The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-14
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of interest From Fourteen coun-
ties OF State.

Items Of interest From Fourteen coun-
ties OF State.
Dwight and Ward Joslin OF West
field aged IL and years respectively.
have flock OF fifty pullets which have
laid 20S eggs In two weeks,
! During September, Oocober and No
yember there were AZ deaths In the
city Of Rutland as compared with 81
the corresponding months last year
Samuel G. Bgown OF Brattleboro
laborer, has filed petition In bank
ruptcy. He has liabilities of $396.05
and assets of $539.33, of -hich 1928 is
claimed exempt.
A. b. Kingsland OF Burlington has
been granted patent for improve
ments In portable ovens. Mr.. Kings
land intends to begin manufacturing
as soon as he completes his arrange
ments to do so.
Rutland milk dealers have greatly
improved the cleanliness Of their out
put the past year Analysis of sam
pies from 23 diaries shows that only
six were dirty while last year only one
was clean.
The Passumpsic Savings bank, st.
Johnsbury announces an increase in
its dividend rate to per cent, annually
beginning January /. This action
makes all three Of the savings institu-
tons in st. Johnsbury on the same div
idend basis.
The collections In the customs dis
trict Of Vermont for the month of No
vember amounted to $52,417.S2. The
collections for the same period last year
amounted to $61 ,30640 The value of
the merchandise exported last month
was $714,533.
The second largest spire of granite
ever taken from Milestone hill to Bar
re was that quarried by Il. l.. Smith &
Co. this week. It measures in the
rough feet at the base, is so feet
long and weighs go tons. II Is des-
tined for Cincinnati.
John Savard, charged with burglar
izing the office of Dougless e. Frenette
at Winooski, and taking therefrom sew
eral coats and tools, has been bound
over to the March term of county court
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two coats which were afterward iden-
titled as the missing garments. Upon
this evidence he was arrested.
George Murray of Rutland, engineer
Of the gravel train which ran into the
mixed train at Vergennes year ago,
was one Of those persons against whom
the Addison county grand jury report
ed indictments. He has been arrested
at Rutland on the charge of manslaugh-
ter. Bail is fixed at $4,000. He is
still in Jail.
The prison board of Washington
county has voted to buy small wood
lot, situated as near Montpelier as
practicable, to establish a wood yard
in the city, and to put some Of the
county prisoners into the woods chop
ping. others hauling the wood to the
yard aud to keep others at work in
the yard putting the wood in market
able shape.
Arthur Austin OF Randolph mar
rowly escaped drowning one day last
week when he ventured too near a
thin place in the ice while skating.
But for the fact that he was in COM
pany with others he probably could
not have been rescued Carroll Wal
bridge succeeded in bringing him out
OF the water not a moment too soon,
and in the effort endangered his own
life as well.
In the town Of Bethel, with popu-
lation OF 1890 people, reside nine
nonogenarians, whose names and ages
at their first birthday anniversary
were as follows: Mrs. Elizra Fisher,
.. 81; Miss Nancy Townsend, 90; Oliver
, G.. Bowen. &C. Miss Lucena Parker
90; Augustus F. Hunton, 81: Mrs. Eu-
nice Lincoln, 81; S. Charter Durham.
; 81; Mrs. Angelina Copeland, 90; Mrs.
Hannah Spaulding so.
Report comes from Canaan of a
great freshet as the result of continu.
Gus rainfall since Monday night
> which has caused considerable prop
/. erty damage in that section where
7 Vermont and New Hampshire meet at
! the Canadian border. A portion of the
big wooden dam which keeps back
.. the waters of Wallis pond on the
! Canadian boundary line five miles
from Canaan village, broke away
Wednesday. The flood carried away a
; considerable portion of the Van Dyke
and Drew companies big lumber mill
: and small clapboard mill belong
: ing to the Jesse Hunt estate, and two
: bridges, one of which had been newly
I built of iron. The loss already caused
| will amount to several thousand dol
| lars. The water In Otter Creek at Yer
| gennes les higher than for many years
| and large quantities of floodwood are
| being brought down to the falls. The
| ice went out of the Winooski river al
Montpelier Tuesday evening. AL
though the water is high, no serious
1 damage has been done