Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-08-19
STATE NEWS.

has cat which catches fish from brook
every day.
The granite firm of Barton, Hayes &
Bancroft has decided its Barre plant to
d. X. Lille of Montpelier.
The contract to change the bed of
Stephens branch at Barre has been
awarded to Joseph Long & Co.. of Leo
minister, Mass, the bid being SAB $50.
A resident of Barre discovered birds
nest the other day that contained piece
of paper bearing his daughters name.
She had written her name on school
paper and it had evidently strayed out of
doors and been picked up by the bird
when building its nest.
A stranger i'll Rutland this week, after
passing a sleepless night in the railroad
sta ton waiting for a train, was accosted
10y two depot attaches who inquired by
way of introduction as to his destination
Rutland" the traveller replied. When
informed that he was in that city he lost
no more time in seeking more comfort
able quarters.
Mrs. Bessie Sullivan, of Montpelier at
whose house the officers Friday evening
seized six full quarts of whiskey, which
was ingeniously hidden under the thresh-
old of a door, pleaded guilty to keeping
with intent to sell and was sentenced to
not less than nine months nor more than
one year in county Jail. The woman
was out on probation for similar Of
fence.
A meeting of the Washington County
Bar Association will be held Tuesday
evening, September 10, the opening day
of the September term of Washington
county court over which Judge Alfred
A. Hall, of st. Adams, is to preside. 1t
is probable the association will provide
for banquet that evening at which I'M
portant matters to be brought before the
association will be discussed.
Charles Murphy, 1.-THE Rounder' and
Danny McGagignau, ''the Spider" who
admit that their business is picking
pockets, were arrested at Rutland and
taken to Boston by two detectives.
There their records will be looked up
and evidence if it can be found, will be
collected. II. w. Morgan and H. Edels
of the Wood Morgan Detective agency
of Boston, have been shadOwiug the sus-
poets since the circus came into Yer
mont.
The time for paying of taxes before
they are placed in the hands of the col
lector expired at midnight Wednesday
night in Barre and at that time the city
clerk had taken $117,0 in all since
July 10. There are about $4,000 of
uncolected taxes to be turned over into
the collectors hands, which is practically
the same amount as last year. OF the un
collected taxes but a very small amount
is taxes on real estate, it being nearly all
poll taxes.
Cottagers along the shores of Lake st.
Catherine are up in arms against the
listers of Wells and Poultney. They
claim that their property is appraised
for taxation at practically its market
value while other property in those towns
is listed much lower. They are in favor
of applying to the legislature for the
creation of a new town comprising all
land within one eighth of mile from
the lake shore. In this limit there are
ninety cottages and four hotels. 1t is
proposed that the new town be called
Lake st. Catherine and that its aim be
the best roads and the lowest tax rate in
Vermont.
Thus far Frank NJ. Cory is the only
Republican to announce his candidacy
for representative from the city of
Montpelier in the Legislature this fall,
and it is probable he will receive
unanimous nomination. Many Demo
Gratis are in favor in nominating John II.
Senter because of his legislative expert
ence and because in the consideration OF
amendments to the constitution his legal
training will make him a valuable mem
Der Other Democrats who have large
following are l.. b. Brooks, I. f. Gala
han, A. j. Sibley, Collins Blakeley and
II. j. Nolholm.
Following the refusal of the city coun-
Gil to grant the petition Of l.. n. Wood
for permission to exhibit the Jeffries-
johnson fight pictures in Montpelier, Mr..
Wood proposes to ask the city council
to refund to him the sol which he has
paid as a license for moving picture
houses. He claims that other houses of
similar nature are not taxed. The thea
ter formerly conducted by Mr.. Wood
was the only one that has ever paid IL
cense in the city and it is claimed that
the council has no right to collect H.
cense in a theater where it refuses per.
mission to exhibit pictures. Statess At
torney Benjamin Gates ruled that there
is no state law prohibiting the exhibition
of the fight pictures but believes that
power rests with the city council if it so
interprets its authority.
At largely attended Republican eau
Gus in Bennington Friday evening Frank
E. Howe was nominated town represent
tative.
At the Republican caucus at st. Johns
bury Friday evening to nominate a can
didate for town representative, Charles
A. Calderwood, furniture dealer and
undertaken, defeated DIR. John NJ. Allen,
receiving 1Sl votes, while Allen received
81 votes. Mr. Calderwood is a member
of the commission on insane asylums
and has been at the head of all the Ma
sonic bodies in the state.
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