Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-03-22
STATE NEWS

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Five cases of smallpox have broken
out in Swanton, three Of which are i'm
one family The houses have been placed
under strict quarantine.
The receipts of the nickel census in
Rutland conducted by the Nednettich
club wee $372 II, which will be used
for free bed in the Rutland city hos
pital.
Nine of the 35 Lawrence, Mass, chill
dren of the strikers, who have been en-
tertained in Barre homes for several
weeks, were sent to their homes Monday
morning, and the remainder will follow
AS soon as conditions adjust themselves
at Lawrence.
The Green Mountain Marble company
of Rutland has purchased the land in the
southwest part of Brandon known as
the Parmalee farm, which includes 200
acres on which are several veins of
statualy white marble of fine quality.
The deposit was discovered by Thomas
Dever of Brandon from whom the prop.
erty was purchased
There were no new developments Mon
day in the smallpox situation at Barre.
A. NJ. Snow, the Mormon elder who has
the disease and who has been isolated, is
attended by another elder named Hatch.
His case is light one. A quarantine
has been placed on the boarding house
where the case existed and it is hoped
that no further cases will develop
John Welch of Rutland coal dealer.
was Monday fined $25 and costs Of 50
for selling coal at short weights. The
complaint was made by T. j. Moher, a
representative of the State commissioner
of weights and measures, who found Il
shortage of SO pounds in a l 800 pound
order. f. o Dunton, also of Rutland
was fined 50 and costs for similar Of
Tense.
| A. F. Beane of Rutland observed Mon
day his 25th anniversary as porter Of the
Berwick hotel. Ever since he entered
the employ of the hotel in 1887 it has
been owned by w. II. Valiquette of New
York and has been managed by the pres
ent manager, A. j. Boynton.
Fred l.. Drury of Barre, marble pol
Usher has fled a petition in bankruptcy
giving his liabilities as $40 and assets as
5000.
Miss Mary McDermott, a trained nurse,
dropped dead Sunday evening in Ben
nington. While chatting with friends
she stopped to pick up pin and expired.
Mrs. Polly Chapman died Sunday at
the home Of her nephew, George Chase
of st. Sohnsbury, at the age of 81 years.
She was an almost lifelong resident of
Manchester and was for over 70 years a
member of the Baptist church of that
place.
Tuesday the Barre Savings bank be-
| gan using a powerful disinfecting proc
ess on money. The bank tellers are
provided with germicide compartments
to disinfect currency received and paid
out during the day. Bills are exposed
at night in alright vaults for Is hours
consecutively.
A Roosevelt club has been organic, d in
Georgia with the following officers:
President, E. D. Brooks; vice presidents,
NJ. o. Bragg, o. A. Stanley, j. W. Rey
nolds; secretary, H. A. Curtis; treasurer,
M. o. Bragg; executive committee, S. l..
Judd, j. j. Newton, A. f. Curtis, Ii, R.
Wood, N. d. Hazen, George B. Hazen.
No new cases of scarlet fever have de-
veloped in Woodstock in a week. The
high school is again in session and the
school building, books and the postoffice
have been thoroughly disinfected. 1t has
not been determined how the disease was
brought into the place, but 1T is thought
that light cases must have been running
around town.
Colonel Josiah Hall, born in West
minister West in 1885, died in Fresno,
Cal, on Friday He was veteran of
the Civil War, holding the rank of major,
lieutenant colonel and colonel of the LIST
Vermont cavalry. He enlisted as a
private in Company F and was captain
of his company before it left the State.
While a major he was kept in Libby
prison 10 months and was one of the so
officers who, while prisoners, were placed
under fire at Charleston, s. G. He was a
graduate of Norwich university.