The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-10-05
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of interest From Fourteen coun.
ties Of State.

ties OF otdte.
Over one-half the pupils In the "Riv-
crside" school, Wolcott, have whoop.
ing cough.
Mrs. Nelson Peppin of Winooski
who died recently is survived by five
brothers and twelve sisters and half
sisters.
John McCarragher aged "a years,
who died at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. J. A. Purcell in Orwell September
"A. was a veteran Of the Mexican war.
1t is rumored that before January I
next a new bank will be opened in
Middlebury with well known capitalists
of that and neighboring towns as stock
holders.
Churchill & Udall have leased the
Fife sawmill at Wolcott and put ii In
repair and will stock II the coming win
ter. At present they are dressing lum-
Der from their North Wolcott mill.
A six legged calf is the latest ven
ture promoted by J. W. Ketchum of
vergennes. He exhibited the freak at
the Windsor county fair attending to
the barking" personally the first day.
Court William French. No. 4, For
esters of America Bellows Falls, OBJ.
served its fifteenth anniversary Thurs.
day evening. The organization has
two hundred active names on its rolls.
At least eight deer have been killed
n Shushan. N. Y. during the past
month and as Ii is said deer were new.
er seen in that locality before 1t is
supposed they crossed the border from
Vermont
Ira Humphrey of West Burke, lost
five cows the other day. He was driv.
ing them across the railroad track
when wild engine running backward
struck the herd and literally ground
the animals to pieces.
pair of oxen owned by Albert
Murray. of Warren, were instantly
killed by a falling tree in terrific
storm. An orchard on the Matthews
place In the same town was uprOoted
by the same hurricane.
The members of the Vermont asso
citation of Nashua, n. H., have extend
ed an invitation to the members of the
Manchester. N. H., Vermont assOcia
ment and luncheon at Nashua Novem
Der 6.
While Roy Thomas, OF Woodstock
was working on the edge Of the slate
roof OF the Jail building his ladder
toppled over. He caught an electric
light wire and hung high above the
pavement until ladder was erected
so that he could descend.
Ralph J. Eldridge has become man
ager of the Brattleboro exchange o
the New England Telephone 4 Tele
graph Co., succeeding Carl Henkel
manager for the past fifteen years
Mr.. Henkel will remain in BrattlebOr,
but will engage in other work.
Chester Hawkins of Vergennes /
seriously i'll at the Mary Fletcher hos
pital. Burlington, of blood poisoning II
one knee. The disease was contracte
by being kicked by COW. The youn
man has undergone an operation bu
his condition is considered critical.
Mrs. Il. NJ. Kimball of Washington
d. c.. formerly of Montpelier, althoug
81 years old has occupied the sam
desk i'm the treasury department fC
43 years and is still actively engage
there. She lives seventeen miles OH
side the city and rides back and fort
every day.
A second attempt has been made 4
rob the toll station of the New En-
land Telephone & Telegraph Co.
the Rutland railroad station. I'll
! woud.be thief pried off the outsi(
cover but when he struck the met
, coin safe he became discouraged al
gave up the job.
As Joseph Hooker of Forestdale az,
four years, was whiting a piece
wood last Saturday his knife slipp,
and went into his right eye, cutting
seriously. He was taken to the Ma
Fletcher hospital, Burlington, whe
they are in hopes to save the eye, ;
though the sight is gone.
The Holmes Iron company of R,
land, with a capital stock of $500
has filed articles of association in Il
Office of the secretary of state, MOI
pelier. This company is formed (
the purpose of operating foundry al
machine shop, manufacturing engin
and boilers and dealing in iron al
steel
A weak stomach causing dyspepsia,
n weak heart with palpitation or int
U mittent pulse, always means WEI
:. Stomach nerves or weak Heart nerve
Strengthen these inside or controllil
nerves with DR.. Shops Restorati
and see how quickly these ailmen
disappear. DR.. Shoop Of Racine, Wi