Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-05-28
STATE NEWS.

| Inc annual reunion OF the FIFTEENTH
Vermont regiment will be held at st
Johnsbury June /.
Hooker, Corser, & Co., makers of over
alls, frocks, and pants, with factories al
Brattleboro, have completed negotia
tons for the location of a plant employ
ing 800 hands in Schenectady, N. Y.
George Barnes was painfully injured
in the shops of the Lane Manufacturing
Co., at Montpelier recently when lade
of melted ore which he was carrying,
was upset and portion of the molten
mass ran into one of his shoes.
The largest fee paid to the state treas
surer for license to sell intoxicating
liquor is 81 500, and comestrom the little
town of Braintree in Orange county,
which has one second class saloon.
Supt. j. N. Barass of the state indus
trial school, Vergennes. who was operated
upon for appendicitis, is steadily inn
proving in health.
The annual drive of logs from the Am
monoosuc river in New Hampshire, cut
this season by the International Paper
Co., has been doomed at the mouth of
that river during the past two weeks, and
all of the cut, 10, 100000 feet, has reach
ed there. Within a few days it has been
let out into the Connecticut and will be-
gin arriving at Bellows Falls and Brattle-
boro a short time ahead of the larger
drive of the Connecticut River Lumber
Co.
Newport is likely to enjoy the benefits
of postal free delivery in the near future.
The post-otfice comes under an act enabl-
ing the department to establish such
routes where the receipts are over S10,-
900, this office having an income of S11, =
100 A post office inspector who looked
over the ground was very favorably i'm
pressed and gave some encouragement to
the officials.
A vested boys choir has been organ
liked in the Universalist church at Nor
risville. A secret organization of which
the boy choir is to be part, is to be or
ganized and all boys under II years old
are eligible. To be member of this or
ganization it is not necessary that boy
sing, as the choir is simply supplement-
airy, but no boys from other Sunday
schools are eligible. The object of the
society is to interest the boys and keep
them in touch with the Sunday school,
The futile Co., of Rutland has sent to
Atty. Gen. j. G.. Sargent its check for
$2724l in pay ment of the costs of the
mandamus proceedings brought by the
company against Horace F. Graham,
state auditor which was partially heard
in Montpelier and Rutland and was
finally discontinued before it reached
supreme court.
In reply to a letter from Principal E. A.
Bishop. of Montpelier Seminary, to DR..
d. K. Pearsons of Chicago, asking if the
latter would be satisfied with the raising
of Sic, 900 in order to make the prososed
bequest of $50 900, Doctor Pearsons says
that there will be no compromise; that
the seminary must pay every debt now
hanging over it and raise 100000 in
order to secure the $4,000 from him.
Doctor Bishop says he still expects this
amount can be raised.
A double wedding of interest to many
Vermonters will take place in New York
city the afternoon of June s, when the
two daughters of Gen. and Mrs. Edward
H. Ripley will be married. The cere-
mony will take place at o'clock in Grace
church. when Miss Amelie Sibley Hunt
ington Ripley will be married to Raphael
Wells Pumpelly and Miss Alice Van
Doren Ripley will become the bride of
Alexander de Trofmoff Ogden Jones.
The Ripley's have a summer home at
Mendon. General Ripley was one of
Vermont's distinguished officers in the
War of the Union, being first captain
and later colonel of the Ninth Vermont
regiment and brigadier general of vol
unteers by brevet for gallant and merit
orious service.