The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-29
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun.
ties of State.

Mrs. Phoebe Burleigh Of Waterbury
Center celebrated her seth birthday
Anniversary last Thursday.
The Rev. George Pomfrey began the
duties OF his now passionate Of the Bap
tist church in Brandon Sunday.
William Furey OF Barre has filed
petition in bankruptcy. He has liza
bilities of $S99l6 and no assets.
'rhe flock of sheep owned by Nathan
Sykes OF Wells was visited by dogs
last week. twelve animals being kill
ed.
T. herd OF % cattle owned by Bert
Morrill, of Newport was tested recently
for tuberculosis and IA were found in
fected.
The force of letter carriers in Brat
tleboro will be increased to seven. 1t
has been impossible to handle the
amount of mail received there daily,
and often considerable mail has been
returned to the Office by the carriers
who were not able to deliver ii in he
eight hour limit.
A self playing organ which has al.
ready attracted considerable attention
in the music trade and is likely TO
meet with an extensive sale as soon as
its good qualities have been demonstra
ted 20 the music-loving public is now
being put on the market by the Car.
pentcr company of Brattleboro.
Robert c. Lynch, agent for the New
Work. En1n dino aculnpt NJ NJ hog i,,g
been in Rutland visiting the children
he has placed with families in that vi
cinity, says that in the past II years
he has found homes IN Roman Catho-
lie families in that vicinity for about
80 children and without exception
these have been well cared for and ed.
ucated.
The Brattleboro branch of the Nat.
ional Novelty company began last
week to run on five-day schedule to
continue until the last two weeks in
December, during which time the fac
tory will close for inventory. After
January the company hopes to begin
on full working time again. 1t is un-
derstood that the short time schedule.
is put into operation on account of the
tight money market.
Several pupils in the Plainfeld vii
lage school were partially overcome
by coal gas the other day, cold air
drafts having. unbeknown TO the teach
ers, become closed so that the gas
from the furnace escaped into the
rooms. The first warning received
was when one of the young women
tainted and someone from outside en-
tered the room at that time and dis
covered the trouble.
The marriage November Is of AL
bert Il. Caswell to Mrs. Alice NJ. Cas-
well OF st. Johnsbury has started lot
of inquiry as TO who's who in this fam
lily. Mr.. Caswell married his brothers
widow and as she was his first wife's
daughter he has now married his step
daughter The bride has half-sister
living in town, Mrs. Carl r. Gognon,
and she becomes by this marriage the
stepdaughter OF her half-sister.
Reliable estimates place the value
of the South Hero apple crop at $50,
600. Two thousand barrels have been
picked from some orchards. The fruit
has not been so plentiful this year as
in some other seasons but the prices
are good. II is said that the dairy
products of the island will equal in val
ue the apple crop Last year the So.
Hero creamery produced $4,000 worth
of butter and this creamery will prob
ably exceed that amount this year.
Alonzo b. Corliss, aged SO years,
who died recently at Old Bridge, n. j.,
was born in East Corinth and passed
his early life in Vermont. He was a
veteran school teacher having been en-
gagged in that occupation for over 60
years. He began teaching when only
a youth of fifteen years and followed
it up until within six years ago. He
vas teaching in the South at the time
the War OF the Rebellion broke out.
He was also taught in the Middle
West and in New Jersey where he
died
Charles +. Brown of South Newfane
who has Just been granted teachers
life certificate, has an enviable record
in his work which he began 80 years
ago. Only two years during that time
mas he Detli Out VI SCuOOt NOTh, tNO
years he taught four terms each year;
the other years with few exceptions
three terms each, making an aggregate
of more than one hundred terms. His
work as teacher has been in four
states, Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa
and Michigan-ten years in the West
twenty-nine in the East.
Mrs Jennie b. Powers of Brattle
boro whose humane society work has
affected several Vermont cattle ship
pers, celebrated November 20 the it'll
ami, ersary of her appointment as ag-
ent of the Keene, n. H., Humane socie-
ty. During her services she has inves
tigated more than 1900 cases, shot 80
horses, TOUR cows, 81 dogs and cats,
sheep and hens, She has cared for
80 children, made 81 arrests, and Sc
cured SO convictions. She has also in
spected nearly every cattle train which
passed through Keene and when bad
conditions were found caused improve
mcnt.
Probe For MIX Trust.
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