The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-12

lv net proceeds of the fair recently
held in Montpelier for the benefit of
st. ,Augustine's church were over 81,
800.
The Barre city clerk issued eight
marriage licenses for the month of
November. which was the same AZ for
the corresponding month last year
From August to December | there
were II cai loads of live stock and q
carloads of hay shipped from the North
Ferrisburg railroad station and this
fall 1884 barrels of apples.
John Voter a farmer living ON
LOOMS hill, Waterbury Center, while
in Montreal this fall obtained from the
priest Of the church where he was
baptized paper showing that lie was
born in 1907, making him loo years
old. He is remarkably active and does
/ his own work on his farm.
| At the meeting of the Rutland
County Baptist Ministers Association.
Monday. the clergymen listened TO on
address on The Relation OF Labor to
the Church" by Philip j. Halvosa. and
one on The Relation of Education To
Religion by the Hon. Mason s. Stone.
of Montpelier. state superintendent az
education.
| Mr.. and Mrs Bert II. Nelson of East
Montpelier, narrowly escaped asphyyi.
| alton Sunday night from coal gas
| escaping from stove. The crying of
| fhnir int anf child oil Al
| Nelson and she was able to summon
assistance for her husband who WAS
unconscious from the deadly fumes.
Both are now recovering.
Renovating the Windham county
jail at Newfane is in progress, the
prisoners painting and papering the
interior. Sheriff Arthur II. Thomp-
son OF Bellows Fails has other plans
to keep his charges busy the coming
winter With this end in view, he
has brought wood lot which he will
have cut off by the prisoners, he pay
ing the county for their work.
More than fifty people passed more
or less of last Sunday afternoon In
the reading room of the Kellogg Hub
| c"iu ipidiy' hiOutDtiitls HIS WAS
the first Sunday afternoon the library
has been open, and the fact 1t was to
be open was not extensively adver.
tised. The result of this experiment
thus far makes the trustees feel justi.
fed In the advanced step they have
taken.
| Orange county court, which opened
| EhnlCna 1acf TnnrAaN I
| Taylor OF EGrdw.cL presiding, mas
practically 10 cases except divorce
suits and will probably adjourn 20.
day or tomorrow. Assistant Judge
c. U. Lathrop recalled another term
equally short in jury trials at the be
ginning of his first service as assist.
ant Judge, December term, 1884, when
the jury was discharged for the term
on the first day.
The law requiring that hunters In
spect their traps once in two days has
been violated by some unknown per
son in Rutland county and the result
is that Edward Grape. of Crittendon
will probably lose very valuable fox
hound The dog disappeared and q
week later made a painful return
dragging large fox trap and heavy
clog In one place it was found thai
the dog had gnawed through four
inch tree against which the clog of the
trap had become wedged. II is doubt
full II the animal will ever recover tn,
use of his badly bruised foot.
scale of marble weighing fully
two hundred tons slid from the cas-
wall of the Albertson quarry at Wes
Rutland Saturday morning anC
crashed into the hollow at the bas,
II was loosened by frosts. AS the
slide occurred before the day fore,
had gone to work, only the nigh
Waterman saw 1t. He was standing
some distance away, but even there h,
was struck by flying ice and bruised
about the body.