The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-27
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun-
ties Of State.

About 80 women of Middlebury have
organized a Village Improvement So
ciety.
Marshall Richards recently saw 20
deer, all does, In his fathers sugar
place at Binghamyllle.
Rev. l.. A. Vezina has completed the
census Of St Peters parish OF Yer
gennes and found 974 people.
The current issue of The Bohemian
magazine contains story entitled TO
Her Mrrored Self,' by Frank l.. Free
man OF the staff of the Burlington
Daily News.
II. o, Whitney of Williston has
bought half interest in the lumber
and manufacturing business of S. A.
Brownell of Essex Junction and will
have general charge of the same.
The house occupied and owned by
Wesley Church of North Groton who
hanged himself few months ago has
been sold to the town to defray the fu-
neral expenses of the suicide.
Bequests amounting to $4,000 to
two Burlington institutions, the Home
OF Aged Women and the First Congre-
gational Unitarian society, left by
the late Edward Wells, of that city,
have just been paid.
Montpelier dealers are retailing
choice turkeys for from 80 to 80 cents
pound with prospects that the pri-
ces will go lower. This is from two
to three cents pound less than they
were sold for last Thanksgiving
o. b. Hinkley of South Randolph
who was arrested charged with not
providing proper shelter for his cattle
pleaded guilty and his fine and costs
amounted to $11.35. He also had to
agree TO furnish better accommoda
lions.
Robert Bourne of Burlington who
while at Pleasant Valley several weeks
at the opening of the deer season ac-
cidentally shot himself, has returned
| to his home. He is recovering rapid
| ly and will be able to be about in
short time.
North Hero farmers believe that be-
| fore summer hay will bring $40 a ton
and they are holding for the high
price. Last week 2l0 tons were ship
ped from the North Hero bridge by
boat to New York, the price paid being
SIS ton loose.
John Ryan a tramp who claims res
| idence at Montreal was brought be-
| fore Justice Moulton of Vergennes
Monday morning and sentenced to
| serve 80 days in Addison county jail
He was taken to Middlebury Monday
| by Officer Garrow
Senator w. p. Dillingham; and his
| friends have never been satisfied with
the oil portrait of the senator which
was hung a few weeks ago in the exc
cutive chamber at the state house,
| Montpelier, and the portrait has now
been shipped to New York TO be re-
| touched
| Following the request of the state
board OF railroad commissioners that
| the Central Vermont railway passen-
ger station at Montpelier should be put
| in more tidy condition, an additional
man has been engaged for this work
and the station already shows the re-
suit OF his labors.
Bert Martell and Lucy Norton Sart-
we'll whose much tangled matrimonial
relations resulted in their arrest re-
Gently. on account of the technical
questions involved were not tried at
the recent term of Orleans county
| court. Their troubles have been pass
ed to the supreme court for analysis.
Andrew j. Mills of Montpelier who
eight weeks ago was seriously injured
while jumping from an upper story
window In his home which was on fire
has just been discharged from the
| Heaton hospital In that city. The fire
in which Mr.. Mills was injured caus
ed the death OF his wife.
Bound copies of the election laws
the school laws, acts bearing on agri
culture, forestry and national bank de
posits have been received by the re-
vision committee at the state house
Montpelier and have been placed II
the state library for future distribu
ton. The pamphlets containing the
school laws were turned over to Mas
on s. Stone, state superintendent of ed
ucation.
The result of the census of st. Jos
eph's Roman Catholic parish. Burling
ton. shows that there are 5256 people
in the parish, which comprises 121'
families. This is the largest parish
in the state and the work of enumera
ting its members was difficult becaus,
of the extended territory occupied BY
the parishioners, some of them living
in Underhill, Colchester. Shelburne
Jericho, Essex and Williston. The
work was accomplished alone by tn,
RI. Rev. Mgr. Cloarec, who will be =
years old next June and who July