Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-07-09


build a new gymnasium. Among the
gifts was a check for $1,000 from Gov
ernor Mccullough.
The secretary Of war has told Gen
Dodge and others that the graduates
of Norwich University and military
college will stand next to West Point
cadets in consideration for appoint
meut to commissions in the regular
army. Many of the Norwich boys are
now in the service, and within the
year three OF the graduates of last
years class have received appoint
ments.
An important feature of commence
ment week at the U. V. NJ, Burling-
ton, was the decision reached to APP
point a committee to raise Sl,0OO,000
by June, 1904. The centennial cele
bration of the university will be held
then and the fund will be known as the
University of Vermont centennial
fund. About $50 of the alumni, among
them many men of wealth, took hold
of the idea with enthusiasm, and the
committee will be appointed at once
and the work of raising the fund be-
| gun.
Hon Mason S. Stone, former super
intendent Of schools for Vermont, and
who has recently returned from the
Philippines, says he does not care to
be quoted as to his opinion of the
islands He said all the Vermont
people there we're we'll and in good
spirits when he left. He has no inten-
ton of going back unless it be in ten
years from now to witness the prog
ress that will have been made. He
says that the United States is "God's
country" and that he is willing to
stay here.
In most OF the New England states
there are large areas Of waste land
coming up to white pine, which, if pro-
tected and encouraged, will soon be-
come valuable timber. A study of
these areas in southeast Maine, south
ern New Hampshire and parts of YER
mont, the north tier of counties in
Massachusetts, and a part of Plymouth
county, and some areas in Rhode Is
land and Connecticut, will be made
this summer by S. N, Spring of the
bureau of forestry. The work will be-
gin near Mt Monadnock. This will be
a continuation of the same work be-
gun last year by the bureau under Al
bert w. Cooper.
j. H. Senter and e. II. Deavitt re-
turned to Montpelier Friday from
Newport where they went to complete
arrangements for the mid summer
meeting of the Vermont Bar sssocia-
ton. This meeting will be held on
Wednesday Aug 5,
The contract for building the pa
tients' ward and surgical department
Of the Thompson hospital at Brsttle-
boro has been let to g. h. Cutting &
Co., of Worcester. Both will be fire.
proof structures, modern in every APP
pointment.
The executive con mittee Of the
Vermont Fish and Game League have
decided to hold the annual midsum.
mer meeting and banquet at Fort
Frederic, N. T., Friday, September
4, going on the steamer Chateaugay
from Burlington. No speakers have
yet been secured, bus arrangements
are nov under way.
Michael Shea of North Pownsl for
| msrly OF Cheshire Mass, secured hil
liquor license Tuesday and opened tbs
Barber hotel Wednesday of last week
J Although great opposition was made
/ to the granting Of the license by many
{ Of the best citizens it was granted
) The hotel is too near the Congrega
tional church to meet the require
! ments of the Law.
s Mrs Charles Sumner Of LUDLOW has
some novel pets in the shape of three
| lynXes, less than two weeks old, which
she captured IL the woods near there
few days ago. Mrs Sumner wa'
proceeding through the woods with
her young son when suddenly large
female lynx emerged from the bushes
near by and ran away. Hearing the
Z mewing Of kittens in ths direction
from which the lynx had come, Mr.
: Sumner investigated and found the
three kittens in the hollow log.
The books of she listers show that
property valued at more than a million
dollars in the city of Montpelier ia
exempt from taxation. The larger
items that go to maze up this large
SUN are; churches, s236, 500; state
property, 1855, 600; stone sheds, $40,