The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-03-17
N y Pills
- EE~E T." Keep them in the house. Take
IN - w. ~M one when you feel bilious or
n dizzy. They directly on
- e. the liver. SaHH'sso Mass:

es..=ss..g.EEzsss 2
cavalry, Troop A, 60 men and Ga
horses; Troop B, SO men and &C
horses; Troop O, "a men and 81
horses; Troop d, 63 men and IS
horses; Troop l, Al men and 81 horses
Troop K, 81 men ard 5S horses Troor
l., 53 men and 60 horses Troop M,
46 men and As horses 23rd battery,
f. A, 106 men and SO horses; 9th
battery, f. A., 100 men and % horses
hospital corps, 10 men.
The insurance commissioners, #. c..
Fleetwood and John L. Bacon, report
the losses by fire in the counties dur.
ing the year 1908 as follows Ad-
olson, 49, SlO2, S72; Bennington, n,
SAG, 1888; Caledonia, 80, $40, O27; Chit
tenden, 1874, S9S, III Essex, SO, $50, SS1 :
Franklin, III, SAB, 9O5; Grand isle,
., 81, SIC; Lamoile, 80, S1S, 9O6 /;
Orange, 66, 1872, 232 Orleans, 81, SOS.
950; Rutland 1856, $173, Sol; Washing
ton, 11s, 1853, SO7; windham, SO,
SOL, 002; Windsor, 50, $57, 81 Total,
1, 1870 fires; $1,OOl, 4O4. The losses by
months were as follows: January. III,
SSl, 1888; February, 80, $179, 412 March,
80, $50, 708; April, 90, $93, 1874; May,
1871, 5SS, 500: June, SO, 500, 434; July,
l1S, 1913, 1893; August, SO, S44, 315; Sep
tembe rs, 500 965; October, 81, Sol, =
1872; November, ~, $40, 649; Deem
Ger, 100, S106, 2l2; Total fires, 1,12O;
81, O01, 404
1t seems that every one does not
know that receipts of the license law
go into our highway fund, but such is
the case. The total receipts up to
December l, according to the State
treasurer's report, were $56, 2l5. OF,
and of costs paid $7,219 81, leaving a
balance of $4S, 800. 40 to be added to
the State highway fund and distrib-
uted among the several towns of the
State. This will give each town SO. 80
for each mile of highway, or an aver
age of 5000 each.
Gov. J. G. Mccullough has asked
the State board of health that room
i'll the State laboratory of hygiene in
Burlington be furnished government
chemists to enable them to make an.
alysis of the water of Lake Cham
plain. Specimens will be obtained
through the ice and it is expected that
work will begin soon.
One of the interesting relics OF the
early days of Bennington is the old
house in the west part OF the town
known as the Hartman tavern, which
has rassed almost out OF knowledge
of the Oldest lnhabitant The old
house, which has been used for
storehouse for the past forty years,
was built by Daniel Hartman about
1855 and was popular inn for many
years. 1t was the headquarters of
Ger. John Stark just before the battle
of Bennington, and 1t was in this old
inn that he took breakfast the morn
ing of the battle. AT that time there
were no less than seven inns in the
town, and this is the last one stand
ing. 1t is a spacious building in ap-
pearance, but is in a dilapitated con-
dition, and from all appearances will
not survive the storms of many more
winters, For a number of years it
has been owned by William Baker and
Sons.
There is opposition to building a
new public bridge between Bellows
Falls and North Walpole, though the
town at the annual meeting voted
S25, 600 toward the cost. A special
meeting to resoind tins vote will be
held March 26. Walpole voted Tues
day to appropriate $40, 900 for the
building fund.
The Burlington liquor commission
ers have already had three applica-
tions for license, and it looks now as
it there will be as many as last year,
when there were sixty.
Last year the ice went out of the
Connecticut river the latter part of