Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1910-09-09
STATE NEWS.

Crazed by liquor a Montpelier young
man went on rampage Friday night,
September 2, and before he had finished
his nights work he had succeeded in
iniuring one man and knocking down
another without doing him any harm to
speak of, despite his age. All of the
foregoing offenses are charged up by the
police to Frank Baldwin, "a Montpelier
young man who numbers his friends by
the score and who has always borne an
excellent reputation His friends are at
loss to account for the strange acts of
which officials say he is guilty.
The state department of fisheries and
game announces that full supply of
both resident hunters and nonresident
hunters licenses will be forwarded to
town clerks as soon as they are received
from the printer A partial supply of
resident hunters licenses has been sent
to each town in the state and the balance
will 90 forward before September Is. the
date on which the season opens A
number of town clerks have not male
their returns for last year, which makes
| it impossible to determine the exact
number of licenses which were issued.
State Highway Commissioner Gates
has taken up the matter of safeguarding
the bridge near Waterbury, where one
of the Munsey tourists had to drive his
car into the side of the structure in order
to avoid striking a woman who was
crossing. A short time ago Mr.. Gates
was crossing the bridge and narrowly
escaped running into a team of horses.
S. S. Ballard of the Auto Club, wrote
Mr.. Gates regarding the matter with the
result that some method will be adopted
by which crossing will be more safe.
j. X. Hooper, forester of the United
States weather bureau, reports a mean
temperature for August of 65 degrees,
with maximum of 50 degrees on the
25th and minimum of AZ degrees on
the Both. The greatest daily range was
81 degrees on the 21st, and the least
daily range was 5 degrees on the 3lst.
The normal temperature for the month
is 6S.2 degrees The precipitation
amounted to 2.76 inches, the no, NAL for
the month being 2.77. The prevailing
wind was from the south, the total
movement 1923 miles, the average hour
ly velocity 1914 miles, and the maximum
velocity 81 miles per hour, from the
south on the Goth. The month was made
up of seven clear, 10 partly cloudy and
II cloudy days. Rain in quantity sufii-
cient to measure fell on nine days.
1lth and 18th, and auroras were noted
on the 2lst and 2Sth,
At a meeting of the Congregational
church and society of Waterbury, both
meetings were unanimous in extending a
call to the Rev. William Boicourt, of
Cliftondale, Mass.
In the fire that destroyed the foundry
of Gray & Sons at Poultney, John H.
Premier of Rutland lost between 30 and
DO valuable pump patterns, and as a
result several orders have had to be cam
celled.
A woman, said to be Mrs. Young of
Poultney, fell at the Rutland railroad
station in an epileptic fit Wednesday,
August 81, breaking her jaw and frac-
turing the base of the skull. Employees
OF the railroad saw her fall and hurried
her to the hospital in a carriage.
During the month of August there
were 81 state prosecutions in the Bur-
lington city court. The cases are CLASH
fed as follows: Intoxication, %; breach
of the peace 9; violating vagrancy law,
3; non support, | =; larceny, 3; open and
gross lewdness, 2; running automobile
negligently, /; keeping house of i'll fame,
/ burg larry, 2; blanket act, l.
The fire commissioners of Burlington
have decided to cancel the order for the
automobile truck, placed some time ago,
and to order in its place one of much
newer model with several valuable i'm
provements. Chief Niles, while at the
meeting of fire chiefs in Saratoga few
days ago. saw several models later than
the one ordered few months ago and
which were no more expensive.
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by Edward Fitzgerald of Jeffersonvile
and Milton Sweeney of Burlington, who
cut II ,024 feet of hard wood logs in eight
hours and Is minutes. The timber was
mostly maple and had to be butted
making several counts that did not
count. The work was done in the town
of Fletcher, on lot owned by b. E.
Reynolds of Jacksonville. Fitzgerald
and Sweeney offer to bet $50 they car
cut 1000 feet of hard wood logs in q
minutes.