Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-28
STATE NEWS.

DllsslsquOl river near Johns bridge while |
bathing Sunday morning Winters was
subject to fits and had a fit while
bathing
Mary Charbonneau stepped out of an
automobile and started to 20 back of it
at Manchester Center one day recently
The automobile was backed, throwing
her down, tearing her dress and bruis
ing her.
George f. Gillett of Bristol a mer-
chant, Yesterday filed petition in bank
ruptcy with Clerk F s. Platt of the
United States court. His liabilities are
$3.50 and his assets S2.1Js.S1 Of which
$500 are claimed exempt.
Lightning struck a large barn on the
f. A Brooks farm at st A,nans Point
Friday afternoon and tie structure VAS
burned to the ground 1t contained $50
tons of hay, 1000 bushels Of grain and
most of the farming tools. The loss Is
about $4,000; partially insured.
Robert Holden. 11-year.old son of Rev.
and Mrs. frank A. Holden of New
Haven, who disappeared from his home
August IA, was found in Cuttingsville
August 81 in good health and in the en-
ploy of farmer, Frank Cole
Two chickens stolen from Deputy
winners, Montpelier, Friday, were boil
ing in pot over the campfire of six
tramps on Langdon hill when the police
raided the outfit Four were sent to the
house of correction for five months, one
for four months and the sixth was to be
tried Tuesday. The officers arrived about
Is minutes vefore the evidence was
ready to be devoured.
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house on the F. A. Winters farm at
Hghgate Springs were burned Thursday
afternoon OF last week and with them
over 20 tul.blooded r. | Red hens and
small amount OF hay. 1t is supposed
the fire started from sparks from
passing engine
While repairing the roof of the Inter
Ocean Shirt Co ; building in Bellows
Falls Wednesday morning, August 10,
Fred l.. Shortsleeves. a steeplejack
whose stunts have been watched with
interest by many, lost his foOthold and
plunged two and half stories to the
ground. He lies in the Rockingham
hospital seriously injured about the
spine and internally
Frances, the two and half year old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Casey, was
bitten by dog Friday of last week and
it required seven stitches to close the
wound in the chiIds leg. DR.. Bidweii
attended the boy The dog is owned by
Mr. Narden and is white and yellow
Scotch collie, two years old 1t has
never shown disposition to be ugly.
party of Windham county farmers
will 90 Oh an automobile trip to the
Massachusetts agricultural experiment
station in Amherst, Wednesday, August
%, to gain information by looking over
the various experimental plots of pota
toes, corn. onions, hay, berries, etc, and
by asking questions of men who are in
formed on the experimental work and
who are specialists in their lines.
John Allen Eayres of Pittsford died at
the home of his sister, Mrs. w. F. Bur
dit in Rutland, where he had been Wis
itng during the past two weeks. Mr..
Eayres had been in poor health for about
a year. Last April he went to Roches-
ter, Mimi, where a surgical operation
was performed, which for some time
improved his condition greatly. Recent
ly he became worse, however. and since
about the time he came to Rutland he
had failed rapidly.
Archie Mellen's barn in Guilfori was
destroyed by fire Friday and all of the
contents except a horse, two carriages
and poultry were destroyed. The barn
was struck by lightning, and was the
second barn on that site to be burned
from the same cause in 10 years. Mr.
Mellen had insurance of 5000 and his loss
will exceed that by at least $1,000. This
is the second serious fire III GuilfOrd in a
few weeks, the other having resulted in
| the total destruction of the house and
barns of Fred Coombs.
A granite boulder, consigned to Yer
gennes, is awaiting shipment at the
yards of the Olive Granite Co., Barre.
The boulder is TO be erected in the city
park in Nergennes September by the
Seth Warner chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution. The dedication
of the boulder will take place during the
MacdOnough celebration in honor of the
American commodore's victory over tho
British naval fleet on Lake Champiain
during the war Of 1912.
Two members of the party of fresh
air children who arrived in Rutland
Thursday of last week, little Armenian
girls, age five and seven years, who are
being entertained at the farm of II. G..
Lobdell, two miles north of the city. had
the novel experience of seeing cow for
the first time Friday morning. They
were up early exploring the barn and
watching the milking. Their greatest
establishment came when they discov-
cred the milk "bossie' gave them was
warm.
Linus G.. Hubbard, aged II, who re-
Gently came all the way from his home
in Urbana, ILL.,, to Wilmington by auto
tomobile, demonstrated his abilities still
further on Tuesday when he climbed
Haystack mountain. Edgar Copeland.
who is also II years old, accompanied
him up the mountain. They enjoyed
the trip hugely although it was cloudy
Wednesday, Mr.. Hubbard and his fam
lily started on the one thousand mile
return journey home. They travel by
easy stages, camping on the road
Donald Mcdonald, a progressive farm
err who is making lime rock of Benson
into bicarbonate of lime with which he
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