Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-20
SOME VERMONT MATTERS.
A GLANCE AT THE STATES NEWS REC
ORD FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Dreadful Death of Moretown Boy-barre 70
Have Fine New Business Block-state sugar
Makers Meeting Banner Church Town
Waterbury scalding Case Proves Fatal
Admiral Dewey Buys Summer Home in
Stamford.
Mrs. Sarah G. Bennett, who was
scalded in bathtub at the waterbury
insane hospital last week, died SUNDAY
aged a. She was formerly OF Caials
and Orange.
About 200 Montpelier women were
caught in the New England Weekly
PUB Co. swindle Of Boston recently
shown up by the newspapers. The CON
Germ is said to have accumulated as
much as s75, 200 in New England from
about 1900 people.
A big real. estate transfer, in which
the price paid was So, 800 was made
in Barre Saturday. The new owner is
TO build a fine business block on the
! land which fronts on Main street, and
which is now occupied by two houses,
meat market and barn.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
State Poultry and Pet Stock assocla-
ton was held at st. Adams Thursday
evening. II. W. Ballard of st. Adams
was elected president. 1t was voted to
hold the next show in Montpelier in
January, 1904.
It is stated that Admiral Dewey has
bought the villa and estate at STAN,
! ford adjoining the famous Rock Hlll
dairy farm, once the property OF Capt
Benjam d. Greene, who is fugitive
from justice in Quebec for connection
with the Gaynor Garter frauds in Sa-
vannah harbor, for country seat.
The officers have recovered at the
place of Herbert Durham, SALISBURY,
lot of goods, robes, blankets, chick
ems, stolen from dozen different
places in Bennington county. James
Noon, enc of the suspects. is now IN
Jail at Troy and the arrest of two
others implicated in the thefts is eX-
pected.
The Woodbury. company, offers to
build a granite shed $50 feet long,
equip the same and have it ready for
the manufacture of granite by Aug l,
if the town of Bethel will buy for the
company the Noble land lying between
the railroad and the river, and exempt
the company from taxation for 10 years.
An effort is being made to raise the
money.
Ned, the 17-year old son of Charles
Rowell of Jones Brook, was run over
and killed Friday while drawing wood
with steers from the mountains in
4 Moretown. about six miles from Mont
pelier. He was found by his father I'M
derneath the forward runner, which
rested on his stomach and heart. His
father had to unload the wood TO pry
him out 1t is believed he fell off the
sled and was caught by the runner.
/ Lyndon is the banner church town In
the United States, so statistics prove.
When the Baptists build their new
church at Lyndonville, the town, with
an estimated population of 1000, VIII
| have 10 churches, or one church to
every 800 inhabitants st. Johnsbury,
who greatly prides herself on being
religious town, is nearly doubly dls-
counted on the list. With 6200 people
she has only y places of worship, 6oo
people to one church.
AT the meeting last week of the state
sugar makers association, Victor |.
Spear of Randolph was elected presi-
dent and Homer W. Vail of Randolph,
treasurer. o. o. Ware of Wilmington
was elected a member of the executive
committee The manager of the Yer
mont maple sugar makers reported
profit of S67l for the year and divi-
dend of 3 per cent on the stock was
declared The business was doubled
! last year and the association will place
salesman on the road. The next
meeting will probably be at Stowe.
! Martin L. Washburn of Randolph
received last week from Alaska box
containing an unusually complete spec
/ linen of the tusk that adorned the up
per jaw of some prehistoric mammoth.
/ The tusk was exhumed by gold miners
in the Yukon valley, within the Arctic
circle. at a depth of about 25 feet from
/ the surface, and reposed in bed of
blue clay. 1t measures 6la feet in
/ length from the base, which joined the
skull, to its tip, which is dull point.
/ 1t is to be mounted in a suitable frame
and will be presented to the Kimball
| library by Mr.. Washburn. 1t is said
to be one of the best specimens of the
mammoth tusk in existence, even SUI
perior to those in the Smithsonian in
Sti at WaSbiu notion