Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-04-30
STATE NEWS.

oNOAhbiC lNJOl 70 lCNClNtQ It.
garding the condition of Joseph A.
De Boer, of Montpelier, who is under
going treatment in Boston, and his re-
turn home is expected soon.
This is one of the dryest springs in
the memory of the oldest inhabitants.
Fields are very dry and in places plows
turn up burrows of dust.
President Warwick S. Carpenter of
the Bennington County Forest, Fish
and Game association. has received a
letter from Commissioner J w. Titcomb
stating that an investigation of the pos
sible sites for State hatchery in Ben
nington county is being made.
The Vermont Marble Co. has given
its help at the Corona Mill at Brandon
notice that the mill will be closed in
definitely May l. About 60 hands are
employed at the MILL
Freight traffic has been resumed on
Lake Champlain. A string of 80 canal
boats laden with coal for Canada went
north drawn by the tug Robert H. Cook
The tow was increased by three light
boats at Plattsburg, N. Y, Monday
morning
Windsor county, which stood near the
top of the list of cold spots in Vermont
last week when the mercury dropped on
the 22d to eight degrees below the
freezing point, hung up records for high
marks in temperature Sunday. Their
mometors in Ludlow registered so
degrees in the shade and reports from
other towns give mercury readings from
80 to So degrees. Ludlow weather
sharps say that Sunday was the warmest
April 25th in 10 years.
A forest fire threatened the farm
property of Joseph Hooker at Forest
dale and all of the employees of the
Newton e. Thompson Manufacturing
company were called out to fight the
blaze The damage will be nominal.
The woods are extremely dry in this
section and no rain, to speak of, has
fallen for several weeks.
Henry G. Clark, the well-known Brat
tleboro cattle dealer, is at his home
recovering from a bad dislocation of his
right shoulder He was in the Brighton
cattle market when attacked by two
bulls. One Of the animals fell on him.
He was taken to a hotel in Boston,
where the dislocation was reduced
Unaccompanied, he boarded the late
train for Brattleboro.
A. N. W. Smith, for seven years
manager of the Windsor house,
Gardner, Mass, has been engaged as
manager of the Van Ness house, Bur-
lington, and will assume his duties
May II. Mr.. Smith has had 80 years
experience as a hotel man and is familiar
with every branch of the business. He
is Vermonter and was born in Dandy.
Mrs. Smith is his capable assistant.
Louis Whittier, a aborer, was
knocked down and run over in Mont
pelier Friday night by a runabout
owned by Dewey T. Hanley, State pur-
chasing agent, and driven by Miss
Katherine Dunlevv, employed as a
stenographer by Mr.. Hanley. He was
rendered unconscious for few
moments and suffered badly cut and
bruised head but was seemingly other
wise uninjured. The car was going
very slowly when the accident occurred |
At a lengthy session of United States
court at the federal building in Rutland
Is men We're admitted to citizenship, |
only one of the cases appearing for final
papers being refused and this on the |
technical ground that the witnesses
lacked three days of knowing the ap-
plicant five years previous to the filing |
of the original papers 1t was the first
official visit of District Judge Harland |
B. Howe, of St. Johnsbury, to Rutland |
since his appointment to the bench. A. |
f. Church, special representative of the |
department of naturalization, appeared |
for the government in the cases of this |
nature.
Mrs. Carolina Clark Leonard died at
her home here Friday evening at 9:4O
O'Clock after two weeks illness. She |
was born in Brandon, March 8, 1928. |
In 1853 she was married to John Capen |
Leonard. She is survived by three
sons, T. Allen Leonard of Proctors-
vile, j. Ellis Leonard of Pittsford and
j. Frank Leonard of Meriden, Conn,
also seven grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
The big sale of Holstein- Friesian
cattle, which began in Bellows Falls
Thursday, closed Friday with every
head of pure-bred cattle sold. Some
good prices were brought and the
highest price was $565 for Maplemont