The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-07-13
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun-
ties Of State.

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Charles G. Wilson OF burlington has
received n Rhodes scholarship appoint
ment.
Ex-senator and Mrs. George +, Ed.
munds who have been passing week
at Lake Mansfield Stowe, have now
gone to their summer home ON the
New Jersey coast
The Vermont Kennel club has ar.
ranged with the Rutland county fair
officials TO give a dog show at fair
time I'm the building now used as the
Park theatre. An exercising ring will
be built and the dogs will be judged
from the stage. AZ least 200 dogs will
be entered.
u. II. Norris, an employee OF the
Bristol Manufacturing company. on It's
team, was thrown from the wagon
Tuesday striking on his head and
shoulders. lie was taken 10 his home
and Il was at first thought that his
neck was broken. lie Is In critical
condition.
A son OF Gabe Senior OF Warren has
pital, Burlington. In n badly battered
condition. lie picked up cannon
firecracker. the fuse OF which he sup
posed had gone out. His left hand
was shattered. the fingers on his right
hand viii have 10 be amputated and
his left hip Is Injured.
Louis Young OF Fair Haven, aged
al 4
death Tuesday while digging In a ditch
when the sides OF the trench cayed In.
burying him 20 above the waist Two
OF the mans ribs were fractured and
Il IL feared that he may have been In
iured internally. Young was dug out
OF the hard crust aud removed 20 his
home. lie IL married and has a fam
lily. II Is believed that h. viii recoy-
or.
Erwin IIier OF Monkton who July 4.
shot himself with suicidal intent. ~ IN
a critical condition at the Mary Flet
cher hospital with slight hopes OF re-
coverS The bullets passed between
the first and second. second and third
and third and fourth ribs and II Is con
sidered remarkable that instant death
did not result. The cause OF the act
is supposed 30 be a love affair. Mr.
HER Is % years old
Plans have been prepared for n com.
plete plant for the Frary Manufactur-
ing company Of Essex Junction TO be
erected nc Rocky dale near Bristol.
where the company viii move " en-.
tire plant and business. The new
plant will consist OF a mill building.
90 by 100 feet. three dry houses. 10
by 80. a storage shed. n by Sc: and a
boiler house and shaving shed. "a by
q feet. An Office l6 by rs feet will
also b. attached TO the mill.
AZ the meeting OF the Lake Cham.
plain precautionary commission OF Yer
mont held at the Van Ness house Bur.
lington. Wednesday afternoon. n reso-
luton was passed extending an inyit.
alton toahc New York commission Ca
visit burlington at an early date for a
conference. II was suggested IN the
resolution that In case the New York
members Of the New York commission
found Il inconyenient to come 90 bur
lingion. that the meeting be- held NJ
Blun Point. y. y.
Through the courtesy Of Charles NJ.
Russell of Wilmington. Gen. T. s.
Peck Of burlington h enabled to cor.
rect a statement made by him that
Dana a. Whitney of Company u
tWoodstock ist Vt Regiment was
the first soldier from this state Killed
In the War of the Union. II appears
that Corps Russell ~. BENJAMIN oi
Company &. uirattleborol. End VI
Regiment. was the first soldier Killed
Corporal BENJAMIN met his death ai
the Rattle ~ Bull Run. July "a. 1861
and Private Whitney nj Newport News
Va. July p. 1861. one day later.