Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-11-26
STATE NEWS.


of $642 for the purchase of fire engine.
The condition of policeman John H.
Ryan, of Burlington, who last week was
shot in the thigh of the left leg by John
A. Thomas, negro supposed to be
insane, is steadily improving.
Walter Wilson of Brattleboro, aged SO
years, died Nov. IS as the result of kick
from horse. He was calling on an ac-
quaintance at a livery when vicious
beast suddenly kicked him in the ado
men.
The cemetery association at Hyde
Park has just accepted gift of 800
from the estate of the late Mrs. d. j.
Noyes, and one of $25 from Mrs. Joseph
King, of Minneapolis. The association
now has a fund of about 1000 for the
care Of the cemetery.
The Pillsbury- Baldwin Company of
Barton, with a capital stock of 800, 000
organized to do general plumbing bust
ness, has filed articles of incorporation in
the Office Of the secretary of state. The
Smith Clothing Company of Barre, with
capital stock of $50, 900, has also regis
tered Incorporation papers.
The New York Sun says that volume
of poems by Justice Wendell P. Stafford
of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, is to be publish cd soon under
the title dorian Days" This title is
chosen because the beauty of ancient
Greece is in great measure the inspira-
ton of the volume.
The cover of the December number of
Everybody's bears design furnished by
w, A. Bentley Of Jericho. The page is
from microscopic photograph of snow
flakes and is very unique. There are -
flakes in all and, although each design
is hexagonal, there are no two alike. Mr..
Bentley has made a life study of this
work.
The Rev. Roger Fl. Trill, the new pas
tor of the Congregational church at
Winooski, and Miss Dora Marion Brooks
of Penarth, South Wales, were married
Tuesday evening, November. 16, by the
Rev. E. P. Treat at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Treat in Richmond. The bride
arrived in Montpelier. Monday night,
November Is, from her home in Wales.
G. T. Rogers of Binghamton, N. Y,
president of the Rutland Railway, Light
q Power Company, says that survey
ing party will begin next week to run a
line for the proposed electric road from
Rutland to Poultney, and that if right
of way can be secured under fair condi-
tions work will be started in the spring.
Work is being rushed on the Chittenden
dam, which is being raised.
The trustees of the University of Yer
mont, Burlington, are discussing means
for securing 5000, 900 for the institution
before December l, 1910. Half the sum
is needed to pay off the existing debt
and the remainder to bring the 81 200, 900
endowment fund to $500, 200 when the
Rockefeller gift of 500, 900 will be avail
able Contributions have been coming
in slowly since the last commencement
and the committee will be obliged to
conduct thorough canvass.
Louis King, aged "a years, whose left
leg was terribly crushed at the Manches-
ter Marble Co.'S quarry at East Dorset
Nov. l6, died at the Rutland city hospi-
tai Nov. 1S. He never rallied after reach.
ing the hospital and owing to his condi-
tion the leg was not amputated. While at
work he slipped, his leg going under the
wheel of car which was loaded with a
sixteen-ton block of marble. The leg
was practically crushed off at the knee
Deputy Sheriff w. L. Fairbanks of
Springfield has returned home from
Malone, N. Y, where he went to get the
thirteen-year. daughter of William
Blodgett. The girl was taken from
Springfield about two weeks ago by
Joseph Ferguson, a veteran of the Civil
War, 70 years old, who was held under
arrest for the past two weeks in Malone
Mr. Ferguson has been released from the
charge of abduction in New York state,
but stands liable for prosecution on his
return to Vermont.
Willard Smith of Ira has been sent to
the Rutland county Jail to serve 1877
days because he could not pay fine of
$50 and costs for petit larceny. Smith
was charged with killing COW belong
ing to Alfred Richie of Ira while it was
in pasture and converting it to his own
use. 1t was shown in the testimony
that he had sold to Rutland merchants
chickens and turkeys, not being able to
tell how he got them. He raises none at
his place.
Hearing voices in locked freight car
in through freight which had Just
pulled into Rutland from the north Fri
day brakeman investigated and found
three young men, Frank Searley, Harry
Ivan and John Thompson, aged 18 to %
years, who had ridden the 200 miles
from Norwood, N. ", hidden in car of
cracked corn. They had just quit work
in lumber camp at Moosehead lake,
Me-, and were en- route to Haverhill,
Mass, to get work. They were 80 young
and had such pathetic story that Judge
r. q. Swinnerton let them off with ten