The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-03-31
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun-
ties of State.

Items OF Interest From Fourteen Coun-
ties Of State.
John Reeve who is 81 years old, has
just retired as station agent of the
Grand Trunk railway at Island Pond.
He has been depot master for forty
years.
Children playing with matches ut
the home of r. McNulty in Barre set
a small fire which it took % pals of
water to extinguish. Ii will cost $50
to repair the damage.
At the Chase cotton mill on Min St.
Winooski, wage reduction OF 10 per
cent. is announced to go into effect
March 30. The mill has been running
on an average of four days week for
some time.
Frank Scribner who is in Lamoille
county Jail at Hyde Park in default Of
$500 bonds on the charge of forgery.
has been ordered to the state hospital
for the insane at Waterbury for obser-
Walton as to his sanity. His trial is
set in county court in June.
Private Patrick Rynee, Troop B. 18th
Cav. Fort Ethan Allen, has been tried
by court martial, found guilty OF de-
sertion, and sentenced to dishonor-
able discharge, to forfeiture of all pay,
and to confinement In the prison at
Fort i-eayenworth. Kan, for eighteen
months.
space writer in a Boston paper
tells of the town of Walpole, n. H., re.
tanning counsel to investigate taxing
paper mills in Bellows Falls built on
made land. claiming that the mills are
in New Hampshire. As the east line
of Vermont is the west line OF the Con.
necticut river, Vermont has not a
great deal to fear.
While William B. Clark was driving
his stage from Brattleboro to Jackson
vile, received blow on the head that
nearly knocked him from his seat. AS
he was in lonely spot Mr.. Clark
thought he had been sandbagged and
that highwaymen were after him.
Turning slowly around, he found a
horse aboard. The animal had run
away and it was an hour before Clark
could get him off the blackboard.
w. A. Rice of West Rutland who Yves
caught Monday night rifiing the money
drawer of the West Rutland station.
was sentenced in Rutland county court
to serve not less than four years nor
more than six years at hard labor in
the state prison at Windsor. The stiff
sentence Is due 10 the fact that Rice
robbed the same depot year ago and
also manipulated money orders false.
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Mrs. Belle Durkee Of Fayston, be-
| came grandmother four times in "a
hours when her three daughters gave
! birth TO that many sons in a day. The
first installment consisted of twins
born to Mrs. Pearl Bonnette OF Waits.
| field and then Mrs. John Hoffman and
Mrs. Arthur Markham of Fayston, fol
lowed with boy apiece. The women
with the exception of Mrs. Bonnette
have always lived in Fayston and all
We're born there.
Prouty a. Miller. Newport. will place
a new tug boat on Lake Memphrema
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steamer John A. The boat will be Be
feet in length with an IL foot beam
and will draw four and one-half feet
of water. The power will be a Co
horse power gasoline engine. There
will be much more cabin room than
on the old tug 1t is expected that the
boat will be at the port of Newport
ready for launching April 20.
George NJ Goddard of Rutland Is in
| Washington to take out further pat
ents on the Goddard typewriter tele
graph transmitter He will later ey
hibit the machine in New York with
view to disposing of it. He secured
| his original patent year ago and has
since much improved the machine. Ii
| will enable many old men, who have
operators paralysis, to hold their jobs
and do many wonderful things beside
says its inventor.