. h. NJ. Grain of Rutland,
Is the defendant The suit is returnable
al the March term of court. The woman
/ =
! ing an operation on her for the removal
of an abscess February 10. 1906, cut
certain duct connecting the bladder with
one of the kidneys, which caused an in
jury from which she will suffer for life.
! 1t is further alleged that the physician
| falsely determined the nature and eX-
tent of the abscess and that he did not
remove within reasonable time small
piece of gauze left in the wound. The
writ describes the doctors acts as "negh-
gent and unskillful."
Frank PIumley of Mortified who was
recently elected to Congress from the
second district to succeed Congressman
| Kittredge Haskins of Brattleboro, has
rendered his resignation as chief Judge
of the Vermont court of claims to Gov
ernor Proctor, and the same has been
accepted. 1t is probable that the gov
ernor will not fill the place inasmuch as
the legislature which is the eecting
,, body, convenes Wednesday and will fill
the vacancy before the next regular ses-
sion of the court. The other members
of the court are E. b. Finn of Spring.
field who was recently elected senator
from Windsor county and Linus Leavens
of Cambridge.
The Connecticut river is now lower
than it has been in years. AS a result
the contractors on the large dam for the
Connecticut River Power Co. have COM
pleted more cement work during the
past week than in any one week since
the work of constructing the high cement
wall began some months ago. The boat
men find the water so shallow in the ra-
| pids up the river from Vernon that the
power boats cannot get through without
the loss of paint and danger to their
propelers. The water is less than foot
deep and the waves come aboard. Can
oeists still make the passage but they
have to go in midstream and work hard
er than they had at any time this season
to get through