The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-15
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun.
ties OF State.

ties Of State.
Howard Beele OF Morrisvllle noted
for his skill at the wood pile, has just
completed saving 1904 mill logs for
John Foss In twelve and one-half days.
The Rev. F. c. Putnam, formerly pas
tor OF the Congregational church at
Woodstock, has accepted call to the
Presbyterian church at Wayne, Pa,
near Philadelphia
Bellows Falls is going to have a
chapter of Daughters of the American
Revolution. The name selected is
| the william French Chapter" in
honor Of the Westminster martyr.
Midshipman Leigh Noyes, u. S. n,
a 81. Johnsbury boy, is on the gunboat
| Helena 1000 miles up the Yang Use
river This Is the third trip he has
made up the great waterway of China.
young women We're received by the
Hardwick Congregational church on
a recent Sunday. just the number that
united with the church last spring.
Miss Isabelle Phelps the youngest
| daughter Of the Rev. +. b. Phelps of
| Whiting, has just been ordained a
Congregational minister at Pittston,
Me-. She is said to be the first WON.
an ordained in that state.
| During the month of October there
were A births In Burlington. 20 girls
and 10 boys. The Oldest mother was
AZ and the youngest II years old. Dur
ing the same period there were 80
deaths, Is being females and IA males
Brattleboro liverymen have increas-
ed the price OF boarding horses so
cents week and the stable men say
that no profit is made even at the ad-
vanced figure. They pay 60 to 10
cents for oats and all kinds of feed sell
at high price.
The duties collected on merchandise
imported through the customs district
of Vermont for the month of October
amounted to $65.115.55. The collec-
tons for the same period in 1906 were
$4S.999.92. The merchandise export
ed last month totaled $70S,696.
The decree in the case brought in
| lnt tulltu otdltS NOuil aSb'A'N ~
North Pownal Manufacturing Co.. In
which receivers have been appointed
has been modified so that the receiv-
ers are authorized TO issue certificates
The previous decree did not allow the
receivers TO incur indebtedness.
Hermon and Charles Griffin OF Bar.
re who were placed on probation In
city court after pleading guilty TO tru-
ancy and were paroled in the hands OF
their father, when they got out OF
court told policeman that they would
run away as soon as they got chance
They made good their threat Saturday
morning, rising at 3 o'clock and again
running away.
Being confined in the lookup at
Bellows Falls in default of paying a
fine of 81 for letting his hens run at
large, John Angelo, fruit dealer, tried
to commit suicide by hanging himself
TO a steampipe with towel A yell
of alarm from another prisoner
down just in time.
The approach OF cold weather and
scarcity of labor has caused the sus
pension Of work on the cement barn
which Is being built on the Warner
hospital farm at Cambridge. The
walls are nearly two thirds finished
and will replace the building destroy
ed by lightning last summer, owned
by the st. Adams Hospital associa
ton.
Miss Edith Marion Stowe will leave
West Brattleboro Friday for New
York and expects to sail Monday for
Colon, Panama, TO teach in the govern
ment schools in the canal zone. She
was graduated from Brattleboro acad
envy In 1898. from the normal school
at Westfield, Mass. in 1896 and has
taught in Shelburne. Northampton and
Mount Hermon Mass.
Curtis Emo, who resides on the Shell
burne road. is wondering how he is
going to get his pay for Is bushels OF
potatoes that were delivered last Sat
urday morning to a man who drove
his team up to his door to get the po'
tatoes, he said, for c. A. Barber, Bur
lington grocer When Mr. Emo went
to Mr.. BARRIERS store Saturday even
| Ing W COHtCl HlS pay ne was dStohioh
ed to find that Mr.. Barber knew moth
ing of the transaction.
Charles McKenna, aged II years, OF
Kansas City. is working in the Bard
well house, Rutland as bell boy af
ter having worked his way the entire
, 400 miles from his home to Vermont
He started out with hardly a cent June
~ and earned his railroad fare mostly
BY working at hotels of a dozen large
cities and lake summer resorts. The
boy has kept diary showing that hi
took occasion to visit all the points o
general interest in the places he Wis
tied.
Mrs. L. f, Formey of Plainfeld ha
a 81 bill which was issued by the ok
South Royalton bank December 6, 1888
II was printed on a darker shade o
paper than is now used and one sid
is blank The figure '3" and the wor
three each appear on the face of tn
bill three times while in addition {
the usual notices the words Secure