Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-05-07
STATE NEWS.

the Nomination of Cornelius G. Billings,
of Vermont to be assistant commissioner
of patents
N. II. BarrOws, superintendent of the
American Wooden Co. mills at Wi
nooski for the last seven years, has re
signed his position and May 10 will go
to Waterville, Me, where he has pur.
chased mill.
|. N. Chase of Brandon has beer elect.
ed vice president of the New England
Ayrshire Club. At the annual meeting
held in Boston recently, c. M. Winslow
of Brandon read paper on the advan
tages of breeding from stock that on both
sides had official records of dairy per-
Torrance.
The jury in Rutland county court was
discharged Saturday for the term, but
there ia work enough to keep the court
busy two weeks longer. The jury has
been paid 50, 900. Seven cases have been
tried, five being on the criminal docket.
Aleck Seekosk, aged 10 years, en-
ployed in the Albertson marble mill at
West Rutland, died Friday night at the
Proctor hospital, six hours after being
crushed under block of marble. He
was balancing large slab, which fell on
him.
Monday w. H. Clement of Newport
will have completed 40 years of service
with Prouty & Miller. He began work
with the firm May 3, 1869, and for the
past 3j years he has held the position of
surveyor of lumber. Mr.. Clement is SO
years of age and in full health and at
tending to his duties every day. Gov
George II. Prouty, who is now at the
head of the firm, was but seven years
old when Mr.. Clement began his labors
There will be two open barber shops in
Montpelier the coming year, instead of
one The other barber shops have
signed an agreement with their journey
men BARRIERS to take effect May l.
Among the features are that the shops
shall keep open every week day from I a.
m. to s p. M, and on Saturday night
until 1870 o'clock and 10 o'clock the
nights before holidays. The matter of
half holidays is left to each individual
shop to settle with its employees. The
minimum weekly wage is $40
The Garde Champlain, military COM
pany composed of members of the Union
st. Jean Baptiste dAmerique, closed a
most successful three days tOmbola at
st. Agnes hall in St Johnsbury. There
were 80 members of the garde and as they
own only % uniforms the object of the
tombola was to raise enough money for
a complete outfit of uniforms to enable
the company to go to Burlington in July
to participate in the Champlain ter cen
: tenary celebration. The proceeds Of the
tombola were about $780, Frank g. Ian
dry is captain of the garde.
unconditional pardon has been gran ted
to Ben Carpenter of Braintree, who was
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sentenced to the house of correction for
a term of one year, not to exceed one
year and three months, for the crime of
malciously killing cattle. A conditional
pardon has also been granted to Frank
Meecham, of Braintree, who at the same
term of court was sentenced to the house
of correction for the same term for the
crime of statutory rape.
Monday, April 49, Mig" a dog be-
longing to Deputy Sheriff George A.
Tracy of Chelsea, which had been pet
in the family for the past fourteen years,
was missed and could not be found after
two days search. Tuesday, April y,
one of the neighbors had occasion to go
to "A barn on the Captain Hall estate, and
upon entering the barn found the miss
ing dog, which had been a prisoner there
for nine days and, though quite weak
from loss of food and water, was still
alive and probably will recover The
dog was accidentally shut in the barn
and during all the long confinement
made no cutlery to reveal his where
about.
a nurse in the Proctor hospital is fla
nous as the central figure in what has
been termed "the best picture ever done
in America This is the painting Girl
Crocheting" by Edmund G. Tarbel, Of
Boston, which has been awarded the
Carnegie gold medal of the first class,
carving with it an additional award of
$500. The young woman in the paint
ing is Miss Maud Harper. of Montreal,
who is at present a nurse at the Proctor
hospital. In the course of one of her
sittings for Mr.. Tarbell, she was resting
by sitting at round mahogany table at
his Dartmouth street studio, making the
time both pleasant and useful by knit
ting pair of socks for a niece in Can
ada. She wore white shirt waist. a
brown skirt and pair of low shoes.
When Mr.. Tarbell entered the room he
saw at glance her unconsciously ar
tistic pOsitiOn and the pictUre followed.