The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-07-14
VERMONT NEWS
Items or Interest From Fourteen coun
ties Of the State.

The secretary of the board of trus-
tees of the Fletcher Free library, Bur
/ lington, has received Il letter from
George ID. Smith Of Hartford, Conn,
accepting the appointment as librar-
ian to succeed the late Miss Susan C.
Hagar. Mr.. Smith will begin his
duties about September l.
Admirers of the Nuttlng pictures
will mourn the loss of the old willow
said to be the largest in this state,
land the typical elm. at North Danville
made familiar by Mr. Nuttings pho
Itographs which were injured by Sun
days storm, the elm being blown
down and the willow losing a large
| limb.
The quarterly statement of the Ma
tional Life Insurance Co, MONTPELIER
for the quarter ending July l. shows
| that on that date the company had
net assets of Sl0,537 1876; policies
in force, 79,707; total insurance, 1854,
I924S62,97 Since January there
have been issued and revived 4,416
policies, insuring $9,764,553.29
T. W. Moloney, of Rutland, nomin-
ated by the Democratic convention to
run for Congress in the first district,
has announced his inability to accept
| the nomination. He says he will "re-
sign without regard to what the COM
lmittee will do in the matter" He
says that he has no preference in re-
gard to the candidate named to take
his place.
Thirty residents of South Royalton
were poisoned Saturday aud Sunday.
Some of them were very dangerously
| i'll, and all required a physician to
relieve them of an acute pain and
vomiting. It was found to be caused
! by eating new cheese that had re-
Gently been sold to dealers there. All
but two or three were recovering the
Monday following.
An examination made at the state
laboratory of hygiene, Burlington, by
Dr. b. II. Stone of the dead body of
THE infant found in that city revealed
the fact that the lungs were not in.
tlated. This settled the question that
the child was still-born and removed
foul play. The body had probably been
in the spot where it was found for
two or three days.
Miss Nellie Champang of Swanton
Junction, disappointed at not being
ALLOWED by her parents to have a par
Ity on her eighteenth birthday ami
versary attempted suicide Thursday
by swallowing three teaspoonfuls of
.carbolic acid. DR.. G. +. Allen of
Swanton, was Immediately summoned
and did all in his power to save the
girl, but her condition is very critical.
The united societies of the Metho-
dist and Baptist churches in Ran
dolph have extended a unanimous call
to the Rev. Joseph Hamilton to re-
main as their pastor till the close of
the present year and it is expected
that he will accept the call The 9th
er arrangements are practically set
tied and the federated society will
enter upon its work for the summer
next Sunday,
A statement sent out from the
'vice-presidents Office of the New
York Central system shows that the
gross earnings of the Rutland railroad
for May 1908. were S219,225,17, a de-
crease of S52,943.44 in comparison
with the same month a year ago. The
expense of last May amounted to
$l66,454.4S. This is $23, 401.OS less
than for May, 1907, a decrease of $52,.
934.44 in the net earnings for the
month.