Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-03-12
STATE NEWS

the cellar-way. The trap door fell on
her. She was alone in the house at the
! time.
Irma, the six-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest White of Bristol
was struck in the eye with button
which she was spinning on string
Sunday afternoon, and it is feared
that she will lose the sight of her eye.
George Watt, the wo-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Watt of Hard
wick, accidentally drank some kero
sene recently and was in a serious con-
dition for time.
Fred C. Clark, Brattleboro grocer,
has bought the handkerchief business
of the White Manufacturing company
at the cotton factory of the Fort Dunn
mer mills and is planning to greatly
increase the business. Eight girls
have been employed and there is every
indication that the number will have to
be more than doubled.
Mrs. F. L. Dana of Moretown, in
the Jones Brook neighborhood, brought
to Montpelier Tuesday morning two
live grasshoppers which she caught in
her dooryard, Monday, March 8.
An occasional crow, the merry tattoo
of woodpeckers and focks of snowlarks
in the road beds all Indicate that spring
is on its way, according to an item from
East Montpelier.
Hook and line fishermen are meeting
with good success fishing through the
ice near Swanton. Perch are caught
in Maquam bay and pike and pickerel
on the West Swanton shore. Shipments
are made to the city markets.
The improvements on the Methodist
Episcopal church at Newport, which
was reopered and rededcated recently,
cost SIS. 300. Over five thousand dollars
was raised during the day leaving only
$3S25 unprovided for.
Mrs. Fanny Allen Wilbur of Will
Jamestown, now in her goth year, re-
calls that when girl she worked for
Elder Twitchell for several weeks in
that village, the parsonage being the
/ house owned by the late J. X. Lynde.
This was probably about the year l845,
or some twenty years before the present
M. Z. church was built.
Willis M. Barnes, who has conducted
numbering operations for the {. f. d
F. O. Burt Lumber company on Mans
field and Sterling mountains, in Stowe,
has about completed the winters work.
: Notwithstanding the short season he
has been able to secure his cut OF
4 1000, 600 feet.
Constable C. H. Chase went to Wind
sor Tuesday morning to take to the State
prison Oscar Lanoue, who in st. Adams
Monday was sentenced to serve from
six to seven years for assault and rob
berry of Mrs. Mary S. Herrick and re.
ceived a similar sentence for the
burgarly of the cigar store of the w.
T. Donovan company last week anc
Drennan's carpet store last fall.
The ice harvest of the Consolidated
Ice Delivery company in Burlington is
progressing rapidly and by keeping
shifts at work day and night in the
vicinity of 10, 600 tons have been put
into the ice houses. This is about two
thirds of the amount necessary to fiji
the ice houses. The ice that is being
tax en- from the lake just north of the
breakwater is of good quality anC
about 10 inches in thickness notwith
standing the late freezing of the lake
During the month of February there
were 80 deaths and 80 births in Bur
lington. The Oldest death was that oil
a man 50 years of age and the mex
was Sc. Four occurred in the 70's anC
number were those of children under
one year of age. OF the births 16 were
females and % were males, an unusua
proportion The youngest mother wa
! 16 years old while two were II. Th'
oldest mother was 46.
: With the assistance of the Barre
Woman's club an extensive gardening
project among the children of the cit.
schools will be under way as soon a.
> the frost is out of the ground. Pupils
in every school building have been en-
rolled in the garden movement an(
free seeds were distributed to the chill
dren this week. An exhibition of gar
den products in the summer is to be il
the charge of the children.
Miss Anne Peck, formerly of St
Johnsbury, now a professional nurse il
New York city, expects to leave tn,
last of March for Red Cross work il
Russia. Miss Peck has enrolled for tn,
work in France, and was to have sailet
last Saturday but word was received