Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-08-15
STATE N EWS.

MISS EllZ4Oetn DUN 3nOuT, whose Oeatn
occurred in Highgate recently, formerly
conducted the Frontier house at High
gate Center in its day one of the most
widely known hotels in Northern New
England
For kicking little Mary Masajada in
the back, Igust Mirimok had to pay a
fine of So and costs of SO 80 in Brattle-
boro. Mirimok said he was angered
when the child accidentally threw a
stone through his window.
Lightning struck dead tree in Earl
Hastings pasture in Corinth and COM
covered it had spread over a large area
and help had to be secured from Corinth
Center before the danger of serious fire
had passed.
Ground has been broken for a new
Adventist church to be erected in New
bury. Plans call for an imposing struc-
ture, which the contractors hope to have
ready for occupancy by November 1.
Clarence Sheperd, aged 10, and his
bride, Anna Carroll, aged 10, who eloped
and were married Wednesday, August 6,
at Richfoid, are in the county Jail at St
Adams. Sheriff g. G. Holmes dscov-
cred that they had gone to Brooms, P.
O., and they We're arrested there. Shep-
erd's mother, it is said, consented to her
sons marriage.
The first marriage that has ever taken
place at the chapel at the Vermont In
dustrial School, Vergennes, was that
Wednesday evening, August 6. The
contracting parties were Samuel Went
worth Payne and Miss Emma Beers,
both of whom were brought up at the
school. Mrs. Payne is now matron at
the school, and Mr.. Payne is an assistant
in charge of the work about the institu.
ton.
Sheriff Croft was called to the north.
eastern part of Enosburg Friday by a
telephone message from B. S. Wood
ward that somebody had been making
havoc in his field of potatoes. Mr.. Croft
tracked the culprits to the house of
Henry Wells, where he found a wash
tub partly filled with freshly dug tubers.
Two boys about 16 years of age, Harlow
Wells, the son of Henry, and Walter
Rushlow, a son of Sam Rushlow of
Enosburg Falls, confessed
Deer throughout this state and the
Adirondacks are very plentiful this sum-
mer, according to woodsmen, who also
say that a remarkable growth of antlers
has developed, probably because of the
winter without snow. The deer came
out of the winter fat and we'll fed, with
the result that much nutrition could go
into the antlers. Contrary to most win
tiers, there were few deer to die. In
winters with heavy SHOWS, only the
stronger animals survive.
Harry Holland of Bratteboro, driver
of E. Crosby & Co.'s pair of heavy gray
horses attached to one of their grain
trucks. was about the most surprised
man in New England about o'clock
Friday afternoon when the roadbed in
Vernon street opened and his team al.
most disappeared from sight When he
recovered his power of speech he yelled
for help and after long hard struggle,
in which ropes and straps were used to
eXtricate the horses from tn cir position,
the team was gotten back to terra frma.
1t was found that leaking water main
at this point had undermined the road
bed. Both of the animals were some
what famed from their struggles, but
neither was seriously injured.
Mrs. Helen Kenyon Stilson, widow of
Henry L. Stilson of Bennington former
editor of the the Bennington Banner,
died Monday afternoon of general
breakdown following the fracture of a
hip She was 50 years of age. Mrs
Stillson had been identified for many
years with the Rebekahs and the East
ern Stars. She was twice president of
the Rebekah assembly and was the past
grand matron, O. K. S. She was born
at Manchester. Her nearest surviving
relative is a nephew. Her husband,
whose death occurred April 5, 1918, was
a well known author of fraternal histories
Joseph Stalkus died Monday morning
at the Rutland city hospital as the result
of stabs with knife received early Sun.
day morning He was guest at par.
ty given at the home of Michael Lipinski
in West Rutland. Peter Jakabouis, an
unlimited guest, is under arrest charged
with inflicting the fatal wounds and
following "A hearing at the town hall in
West Rutland six other Lithuanans were
put under arrest this afternoon and held
as witnesses pending the report of As
sistant Judge Edwin Horton. The men
held as witnesses are John LipinskI,
Paul Ludakaski, Tony Bososki aud
Joseph Botkus. Stalkus was 35 years
old and an employe of the Howe Scale
works. He leaves wife and child.