Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-03-26
STATE NEWS.

Riley Moser of Hardwick has been ar
rested on a charge of stealing $500
worth of furs from Max Schlarman.
The arrest follows Is months and one
day after the theft was committed.
The San Jose scale is very plentiful
in Brattleboro and to assist in it's Grad
i%cation the village commissioners have
decided to place a sprayer and men at
the disposal of the people, their only
charge being for the actual cost of the
work
An old elm tree on the main street
of Bethel, which was cut down re-
Gently, made five cords of market
able wood. Six feet from the ground
the circumference of the tree was Is
feet, three inches.
The payroll and smaller incidental
expenses of the Woodbury. Granite
%company's quarries and cutting plant
in Bethel, during the past II 1-2 years,
the time that w. R. Briggs has been
paymaster, has amounted to a total of
81, 176, S7S.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Morris OBJ
served their golden wedding anniversary
at their home in Brattleboro Wednes-
day. Owing to Mrs. Morris i'll health,
no public observance was held. Mr..
Morris is %janitor of one of the Brattle-
boro school buildings and the teachers
gave them so 10-cent pieces.
Suit has been brought against the
Rutland railroad company in county
court by John H. Cotton, a brakeman,
for SIS, 900 damages, plaintiff claiming
negligence on the part of the railroad
when he fell from a freight car near
Colchester July II, 1914, and was in
jured.
A number of small granite firms in
Montpelier doing business by rental in
a portion of a large shed, have signed
the wage agreement with the cutters
and several more are expected to do So.
The unfair clause is not to be taken
advantage of by either party, according
to general report.
st. Johnsbury has a town saw mill.
The selectmen have kept the town
teams busy this winter drawing logs,
which they had purchased in Danville,
to the new portable saw mill on the
town property over near the town farm.
The town has about $50, 600 feet Of
lumber of various kinds to be sawed.
An official from the State industrial
school at V%ergennes is on the trail of
two boys who escaped from the institu-
ton Saturday night. The boys, whose
names are Hughes and Moves, are 20
and 10 years old respectively, and are
over five feet 10 inches in height. They
were traced as far as Shelburne. Their
home is in RUTLAND.
Wallace H. Gilpin, editor of the
Barton Monitor, has left on a trip of
several weeks. After visiting New
York and Washington he will join his
family in Virginia, where they have been
for some time, and they will go to many
cities of the Middle West, West, and
Pacific coast, and will attend the Panama
exposition at San Francisco and the
Panama. California exposition at San
Diego.
A woman giving the name of Mrs.
Laura Murray of Halifax, Vt, is al
legged to have secured something like
500 from storekeepers in Greenfield,
Mass, recently, through claiming that
her purchases were authorized through
her employer, A. A. Fairbanks of Hall
fax, who denied all knowledge of her
actions. She skipped the town before
anything could be proved against her.
That the Vermont State flag originated
in Guilford is shown by the discovery
that on October 81, 1903, Samuel Shep-
ardson of Guilford, a member of the
council for six years, presented a bill
for the establishment of a State flag,
which was enacted into law and the
State flag was established in the form
retained to the present time.
Joseph A. DeBoer, president of the
National Life Insurance Co., has under
gone an operation on his throat in a
hospital in Boston, and it is said that
another operation may be necessary be-
fore he is able to return to his home in
Montpelier. Mr.. DeBoer went to Bos-
ton last week, being accompanied by
Mrs. DeBoer and their daughter, Miss
Minnie DeBoer.
Roy Warner of Georgia, 80 years old,
was arraigned before Judge N. N.
Post in city court in St. Adams
Saturday afternoon on the charge of
suboration of perjury. He re-