Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-06-10
STATE NEWS.

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Rev. Otto S. Raspe of Worthwhile. to be-
come pastor of the Universalist church
in Gardiner, Me.
c. S. Fletcher of East Burke, 83 years
old, went fishing last week and in two
and one-half hours returned with string
of trout, ID of which weighed three
pounds each and one IA ounces.
The Montpelier board of school CEN.
missioners has elected Cecil G. Egg, Or
ganist and choir master at Christ church,
Montpelier, for the past two years, as
supervisor of music in the public schools
for the coming year in place of Miss Eva
Rundell, whose resignation takes effect
this month.
Three st. Johnsbury brothers, Carl,
Herman, and Glenn Spencer, sons of Mr..
and Mrs. g. w. Spencer, have four grand
parents and six great grandparents. Mrs.
Eutheria Spencer of Barre, formerly of
Plainfield, and Mr.. and Mrs. Silas Willis
of Plain6eld, are great-grandparents of
these three boys, who have, in addition
to their parents, the following forbears:
Two grandmothers, two grandfathers,
three great grandfathers and three great
grandmothers.
j. w. Hathaway of Enosburgh Falls,
town game warden, has received from
H. &. Thon as, fish and game commits
sioner 20, 600 brook trout fry with which
he has stocked the Bakersfield stream
below Bakersfield village down the
stream, through the valley. to the vicinity
of West Enosburgh. The consignment
came from Plymouth Rock Trout com
pany, Plymouth, Mass.
The current tax rate in the village of
Bethel, $3.50, is proving "a serious matter
for local borrowers who find the local
capitalists unwilling to take any money
out If the banks. The high rate is except
ional, and is the result of an unfortunate
combination of high fire rate of SO cents
be cause of the new fire pump. an unpre-
cedented school rate of one dollar, caus.
ed by last years deficiency, and the in
creased rate of interest on the school
house debt and an addition of 25 cents
to the town tax. in anticipation of the
cost of the new highway and underpass
at Findlay bridge. One real estate man
wants to know where the profit come in
renting at 10 per cent. and then paying
nearly three for taxes and nearly three
for insurance, beside keeping the prop
erty in repair.
The committee of the Bethel Board of
Trade having in charge the retention of
the Fisher tannery will at once enter up
on a canvass to secure pledges of finan-
cial aid to Eugene A. Fisher as an in
ducement to rebuild. Mr.. Fisher, who
has f1attering offers to go elsewhere. has
said that he would rebuild in Bethel if
81, 600 were raised.
Edward McGoff, who is employed as
foreman for the Cory Deavitt, Frost
Electric Co., Montpelier, was severely
burned on one hand Friday afternoon
while working on pole, his hand came
in contact with a live wire which was
carrying 1000 volts. He chung to the
pole and was assisted to the ground.
The flesh on his hand was terribly roast
ed.
Capt. Frank Tompkins, 18th U. S. Cav,
has been appointed commandment of Nor
witch University, Mortified, relieving
Capt. L. A. l. Champman, end Cav,
who has been at the school four years
and who in September will join his regi-
ment which is serving in the Philippines.
Averill lake in Essex county is popu-
| lar fishing ground this season. Recently
in single day $50 pounds of salmon and
many trout were taken. Some of the
salmon weighed II pounds each.
| Mrs. H. H. Gilman, aged SO years, for
| 90 years one of the prOprietors of the
well known Gilman Tavern at Willough.
by lake died at her home in Westmore
June l, after an illness of several months.
The New England Mutual Life In
surance Co., of Boston, established in
1S43. and the Lowell, Mutual Fire In.
surance Co.. of Lowell Mass, organized
in 1882, have been granted permission by
the insurance commissioners of Vermont
to do business in this state.
DIR. Edward Herr, graduate of the
University of Vermont college of medi.
cine in the class of 1909, assisted at st.
Francis hospital. Hartford Conn, re.
Gently III an operation in a case where
gangrene had set into the patients foot
and the amputation of four toes was
found necessary, electricity being used
for the first time known as an anaesthetic
for man. The operation was performed
under the direct supervision of DIR. Louise
G. Robinovith, who has become famous
through her experiments with the use of
electricity.
The death of Horace Swan removed
enc of the old residents of Rutland where
he had been a resident about 90 yeal
He was So years old last August. Mr..
Swan took great pride in the fact that he
had done some work ON the state house
at Montpelier. While the business of err
recting the present state house was going
on, Mr.. Swan was employed in a wood.
working shop at Barnard. Some initial
ion hornets nest he had previously made
had attracted considerable attention and
he was commissioned to make similar
ornaments for the state house. These
still adorn the building and are in good
state OF preservation.