Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-03-11
STATE NEWS.

Postmaster. G eneral Hitchcock has
granted leave of absence of five days
to New England pastmasters to enable
them TO attend the annual meeting of
the Postmasters' Association of New
England to be held in Boston April Is.
A series of light operas schedules for
production in Burlington this spring is
being rehearsed by Frank Vernon. The
first production is to be Gilbert and Sui
livan's "Pirates of Penzance" which it is
hoped can be staged early in April. The
"Geisha" is to be presented next in the
series.
Navigation on Lake Champlain opened
last year on the 10Th of April but indica.
tions now point to an earlier season this
year. Although the crew of the Ticon.
deroga and Vermont have not yet been
appointed, there will probably be but
few changes, with the exception of those
caused by the death of Capt. E. J. Bald
| win.
DR.. C. L. Stewart of Randolph, escaped
a serious accident while driving recent
ly. The road was flooded with water,
and the horse stepped off the track, GO
ing into the water all over, and the
sleigh sank down, until only the doctors
head appeared above the flood. 1t was
ten minutes before he succeeded in at
tracing attention and help was found to
rescue him from his position. When
taken out he was wet through and was
so numb he could not walk. Doctor
Stewart will be 81 years old in April but
seems to feel no i'll effect from the &C
cident
In the Orleans county court Friday the
jury in the case of Frank Allen VS.
Thomas Lane brought in a verdict for
the defendent to recover his costs in a
suit to recover damages for injury done
to the plaintiffs horses. The alleged
damage consisted of -cutting the tails of
a pair of work horses off about four
inches above the gambrel. The case
had been tried in justice court by
jury and the last verdict sustains the
verdict secured in the justice court. 1t
took the jury all night to make its de-
ciSion.
The plant of the Fair Haven Marble
q Marbleized Slate Co., was damaged
Friday night to the extent of $4,000
by fire which was discovered at 11:l5
o'clock. The finishing shop was de-
stroyed and the office badly Quilted. The
cause of the fire is unknown. The loss
is covered by insurance.
H. G. Thomas, of Stowe state fish and
game commissioner, says that if the
Burlington people wish to have deer in
the park he will furnish them free of
charge. Necessarily they would have to
be fenced in to protect them from dogs
and in the open season a steel armored
shed would probably have to be erected
to protect them from hunters.
John Lambano, of Hallowell, Me-, a
granite cutter. who has been employ ed
on the State House at Augusta Me-, ar
rested in Saco, Me-, on suspicion of
being the man wanted by the authorities
of Hardwick, charged with defacng
granite and marble valued at number
of thousand dollars, has been discharged
from custody. When arrested, he claim
ed that mistake had been made and
that he was not Pedro Marini, the Italian
marble cutter, who is accused by the
Hardwick officials Late Thursday
night, Fred Grav, superintendent of the
Woodbury. Granite Co., where most of
the damage was done, arrived in Saco,
and after he had seen Lambano at the
Jail notified Chief Beatty that the prison
er was not the man wanted.
The Rev. George friedrich Wells, re-
search secretary of the Vermont Inter
UNCONVENTIONAL comfy commission. who
recently married Miss Allen, of Grand
Isle, has resigned his position and will
take up similar work with the New York
commission with head quarters in New
York city. Mr.. Wells was employed by
the Vermont commission for a year and
at the close of his labors reported that
the 1906, subscribed to the work by the
various people interested. had been .eX
pended for travel. official rent. station
cry, printing and for other things. He
reported that all debts of the commission
haH haar r,aiH hpt that ha
ceived dollar for salary. Mr.. Wells
now has salaried position.
After having been separated from him
for 81 years and having brought up a
family of four children by her own
work, Mrs. Angie Cook Robbins of Rut-
land is making preparations to Join her
husband. Willis F. Cook of Greenfield,
Mass. Twenty-one years ago, ostensiby
to look for work, Mr.. Cook left home and
had not been heard from since until last
Christmas, when he communicated with
his wife and little later visited her.
Judge E. l.. Waterman, who is pre-
siding at the March term of Orleans
county court, fell a few days ago and
broke his collar bone. The term prom
ises to be long one and as there is no
Judge at liberty to preside in his stead,
Judge Waterman called an adjournment
till March 10. at which time he hopes
to be able to assume the duties of the
bench.
The operating revenues of the Rutland
railroad for last January amounted to
S206,507.94. and the operating expenses
were S161, 526.s3 This makes the net
operating revenue S44 ,9s1.11, which is an
increase of S64553S in comparison with
January, 1909. The operating income,
S35 S9S. Al, is 5000 II more than during
the same month year ago.
The Vermont Phoenix Co., of Brattle-
boro, with capital stock of SEC, 900,
organized for the purpose of printing and
publishing newspapers and other period
icals and doing a general printing and
publishing business, filed Saturday ar
ticles of incorporation in the office of the
secretary of state.