Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-12-26
STATE NEWS.

smith, with his assistant, Fred Stone,
shod "A horses in one day recently.
Fanny Allen hospital of Burlington
was the winner in the Burlington voting
contest. The prize is a four-hundred
volume library.
Orval Ellsworth. an Eden youth, while
playing with percussion cap recently,
caused the same to explode, badly mang.
ling one hand and bruising his face.
A hack horse belonging to Joseph d.
Cadette of Burlington strayed onto the
railroad track Friday night and was
struck by a train and literally split in
halves.
An orange tree with eight oranges
thereon and lemon tree with a large
lemon are the floral prides of Romina
Fairbanks household at Morrisville.
Both trees are decidedly thrifty.
Rev. A. c. Griffin, who has been trans
ferred from the Catholic church at Barre
to the Catholic mission at East Albany,
Irasburg and Orleans, was given a fare
well reception Thursday night. He was
presented with purse of gold.
Charles T. Walker, editor of the st.
Johnsbury Republican, has been appoint
ed member of the Vermont State board
of the American Red Cross, Washington,
d. c., in place of Hiram N. Turner
deceased
A valuable mare, which E. B. Max
ham of Hartland had been keeping for
/ DR.. Jones of Norwich, got loose last
Wednesday and wandered onto the rail
road tack, where "a train struck it.,
breaking both hind legs, so it had to be
killed.
Mrs. Cornie Glynn Cockln of Rutland,
who has been for several months with
the Sheehan Grand Opera Co., has re.
turned home, the company having dis
banded at Hamilton, Ont.
The annual sale of Red Cross Christ
mas seals by children of the grammar
grades of the public and parochial schools
at Brattleboro ended Friday. The num-
Der of seals sold was % 029.
Gov. Allen NJ. Fletcher attended the
observance of the 293rd anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrim fathers by
the New England Society of New York
Monday night with the 1OSth banquet
given by the association.
Wilfred Bennett, of Sheffield, was seri
ously hurt when, in chopping off a log
in the woods he lost his balance in some
way and fell on to another tree with a
six inches. 1t took three men to lift him
out of his precarious position.
Walter Goodwin, living near Lake
BomOseen in Casteton, shot black fox
recently just over the line in Hubbardton
and sold the skin for 5000. He would
have got 81 900 only the fox had been
wounded before and it injured the skin.
Lewis Nye, while walking through the
sawmill of John Kidman of Newbury
Center one day last week, stumbled and,
in throwing out his hand struck it on
rapidly running circular saw, nearly
severing the hand. 1t is possible that the
hand may be saved.
Thomas Collins, police officer of Bur-
lington, will receive $50 as the result of
his capture of James Brennan. who has
been identified as a deserter from the
9th infantry. Collins arrested him and
turned him over to the federal authori-
ties at Fort Ethan Allen. Brennan is
said to have deserted during the summer
of 1912.
Norman Morrison, quarryman at Will
Jamestown, had a narrow escape from
death while working at the Prize quarry
the other day. A large granite rock fell
toward him. but struck another rock in
about six inches wide, breaking four
ribs and otherwise bruising him badly.
The 44th annual meeting of the Yer
mont State Dairymen's association will
be held at Rutland January 6, 7 and s.
A S25 cup will be given the highest
scoring dairy butter exhibitor. Congress
man Frank l.. Greene and Governor
Fletcher will attend the annual banquet
which will be held on the last night of
the convention.l
st. Johnsbury is to make an effort to
have the proposed institution for the
training and care Of feeble minded chill.
dren, which the last legislature voted to
have in Vermont, located here There
is no State institution in the place. Dr.
w. j. Aldrich, st. Johnsbury's repre-
sentative in the last Legislature, has
been elected secretary and treasurer of
the board of trustees of such an institu-
ton.
John Keefe, age 90, of North Walpole
n. H, a brakeman on the Fitchburg
division of the Boston g. Maine railroad,
running between Bellows Falls and Bos.
tor, was knocked down while coupling
cars Friday night, and his right foot was
run over. He was taken to the Rocking
ham hospital The foot was found to be
badly crushed and probably will have to
be amputated.
John A. Fowler of Lyndonvile. tells a
story that has to do with a litter of
kittens and hen, which is some W hat
unique. The kittens mother deserted
them and the little foundlings were left
IN a box in the shed. One cold morning
the kittens were missing and on going to
the henhouse, Mr.. Fowler found them
cuddled down in hens nest under "A
hen. By some strange instinct they had
crawled in under the shed and under the
door of the henhouse until they had
found warmth and shelter.
! II. Joseph, a Syrian, who conducts a
fruit and grocery store in Bennington,
was arraigned before Municipal Judge
E. H. Holden on the charge of violating
the Sunday law in keeping his place
of business open on November 80 He
was fined the maximum of So and costs
| of $500. He paid his fine and then in