Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-01-07
STATE News

the Bennington division of the Rutland !
railroad, Thursday evening, Dec. 30. |
The mix.up was caused by a block of
marble which fell to the rails from fiat
car. No one was injured.
The State insurance commissioners
have issued a permit to the Manhattan
Life Insurance Co. of New York to do
business in this State again. For a num-
Der of years prior to 1907 this company
did business in Vermont but for the
past two years the agents have been
withdrawn from the State.
The eighteenth annual reunion and
dinner of the New England Alumni
Association of the University of Yer
mont, Burlington, will be held at
Young's hotel in Boston at 6 o'clock
Friday evening, January a.
Thirty -one foreign corporations, that
is, corporations formed under the laws of
other states, filed papers in the Office of
the secretary of state in 1909 for the
purpose of doing a branch business in
Vermont.
James P. Dwyer of Boston, who has
the contract to furnish the heating APP
paratus in the new city hall at Mont
pelier, has been notified by the members
of the city hall building committee that
they do not consider that he has lived
up to his contract in the apparatus he
has installed in the basement of the city
hall and he, with engineer Huey, of
Boston, who drew the plans, has been
requested to go to Montpelier, The radi-
ators now in use in the basement are en-
tirely inadequate to heat it.
In the January number of The World
To-day appears an interesting article
entitled, IAN Aerial Railroad" written
by Miss Ivah Dunklee of Denver, Col.
The November number of the same
magazine contained finely illustrated
sketch upon Frontier Day" in Chey-
enne, Wyo., which has brought forth
much favorable comment by commenta-
tors throughout the country. Miss Dunk
lee is Vermont girl, "a native of Burke,
and for several years was contributor
to Boston periodicals and became well
known in southern New England ~ an
entertaining writer upon a variety of
subjects. During the past few years she
has made her home in Denver, where
her brother, George F. Dunklee, is a
leading lawyer and another brother,
Harley X. Dunklee, is a prominent ply
slcian.
At a Christmas Eisteddford, held in
Granville, n. Y, West Pawlet captured
the big event, the E. r. Norton 500
prize for a mixed chorus, as well as the
Welsh recitation, So and the tenor and
bass duet, &c. The mixed choir was led
by Isaac Hughes and the Welsh recita
ton was won by David o. Owens, while
John K. Evans and Ellis H. Edwards
were successful in the tenor and bass du-
ct. Poultney was second in the Welsh
recitation, s. going to John Foster Thorn
as. The tenor solo, "Syland Delyn,"
Sl5, went to j. o. Davies of Fair Haven.
Through the munifcence of Mrs. Sar-
ah A. w. Bradley of Brattleboro, widow
of Richards Bradley ESQ.,, one of the
trustees of the Brattleboro Retreat from
1875 to the time of his death in 1904, this
institution, founded rs years ago by be-
quest of Anna Morsh of HinsdaIe, n. H.,
Is soon to erect a memorial gymnasium
and casino, which will comprise every
modern feature and at the same time
furnish a unique club house for patients.
William Chase. aged 43 years, who
was sentenced to state prison for life
from Orleans county in 1896, has been
pardoned 10y Gov. G.. H. Prouty. The
crime for which he was convicted was
for being accessory in causing the death
by poisoning of Ellsworth Holloway of
Glover.
1t is understood that L. NJ. Hays of
Burlington, supervisor of the census for
Vermont, has recommended to the CEN
sus board that while the census is being
taken next spring Montpelier shall be
a registration city. President Joseph A.
DeBoer of the Montpelier Board of
Trade, is willing to assure Supervisor
Hays that if Montpelier is so designated
the Board of Trade will tender to him all
the assistance in its power.
George O. Stratton, president of the
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., which car
ries 10000 insurance on the State hos
pital for the insane at Waterbury, has
been given to understand that Atty
Gen. j. G. Sargent has ruled that the
insurance companies carrying insurance
on that building can pay their losses to
the trustees of the hospital but that
these officials have no right to use the
money until the legislature of Vermont
gives its sanction.
The Rev. Walter r. Curtiss has been
appointed to carry the mail on rural free
delivery route No. from Clarendon,
owing to recent injury received by
the regular carrier. Roy Z. Pratt, and
the fact that the substitute is not avail
able to perform the duties. Mr. Pratt's
left hand and thumb were badly bruised
and lacerated while he was saving
wood with a gasolene engine, slipping
and touching the saw as he fell.