The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-03
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen
Counties of the State.


The Vermont Society of Santa Bar
bara. Cal, had its second annual
Thanksgiving dinner at the Potter
hotel Thursday afternoon.
Eben Wheeler of Waterbury aged
SO years, recently walked the twelve
miles from his home TO South Cabot
in four hours, but was obliged TO go
home by team.
The Grange at Sutton is consider.
ing the purchase of the building in
which the hall is located. II would re-
quire $500 but the income from rents
would make it profitable investment.
P. c. Dodge, of Randolph, the well
known newspaper man announces
that he is candidate for delegate
from the second congressional district
TO the next national Democratic con
vention.
Burlington hackmen are leading
that the way of the transgressor is
hard One Of them has just been
fined for violating the city hack ordi'
nance and 1t is said that other prose
cutlonS Will follow.
Peter Parizo, of Chelsea, has receiv-
ed $3.50 for thirty turkeys. Seventy
five hundred pounds were shipped
from there to Boston at prices rang
ing from 20 cents pound for old to
80 cents for the young turkeys.
Sylvester Daley and son, of Port
Byron, H., are visiting Mr.. and Mrs
Benjamin Daley of Montpelier Mr..
Daley left Montpelier sixty.nine years
ago, and this is the first time he has
visited Vermont in all these years.
NJ. j. Hapgood has bought 60 acres
of timber land connecting his Peru
servoir on the land Is contemplated
for trout and an extensive water pow.
er which would add much to the in
dustries OF Peru.
The wife of Edgar Sails, living on
East hill. North Troy, left home sud
denly and Unexpectedly the other
night and 1t Is said that the hired
man and a considerable sum of the
husbands money disappeared about
the same time.
Building operations in Brattleboro
| for 1907 figure total OF S125,000. This
| includes no large structures, moderate
! priced dwellings showing healthful
growth. The outlook Is favorable for
more building there the coming year
than In the one now drawing to a
close.
A New York expert, who had charge
| of the construction OF the 100000
Clark hunting lodge in Peru. put in
some fireplaces that gave promise Of
proving source OF great comfort, but
when fire was built they would not
draw at all and have had to be
rebuilt. This lodge Is four miles from
the nearest human habitation and yet
an auto road to 1t through the forest
| is planned.
+. G. Sanborn, manager of The
New York World and his brother,
William Sanborn, OF The Forest and
Stream publication OF New York, are
at the home of II. H. Howard, OF Ran
dolph, enjoying with other country
fare a barrel of butternuts that they
helped Mr. Howard gather on Bear
| hill Just thirty years ago after a
heavy fall of snow.
The total amount earned by the
prisoners of Washington county from
October | TO November % was 1892 So
The expenses were $3.50, leaving a
net profit of S97.35. A meeting of the
prison board will be held some time
next month to consider the matter OF
finding work for intoXication and
breach of the peace prisoners. During
the past few weeks there has been but
very little for them TO do
Charles o. Ormsbee Of Montpelier
has nearly one hundred books print
ed about 1920 and some published in
Vermont before then. Among them
are The American Botanist and Fami
| ly Physician" printed in 1924 by Eben
Eaton at Danville. compiled by Silas
Gaskill, and published by Jonathan
Morrison. 1t contains Indian medi
cal discoveries. Another is the Rules
and Articles of War;" containing about
everything that related to the soldier
of 1913 when it was published b,
Samuel Miles at Burlington.
A. d. Hancock of Chelsea and hi
brother, John Hancock. of Tunbridg'
went before Justice of the Peace c. b
Smith the other day and each pleade'
guilty to owning a dog that, Will
chasing rabbits. got mixed up with
deer and bit him. Each was fined $
and costs. which they paid. One o
the dogs in question was small bir'
dog, a spaniel. 1t is said that one o
the brothers, while hunting rabbit
with the two dogs, came suddenl
upon young buck that had evidentl
been shot at and received a broker
leg. Being unable to run, the buc
showed fight and the dogs bit hin
The man in charge took the dogs oil
Immediately and notified the tow
game warden, who killed the deer.