Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-05-21
STATE NEWS.

copied a call to the First Baptist church
of Fairfield, Me.
George C. Thrall lost the end of one
finger, and others will probably have to
b. amputated as his hands were caught
when folding chair, in which he was
sitting, collapsed at his home in Rut-
land.
1t is reported that the F. R. Patch
Manufacturing company of Rutland has
received a $780, 900 order for shrapnel
shells, to be shipped to one of the ma
tons involved in the European war. Mr..
Patch would neither deny nor confirm
the report.
Mark Lawrence, who was seriously
injured in Stockbrdge a few days ago,
and taken to the sanatarium in Ran
dolph for treatment, has partially re-
gain ed consciousness and hopes of his
recovery are now entertained. An
operation was performed on his head,
which was crushed on one side.
The twenty-seventh annual meeting
of the Congregational Woman's Home
Missionary Union of Vermont will be
held in St. Johnsbury May %, 26 The
program includes addresses by Miss
Margaret Slatterly and Rev Dr. Charles
f. Burbon.
An automobile wreck, the ignition of
gasoline by match apparently pur-
posely applied, the burning of the
body of one automobile and slight
damage to another and the calling out
of the fire department motor truck
constituted a quick chain OF events
that caused considerable excitement in
Brattleboro Sunday afternoon.
Levi P Morton, borr in Shoreham,
the only native Vermonter who ever
filled the office of vice president of the
United States, celebrated his 91st birth
day anniversary Sunday Mr.. Morton
is still active and in good health and is
familiar figure in Washington and in
Rhinebeck, n. Y, where he maintains
a summer home.
Curtis Brothers of Corinth. n. y,
have purchased the water power at
Garfield in Hyde Park, paying 500, OO0
The power is one of the best in northern
Vermont, giving fall to the Lamoile
river of about 500 feet. The purchasers
believe the time is not far distant when
this power will be wanted in that
vicinity and have bought it as specu-
laton.
Eugene Brear fourteen-year-o
Hudson, n. Y, boy, was found
few days ago in Bennington on
his way to Montpelier on a bicycle
The little fellow was crying be-
side the road. Arrangements were
made to SIND the little fellow
and his small dog and wheel
to the capital by train. He was
on his way to make his home with his
grandmother.
J. F. Pease of Bethel made his rural
n all route trip by automobile for the
first time on Thursday and reached
home in time for dinner at noon in
stead of about 3 O'Clock as formerly.
This is the first rural auto delivery
on any of the BetheIs three routes.
The Gaysvile to Bethel stage route is
being covered by automobile for the
second season.
Zura Hanson, we'll known horseman
of Barton, was arrested in Syracuse on
Thursday charged with violating the
Mann white slave act. He was arrested
in company with 19-year-old Lillian
Woodbury. as they were leaving a train
a the Central station The police re-
ceived a telegram Friday signed ''R. H.
Johnson, telling them that they
would find white slave case on GER
tain train. The arrest followed.
The body of Franklin, lO-year-old son
of Clinton Yemans, a locktender at
WHITEHALL n. Y, was recovered re-
Gently in South Bay, Lake Champain
The lad was drowned two days before
while fishing from the drawbridge. His
line was wound about the body, and on
the nook end OF the tackle was three
pound fish. 1t is believed that the
strike of the fish caused the boy to lose
his balance and topple into the water.
A banquet in honor of H. c. Manner,
formerly travelling auditor of the
southern division of the Central Yer
mont railway. located in Palmer, Mass,
and who was lately transferred to be
local freight agent in Burlington, was
given at the Burns hotel in Palmer last
Friday evening. Twenty-eight railway
employees were in attendance and Mr..
Manner was presented with a silver
service of seven pieces and latest
design travelling bag.
The annual field meeting of the Yer