Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-07-09
STATE NEWS.

been set for August l.
Theodore N. Vail. of Lyndonville,
president of the American and Bell
Telephone Co., has been admitted as
member of the Boston Railroad Holding
Co.
Henry B. Brown, of Franklin.
farmer, has filed petition in bankruptcy.
He has Liabilities of $S42. IS and his assets
aggregate $l195. of which $500 is exempt.
The Marble Savings Bank, the Rutland
Savings Bank, and the savings depart
ment of the Clement National Bank,
declared dividend to depositors at the
rate of four per cent per annum.
The Rev.--A. Alerton Murch, who a
short time ago signified his desire to re-
linquish the rectorate of st. Marks mis-
sion at Newport. will complete his duties
September /.
A large hay and stock barn and all the
outbuildings on the farm of George Bost-
wick, Jr., of Waltham were burned
Thursday afternoon, with nearly all the
farming utensils and one horse. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The loss
is estimated at $4,000, partially insured.
The Masonic directory at Brattleboro,
for 1909-1910, recently issued. shows a
lodge, 172 in the Fort Drummer chapter,
101 in Connecticut Valley council, 154 in
Beauseant commandery, and 1871 in
Bingham chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star.
Despite the protests of the board of
trade in Montpelier and Barre, the new
telephone rates went into effect July 1.
These include toll of five cents on all
hat ha txuA ,ol,
have always been free. 1t is expected
the matter will be brought to the atten-
ton of the public service commission.
While Howard Shortsleeves was at
work Thursday repairing the McCaffery
house in Burlington he discovered in a
partition a United States penny dated
1904. The coin is in good preservation.
Mrs. Fred E. Fowler, of Royalton, was
badly burned in the face and nearly
strangled by opening bottle of ammonia
which the warm weather had rendered
gaseous. She was about to remove the
stopper when it was forcbly elected,
throwing half pint of the liquid into
her face. She is recovering.
Finding a match on the sidewalk
viii playing, Christine Bartholomew,
the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Cassius Bartholomew, who are Wis
iting in Fair Haven, ignited her cloth
ing Saturday and was seriously burned
about the chest, arms and head. Her
condition is critical.
The Union Congregational church.
Worcester, Mass, has unanimously voted
to extend a call to the pastorate to the
Rev. F. A. Poole of Barre, to succeed the
Rev. DIR. Frank Crane, resigned. Mr.
Poole was born in Boston and prepared
for the ministry at the Hartford Theolog-
ical Seminary He is 3S years old. He
was called to the Barre church in 1901
from East Weymouth, Mass, where he
had served for two years.
More commitments were made to the
state hospital for the insane at Water
bury during the month of June than in
any single month to date. Twenty seven
persons were placed in the asylum for
various reasons, some of them private
patients, while only one has been re-
leased for trial at home. The largest
number committed to the institution in
any month heretofore has been 81.
w. A. Sto" ell, general manager of the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad, nar-
rowly escaped serious injury while at
work in the company's carshops at Mont
pelier Thursday afternoon, being hit
back of the ear by board which flew
from a circular saw behind him He
was rendered unconscious for a few
minutes, but aside from a broken ear.
drum it is thought he was not injured.
Mr.. Stowell is II years old.
Ralph Bennett, the twelve-year old
Barre boy who was arrested Monday at
Wells River charged with stealing a
mileage book and a sum of money at
Barre and who had been bound over to
county court, appeared in Montpelier
city court Wednesday asking that an
information might be filed against him
and to this information he pleaded guilty
to taking money and mileage to the
value of $50. Sentence was deferred.
The graduating class of the Brattleborc
high school numbered 36 members. The
Austine prize winners were Miss Helen
R. Martin, Miss Irene A. Plimpton. Miss
Helen NJ. Betterly, and Miss Ruth A.
Brown. The scholarships of 500 each
are awarded to the four students with
the highest averages for their four years
work under the bequest of the late Col
William NJ. Austine.
Andrew Whitcomb, the Searsbure
man, for whom a warrant was issued
charging him with an assault upon Al
!. exander Bishop. the Sesrsburgh road
commissioner, was arrested in Reads
boro. When discovered on a Hoosa(
River and Wilmington railroad trair
Whitcomb made a break for liberty, anC
swan through canal supplying powe
to the Readsboro box factory but wa
caught on the other side by some of tn
factory employees. He will not have |
! l,aa of fhe 70 - hAtNf
injuries are ascertained
John X. Dustin, of Gloucester Mass.
who had served the city in various ca
: pacities. is dead. He was native o
Topsham, was so years old, and was
veteran of the Civil War He was prom
nent in the fish industry of Gloucester
Mr.. Dustin was direct descendant Q
Hannah Dustin, was a member of tn
Gloucester Board of Trade aud the Son
of the American Revolution, and wa
one of the original trustees of the Add
son Gilbert Hospital Corporation.
The nine-year old son of Mrs. Magician