The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-05-29
STATE ITEMS.

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1t is said that there is hardly a well
person in Derby.
The pulp mill at Bellows Falls is
now lighted by electricity.
"A camp of Sons of Veterans has been
organized at Waterbury.
"A fountain is soon to be added to the
Academy grounds at Poultney.
Col. Albert Clark of Boston will de-
liver the Memorial day address at Royal
ton.
S. NJ. Nutting of Westminster recent
ly had 30 sheep and lambs killed by dogs
in one day.
DIR. Webb has sent Joseph Battell of
Middlebury, check for $500 for the
horse breeders.
The st. JohnsbuTy Scale works an
nually consume about 1000 tons of iron
and 5000 tons Of coal.
Maj. Josiah Grout of Derby has used
hOrn-killing preparation on his calves
which promises to be successful.
Ezekiel Nye of East Montpelier, who
invented an organ before the Estey or
gans came out, died the other day.
"A little daughter of Mrs. Lucinda
Flint of West Randolph fell from a swing
the other day and broke one arm at the
elbow.
The Vermont State Eclectic Medical
Society is to hold its 2Gth session on
Wednesday and Thursday, June and 4,
at Montpelier.
| The students and friends of DIR.
Wickham are talking of raising fund
by subscription to erect monument at
his burial place.
| Daar ora lyilIincr cbaap in Nid1lasav
There are 1910 taxable polls in Bel
lows Falls.
&C. S. Robinson of Sycamore, ILL.,, will
deliver the Memorial day address at
Newport.
S. r. Fletcher of Holland had three
colts severly injured on barbed wire
fence the other day.
| Patrick Desmond, one of the strik-
ing Barre quarrymen, assaulted another
striker the other day and was fined S25.
Rev. A. J. Hough of Montpelier will
read poem to the Vermont Press AssO-
tion when they take their excursion in
July.
"A. j. Merrill, who recently died in
Colchester, was in his younger days one
of the best known horsemen in the State.
The State Insurance Commissioners
are preparing a list of insurance com
panies and their agents who are author
lied to do business in the State, includ-
ing brokers.
The National Horse Nail Company
of Vergennes is probably the first party
in the State to use American tin for roof
ing. 1t is from the American tin manu-
factory of Pittsburg, Pa.
-Hulrs Creamery at Hinesburgh is
now using 900 pounds of milk day
and has declared dividend of 95 cents a
hundred for April milk.
George Clark of Sutton, has a
memorial tree IN his yard which he set
out the day after President Lincoln was
shot. 1t is about 40 feet high
-Morrisville claims to be the banner
town for old people, having 30 residents
between the ages of 50 and 92. Stowe
claims second place with 20.
There are graves of Al soldiers in the
cemetery at West Derby; two of Revolu-
tionary heroes, 20 of the war of 1912 and
10 of the war of the Rebellion.
The funeral of Lafayette Soper, a
well-knOwn Grand Army man and Grand
Tyler of the Grand Lodge, was held at
st. Johnsbury Sunday, the 18th. Over
POO Masons were present
Henry Oviatt, for several years court
reporter and newspaper writer in Yer
mont, is one of the editors of the New
York Recorder.
"A Montgomery man was fined $500
and costs the other day for executing
second chattel mortgage on personal
property contrary to statute
The house of Charles Butler of High
gate was burned Thursday. 1t was the
scene of the murder of Mrs. Butler by Z.
Tatro several years ago.
Gov Page has appointed DR.. o. W.
Sherwin of Woodstock a member of the
State Board of Health to succeed DR..
Chesmore of Huntington, who is dead.
In allotting the money at the War
Department for arming and equipping
the Militia of the States, Vermont has
been awarded $685., the sum being avail
able July |.
Forest Cook, a son of NJ. D. Cook, a
native of Cornwall and a graduate of
Middlebury College in the class 1912, has
Just been elected mayor of Galesburg,
Illinois.
The Billings green houses in Wood
stock have a splendid display of grapes.
The fruit is coming on in three success
sive crops. the first of which will be
picked in three weeks.
1t is stated that Capt. Ralph w.
Hoyt of the 1th United States Infantry
will be detailed to visit the State Militia
while in camp at Bennington next Au-
gust and make an inspection of the
troops.
john W. Hobart, general manager of
the Central Vermont railway, has ten
dered his resignation to President Smith,
to take effect June l. Mr. Hobart has
been in the service of the company 43
years.
The class of 1851, Dartmouth College,
will celebrate its 10th anniversary at the
coming commencement, and among
those who expect to be present are Secre-
tary Proctor and Judge Ross.
Mr. Sargent, who lives in Mendon
near the Chittenden line, has seen deer
in that vicinity several times this spring.
| Another man, who numbered last winter
on the mountain in Chittenden, says that
deer yarded near his camp and that he
has seen two or three at time.
While Sheriff Mills was examining
Newport Jail the other day, he found
where several prisoners had tried to es-
cape by boring holes through the walls
, with hot iron.
With next month Prof. E. A. Bishop,
principal of the Vermont Methodist
Seminary at Montpelier, will complete
ten years of labor with that institution.
He improves the occasion to invite the
ten classes that have graduated under
= his administration to a reception at the
close of the coming commencement ex-
ercises.
The fifth annual reunion of Company
C, I'd Vermont was held at BrattlebOrO
the other day. OF the 50 original MEM
: bers who went to the front "a are dead,
"a are living with their postOtfice ad-
dresses known, and there are IA of whom
nothing is known.
l The weary and woe-begone expression
a of the dyspeptic is soon changed into
1 one of health and hilarity by using Lax
ador. 1t only costs % cents.
:, When your child is suffering, give it
+ DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup, which it will at
: once relieve and permantly cure by its
h soothing action. Price 25 cents.
!. DIR. S. II. Foster, graduate of Mid
f dlebury College in the class 1870, COM
S mitted suicide at Malone, n. Y, the
a cher day by taking morphine. He had
r been in the place several weeks and pre-
Y tended to represent medical book pub
a fishing house. He had long been addict
r ed to the use of morphine and was dissi-
!; pated. He leaves no family.
c Clinton Smith of Middlebury has ac-
+. cepted the position of supervisor OF
II buildings erected by the war department.
), 1t seems that the erection of structures
o Of one sort and another for the use of
& the army has hitherto been supervised