Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-05-14
STATE NEWS.

The resignation of the Rev. w. S. Be.
zanson as pastor of the Advent Chris
tian church at Bristol has been accepted
and efforts are under way to secure a
new pastor.
Messrs. Davis & Davis, Washington
patent attorneys, report p. l.. Kimball,
OF Bellows Falls, Iassignor to the YER
mont Farm Machine Co. of Bellows
Falls, of a patent on "a centrifugal cream
separator.
The Bennington Electric Co. will be-
gin soon to wire the Bennington Battle !
Monument for electric lights. Visitors
to the monument have been more fire.
quent this season than usual. Last year
about 5000 persons visited the monu-
ment.
There are four candidates in the field
for department commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Capt J. N. Gull |
yer, of Richford DR.. E. j. Foster, of
Waterbury Center, Capt. Edwin d. !
Hovey, of St Johnsbury, and Col. A. b. /
Franklin of Townshend
Philip J. Halvosa, formerly editor of
The Vermont Union Signal, and state
organizer of the Vermont branch of the
American Federation of Labor who has
recently been employed as reporter on
The Boston American, has resigned to
take a position as editor of the Boston
Monitor
George Cook was arrested by States
Attorney Buck at Windsor on the charge
of attempting to pass a $25 check on the
State National Bank purporting to be
signed by Emily Slade. Cook was held
under $500 Attorney Buck said Cook
received check for 81 from Mrs. Slade,
and after it had been raised to SIT he
O.
that he offered the $25 check on the bank
but it was refused.
At dinner given in honor of Presi-
dent Taft Saturday night by the citizens
of Washington, under the auspices of
the Board of Trade and the Chamber of
Commerce, Justice Wendell p. Stafford,
of the District of Columbia Supreme
Court. formerly of st. Johnsbury, spoke
on behalf of the citizens.
The hearing of the public service com
mission on the question of coal rates
over the Central Vermont railway from
Burlington, which was to have been
held at Bethel, has been called off, the
chief officials of the road having made
an adjustment affording some relief to
the petitioners who thereupon agreed to
discontinue the proceedings.
The executive committee of the Yer
mont State Sunday school Association
will invite Marion Lawrence, secretary
of International Sunday school Associa-
ton, and W. b. Ferbush and Mrs. Stat
terry, also international officers, to at
tend the state convention at Woodstock
October 81 to 80. The general secretary
has been authorized to raise money to
pay the debt of the association, amount
ing to $1,000.
Tufel Au dette, river driver of Nor
ton Mills. while working on the logs,
fell into the river on Paul's stream at
Lancaster, N. H. recently and was
drowned. The body was recovered
three hours later and his three brothers,
who were working with him, took the
body home. Mr.. Audette was SO years
old and is survived by his wife and three
children.
The Rev. Howard j. Chidley, formerly
superintendent of the Vermont Anti
Saloon League. who was graduated last
week from the Union Theological Semi.
nary, sailed the first day of this month
from Philadelphia for England, where he
is planning to study for time at Ok
ford, and then pass two months in travel
through the British Isles. Next year he
will be assistant pastor of the Central
Congregational church of Brooklyn.
Two important additions have been
made to the faculty of the University of
Vermont, Burlington, DR.. j. F. Mes
senger of the Virginia State Normal
School having been appointed to chair
In the new department of education,
and Miss Bertha III. Terrill to the chair
OF home economics. Miss Terrill is ma.
tive of Morrisvile and former student
at Peoples Academy in that town and at
st. Johnsbury Academy.
Edward S. Abbott, senior at the
University of Vermont, has been elected
principal of the Montpelier high school
in place of B. c. Rogers, resigned. Mr..
Abbott will begin his duties in Mont
pelier at the beginning of the fall term,
and will go highly recommended not
only by the faculty of the university,
but by Mason S. Stone, state superintend-
ent of education, and by other well
known educators in the state. Mr.. Alb
bott ls president of the senior class at
the University of Vermont