Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
STATE JEWS.


sociation of Brattleboro paid 35 claims
last year amounting to $3887. The as
ISOLATION has membership of 1913.
Barrels new Cooperative Savings &
Loan association has effected temper
airy organization with the election of the
Rev. j. B. Reardon temporary president.
The purpose of the association is to ex-
tend aid to home builders.
Calves, pigs, hens, farming tools and
40 tons of hay were destroyed by fire
late Friday night, when the barn of
Edward Evans, on the Pomfr9t road,
Woodstock, was burned with loss of
about 50, 900, covered by insurance to
the extent OF only 5000. The blaze ap-
parently started in the hay, cause un-
known.
The Woodstock Lumber Co., and the
Park & Young Co. of Lisbon, N. H.,
have filed new articles of incorporation
at Concord, N. H. The former is capital.
lied at $500, 600, and the latter at 81 $780,
600. The incorporatOrs of both are Harry
E. Parker of Bradford, Fred E. Thorpe
and Herbert b. Moultoh of Lisbon,
N. A., E. X. Wordsworth and Carl A.
| Hall of Concord. N. H.. and Martin A.
rown of Wilmington.
G. A Munroe, mail clerk on train to
Burlington had a narrow escape from
death by stray bullet. When the train
was near Pittsford a soft nosed bullet
which looked as though it had been shot
from a Winchester rifle entered the car
in which he was working and splintered
the wood work short distance from his
head. 1t then took course across the
car and struck a pipe which fattened it
out
Chief Niles of the Burlington fire de-
partment is one of the promising con-
testants in the Boston Americans free
automobile contest and his many friends
are volunteering their help in his in
teres5. The contest closes January Is.
MIR. Niles hopes to win the car to replace
the horse and buggy which now take
him to fires, as he does not think the
city will consent to furnish an automo-
bile for the purpose.
Frank Vradenburgh, who was arrested
only two weeks ago in Burlington after
! escaping from the industrial school at
Vergennes, was arrested Thursday at his
home on Battery street after escaping
again. He found his way out of the
school Sunday night and Immediately
came to the home of his parents in this
city. His father is now in Jail for being
The boy is 10 years of age
More lumber was shipped into Burling
ton by water last year than for some
time. Eighty-seven barges with Car.
goes amounting to about $4,000. 600 feet
were unloaded at the wharves, whereas
a year ago only 81 boats arrived in port
and part of these were loaded with
hay. In the past few years the amount
uf linn her to arrivp Inv Xyutar hos ruraly
been more than 16, 100000 feet. The car
shortage was responsible for large part
| of the rush this season
During the south wind Friday evening
a 72-foot henhouse Of Ira p Chase III
Richford was lifted into the air and
dropped fifty yards down bank Mr..
Chase was in the building but as there
was no floor in the building it was blown
over his head and he was not injured.
A horse and two calves were tied In one
end of the building. but their haters
broke andsthe animals escaped injury.
| Over two hundred hens were on the
roOst, but only a few of them were
killed. The building was demolished,
and the loss will be between 5000 and
$500.
Charles A. Whitney Of st. Johnsbury,
a laborer, aged go years, was almost
instantly killed about half a mile from
DAnville when he was struck Friday by
the engine of the east. bound train on the
st. j. & l.. G.. railroad. One leg was
i. broken, and several ribs crushed in,
penetrating the lungs. His body was
brought to st, Johnsbury and win be
sent to Littleton, N. H.. where his wife
lives. Mr.. Whitney. who was deaf, was
walking on the track through a cut in
the lodges, and as the road curves at
that place the engineer did not see him
in time to stop the train.
A suit was filed Saturday afternoon
with County Clerk II. A. Hartman of
Rutland in which l. NJ. Chase of Brandon
and Arthur A. Beeman of Norwich,
Conn, are attempting to recover $40 900
from Mrs. Fannie ID. Erhardt of Boston
in an action in assumpsit. The case in
wolves a cow. Mrs. Erhardt has a large
stock farm at Berlin and the plaintiffs
have farm in Brandon. In 1911 Chase
& Beeman bought of the defendant Il
thoroughbred Ayrshire COW. They paid
S275 for the animal and claimed that they
received assurance that she was sound
The allegation is that the COW turned out
to be tubercular and infected their herd
so that IL other valuable animals had to
be killed
In connection with the recent death of
Whitelaw Reid, United States ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, it is interesting to
note that his mother was born in Rye
gate, March 10, 1904, her father being a
descendant of the noted Rinold Clan of
Scotland. About 1920 the family moved
to Indiana where the father died soon
after. She WAS married to Robert c..
Reid, native of Kentucky in 1925 and
he died in 1865. Mrs. Reid was well in
formed in the history of Scotland and
Vermont. OF three children, Whtelaw
Reid was the last survivor. Descendants
of his sister, Christiana, still live near
White River Junction.
The investigation of the deaths of
Lewis and Mary Wells of Swanton,
whose mother, Mrs. Julius Wells, is
under arrest on a charge of murder, was
halted temporarily Saturday pending an