Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-06-12
STATE NEWS

West Rutland has new hose com.
pany At the present time the village
has four companies of 12 men each.
The new company is for fire district
No. 3.
Mrs. G. P. Russell of Rutland suffered
bad fracture of her right leg when in
going from one room to another in her
house her ankle turned, throwing her to
the floor.
In Bennington county court William
Sheldon and Edward l.. Bates are suing
the Rutland Railroad company, the cases
growing out of an accident over year
ago, when train left the rails at point
near Beldens Falls
Robert Lowry, pitcher on the East
Barre base ball team, has not yet fully
recovered from being hit by pitched
ball in the East Barre l. A. G. Second
ball game the other day. Lowry was at
bat when he was struck on the head.
He was not rendered wholly uncon-
scious, but appeared to be dazed and
later he bled some at the mouth. 1t is
reported that there is fear of a slight
fracture.
Oscar Griggs, II years old, has been
arrested at St. Johnsbury for breaking
and entering the store of F. A. Scott
& Co., and the office of a. l., Bragg G.
Co. Griggs confessed. He was EN-
ployed at the Scott grocery store and
made the break there early Friday morn
ing, May 80, taking confectionery, nuts
and cigars. Early Wednesday morning
the Bragg office was entered through
window, and a small sum of money ard
three railroad mileages were taken.
For two hours w. F. Chisholm of
Peru, a member Of the grand jury wLieh
has been in session in connection with
the June term of Bennington county
court at Manchester since Tuesday, sat
in the grand jury room the other day
with a broken leg propped in char
while the concluding evidence in an inn
portaut case was being introduced.
Early in the afternoon the juryman
while descending the stairs from the
grand jury room slipped on the wet
stairs and broke his leg at the knee. He
was assisted to ascend the stairs and in
spite of the pain in the rapidly swelling
leg remained with his colleagues until
they had concluded their business.
Separated in 1865 when the western
woman, then child of two, was kid
mapped, Mrs. Susan Scott of Sioux Fails,
S u and Mrs. Edward Dundas of Rut
land met Monday for the first time in 40
years. Neither had heard from the other
since and the Rutland woman had sup
posed her sister dead. " hen Mrs. Scott.
who recently came east on an almO t
hopeless quest for her relatives, rang the
door bell at Wales street Monday Mrs.
Dundas answered the summons The
Rutland woman saw nothing fami lar in
the face of the strange woman who stood
before her, but Mrs. Scott saw something
in the features of the woman of 81
which reminded her of the girl of II
whom she remembered and exclaimed:
Don't you know your SUSAN A happy
reunion followed
Two tablets have been dedicated at
Wilmington bearing the names of 115
Civil War veterans as we'll as the names
OF 70 Revolutionary soldiers, all accred-
tied to the town. The tablets are the
gifts of Major F, w Childs of Brattle-
boro, whose ancestors of Revolutionary
fame are buried in his native town. 1t
is believed that no town in New England
of its size sent so many Revolutionary
soldiers to the Battle of B nnington as
did Wilmington. Fifty-siX of these vet
Grams are supposed to have died in Will
mington and al were members of Col
Williams regiment. Gen Stark's Off
cial record contained the names of these
soldiers. most Of whom were native Sons
Of Massachusetts and Connecticut, going
to Wilmington to settle when mere boys,
some of them driving their own OK
teams from Worcester to their new
homes The list of rs Civil War yeter-
ans accredited to Wilmington is a re-
markedly large one for little town of
less than $500 inhabitants at the com
mencement of the war. 1t was the
intention of the late Asaph p. Childs to
inscribe these names upon the soldiers
monuments as his gift to the town, and
this idea is now recognized in placing the
the tablets i'm memorial hall.