The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-08
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun.
ties Of State.

SchoOl mas Deen closed Tor the present.
The milk dealers In Brandon have
| advanced the price of milk TO seven
cents quart, this price to continue
until May next.
The Barre Merchants association
wants cleaner money in circulation
| there and a committee has been an.
pointed to take the matter up with the
banks.
The corn canning factory at Wind.
sor. the largest in the country, has In.
creased the price that will be paid
farmers for next seasons crop from
| Sl4 to SIG ton.
Two good cows and two year old
steer have mysteriously disappeared
from pastures in Barnard. Search has
revealed no trace OF their whereabouts
and no breaks in fences have been
| found.
1t is now thought that Armour and
German who escaped from the state
| prison at Windsor have made good
their escape as there has not been
| the least trace of them obtained, not
even report from the outlying dis
tricts.
An interesting agent who left wide
trail of signs behind him was held up
| by the Peru authorities and notified
that unless he went back on his tracks
and tore down his placards he would
be arrested. He submitted and left
for parts unknown.
DR.. B. F. Millington of South Lon
donderry, has twin brother who
lives in Harrisburg, Penn. The latter
has been visiting the doctor and to-
gether they have had considerable fun
fooling people as 1t Is we'll nigh i'm
possible to tell them apart.
Ezra Edison of Chester aged 81 years
has this year planted and taken care
of three-fourths of an acre of potatoes
raising 1870 bushels. He has husked
200 bushels of corn this fall and be-
tween times taken long walks each
day to keep in condition for more hard
work to come.
Word has been received in Rutland
of the death at Manila October "a, of
Corp. Fl. A. Congdon, son of II. z.
Congdon of Rutland. The deceased
had been in the United States army
nine years and at the time OF his death
was serving in Co X, Ind Inf. He
leaves beside his father four sisters
and one brother in Rutland.
The Windsor Machine company dis
charged upwards of one hundred men
because of the disturbed condition of
| h.N IL
SUSPENSION of the Westinghouse con.
Germs at Pittsburg. That the step
was only a precautionary one is
shown by the fact that nearly fifty of
the men have been taken back.
George Tudor of Brattleboro will
leave soon for the White Mountains
where he has taken the contract to
saw about 50,0O0,O0O feet of lumber.
Several years will be required TO com
plete the work. Mr.. Tudor formerly
carried on extensive numbering oper-
ations in Stratton and will use some of
his machinery in his new contract.
George White of Burlington was ar
rested Saturday in Rutland for intox-
ication. White, who was working the
cripple game, was seen about the
streets there with small packages of
court plaster which he was endeavor.
ing to dispose of at ten cents each,
saying that he was cripple and un-
able to work. The Rutland police de-
cided that his crippled condition was
due mainly to the liquor inside
Postmaster George H. Walker of
Westminster recently received a cur
iosity in the shape of letter which
was mailed at Bellows Falls August 10
1866 and addressed to Miss Sarah A.
Wetherell (AIrs. c. +. Rice.) The let.
ter was found in mail car few days
ago below keene, N. H., by Henry l..
! Lewis who Immediately forwarded it
to Mr.. Walker requesting him to find
the owner or some near relative. Mrs
Rice will be glad to get the letter, all
though 1t has taken AZ years to travel
from Bellows Falls to Westminster.
The mystery surrounding the dis.
| appearance of w. H. Bryant, manager
OF the Twin State Gas & Electric Co,
has not been cleared up but it is be-
lieved that Mr.. Bryant will be located
in short time. Mr.. Willard, repre-.
senting the Brattltboro office is in
New York searching for the missing
| manager, having received telegram
from Mr.. Bryant Saturday night say
ing that he had just been released
from the Bellevue hospital. The tel
egram gave no additional details Mr..
Bryant has now been missing three
weeks.
Elizabeth H. Haskell, aged II years
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G.. NJ. Has
kali of Rutland, died Saturday OF men
| nights which resulted from an injury
to the head received while bathing at
Lake Bomoseen, Castleton, last Aug
ust. The girl dove from spring
board, her head striking hard on the
| bottom OF the lake. Her mind had not
| been right since that time and four
weeks ago she became i'll and had
been rapidly failing ever since. She
| was member of the senior class in
the high school and was an athletic
| girl, always taking a prominent part
| in sports, such as skating, tennis, row
! ing and swimming. Beside her par
rents she is survived by four brothers.
Home investments for Savings Banks.
The Waterbury Record thinks that
| the plan of having their Savings bank
| deposits invested nj home aDnpalS IN