The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-11-27
DEFERRED VERMONT NEWS.

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and three of his ribs were broken.
There is talk of establishing button
factory in Bethel, the buttons to be made
of vegetable ivory.
The Fall Mountain Paper Company of
Brattleboro are cutting 100000 feet of
wood into pulp each week.
Ed. Adams of Williamstown was re-
Gently thrown from his carriage and one
leg and one rib were broken.
d. p. Coveny and wife of Danville were
thrown from their carriage short time
ago. Mrs. Coveny having one arm broken
and an ankle sprained
Maj. Gen. Truman Seymour, who died
in Florence, Italy, Oct. 3Oth, was ma
tive of Burlington and graduate from
West Point in the class of 1912. He
served with distinction in both the Next
can war and the Rebellion.
The first locomotive entered the town
of Bristol about noon October Both. The
first rail was laid in the town the same
day. The first train load of gravel was
track is laid to within about one-fourth
of a mile of the passenger station.
There are more business blocks, more
houses, shops and stone sheds being
built this year in Barre than in any year
in its history. Barre will put over $500,
600 into business blocks, houses, etc., this
year, and will add more than 1000 to her
population. Barre has never had q more
prosperous year than the one soon to
eud.
Says Middlebury item: There was a
light rain Wednesday, which replenished
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this immediate vicinity. In Bridport,
eight miles west, the drought has been
unprecedented for several years. Farm
ers in some parts of the town have been
obliged to drive their stock several miles
to get water.
The Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
Company of Montpelier has recently cut
down the amount of insurance or can
celled the policies in about 1000 of the
1000 risks that it had in Poultney and
CastleJon. This action was the result of
the work of a special examiner, who
gave his attention to the matter for sew
eral weeks.
There were two failures in Brattleboro
last week, making six that have occurred
in that town since the opening of the
new year, the total thus far during the
year 1891 having been more than in any
previous recent five years. One of the
failures was that of lumber dealer George
Ii. Reed, and the other of Ross White,
manufactures Of toilet paper packages,
blank books, etc.
S. A. Howard, who for many years has
been the superintendent of the Vermont
Marble Company's works at Centre Rut-
land, will be transferred to west Rutland,
where he will have charge of all the mills
and the finishing shop, while George G..
Robinson, heretofore at West Rutland,
VIII be the superintendent of all the
quarries and of the Clarendon and Pitts
ford railroads affairs at that place. This
change will probably come January l.
Mrs William Lang of Greensboro has a
canary bird that sings the tune of gospel
hymns, in imitation of small boy, who
whistles them.
Mrs George Baker of West Concord,
who has been i'll jumped out of the win
dow recently in her night clothing and
wandered several hours before found
what makes you look so happy p"
asked Middlebury merchant of farmer
the other day. Just three things" re-
piled the farmer; big crops, fine weather
and the Mckinley law
The old Drew or Taplin boarding house
of Barre is being remodeled into an auc-
ton room. The house was built about
80 years ago, and in one of the partitions
torn out was found a skeleton of what is
supposed to be a mink, which had re-
manned there all this time.
The trial of Willis Barker, formerly of
Brandon, for the shooting of John b.
Venus in Pueblo, Col, few weeks ago,
came off in that city Nov. rs. Barker
plead guilty to manslaughter in the first
degree and was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for three years, although his coun-
sci laOored for the lightest sentence, one
year. There were eXtenuating circum-
stances.
The canal of the National Metal Edge
Box Company of ReadSboro, which was
SO badly washed out three months ago,
was only half full of water when 100 by
30 feet of the wall began to tip and in a
few hours it went into the river. followed
by the double planking and gravel. Over
900 carloads of gravel were dumped
into the hole and 10000 feet of lumber
used, beside the stone work. A trestle
has been put across the canal and 60 to
| so men are employed night and day with
a gravel train and steam shovel repairing
the break. 1t is expected that the work
will be completed in about two weeks.