The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-30
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen
Counties Of the State.

NSHhbSo VI tUC ShdtS'
Mayor J. s. Haley of Montpelier is
steadily recovering from his dangerous
illness
The Peoples laundry, Newport, will
be closed for six or seven weeks to re-
pair the damage caused by fire Satur-
day.
The Vermont sanitorium AT Pitts
ford is practically completed and will
be opened formally Tuesday, Decem-
Der 10.
The Orleans Trust company, New
port, will raise the rate of interest to
deposltors to four per cent beginning
January l.
The Rev. l.. A. Vezina has complet-
ed the census of st. Peters Roman
Catholic parish, Vergennes, and finds
it numbers ga people,
Mrs. Mary b. Meehan of Bristol
raised Ga turkeys this fall and sold
them for 20 cents pound. As they
averaged twelve pounds and three-quar
tiers, she received something over $500.
Il. P. Haskins aged 65 years, is de-
termined to prove that ii is never too
late TO mend. Appearing in Rutland
city court to receive sentence for a
third offense of intoxication, he took
the pledge for one year and says he
believes he can keep it.
ExMayor J. F. Manning of Rutland
has been promoted to- be general mana
ger of the Colorado Yule Marble Co.,
OF Marble, Col He was formerly man
ager of the Columbian Marble Co. of
Rutland and went West only few
months ago.
A state record for the production
of milk and butter has been made by a
Holstein-Friesan COW owned by J. H.
Mead & Son of West Rutland. In four.
teen days Lady Withoorn's" record
was 1913 pounds of milk and 1876
pounds of butter. She is ten years
old.
United States Marshal Horace w.
Bailey who has been i'll for number
of months and was able only recently
to leave the Rutland hospital, where
he underwent an operation for the am
putation OF one foot, has gone to his
home in Newbury to pass the Thanks
giving season.
James A. Pollard of Chester who re-
Gently celebrated his Goth birthday an
niversary remembers that 90 years ago
when he was in the legislature that
the hard times so reduced cash In the
state treasury that the members could
not be paid off until money could be
obtained from Boston.
So confident was a resident of West
Wardsboro that man who stayed at
his house over night was Oliver Ger
main one of the convicts who escaped
from the state prison at Windsor, Oct.
81, that he notified officers at Bellows
Falls and Newfane who drove 20
miles at night only to find that 1t was
not German at all.
Commission merchants in Cincin-
natl and Chicago have bought "a car
loads of apples in Springfield. Gassets
and Windsor, and Charlestown, y. H.,
and have paid out some $4,000 TO far
mers in that section. The largest car
load contained 265 barrels and the
smallest 800 One farmer sold 2i0
barrels and had IA left.
The high water will delay the com
pletion of the great dam across the
Connecticut river near Brattleboro FIVE
or six weeks The cofferdam is again
in shape and has been raised several
feet higher than before. Washing
away the bluff on the New Hampshire
shore by hydraulic pressure. 1t is ex-
pected, will be suspended this week
for the winter.
The smallest civil docket in many
years was that of Rutland county court
at the September term just closed.
The total number OF cases, civil. Grim.
inal and chancery, disposed of, was
1853 as compared with l42 at the March
term. Trials by jury were g., by
court, 81; judgment in civil causes, 81;
judgments in criminal causes, Z: civil
causes discontinued 81; criminal eau
ses discontinued, 5; divorces granted
| %. civil causpc left with the court !"