Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-02-05
STATE NEWS.

Mrs. Calista Hodge of Bristol, cele.
brated her ninety-seventh birthday an.
niversary January 26. She is the Oldest
person in town.
A consignment of approximately ,00C
horses bound for Liverpool, England,
for use in the war, has passed through
Montpelier Junction, there being two
train loads with about so cars. This is
the thiid lot of horses to pass through
the junction within the last few weeks,
making total of 2, 700 horses.
Warwick S. Carpenter and Junior
Hawks drove into the village of Ben
nington from Woodford with a female
bear and two yearling cubs which they
killed about three miles southeast of
Woodford city. They also had live
hedgehog in basket.
Henry Souci's 14-year-od son fell
from load of hay in Norwich and
struck some bushes, which pierced one
eyeball. He was taken to the Mary
Hitchcock hospital at Hanover. N. H. q,
and it is not yet known whether the
sight of the eye was destroyed.
The Rutland Woman's club proposes
to institute at once clubrooms for the
use of the boys of the city, in which they
may meet for social times, and where a
readingroom and CAMERON will be es-
tabished. No smoking or gambling will
be allowed and sthe rooms will be in
charge of competent persons, to see that
the rules are observed.
The body of Clarence Learned of
Fairfield, 40 years old, was found We'd
nesday with the head submerged in a
running brook where evidently he had
been thrown from his sleigh. He was
entangled in the robes and blankets
from the sleigh. Death is thought to
have been caused by accidental drown
ing. Mr.. Learned is survived by his
mother and one brother in Fairfax. He
was a native of Fairfax but had lived
in Fairfield several years.
Arthur d. Wheeler had narrow es-
cape from death in Nottingham recent
ly, when large pile of sawdust from
which he was loading sled gave away
and buried him to depth of four or five
feet. Edwin Wheeler, manager of the
mill, happened to hear the sawdust slide
and soon had men digging Mr.. Wheeler
mi a in ha hat
taken out, but was uninjured. A few
minutes more would have proved fatal.
To replace his pony outfit, lost in
recent fire, 377 friends of Perley Petty
of ST. Johnsbury. united in providing
funds for new pony, carriage, sleigh,
harness, blankets, robe. halter, bells.
and fur coat for the recipient. The
value of these articles was nearly $500
and the donors gave amounts ranging
from 25 cents to IS. The lad is rather
delicate in health but had built up a
large paper route in st. Johnsbury by
means of the pony he lost in the fire.
Daniel d. Boyce of Barre, has
abandoned any idea of trip to Florida,
through the Panama canal, and a little
stay in San Francisco during the ex-
position for the present, at least, al
though he got as far as Boston on the
journey. His sudden change of plans is
due to the fact that while attending a
moving picture show in Boston, he was
relieved of his pocketbook containing
an amount which he refused to reveal,
although. confessing that four figures
would be necessary to express it.
When the little daughter of Leslie
Cooper of Barre did not return home
from school on recent afternoon,
parents and friends of the child insti-
tuted a thorough search for the young
one An exhaustive inquiry among the
neighbors of the Cooper family failed to
disclose any traces of the girl and dark
ness found the family pretty well dis
couraged over the prospects of locating
the child. Later in the evening the
little girl appeared at her home and
told of spending a few hours on the ice
with a number of her young COM
panions.