Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-08-13
STATE NEWS.

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postoffice have passed the $4,000 mark,
the village is entitled to the free de.
livery of mail.
A North Hyde Park item in The
Worthwhile News and Citizens SAYS:
The brooks in this locality have near.
ly a stopped running for want of wa
ter
At a meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Vermont branch of the
Red Cross it elected Harry 5. Howard
treasurer to succeed the late G. l.. Alex
ander, of Burlington.
1t is expected that the Vermont yearly
meeting of Free Baptist churches will be
held IN Sutton Sept. to ~.
A civil service examination out of the
ordinary will be held at Montpelier
August %, for eligibles for the position
of messenger boy at the weather bureau
station at Mortified. The pay is $3.50
a year.
In the 70 years that Lemoille county
has had a states attorney, the office has
been held by Morristown men - times
by Hyde Park eight, by Stowe five, by
johnson four, by Cambridge and VOL
colt three times each.
Edward T. Sault. who died Wednesday
evening, August 4, at his home in Ran
dolph, was veteran of the Civil War
and for % years quarter-master of u. ).
Grant Post No SO, g. A r. He is sur
vived by his wife and four sons.
The superior court judges have com
pleted the work of revising the court
rules. They also had a conference with
+. F. Lrngley of Barre, state printing
Commissioner, in regard to getting these
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neys of the state before the September
term of courts are held.
The session of United States district
court for naturalization purposes, which
closed at Montpelier Thursday, will be
reOpened January 6. 1910. About 90
second papers We're granted and , cases
were continued F. S Patt, clerk of
the court, was in Barre Thursday after
noon and evening receiving a large num-
Der of applications for first papers.
Mrs. Ardelia Beach Strong, wife Of
F. NJ. Strong, who died Thursday at her
home at Basin Harbor after a lingering
Illness was graduated from the Ripley
Female College of Poultney and for
fifteen years after graduation taught
school in Illinois and Iowa. In 1888
she was married to Mr.. Strong and had
since resided at Basin HarbOr where Mr..
Strong has conducted a summer hotel
George G.. Sleighton, who was a men,
Der OF the famous Barnes hose company
which took the worlds priza in Chicago
in ISIS. held the lead in the Stowe fire
company which took third prize in the
meet at MOrli>vile, Wednesday. Aug 4.
A coincidence was that it was the same
day of the week and at the same hour
in which he ran at Chicago and that
! Wednesday was the 53rd anniversary of
his birth.
Mrs Ann (SextonD Honan widow OF
/ Hartin Honan, who died at the home of
her son in law d. II. Harvey, of Water
/ bury. was one of the Oldest resident, of
the town She was born in Clare county.
Ireland, 93 years ago and previous to
moving TO Waterbury about sixteen
years a 20 had lived in Springfield She
is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Har-
vey.
An unusually large marble contract,
calling for 5000 600 worth of the states
best quality stone, has been received by
a quarry operator in Rutland from Phil
adelphia contractor. The marble will be
used in the construction of postoffice
buildings which are to be erected in
Atlanta, Ga. Toledo. Ohio, and Balti-
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In the committee appointments of the
| House Congressman ID. j. Foster is made
ranking member on the committee on
| foreign affairs and remains chairman
of the committee of expenditures in the
department of commerce and labor and
a member of the committee on reform in
the civil service. Congressman Frank
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on agriculture, committee on war claims,
and committee on railways and canals.
William Beattie, while at work in
hay field at Manchester Wednesday af-
ternoon stepped in woodchuck's hole
and broke his leg.
The 1913 men and II women convicts at
the State prison at Windsor attend the
services each Sunday conducted by
| Chaplain A W. Ford and the latter says
they form most attentive audience.
They greatly enjoy the congregational
singing.
Two Young women, Miss Olga BjOrk
and Miss Helen Swanson, of Proctor,
were drowned Monday afternoon about
three o'clock while bathing in small
pond here. One girl was taken with
cramps and the other tried to save her,
but was seized and dragged down.
Claire Ward, son of II. O. Ward. of
Montpelier, a lumberman, is in Heaton
hospital suffering with a broken leg
He was injured while driving yoke of
oxen. Louisa Nicoro had leg frac-
tured by jumping from a runaway team
in Barre, when the reins broke.
The first session of the summer school
at the University of Vermont, Burling-
ton, closed Friday after successful term
of four weeks. The session this year was
two weeks shorter than was originally
intended on account of the tercentenary
celebration. which interfered seriously
with the opening of the school. The at
tendance however was remarkably good
and more pupils were registered than
had been expected by the faculty.
new pest has appeared on apple,
plum, and cherry trees in Waterbury
and vicinity. 1t is a brown worm about
three quarters of an inch in length
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