The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-02-10
ANANIAS
ABROAD
Vermont Weather Reports
from South Carolina.
SOMEWHAT STARTLING
Half a PailfuI of Water Boiled
while the Other Half
FrOze Solid.
SOMEWHAT STARTLING

The following is the way the story
OF Vermont's recent cold spell was told
in the Columbia, South Carolina News
and proves anew the old saw about
going away from home to get the news:
REPORTS concerning tie cOldest
wave since 1872 are coming in as the
citizens thaw out, and if the 'oldrst
inhabitants" who Keep tab on the
weather TO the exclusion of all else,
are to be believed, spirit thermometers
indicated IS degrees below zero, says
a Montpelier, Vt, special. One man
living in Bradford solemnly declares
that it was sixty below at his farm,
but his neIghbors say he is an Ananias
as the most trustworthy thermometer
registered 8.
Everyone expected that Barnard,
which has a fus'-ra'e climate, except
bout three months ia th' summer,
when We hevt drag round on wheels, "
would break the record But il didn't
bee ,use all the thermometers in the
place froze up. one man AYERS that
the cold got SO intense that many of
the incandescent bulbs in the villag.
blew up.
"At Bethel, r. Il. i. Long, pastor
of the Congregational church, went
out to look at his mercury thermome-
ter and couldn't find the mercury He
was forced totake "a spirit affair to To-
cate The temperature at A. All the
water pipes in his slown froze solid and
no school could be kept because the
pupils refused to sit in 6-below tenn
perature
"Miss Blanche Smith OF Waterbury,
tried to go to the True Manufacturing
Company's Office where she worked.
She got there, but with her whole face
so badly frozen that DR.. G. S Bid.
we'll says that he is "afraid it will
come on" In thenearbl town of r m
dolph, large water pipe in the Sa is
bury mill burst and flooded the build
ing. The authorities would not allow
the main to be shut for fear all the
pipes in the town would freeze, so in a
short time the mill took on the appear
ance of an iceburg.
"E S. Gokay of Bennington thought
it was going to be exceptionally cold
Tuesday night and built a rousiug fire
in his sitting room stove. Before he
went to bed he placed bucket of wat
er in chair alongside the stove. At
midnight he heard an explosion, aud
jumping up found water in one-half of
the pail hot and the other half frozen.
The contracting of the pail threw half
the fluid on the floor. A few minutes
later the hot water heater attached
the kitchen stove blew up and wrecked
the room. The same thing happened
in Mrs William Haythorne's kitchen.
Deputy Sheriff Spafford of White
River Junction, tried on Thursday to
serve fifty subpoenas in the town Of
Rochester in connection with the JOS
eph Bean murder case. The way lay
over the mountains, and in the snow
and cold, the sheriff lost his overshoes,
froze his feet and nearly lost one
horse. In one house he found wom-
an going out in bare feet. She said
she didn't mind the weather and was
saving her shoes. She said If she wen
to court, it would be in her bare feet
The judge ought to be able to stand it
if she could, she declared.
"''Trains have all been late because
of the difficulty experienced in making
steam. One engineer on the Rutland
railroad swears that the escaping
steam from his locomotive turned into
mist and then fell in thin sheet of
milk white ice. Several stages have
been stalled in the snow and many
stories of narrow escapes are told. At
Londonderry, where the temperature
WI, 80 c4ioN On Tuesday the s't,e
| got stuck ana the passengers we're res
cued after a frightful experience. At
Peru, where there was fall of ten
feet, the stage had similar expert