Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-04-15
STATE NEWS.

An unusual fact connected with the
funeral of Charles Henry, the eight.
month-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Taylor, of Pittsford, was the attendance
of two grandmothers, two grandfathers,
three great grandmothers, three great
grandfathers, and one great great grand
mother.
| Articles of association have been filed
in the Office of the secretary of state,
Montpelier, for the Brandon Inn. The
company if formed for the purpose of
purchasing the Brandon Inn and Good
nough properties and to repair and reno
vate the same, together with full power
to operate, buy. sell, transfer or lease
the said hotel property with capital
stock of 100000, divided into 400 shares
of 800 each. There are 80 subscribers,
most of whom are residents of Brandon,
Bertram G.. s. Spencer, the clerk ar
rested for the murder of Miss b. Black
stone, of Springfield, Mass, had in his
possession a gold watch bearing the
monogram of Leonard D. Wheeler of
White River Junction, who some two
and a half years ago was the victim of a
hold-up in his barn, losing, beside his
watch, diamond ring and his pocket
book The affair has remained mys-
terry until now. Spencer was a brake
man running from Springfield to White
River Junction with a lay off at the latter
place.
AT mass meeting of students and
alumni of the Troy Conference Academy
at Poultney, held Friday evening in con
necton with the session of the Troy
Methodist Conference, at Saratoga, n
Y, gifts to the institute totaling S37 500
were announced, conditional upon the
fund being increased to $4,000. DIR. j
H. Coleman, of Albany, financial repre-
sentative of the academy, expressed the
opinion that the entire amount would be
| raised.
Ralph Swaggerty, trooper of the
10th cavalry, now stationed at Fort
Ethan Allen, was arraigned in Chitten-
den county court FriGay on an informa-
ton charging him with forgery. He
pleaded not guilty. 1t is charged that
Swaggerty made out check on the
Howard National Bank for $345, the
check being payable to William II. Bell
and signed by Robert G.. Stone. On the
back was the endorsement of William H
Bell. 1t is charged further that the check
was given to Morois Hanson of Wi
nooski, in payment for certain goods
purchased.
The report of the Vermont soldiers
home, Bennington, for the ten days end
ing March 81 showed 81 present: 90 alb
sent; total enrolment Iii: admitted, 9;
discharged, l; average present 81: average
present and absent, 10.
Charles Morton, veteran of. the Civil
War, was found dead in his house at
Sudbury Wednesday morning, April 6,
and to all appearances had been dead
several days. He lived alone and was
found by one of his neighbors.
Rawson c. Myrick, deputy secretary
of state, is preparing card index of vital
statistics of Vermont. The cards will |
contain in condensed form all the inform
alton that can now be obtained only by
porting over musty manuscript. 1t will
take some time to complete the work.
Fred w. Hayward, of Rutland, was
elected delegate from Cairo Temple
Ancient Arabic Order, mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine, to the imperial council at
New Orleans, La, in place of Illustrous
Potentate Thomas p. Bragg, of Rutland,
who resigned because of illness. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hayward left for New Orleans Fri.
day afternoon.
F. r. Patch, of Rutland, commissioner
of pubic safety, has issued an order that
all store windows must be washed before
o'clock in the morning. This is the
hour prescribed by the city ordinance,
although for some years there has been
tacit understanding among the business
men that they could wash their windows
up to O'Clock. The merchants are not
at all in favor of the new order of the
commissioner because it necessitates very
early rising on the part Of somebody to
get all the windows in big store washed
by o'clock.