Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-01-30
STATE NEWS.

Harry Vincent farm at East Montpelier.
A neighbor discovered the flames and
rushing to the house notified the family,
who successfully fought the blaze with
hand extinguishers.
Frank Hill, employed in the ROBERT
Lawrence stoneshed at Montpelier, was
severely burned about the face. He
was repairing an electric wire when a
fuse blew out and the flash struck him
in the,face. He closed his eyes, but his
eyebrows and face received bad burns.
AS result of the disastrous fire the
other day at Brattleboro, when the
Grange building burned at loss of
$45 600, the village commissioners have
ordered 1000 feet of hose, four Boston
nozzles, 10 rubber fire coats, 10 smoke
protectors, and one cellar pipe to add to
the fire protection outfit.
Fire Saturday damaged the Armory
building at Burlington to the extent of
$4,000. The loss on the building and on
state property is fully covered by in
surance. The fire, it is believed, caught
from lighted cigar stub or cigarette
carelessly dropped on the floor during the
wrestling match the night before.
Herbert Sheldon was badly hurt in
Nortontown, recently, while trying to
halter break Young colt. He tied the
rope around his wrist The colt became
unmanageable and Sheldon slipped and
struck his head on a post, cutting a
cash which required 16 stitches to
close.
Tom Thorne. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
George r. Thorne of Nergennes, has
received word from Congressman Frank
l.. Greene that he has successfully passed
preliminary examination for admission
to the United States naval academy at
Annapolis. The final examination will
probably come in April.
Members of the G.. A. r. and Sons of
Veterans, as well as many friends and
relatives from more than a dozen states,
attended the celebration of the fftieth
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elihu fuller at North Tunbridge Mon
day afternoon and evening in response
to invitations sent out by special com.
mittee which arranged the affair as a
surprise to the couple.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Press association will be held at the Owl
club assembly room i'll st. Adams on Fri
day, February Is, according to an
nouncement made by r. W. McCuen of
Vergennes, president of the association.
The afternoon will be given up to a bust
ness meeting, and in the evening ban.
quet will be held at the Colonial inn.
Governor Fletcher and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Howe have been asked to speak,
and it is also hoped to secure Repre-
sentative Frank l.. Green, formerly edi.
tor of the st. Adams Messenger.
A meeting of the state publicity bu-
reau and the executive committee of the
Vermont Sugar Makers association was
held at Montpelier Saturday for the pur
pose of talking over and formulating
plans for the cooperation of the public
ity department and the sugar makers, in
an effort TO promote and extend the
market for the sale of Vermont maple
sugar An invitation on behalf of the
board of trade of Montpelier was ex
tended TO the sugar makers by w. II.
Crockett of Montpelier to hold the next
annual meeting of the association in the
capital, and the invitation was accepted.
Rose, 81 months old, a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter st. Arnaud of West
Rutland. choked to death accidentally
Thursday afternoon at the parents
home. The baby had Just eaten dinner
a I'd her mother placed her on the floor.
A most Immediately she began to choke
violently and it is thought that some
potato which she couehed up had
lodged in her windpipe. The child died
before a physician could be secured.
The st. Arnaud family have nine other
children. Mr. st Arnaud is in the EN-
ploy of the Vermont Marble company.
A. f Grant was seriously injured
Friday while working in the woods on
the west side of Elmore mountain in
Morrisvile. He was struck by falling
tree and suffered fracture of the left
side of the upper jaw, conclusion of the
brain and possible fracture of the skull
at the base of the brain. There is a
hemorrhage from the ear opposite the
side which received the blow. This
raises fears of more serious complca-
tions There is no surface wound.
Harry Sears, an employee of the Bur
lington Daily News press room, was the
victim of painful accident Friday
afternoon, by which the tip of one finger
of the left hand was cut off. another
was badly lacerated, and his thumb was
split length wise. AS the press was
started for the city edition Mr.. Sears
hand was caught between two cylinders.
The foreman of the press room, Ii. a
Niles, stopped the machine instantly and
extracted the young mans hand and did
what he could to stop the flow of blood.
Drs. Jenne and Allen We're summoned
and the injured man was removed to
Mary Fletcher hospital where he is rest
ing comfortably.
Whiting Ball, a Canadian government
Gu tC ms officer, was instantly killed
about SEQ o'clock Monday evening at
North Troy when attempting to board a
moving train. He had stepped off the
train, local from Montreal 10 Newport,
to obtain a bundle and with the bundle
and other articles in one hand and over
coat thrown over the other arm under
took to get on the train as it was start
ing He slipped, was caught between
the steps of the train and the station
platform and almost instantly killed. Mr..
Ball was 30 years of age and is survived
by a wife and children who live at New
port. He operated or trains between
North Troy and Montreal.