Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-06-24
STATE NEWS.

Col. John r. Wilson, of Worcester 4,
secretary of the Washington County
Veterans Association, announces that the
annual reunion this year will be held at
Dewey park, near Montpelier, during the
week of August Is, exact date to be
fixed later. A campfire will be held the
evening of the first day.
The collections for the customs district
of Vermont for May amounted to $50,
236.54, compared with So, 1881 for the
corresponding month of the previous year.
The domestic exports amounted to $511,
pa, compared with $494,273 for May,
1909. The foreign exports were $75, 104,
compared with $40 1873 for the correspond
ing month of the previous year.
The March term of Rutland county
court cost S4,0S4.S9. There was paid
81, S71.92 to petit jury; $5O6.54 Ito COM
missioners and special masters, 81 ,235. 33
to Witnesses, 81 ,010.10 to reporters and
stenographers, and $430 40 to assistant
judges. The two trials of Robert Eddy,
who was convicted of manuslaughter in
causing the death of Mary Jane Johnson,
of Wallngford, cost over $4,000 for wit
nesses alone.
The damage caused by the hard
shower of June Is resulted in a consider
able loss to several Randolph people. F.
B. Thomas estimates the loss to his farm
as about 81 900, L. A. Jerd sustained a
loss by the water entering the base
ment OF his market where the cod fish
and the salmon were stored. The Ran
dolph bakery was nearly demolished. A
hole 10 to Is feet deep was quilted out
under the foundation so that the bui Id
ing has already begun to settle little.
The Fish hill road from the Mountain
stock farm is almost impossible in many
places and the highway near the farm of
D. II. Morse is badly damaged.
Edward McGrath and Keith Anderson
of Albany, N. Y, expert electricians for
the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Co.,
have beer for some time past at Shell
burne hardor, experimenting some ex-
tensive electrical repairs on the steamers
Vermont and Ticonderoga, also install
ling fire alarm system on all the boats.
A return call system from the captains
Office to the pilot house has been installed
on the Ticonderoga. The Chateaugay
has been entirely rewired and "a new
lights installed. She now has about 1875
electric lights.
H. r. Barlette known also as G. L.
Chandler and r. H. Arthur, who was in
dicted at the spring term of United States
court for misusing the mails, and who
has since been serving time in the Chit
tenden county Jail, was taken Thursday
by Deputy United States Marshall
Thomas Reeves to Utica, N. Y, where
he has also been indicted for similar
offense, Bartlett's time at the local Jail
has expired. The man arrived in the
city last November and established an
alleged produce commission house. He
purchased butter, eggs and meats, and
later apprenhended by the post-office
authorizes for using the mails with at
tempt to defraud. While doing business
in Burlington Bartlett did not cause any
one to lose money, although it was charg-
ed that he has worked successfully the
game in other sites. His home is in
Montreal.
The Burlington school board has ap.
pointed Irving V. Cobleigh, for the past
year principal of the Vermont Business
college, a teacher in the high school, to
have charge especially of the new com
mercial department. Mr.. Cobleigh s
resignation will not effect the business
college, as 1T will reopen next year,
although no principal has yet been APP
pointed.
Miss Mary tlatley, the young woman
who was member of the automobile
party which met with the shocking acct
dent near the Vermont soldiers home,
Bennington, on the evening of Memorial
day, when Henry C. Knapp was almost
instantly killed and Miss Kate Knapp
and Miss Kate Mcclure were seriously
hurt, has sufficiently recovered so that
she is able to go out of doors. There is
little change in the condition of William
d. Newton, who was the most severely
injured of the survivors of the accident.