Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-10-03
STATE NEWS.


pastor OF the church at West Brattleboro
and will enter the Gordon Missionary
training school in Boston which open ed
October |.
The dry weather has seriously affected
the Stowe water supply. Two springs
have failed that were never known to do
so before, and all are low.
Peter Larson Of Brattleboro. who had
been blind for long time, was operated
on for cataracts recently and can now
see perfectly.
The development of third case of
| typhoid fever at the Howe scale works,
Rutland, leads Health officer Gebhardt
to make thorough investigation.
CHARLES Baydorfer, the aviator, who was
injured in an accident at the Dog River
Valley fair at Mortified is gaining and
is now able to be about his room. 1t is
expected that Mr.. and Mrs. Baydorfer
will go to their home in Mineola, N. Y,
sometime this week.
Shooting is getting too promiscuous in
Brattleboro for comfort. AS Mrs. Leavitt
was sitting in an upstairs bedroom a
bullet whizzed through the window near
which she was sitting, and another went
through the kitchen window near which
A new collection of the late poems of
Mrs. Julia Q. K. Dorr, of Rutland. the
recently deceased Vermont poetess, will
be published this week by Charles Serb
ner Sons, New York. The volume will
be designated Last Poems. 1t will con-
tain all of Mrs. DORIS writings since the
publication of the Complete Edition"
and will include sonnets written during
her fatal illness.
After 30 hours of effort, DIR. H. L.
Mills Monday succeeded in saving Il e
lives of four horses owned by J. H. Will
klnson of Burlington. Five of his horses
ate bailed hay which came into the local
market from nearby sources and is said
to have contained lobelia weed, and one
of the horses, valuable one, died DIR.
Mills went to Williston 10 perform an
autopsy on horse which died there, and
1t is said that seven horses died in one
stable in the vicinity of Burlington
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Bly, of Newport,
who were somewhat surprised Septem-
Der % when team backed up to the
cellar window and prepared to unload
some wood, soon found that the wood
was not donated on account of the
destitute circumstances" of the people,
but as a reminder that their friends
remembered that it was their fifth we'd
ding anniversary and, therefore, a wood
en- wedding. Upon learning the purpose
of the load, the teamster was permitted
to unload his wood.
Miss Dorothy Garrison of Montpeller.
Miss Lillian Bell OF Windsor and Miss
Mabel Wood of the same place have fin
ished work at the Taunton insane hospi-
tai, Taunton, Mass, and the rest of the
nurses at the institution threaten to Join
the strike unless recent order of the
hospital authorities is rescinded This
order Is that none of the nurses shall be
allowed to entertain young men callers
after dark. Unwilling to follow this
order part of the force has left and it is
thought Others will follow.
Willis Foote, aged 81, of Francistowp.
n. b.. who had been working two weeks
for Mr.. Owens of Springfield in a porta-
BILE saw mill on the Floyd Stone farm at
Westminster West, a village ten miles
from Bellows Falls, was almost instantly
killed when he was drawn into circu
lar saw by the carriage on Wednesday of
last week. Both legs were cut off near
the hips and one leg was cut in two
pieces. Foote'S glove caught on one Of
the dogs of the carriage and before he
could release it or stop the machinery he
was drawn to his death.
The Green Mountain Marble Co. of
Rutland Is to put a force of about 20
men at work within few DAYS to take
marble out of the Baronial quarry, better
known as the umbrella quarry at West
Rutland. The property has been in the
possession of the Rutland concern about
three years but has not been worked. The
marble produced at this quarry is in var
ious shades of green. The Green Noun.
tain company is also to put ten more men
at work at its main plant on Columbian
ave Immediately, because of increased
business.
Acting Chief of Police Conlin of Rut-
land has announced that he has notified
for the last time the dealers and handlers
of foodstuffs habitually shown in front
of stores, that such food must be pro.
tected according to law from dust a nd
dirt. MIR. Conlin said that although MFR
chants have been previously notified ty
various officials, including Health Office
+. II. Gebhardt and States Attorney b.
L. Stafford, that the practice of showing
uncovered foods on the street must be
discontinued scarcely any attention to
the warning had been paid by some.
Lihcot L. w ilucI VI DpTillRlleiu may
lose his eyesight as the result of a practi
cal joke by young man of that place,
when he sent a spray of ammonia through
an atomizer straight into Wilder's face.
Wilder was standing on the steps of the
Dodge pharmacy when Walter Mills,
aged Is years came out of the drug store
and is alleged to have sprayed the am
monla into his face. He had already
SPRAYED young man inside the store
but the spray did not hit his face and
caused no injury. Mills picked up the
atomizer off the counter. Wilder had to
be helped to physicians office.
Fire broke out on G. E. Moody's land
in Duxbury little before noon Sunday
and soon the smoke was seen from the
village. Fire Warden Shonio was mott
fled and at once he went to the pl ace
with a number of men. Others came,
so large number began trenching
around the fire and late in the after
noon the flames were under control,
although men were on watch all night.
The fire was started by Mr.. Smell, who