Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-05-17
STATE NEWS


ly instrumental in clearing it,
Beef has reached record price in |
Rutland. some of the best cuts of steak |
selling for 80 cents and even round steak |
costing 25 cents pound.
Ammi w. Wright, 80 years DID, mil.
lionaire philanthropist and one of the |
most widely known men in Michigan,
who died May in Alma, that state, was
a native of Grafton and went to Michi- |
gan in 1850.
The differences between the carpenters
and contractors of Rutland are no nearer
adjustment than they were when the
strike was declared. The builders are
experiencing no difficulty in getting men
and the carpenters are doing odd jobs.
The past week was the equal of the
record for shipments of Barre granite.
AS many as 40 cars were sent from Barre
on several ways. Friday number of
youthful miscreants boarded car and
tore from parcels of stone the consign-
ment cards.
Eugene Goodrich, employed on Oak
Ledge farm, is believed to have made a
new record as a strenuous worker, says
The Burlington Free Press. In five days
last week he spread IA large loads of
from o'clock in the morning to 5 80 in
the afternoon. In the space of one hour
he often spread four loads.
Editor Charles T. Fairfield of Rutland,
has been designated by the faculty of
Oberlin Ohio College to give the address
Alumni day, Tuesday, June 1S. Mr..
Fairfield has accepted as he will be in
Oberlin during the commencement week,
to attend the celebration of the twenty
fifth anniversary of the graduation of
his class.
Beginning May IS the price of shave
in Montpelier will be Is cents with no
extra charge for neck shave, this so
per cent. increase in the price following
the signing of new bill with the Journey
men, by which they get 81 a week more
and share in the profits after earning
their wages and 81 day for the master
barber. All the master BARRIERS have
signed the agreement to raise the price,
including those who are not union and
did not raise the price to the journey
men.
The Hartford Cooperative Improve
ment association has been formed under
the auspices of the Hartford forward
movement Its purpose is to ally all
societies and organizations in the various
parts of the town, working along the
same lines SO as to secure greater results
through harmony of efforts. The organ
ization was perfected by the choice of
Charles NJ. Cone of Hartford, president,
and r. F. Wells, secretary and treasurer.
The strike situation at Burlington
along the lake front remains about the
same. The lumber handlers are en-
deavoring to get most of the men con-
nected with the national union and
should they be successful in this, it is
said the mills and factories will expert
ence difficulty in finding market for
their products.
Homer A. Lyons brought 200 pound
bear into the village of Bennington FRI
day forenoon. The bear, which is the
18th in Mr.. Lyons's record, was trapped
in a narrow valley in Woodford known
as the Dunville notch. The bears pelt
was in fine condition. The animal had
been out of its winter quarters but a
short time and its fur had not yet become
faded by exposure to the sun or torn by
the underbrush.
A memorial service for Miss Anna
Elizabeth Isham, who was one of the
victims of the Titanic disaster, was held
at the Congregational church Sunday
morning in Manchester Previous to the
death of her father Edward S. Isham, in
1880 Miss Isham was numbered among
Mancheste S regular summer visitors,
but for several years she had made her
home in Paris. Miss Isham was former
ly prominent in social and club lie of
Chicago. She was 80 years old in Janu.
airy last.
Collector G. H. Darling, of Burlington,
has made public the figures of the Gus
toms house for April. The collections
continue to show phenomenal increase
and last month reached total of S1l6,-
S03,S7, as compared with S72, 243. 04 in
1911. an increase of $44, $50 SO. The
domestic and foreign exports both
showed falling off, the former being
S23,390 as compared with $100,759 a
year ago, and the latter being S493, 292
as against 1854, 1856 in 1911.
George Dolan, who has been serving a
term in the house of correction. Rutland
on charge of keeping house of il
fame, while he was proprietor of the
Grandview hotel in that city, has been
pardoned by Gov. John A. Mead. Dolan
who is Sc years old, had served seven
months of sentence of from two to two
and a half years. Failing sight was the
granted. 1t is claimed that Dolan i,
almost totally blind He was examined
recently by two eye specialists and il
was on receiving their report that Gov
ernor Mead granted the pardon.
The creamery used in connection
with the farm of Gov. John A. Mead, OF
Rutland, south of the city, was destroyed
by fire Sunday afternoon, and for {
while it looked as if the house and othe
buildings would be burned. Flame,
from the creamery spread to the hous,
and the horse barn, and at one tim,
sparks from the creamery set fire to the
roof of the COW barn. The origin of tn,
fire is not known, but it is believed tc
have been caused by a defective chin
ney. On account of the distance from
. the city the firemen were unable to saw,
the creamery and devoted their attention
to other buildings. The loss will amour
to about 81 900.
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