Source, Rutland Daily Herald--Thur. Sept. 12, 1918. Page 5. LATE STATE NEWS. Montpelier, Sept. 11-- Chief of Police Patrick Connolly has completed the investigation of some 30 registrants in this city who were given deferred classification well towards a year ago on the grounds that they were in essential industrial. Without exception all of the young men are in essential industries, few of them having changed their places of employment. Randolph, Sept. 11--Rev. Fraser Metzger, who is the present representative of the town in the Legislature, received the republican nomination Tuesday by the substantial plurality over two other candidates. Bethel, Sept. 11--Rev. J. Wesley Miller, who has been for the last three sessions town representative and prominent in the House, will not represent the town this year, having refused to allow his name to be used. Robert Noble was nominated by the democrats, while Scott Gillette is the republican nominee. Both are farmers. The last farmer representative from this town was in 1890. Highgate Center, Sept.11- Joel Bradley Cross, who suffered cerebral hemorrhage Sunday morning, died last night. He was a native of Highgate, and was 97 years old. Transcribed by Joan H. Bixby