Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-04-03

The Bristol water sy stem has reached
stage where it is self sustaining. The
receipts for the six months ending Dec
l, 1913, were 81 990.47. This would give,
counting the increase for the present six
months at 500, a total foe the year of
nearly So, 900. The bonds, SOL 900, will
take 5000 of this for interest. leaving
5000 to pay running expenses of the sys.
tenn.
singular formation of snow oc.
CURED at the summer residence of DR..
G. E. Bruce in Townshend AS the snow
loosened from the slate roof it slid over
the roof of the piazza, the outer crust
being hard enough to hold firmly to-
gether when the lower edge struck the
ground, thus forming a curtain like a
rolling door fully 10 feet high the en-
tire length of the piazza. 1t remained in
that position several days.
H. NJ. Carpenter, Spring field S oldest
citizen, is celebrating his Dist birthday
at the home of his granddaught r,
Mrs. F. c. LaFonntain. where he has
made his home for several years. Mr.
Carpenter is in quite good health and
able to be about the house each day.
He was blacksmith by trade and worked
for-many years for the Vermont Novelty
Works. former manufacturing
plant. and is "A veteran of the Civil war,
having been member of Company F,
fourth regiment, Vermont volunteers.
The Italian Courier, a strictly nom
partisan newspaper for the Italians of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and
Massachusetts, is to be printed at Barre,
the first edition to be issued in three
weeks. B. Gasparello of the Gasparella
Bros, granite firm of Barre and Vincent
Parri2za, young Italian newspaper man
who has seen service on some of the
leading Italian journals of the country,
have bought the printing plant owned by
G. 4. Bottineli, and the firm name will
be change to the Union Printing Co.
United in death as they were in life is
the remarkable case of Mr.. and Mrs.
Michael d. Powers. both of whom died
within "a hours of each other at their
home in st. Albans. Mrs. Powers, aged
IS, died at 10 80 Thursday night while
her husband, aged II, who had been i'll
with pneumonia, when told Of her death,
called to her that he would be with her
soon and followed at six o'clock Friday
evening Mr. and Mrs. Powers are sur
vived by four children. ex. Mayor Will
liam E. Powers and Stephen E. Powers,
both of Detroit, Mich, Edward P. of
Boston and Mrs. Daniel Carroll of st.
Adams. The double funeral was held
at st. Mays church at nine O'Clock
Monday morning.
Mrs. Betsy Boyce, widow of the late
Hiram Boyce, died at Morrisvile Mon.
day after an illness of two weeks of
pneumonia and ID complication of dis.
eases. She had been ill since she went
to Morrisvlle to attend her brothers
golden wedding. Mrs Boyce was born
June 2S, 1889. She was married to
Hiram Boyce of East Warren in 1860
Mr.. BOyce was prominent merchant of
Waterbury and died in 1897. The body
will be brought to Waterbury for burial
Thursday afternoon at two o'clock. The
deceased i, survived by two sons and two
daughters, w. j. Boyce of Waterbury,
with whom she made her home, Guy A
Boyce of Proctor, Mrs. E. F. Savage of
Proctor, and Mrs. II. X. Ryford of Nal
den, Mass.
j. w Hovey of East Hardwick is a
wonderful example of the vitality and
endurance of old Vermont stock and al,
though he is in his Slst year, can now do
a days work that would seriously bother
a man good many years his junior. He
does all of the work on his small farm,
including the milking OF several cows,
and during the past winter this toll did
not satisfy him. Although he is in com
fortable circumstances, he selected as one
of his diversions the cutting of SO cords
of wood. The wood lot was located one
mile from his home and he accomplished
the act of Telling the trees, carting the
wood to his home and piling it neatly in
his backyard, without any assistance. Mr..
Hovey had been prominent in town and
county affairs since early manhood and
is still active in that direction.
w. o. Low, manager of the farm con.
nected with the State hospital at Water
bury has sold from the registered her.