Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-09-17
STATE Tvs.

sOon ledVe IOT emma as the Sec
rotary of the Baptist missionary work in
that country.
G. Ii. Moore, of Springfield has wired
Vermont friends that he escaped from
the wrecked Laurentian off Cape Race
with all bis baggage safe and sound.
During the month of August nearly
$500 people signed the register at the
Bennington battle monument. 1t is ex-
pected hat the total number of visitors
this year will probably reach 5000.
The Dorset church has received the
sum of $500 as a gift from William s.
Southworth, Of Lowell, Mass, whose
father and grandfather were born and
lived In Dorset, and who were both EN-.
ployed during the building OF the old
church which was burned in 1907.
Golen Miller, who entered aid took $25
from the store of Dominique Corsiglia,
of Bennington, was sentenced to the
state industrial school, Vergennes, for
the remainder of his minority. The
case of his accomplice, James Ellsworth
was put over until his record could be
investigated.
An apple buyer from Fall River, Mass,
has been in White River Junction and
the White river valley regions the past
week and already has shipped from West
Hartford n car load of fall apples, a
large proportion of which were bought
in Pomfret. The apple crop in that
section of Vermont is light upon the
whole but here and there is an orchard
that will yield a large crop.
George II. Stearns of st. Johnsbury,
is attending the meeting of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of L. o. o. F., in Seattle,
Wash, as grand representative from the
Grand Lodge of Vermont. He made the
trip by way of Salt Lake City, Denver,
Los Angeles, San Francisco and Port
land, and after the meeting he will pass
some time on the Pacific coast, intend.
ing to be absent from Vermont about
six weeks.
Capt. E. j. Baldwin, of the Champlain
transportation Co.'S. steamer Vermont is
unable to resume his command on ac-
count of i'll health. AS the steamer goes
out of commission October 2, it is not
likely that he will return to his duties
this season. The Vermont has been
under the command of Capt. E. B. Rock
well, the veteran pilot of the Ticonder-
oga, since the illness a few weeks ago of
Captain Baldwin.
Moses Gardner, of Rutland, a break
man in the employ of the Rutland rail
road company, aged 80 years, unmarried,
stepped from a moving train Friday
night and fell a distance of so feet to the
edge of the river a short distance north
Of Shelburne. He was taken to Mary
Fletcher hospital in Burlington.
The Mortified News suggests that the
additional power being developed at the
Corry-Deavitt- Frost Co. might be used
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pelier city TO Mortified. In Waterbury
there also appears to be a sentiment
favorable to the extension of the line to
that village and one authority says that
enough money to finance the deal could
be raised there in a week. A charter
exists for a line to Essex junction.
! James Thomas, of Fair Haven, aged
% years, was killed in Whitehall, N. v,
September 8, at the Delaware & Hudson
railroad crossing by jumping from a
freight train, running against the drop
gates and being thrown back under the
train. His left arm was cut off and he
was injured about the back of the head.
A Montpelier alderman exhibited at
the city council room two monster to-
matoes which he raised in his garden.
One weighed a pound and seven ounces
oF% 49, va Wv - 0AiA 6lA OAll1F0s
or both together 2 pounds and 49, ounces.
He secured the seed from one who found
big tomatoes growing on a deserted farm
in New Hampshire n aved the seed.
This tomato was of massive size although
not very handsome. In order to hold up
the tomatoes he had to build a frame.
r. II. Briggs, of Brattleboro, swept the
board with his registered Guernsey cat
tie at the Rutland County fair, securing
eleven first prizes and eight other prizes.
his cash winnings there amounted to
ISL. Last week he shipped his herd to
the Connecticut State fair in Hartford,
where he met the strongest competition
in the country, including Gould. Bar
tholomew and other famous herds from
New York state. He secured a liberal
share of the prizes with cash winnings
a%ggregating $l3S.
The registration in the Rutland public
schools at the end of the first week of
the fall term was 1887. The largest at
tendance last year vas 20S2 in mid Octo-
Der, and, as there are pupils registering
continually during the first few weeks of
the school year, it is probable that the
2OOO mark will be exceeded this year.
Word has been received of the death
of Billings Nemoto, son of Sho Nemoto
at Honolulu on his way to Mount Her
mon school. His father planned to have
him fitted for college at Mortified. Sho
Nemoto will be remembered by many
Vermonters as a japanese student at the
University of Vermont several years ago,
and now an official Of the government of
Japan.
A Bellows Falls news item says Or. F..
L.. Osgood, of Saxtons River, is expert
encing much loss from wild deer gnaw-
ing his young apple trees on his farm
He has over 500 young trees recently set
out, a large part having already been
seriously damaged. A few years e he
had a farm in Cavendish on which over
300 fruit trees of different kinds were
destroyed.
The place in the basement of the
county courthouse at Montpelier, where
all unclaimed and u%ncondemned liquor
of Washington county will be stored, h IS
been completed and the county's present
store of about two dozen barrels of liquor
has been taken to the cellar. The place
| will be reasonably safe there After GET