Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-10-14
STATE WIS.

On their return from the preserves of
the Scott Fish and Game club in Ri
county, p. c., last week, Alex.
ander Dunnett, w. A.. Ide and w. w.
of st. Johnsbury brought a
string of 80 trout, weighing 80 pounds.
They represented one days catch. Mr..
Ide caught the biggest trout on the trip,
a square-tail that weighed 31s pounds.
The strong wind of last week was res
ponsible for the wrecking of a large scow
at Burlington belonging to the Rutland
railroad. The boat was used in the spile
driving operations and had suffered from
the severe winds of the previous days so
that when it sprang a leak it sank rap
idly, hardly allowing time for the people
on board to escape.
a purse of several hundred dollars in
gold was given the Rev. G.. c. Delaney
of White River Junction at a reception
rendered him last week by the members
of his parish. He has recently returned
from a three months trip abroad. The
programs were hand painted by the
Mother Evangelist and the cover bore a
picture of the Canada, the boat on which
Father Delaney sailed.
More than his share of trouble has
] come u OtIldtOl i uLtit Vi lbbliuilh at
ly. His wife was badly burned when
her skirts came in contact with a gas log
last Tuesday, a short time G his sons
wife died and a little later her twins
died. recently another son was struck in
the eve by a crabapple and, as the eye is
turning white, it is feared that the sight
will be lost; another sons wife is
threatened with nervous prostratiOn.
IL. 90. H. D..
railroad, suffered from a painful acct
dent last week Monday while shifting at
the uuarries, necessitating the amputa-
ton of his large toe. Mr.. Kelley was
coupling two fiat cars loaded with gran
lite and had dropped the lever, supposing
that the coupling had been made, when
instead it became unloosened and the
cars crowded together, crushing his foot
in a frightful manne between the rails.
The cream bakery building in Rutland,
owned by George Schmidt, was Quilted
by fire early Sunday morning, the bak-
ing ovens, the fixtures, a stock valued at
500 and the one story frame structure
being nearly a total loss. There is no
baking done at the plant Saturday nights
and no cause can be discovered for the
fire. MI. Schmidt is well insured. He will
erect a modern brick building on the
site. He placed the loss at SO 800.
Judge f. G. Swinnerton sent to the
Vermont Industrial school at Vergennes
last week the youngest child ever sent
there by Rutland city court. Earl Mer-
ling. a motherless boy of eight years,
who has a drunken father, is the lad and
he was not tall enough to see over the
clerks table as he faced the court. Earl
will not go to school, is dishonest and
has induced several boys to play
"hookey." If he does not behave at YER
gennes a House of Correction sentence
awaits him later.
Acting on the advice of experienced
hotel men. who declare hat many peo-
pie, especially commercial men, prefer a
dining room on the ground floor, the
management of the new Hotel Vermont,
which will be constructed at Burlington,
has Abandoned the idea of a dining room
on the top floor of the new hotel. The
kitchen will be located in a building to
be erected on the lot to the south of the
hotel as now being built, the right of
way to st. Paul street being moved, by
consent of interested property owners,
several feet to the south.
Capt. Edwin l.. Hovey, one of the
largest real estate owners and most pub
lie spirited citizens of st. Johnsbury,
died very suddenly Saturday evening
while eating supper. He was born in
Waterford II years ago and left Dart
mouth in his sophomore year to serve in
the Civil War. He bought the st.
later sold it for s., 200. With this money
he bought land in Summerville, laid
streets and really founded that part of
the village. For 10 years he has sawed
500. 600 feet of lumber annually and has
used most of it himself.
States Attorney Benjamin Gates and
Deputy Sheriff H. d. Camp raided the
cigar store of Fred Standish in Montpel
Ter Sunday afternoon and seized a device
known as a Klondike machine. Another
place was also visited where it is alleged
a machine of the same kind was in op
Grafton, but through being warned be
forehand of the officers plans, or in SOM
other way, no trace of the machine was
found at the time of the officers call
Complaints nave been issued that bows
were spending considerable sums oil
money on them. The case was not taker
up Monday, as Mr.. Standish was out o.
town. The offense of keeping Klondikt
machines is punishable by a fine of $50.
DR.. E. r. Lynch of Brattleboro sho'
} an albino red squirrel recently Will,
hunting gray squirrels. 1t was of usua
E size and normal in every way except thu
color Of the hair, and the eyes, which
!. were yellowish pink instead of brown
William G.. Horton shot an albino chip
munk here two years ago and 1t was re
4 garded AS decidedly rare by naturalists
The capture of this second albino squire
raises the question as to whether there il