Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-03-28
STATE NEWS.

The Hon. Hugh Henry of Chester has
retired as president of the National bank
of Bellows Falls. He has been president
since 1908 and a director for 40 years.
Harvey Morrison, machinist, was
seriously injured at the Fairbanks scale
factory at st. Johnsbury Thursday after
noon when a heavy scale fell from a
freight elevator and struck him on the
| head.
Ernest L. Kelley of Salisbury, MEM
Der of the Progressive state committee,
has been summoned to Michigan by
Charles Ii. Thompson of the national
executive committee of that party, to
assist in organization work in connection
with the campaign now in Progress in
that state. Mr.. Kelley left Vermont
Saturday night and plans to be away for
three weeks.
1t is reported that DIR. A. E. Houle of
Bennington is treating a case of tuber-
culosis with the Friedman serum,
which was recently received from New
York in sufficient quantity for four
simultaneous injections. The cost of
the serum was $25. 1t is the first time
serum has been used in Vermont.
News was received Friday evening of
the first federal appointment to be made
in Vermont under the new administra-
ton. 1t is that of national bank ex-
aminer to succeed f. g. Smith of st.
Adams. The next examiner will be j.
II. Kelleher of Montpelier, who has for
the past few years been assistant cashier
of the First National bank of that place.
Patrick McGowan, convict in the
Vermont State prison, escaped from that
incl ahn Of on Hlt.t~p do
by scaling the walls. He was alone in
the shop for few moments to fix some
machinery and disappeared before the
guards were changed. He was SEN
fenced from Burlington for burglary and
had served about two years of six-year
sentence. His weight is 149 pounds,
color of eyes brown, hair iron gray and
he had on the regular gray prison suit.
Erwin White, Rutland's oldest jewel
er, died Friday of erysipelas, age 60
years. He was born in Ira and came to
Rutland in 1873 to learn the watch
makers trade, having been in the bust
ness here continuously ever since. He
was an ardent sportsman and had done
more to stock trout streams than any
other man in the southern part of Yer
mont. He is survived by a sister, Miss
Mary l.. White, of Ira, and two brothers,
A L. White of Ira and f. +. White of
West Rutland the latter also a jeweler.
The funeral was held Friday, the serv-
ices being out of doors at the cemetery
in Ira because of the nature of the dis.
ease.
More than 100 leading Baptist min
listers and laymen sat down together re.
Gently at the Copley Square hotel in
Boston for "A farewell dinner to Rev.
Guy &. Lamson, one of BrattlebOro s
most promising sons. In the past two
years Mr.. Lamson has won host of
friends in all the New England states as
district secretary Of the American Bap.
fist Publication society. On April l he
will enter upon new field as missionary
secretary for the same society at salary
of $4,000, having his headquarters in
Philadelphia and having charge of ex.
tensive missionary operations in regions
west of the Mississippi river from Canada
to Mexico.
Mrs Fannie E. Crosby, who lives on
the Putney road, has two plants grown
from slips given her 43 years ago by
Mrs. Julia Rice Miller. One a night
blooming cactus and the other a pink
amaryllis. The cactus grew to an I'M
usual size, filling one corner of room
and several of the branches grew to the
ceiling and along the walls. 1t has
blossomed freely annually and has been
admired by scores of visitors. One cold
night last year it was frozen down, but
it has now grown to large plant again.
The amaryllis is a vigorous plant and at
present has two perfect blossoms. Mrs,
Crosby has variety of other plants
worthy of mention.