Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-03
STATE NEWS.

The name of Felix McGettrick, former.
ly of st. Adams, was filed at Boston Sat
urday AS one OF two candidates for the
democratic nomination for district at
torney.
Two hundred attended the picnic of the
Mendon, Pittsfield and Sherburne Oranges
at Mendon Saturday. The speakers were
State Master c.. F. Smith of Morrisvllle
and State Lecturer Mason S. Stone Of
Montpelier.
The Rev. Homer A. Flint, Phi. D., of
Montpelier, expected to sail from Liver.
pool August 2S on the steamship Lusit-
ania, due in New York September 3.
The first bequest to the Barre City
hospital is $4,000 from the ANGELA
French estate. The trustees of the insti-
tuition have decided to place the money
in immediate use by applying it on the
purchase price of the hospital.
With Bennington and Woodstock the
only Independent base ball teams in the
state, and with neither beaten by a Yer
mont team, a divided claim to the state
championship would seem to be an easy
matter to settle, Woodstock has drawn
its opponents principally from New
Hampshire while Bennington has met
bChtio iiOAi c vi oho
Massachusetts.
Harry Stowe, who on the order of
Governor Prouty was paroled from
Washington county Jail to go to Barre
city hospital for an operation for hernia,
returned to the Jail Saturday to serve the
remainder of his sentence. The man
was somewhat in doubt whether he
would be obliged to return to Jail but the
governors order releasing him left no
doubt on that point.
Joel Babbitt Putnam, for more than
90 years a trial justice at Bethel, was 90
and confirmed in Christ church, between
Bethel and Randolph, and has been a lay
reader for more than 30 years.
Il. II. Galusha, of Bennington, has
some freak potatoes which grew in a
paper bag in the cellar way far removed
frCm light, moisture or earth. About a
dozen potatoes have grown from one,
ranging in size from walnuts down to
peas.
a son born recently to Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Taylor, of P%ittsford, has a rather
unusual number of grandparents. There
are two great grandmothers, four grand
mothers, four grandfathers and one great
grandfather. The oldest grandparent is
81 and the Youngest 80 years old.
The tenth annual conference of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
of Vermont will be held with Gen.
Lewis Morris Chapter at Springfield
September 16 and II. The information
committee consists of Mrs. W. j. Acker-
man and Mrs. E.. D. Bowen.
The iron bridge on the South Hero
rood nuar fhn ap,ni1ln river hac haan
closed as unsafe for travel until the
wood work is entirely rebuilt. All San
bar island traffic must go by way of
Milton until it is reopened. The towns
of Milton and Colchester are interested
in a suita at law as to which town bears
the expense.
The hardware store of David A. Elliot,
of hite River Junction, was broken
into At an early hour Saturday morning
and S12 in cash was stolen beside some
hardware. Entrance was doubtless made
through a rear window. There are no
clues to the burglar except that a Provi-
dence, r. l., pawnshop ticket was found
on the floor.
Gov. @. II. Prouty and Col. Nelson of
his staff, who were in Montpelier for a
short time Saturday afternoon on their
way to their homes after attending the
Addison county fair at Middlebury, left
late in the afternoon in the Governors
automobile. The Governor intended to
attend the funeral of H. S. Wilson,
State cattle commissioner, at Arlington
but was called home. He stated that he
should at once appoint a successor to Mr..
Wilson as there is pressing need for such
an official.
Mrs. Dressed. of Townsend, was badly
poisoned recently by eating toadstools,
thinking they were mushrooms. Her
condition AT present however, appears to
he improving. After preparing the dish
Mrs. Dressed went from the kitchen
through the dining room door and in Sc
doing a screen hit the plate and some of
the contents dropped on the floor. The
cat devoured them and died from the
effects
The tritl calendar for the September
term of Washington county court, which
will convene in Montpelier, Tuesday,
September IA, Judge E.. l.. Waterman
presiding. contains nearly 100 cases fol
trial b. jury and half as many State and
chancery cases. Present indications are
that the court will be kept running near
ly to thanksgiving time. The criminal
docket contains no cases of general inter
est although the grand jury which sits
at this term may bring forward much
new business.
A short lived cyclone struck johnson
about 70 o'clock last Thursday after
noon and did considerable damage. Ii
tore up trees, took the roo off E. E
Holmes blacksmith shop and the stee
roof off the creamery, blew two large
chimneys from b. A. Hunts brick house
and laid low the electric light wires. Nc
one was injured.