Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-14
STATE NEWS.

home in Guilford two dahlias. each eight
feet tall, containing 20 blossoms Of a
rose pink color.
Mrs. f. A. Lahey of Enosburg recently
served quart can of preserved straw
berries, which she put up herself % years
ago They were as fresh as when tlut
up.
Indications of oil have been found on
a number of farms in West Btattleboru
and the recently fotmed New England
Development Co. Of Brattlehoro has
bought up several pieces of land on
which it is thought oil wells will be
drilled. \ Standard Oil expert is said to
have examined the ground and given
the promoters of the scheme much ell
enlargement.
Among the contributions to the Amer
lean Red Cross III response to its appeal
for funds to be use in European relief
work. were checks for 50 900 each from
Mrs Redtield Proctor, widow Of the late
Senator Proctor of Vermont and her
daughter, Miss Emily d. Proctor.
Fire late Friday afternoon destroyed
the house. a shed aud horse barn on
the Reuben Cheney farm in the south
part of Morrisville The insurance is
ST 100 The loss is much more. The fire
Sldl leu lIOul an Oil Stove on lDt Ddck
porch. There was little saved from the
house, but all the live stock was saved
Valuable machinery was burned as were
100 cords of dry wood.
Fire of unknown origin in hay on the
Edwin Carpenter place in GuIlfOrd late
Friday night destroyed a house. barn
and sheds, causing loss of 5000 There
was insurance. Ihe place was occupied
Ia
stock and the contents of the house were
saved. Mrs. CUOmbs, VINO has been
critically i'll, was carried to the home vi
a neighbour a steamer aud tiremen
from Brattledoro were summoned.
An autopsy was performed at St
Johnsbury Monday on the body of MISS
Jennie Lamont, age So, by DR.. b. II
stone of Burlington and DR.. J. NJ Allen
of St. JOhnsbury The cause of death
was not determined but indications
pointed to poisoning. The young woman
was in her usual health Saturday and
retired that night as usual When the
family went to arouse her the next
morning she was dead. She is survived
ly her parents and several brothers and
sisters.
Breaking his way through cupoa
on The workshop at the House of COrrec-
tion at Rutland and latter jumping from
the prison wall, Richard Sloane of Ran
dolph, Orange county, four months
man, made lis escape from the State
institute II sometime SAturd y afternoon
and up to last night he had not been cap
tured. Hi, absence was first discovered
about clOck IN the afternoon when
William Boy den, one Of the guards,
missed him in checking up the men be-
fore sending them to supper.
The body of George A Allen of Bur
llngtCn was found late Friday afternoon
in the woods at the rear of the Ira Allen
school, where it is thought 10 have lain
since Tuesday. Mr.. Allen left home
Tuesday morning and in the afternoon
was seen lying, supposedly asleep, be-
meath a tree at the edge of the woods
Friday afternoon his daughter, in COM
pany with some friends, was in the
vicinity and she r, coguized his clothes.
DIR, Nolan stated that death was due to
heart failure The body was in badly
decomposed condition. Mr.. Allen was
81 years of age. He was born and had
always lined in Burlington and was a
carpenter by trade,
George A. Hines, aged "A, civil en-
gineer and draughtsman of Brattleboro.
i'll on the street and stepped into Roots
drug store, where he lived only few
minutes. He was born January 90
1910, in BratteborO, and was the son of
Col. Arnold Jefferson Hines and Mary
Brown Hines He prepared for Harvard
college at the West BrattlebOro academy
and ParsOu Browns private school on
Chase street. He graduated from the
civil engineering and architectural
courses of the Lawrence scientific school
of Harvard in the class of 1863. He rep
resented Brattleboro in the Legislature of
1894
The storms in Lyndonville. four n
number, from Friday evening at 10
o clock to Saturday morning at O'Clock.
were the most severe remembered bv
the Oldest inhabitant Many people were
unable to sleep at all owing to the ter
rble flashes of lightning and crashes of
thunder. A. F. Ball of Lyndon was sit
ting with his feet on the stove hearth
when the house was struck, the Ii Sht.
ming apparently coming down the Chin
ney. He fell to the floor uncon .clOus.
He is sore and lame from the shock
The lightning tore laths and plasterings
from three rooms and made holes in the
house, each about one foot by two feet
in size. The fourth room. in which the
baby slept, was not entered by the light
ming, The building caught fire, but it
was Immediately eXtinguished by Mrs.
Ball, who was not seriously affected.
Many friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
=. Chamberlain gathered at their home
in Barnard Saturday afternoon and
evening to congratulate them upon their
tiftleth wedding anniversary. Refresh
ments were served 70 all corners and
purse from the 20 nsI -ople and church
friends was pr .e' d in the vel lng.
NJ and Mrs. .,u.o rlain have Int
m st of taeir Il IS "A Barnard. where
they were married Aug. s, 1864, by Rev.
w, II. Wight, then Methodist minister of
the town. Mr.. Chamberlain was horn in
Barnard in 1887 and Mrs. Chamberlain
was born in Rochester in 1874. They
have one son, Perey n. Chamberlain. of