The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-04-15
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The sportsmen of Chittenden have
organized branch club of the Vermont
Fish and Game League, known as the
Chittenden Fish and Game Club.
Lon A. Kimball, Randolph boy,
has been appointed one of commission
ers from New South Wales, Australia, to
the Worlds Columbian Exposition at
Chicago.
John K. Porter, one of the most dis
tinguished lawyers in America, died in
Waterford, N. Y, Monday morning He
was the son of DR.. Elijah Porter and was
born at Waterford, N. Y, January 18th,
1919. His father was at one time resi-
dent of Vermont.
Lewis MUIR, who came from San
Francisco to establish a shoe factory at
Burlington, has decided to move his
business to Lynn, Mass. c. w. Scharf,
who built a factory for the business at
Burlington, has brought suit to recover
1900. and Lang, Goodhue &CO., who
furnished power, light and heating, have
placed at attachment of $1,000 on the
machinery.
The New York Tribune says: ''Ex-
Senator Edmunds, who halls from State
that has not yet outlived its reputation
for good horses, was visiting Senator
Blackburn in Kentucky. And the way
in which he mounted the steeds exhibit
ed to him, put them through their PAGES
and told their ages by their teeth took
the fancy of the blue grass farmers
nightly"
-Sylvanus DEMO, native of Bakers
field, who died in Boston the other day
OF ha nf a
firm of DEMO d Roberts, which built
the first safety deposit vaults in Boston,
furnished the iron for the Suffolk and
Norfolk county jails, and had large con-
tracts with the Treasury Department at
Washington. He had been an alderman
at Boston, and held various other public
offices.
The Goth anniversary of the Burling-
ton Vermont Medical College Associa-
ton, was held Saturday and was largely
attended. The total Indebtedness of the
Association is S57,312.S3, but two gifts
of $4,000 each have been made the organ
ization and it is expected that the debt
will be reduced to $4,000. The secre-
tary's report'shows the Association in
better condition than ever before.
The will of the late DR.. Joseph ORA
requests, one of 81 900 to the Unitarian
church society, one of $4,000 for bed in
the insane hospital, of which he had
been superintendent for many years, and
one of $4,000 for the construction of a
clock tower and clock at the asylum. He
also gives the avails from the sale of
lands to the purchase of books for a
public library in Warwick, his native
place.
The sugar season is practically over
in Windham county, as it is elsewhere
in Vermont, and according to the com
mon estimate the crop has been less than
half the usual amount. AS an illustra-
ton of what the season has been Joseph
Miller of DummerstOn, who owns one of
the best known sugar orchards, has
made only 500 pounds from 525 trees, his
usual crop being not less than three
pounds to the tree. In a Guilford
orchard, where last year the crop was
$50 gallons of sirup, only 92 gallons was
made this year.
The following is the list of Memorial
Day speakers so far engaged by Vermont
Posts: Barre, Henry Ballard of Burling-
ton; Calais, A. G. Fay of Montpelier; st.
Johnsbury, ID. j. Foster of Burlington;
LyndonVllle, IL. y. baUeS OF OF. JOINS
bury; South Royalton, Hugh Henry of
Chester; Waterbury, W. L. Greenleaf of
Burlington; Montpelier, A. j. Hough of
Montpelier; Bristol, F. w. McGettrick
of st. Adams; Tunbridge, Hiram Huse
of Montpelier; Dorset, Leonard Fiske of
Burlington; Chester, Redfield Proctor of
Proctor; Stowe, Col. j. II. Goulding of
Rutland; Burlington, r v. G. H. Scott
of Cambridge, Mass; Huntington, W.
W. Lapoint, of Barre.