The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-22
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun.
ties Of State.

ties OF state.
The Burlington Commercial Club
will make an effort TO have the state
board OF railroad commissioners ar
range for slight modification OF
schedules so as to improve railroad
connections between trains of the
Rutland and Central Vermont rail
roads at that point.
Montpelier policemen and other city
officials are keeping a close watch at
present Of the fire alarm boxes, many
of which have recently been tempered
with by mischieyous boys who have
broken the glass and otherwise mutt
lated the boxes No false alarms have
yet been turned in.
Lieut. l.. A. l. Chapman, LIST. Cav,
commandant at Norwich University,
Mortified, is in receipt of an order
from the war department instructing
him to report during the last week of
November to the president of the ex-
aiming board at Fort Riley, Kans.,
to take examinations for promotion to
captain
DR.. Richard Dana Bloss, one of the
oldest physicians and surgeons in
Troy, who died Sunday morning, was
born in Royalton March 20, 1885,
son of DR.. Richard Bloss, well known
physician both in Vermont and in
Troy where he took up his residence
in 1910. In 1883 he was married at
Manchester, and his wife and one son
survive.
A banquet OF the judges, jurors,
members of the sheriff's department.
States attorney, and other officers of
the Washington county court was
held in Montpelier Wednesday even
ing, the affair having been arranged
by the petit jurors as surprise to
| Sheriff Frank III. Tracy. Sheriff
Tracy was presented handsome
| chair.
The conservation of the Greek Cath
Ollie church at Proctor which was to
| take place some time this month has
been postponed to one Of the Sundays
in December, when Bishop s. s. Ortin-
sky of the Greek Catholic church. who
at present is in Philadelphia, will per-
form the ceremonies. Bishop Ortinsky
has been in this country only a short
time, having but recently been sent
here by the pope.
An article in lions Herald by Field
Secretary j. II. Morgan says that the
Methodist Episcopal church in Stowe
dates from visit to that place by
Lorenzo Dow in 1900. The first meet
ing house was erected in 1918 and was
used by several different church So
cieties in town. and is now used for
town hall. The present Methodist
church was erected in 1910 and was
remodeled and retitted in 1866.
Carol S, Page of Hyde Park of the
Lamoille County National Bank ex-
presses his approval of the action of
the government treasury officials and
the President in the issue of the $780,
100000 of Panama bonds, and says
that his bank had taken its fun aliot
ment. He says he believes the action
of the government will-have the an
ticipated effect of turning money from
the safe deposit companies into cir
culation.
l.. C. Tinker of indianapolis, Yves
tons only rival as a long distance
MdAktit tldH Dtth III ituNiuuA tlli0 WIN.
Thirteen years ago Mr.. Tinker walked
from Ontario to the Gulf of Mexico.
400 miles, in about two and half
months He started without cent and
worked his way by featuring. He has
book, containing the signatures of
prominent men IN nearly every state
in the Union. on which he carries in
surance Of $1,000.
Believing that an attempt was be-
ing made to throw the entire blame for
burglary upon his shoulders. Ralph
Smith, a prisoner at the Addison coun
ty Jail, Middlebury, has in confession
implicated George Phillips in the oc-
currence which resulted in the for
mer's arrest Phillips. against whom
a charge of burglary also has been
brought has given bail in the sum of
$500. The mems homes are in the
north part of the town of Lincoln.
The special inspection of Company
|. fst Inf, V. n. c., ordered by Adjt.-
Gen. w H. Gilmore, which was to
have taken place last Monday evening
has been postponed indefinitely on ac-
count of the resignation of the captain,
Louis II. Henkel. 1t is expected that
an election will be ordered next week.
Several candidates are under consid-
GRAFTON, but the most probable is for
mer Capt. Ernest j. Waterman, who
resigned when he took up his resi-
dence in Washington.
Miss Margaret E. Chestnut court
stenographer of Burlington has been
granted years leave by the judges
of the supreme and the superior
courts. Miss Chestnut will sail jan
uary 16, on the Carmania OF the
| Cunard line and will pass the year
abroad, going first to Naples. After
passing two months in ITALY and
Sicily, she will go to Paris, where
she win remain for the greater part
J of her time. Miss Chestnut will re-
! sumo her official duties at the March
term of Chittenden county court in
| 1909.
Frank Worden of Halifax and Fred
| B. Pier of Jacksonville the assistant
judges of the Windham county court,
have under consideration four recon-
mendations of the grand jury for i'm
| nj ion of