The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1909-03-18
A. l.. GRAVES,
CENTER, VERMONT
IN VERMONT.

Collector OF Customs Charles h.
Darling of Burlington, announces the
following figures for the customs dis
tnct of Vermont during the month of
February Collections, $44 ,939. 80 value
of merchandise exported, 1901 1853; col
collections for February, 1908, $24, 49,
! SO.
The Sanborn bridge over the West
branch. Stowe, was found broken down
Thursday. a truss having rotted. Teams
crossed the bridge during the evening
before. The selectmen began remov-
ing the timbers, bnt cannot put IN a
new bridge until spring.
Solomon Wright, president of the
company owning the mill property in
Pownal recently destroyed by fire. will
decide by April whether he will sell
it to the Holyoke Paper Manufacturing
company He is said TO value it az
$40, 600 Pownal people are content
anyway as it il understood that the
mill will be rebuilt at once whether
sold by the Wright company or not.
J. A. Chaplin of Middlesex. juror
at the present term OF Washington
County court who has penchant for
statistics, has been figuring on the oc-
cupation of the jurors from the 70
towns and cities of Washington county.
He finds that the average age of these
Jurors is so years, that q are farmers,
four carpenters, one a doctor, one a
dentist, and four veterans of the Civil
War.
W. A. Shepard of st. Adams, find
ing his way blocked by two drunken
men as he was coming out OF his tene-
ment, ordered them away and was bad
" beaten. He was badly cut about the
head in several places and generally
pretty well battered. A doctor was
called to attend the injured man and
was obliged to take several stitches in
Shepards head and face to close his
wounds. The men were arrested.
Francis Haywood Of South Ryegate,
aged SO years, who finished a day's
chopping Tuesday, exclaimed another
days work is DONE" drove his axe in
to log to stay until the next day. and
dropped dead Mr.. Haywood had chop
ped all day without apparently becom-
ing exhausted. He had been cheerful
and joked with his companion. Heart
failure was the cause Of death. He was
was born in Orange and is survived by |
his wife and eight children.
In consequence of the destruction by
fire Of the forms, type and other mater
ial used in the publication of Walton's
Vermont Register, the management
announces that this annual book for
1909 will not be issued this spring. 1t
is proposed, however, 10 publish the
Register next fall for 1910. and 10 issue
il annually thereafter early in Novem-
Der. The old style and form will be
adopted in future numbers as it has
been found that the people who use the
Register prefer the familiar arrange
ment Of grouping all local facts and in
formation under the name OF town or
city, AS in former years.
Mason s. Stone. state superintendent
Of education, gave an informal dinner
at Dorn's in Burlington Friday in
honor Of the retiring county examiners
Of the state. The guests included Ex-
aminers Ryder Of Bellows Falls, Allen
Of Westford. Abbott Of Proctor. Varney
Of Bennington. Collins Of Eddy. Mayor
Bigelow. who has spoken with Mr..
Stone in many greater Vermont meet
ings, was also a guest. AT the conclu-
sion OF the dinner Superintendent Stone
expressed 10 the examiners present his
high appreciation Of the work which
they have accomplished.