Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-07-25
STATE NEWS.


Gently. They were early chickens and
nearly ready for market.
A certificate of increase of capital
stock to the amount of $4,000 by G. L.
Soule & Co., of Burlington, has been
filed at the city clerks Office in that
city.
AT special town meeting, held in
Orwell to see if the town would vote
money to celebrate the anniversary of
its charter, the matter was voted down
II to %.
The infant daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
Harry Coburn of Montpelier, swallowed
an open safety pin recently, which so
far has not been located, although an
X-ray examination has been made.
A booklet entitled "Julia c. R. Dorr"
has been published in Rutland in men,
ory of the Vermont poetess. 1t contains
many of her poems and letters and sever
al articles descriptive of her personality
The apple crop in the vicinity of
Swanton this year is failnre, and will
amount to but very little, many orchards
being entirely destitute of fruit, caused,
it is supposed, by the ravages of the
worms in the spring.
Harvey Meseerve, 90 years old, of st.
when he collided while motorcycle rid
ing, with an automobile. His right leg
was broken and his left leg, hand, and
body were bruised.
The Charles Pattison estate of Dandy
has brought suit against the Modern
Woodmen of America to recover 81, 900
said to be due on an insurance policy.
The case is returnable at the fall term of
Rutland County court
Lee Mitchell, proprietor of the res
taurant between Fort Ethan Allen and
Essex Junction, known as the Bluford
place, paid fine of $500 and costs of
s. 80 in Burlington city court following
the plea of guilty to selling intoxicating
liquor.
j. w. Ttcomb, of Lyndonville, sec
rotary of the Caledonia County Agricul-
tural Association, has received from the
crop improvement committee of Chicago
a check for 81 600, which was promised
| the association if certain conditions were
met
Tuffield Goodnature was found on the
edge of the North branch in Montpelier
Monday morning, having fallen from the
wall the night before when overcome by
a stroke of apoplexy. He is 70 years old.
He had lain all night on the edge of the
stream.
James FEELS of Randolph was arrested
Friday by detective who arrived from
Boston on the 10: 05 train and left with
him on the | 20 train in the afternoon.
| The charge on which he was arrested
was desertion from the army. He en-
listed in March and is charged with
desertion in June.
Two concerns have filed articles with
the secretary of state within the past
few days, the United States Stores Co.,
which was capital stock of $1,000, and
will do business in Winooski, and the
Little Wooden Co. which has mill at
North Montpelier. This company has
capital stock of $4,000
George Langevin of North Ferrisburg
died at the Fanny Allen hospital, Bur
lington, Friday from injuries received
in an accident 10 days ago while employ.
ed on his farm. He was driving horse
rake when a whif1etree broke. He
leaves a wife and six children. Mr..
Langevin was AZ years of age.
Service stripes for the Burlington po-
licemen have arrived. They are blue
and one is given with every five years
of service. The oldest man in point of
years of service is Deputy Chief p. j.
Cosgrove who receives four gold stripes
next is officer Brothers who wears three;
then officer Ryan, who wears two. The
others to be awarded stripes are; Officers
Miles, w. G. Collins, German, Henry,
Mongeon, Menard, Lynch and Fraser.
Several others will be allowed the stripes
next year. Chief Russell is now in his
eighteenth year of service in the de-
partment.
Fort Ethan Allen will be almost de-
populated of troops within a few days.
AS soon as cars can be obtained for their
transportation rs men will be sent to
Winchester, Va, to join the Tenth cav
airy, at the end of its long "hike" of
more than 700 miles. With these ad-
dtional men in the field, only very few
soldiers will be left at the post, barely
enough for the duties of the garrison.
The rifle and pistol teams which have
been shooting for the past month will
leave for Camp Perry about the first of
next month.
Mrs. S. A. Moss of San Francisco, who
was in Rutland Monday with Ex-Mayor
Smith S. Ballard of Montpelier, Mrs
Ballard and sons, Richard H. of Spring
field and Edward g.. enroute from Man
chester to Burlington, received word
that her valuable rings which she left
Friday in a toilet room at Hotel Yer
mont in Burlington, and which, it was
believed, were taken by woman, have
been recovered at Chazy, N. Y. The
loss of the rings had been advertised in
the Plattsburgh and Malone, N. V, and
other newspapers.
For breach of his parole Ernest Robin
son, of West Townshend, was sentenced
at Newfane to not more than two years
and three months nor less than two
years in the house of correction at Rut-
land. Robinson was arrested for stat
utory offense in 1912 and at the Septem-
Der term of the county court was fined,
but upon the payment of the costs he
was placed on probation. Since that
time information has come to the proba-
ton officer that he has been violating his
paro'e.
Mrs. John Z. Harris, wife of Jack"
Harris, former Vermont newspaper man
and for several years an employee of the