Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-02-13
STATE NEWS.

The 6Slh annual Caledonia county fair
will be held at st Johnsbury next Sep
TENDER 8, 8, 10, and If.
The total receipts in 1918 at Heaten
hospital, Montpelier, were SIS, 1874 A,
and the total disbursements amounted to
exactly three cents less than that
amount.
From flock Of IA hens Roy den Bishop
of Rutland got 211 eggs in January. One
of the eggs weighed six ounces and
measured 81 by II inches
One hundred arrests were made in
Montpelier during 1918. Of these 80
were for intoxication and breach of the
peace. Thirty-six paid fines and the
same number went to Jail.
The operating revenues of the Rutland
railroad for December were S2l9,769 80
and the operating expenses $240,372 60.
giving net operating revenue of SOL
302 7G.
The Blair Veneer company of North
Troy has purchased of II. b. Parker &
Son the sawmill, piano sounding board
and box factory, with the land and build
ings connected with the business and all
equipped.
The loss suffered by fire in Rutland
during 1913 amounted to $25, 1913 OF says
Chief Engineer j. G. Dunn in his annual
report. Nearly 500, 600 worth of prop
erty was endangered The department
responded to IS alarms during the year,
OF which 10 were false calls.
Mrs. Clarence f. Weldon of Spring
field is in a serious condition as the re-
suit of burns received when her night
clothing caught fire from a match which
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supposed to have been placed beneath a
door 10y her husband, who left the house
earlier in the day. She was terribly
burned upon her back, legs and one
wrist, but it is thought she will recover.
Thomas Flanagan, who is employed
by the Hampshire Slate company at one
of their quarries, which are located
about two miles north of Fair Haven,
was quite riously injured at about II
o'clock Monday morning when stone
falling from the top Of the quarry, hit
him ON the head, fracturing the skull
and cutting him about the face in several
places
c. S Jones. an employee of the Yer
mont Power Manufacturing Company at
the Mlsssquoi Paper and Pulp Mills at
Sheldon Springs, fell from staging
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twenty feet below, striking on his head
and shoulders. He sustained cCncussion
of the brain. He was brought to the
hospital, where he remains unconscious.
Elizabeth, the six year-old daughter of
Mr.. snd Mrs. L. j. Harlow of Stowe,
met with a serious accident while sliding
Friday morning. The child, who was
out alone, was found by her sister at the
of q or hr Cd
ran into fence post, breaking her right
leg above the knee. She had been on
the snow for an hour and a half and
was nearly frozen.
Fire starting in the store owned by
James Clarey in the Hamlin block at
Burlington Saturday morning Quilted
the STORE and adjoining tenement and
caused considerable loss to the other
tenements on the second floor of the
building and the hall on the third and
top floor. The families in the block
were forced to flee outdoors with only
scanty attire. The fire caught from an
electric wire. Mrs. George Lonsbury
who lived directly over the store, was
awakened by the smoke coming up
through the ventilator and she immedi-
atey aroused the rest of the family, in
GLIDING four small children and her
father, Paul Plant, and then rang in an
alarm.
Increased attendance at all churches
Sunday marked the observance of
Every body at Church Sunday" in Bel
lows Falls An active campaign had
been carried on by the churches and in
the Protestant and Catholic services the
pastors and rectois spoke of the move
ment. Special music was rendered in
several of the churches. AS the Univer
, salist church is without pastor at the
present time, Rev. Lee S. McCollister,
dean of Tufts college, was the preacher.
The "attend church Sunday" cam
paign resulted in an increase of so per
cent in church attendance in Montpelier
Sunday, special sermons being preached
in all churches. The movement was ad-
vertised through the newspaper and in
various other ways during the week and
church members were appealed to to
, bring friends with them. Some citizens
who have not been in church for years,
except at funeral service, were noticed
in the audiences. The ministers are
pleased with the attendance and consider
the plan success.
The body of Chin Kim, the Chnaman
who was found dead Friday morning
lying in pool of blood in the rear of his
second hand store on Catherine street,
in st. Adams, was taken to New York
Sunday night Charlie Sing of Burling-
ton, cousin of the dead man, and
limiting Wong and w. K. Lam, the two
latter students at the University of Yer
mont, arrived IN the city Saturday
evening to take charge of the remains OF
Chin Kim's property. Sing, who is in
the laundry business in Burlington, says
he is the only relative of Chin Kim in
this country and he will claim the es-
tate, which is estimated to amount tc
between seven and eight hundred dol
lars.
The first serious coasting accident in
Rutland this winter occurred Sunday
afternoon at the corner of Nichols street
and Kendall avenue, when a traverse