The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-11
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun.
ties OF State.

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Most of the old officers were re-
elected at the recent annual meeting
of the Rutland County Agricultural
society. The fair of 1907 was shown
to have paid expenses and the sum of
$473.69 remains in the treasury. The
total debt of the society 10 S2,97iJ3.
Some of the receipts from the fair last
fall We're. General admission, 81, $40.
so; rentals, $44S; book advertisements
$4l450.
There were 1876 deaths reported to
City Health Officer c. f. Ball of Rut-
land during 1907. The contagious dis
eases reported during the same period
total 1852. They were divided as fol-.
lows: chicken pox, Sc; scarlet fever,
S9 whooping cough 81; diphther,a,
A; typhoid fever, II; mumps 2, pneu-
monia, 3. There were many more ca
SEES of pneumonia than this in the city
but many were not reported.
The national banks of Rutland have
declared semi-annual dividends on
their capital stock as follows, payable
January 2: Rutland County National
Bank, 81 per cent: Baxter National
Bank, 3; Killington National Bank, 3:
Clement National Bank. 8. The State
Trust Co.. has declared semi-annual
dividend of 3 per cent; the Rutland
Trust company, has declared one of 5
per cent The Rutland Savings Bank
and the Marble Savings bank have de-
clared dividends to depositors at the
rate of 81 per cent per annum.
Taking the year 1907 as whole,
business at the various manufacturing
concerns of Brattleboro was unusual
ly good. Up to the beginning of the
financial panic in the latter part of Oc-
tober every industry in Brattlcboro
had enjoyed year Of unusual pros
perity, and although the result of the
depression in the closing months Of
the year has, of course, been a cur
tailment of business there are good
grounds for belief that a substantial
improvement in conditions will be-
come apparent as the present year
progresses.
The newspaper publicity given Col
die Sun Morse last week has led Don
aid Mcleod, her late husband. to con-
suit Probation Officer Thomas and
States Attorney Gates. He has an
idea that he has been buncoed as the
woman represented to him before they
were married that her name was Ber-
ry Mcleod has only been in this
country two years. having served in
the British navy fifteen years prior to
coming here. He says he advanced
sl00 to her before they were mar
ried TO pay off an alleged mortgage on
n farm she never owned.
Joseph Slattery of Montpelier has
decided that when the tax collector
calls this year he will pay his poll tax
of 1920. Last fall when the time for
paying the tax came, Slattery was
broke and after considerable dun
ming, Collector f. L. Clark had him
locked up. This was November and
the man is still in the house of correc-
ton at Rutland with the state running
up a board bill of so cents a day
against him. II Slattery ever sue.
ceeds In raising the amount of the tax
with the S2.77 added for officers fees,
either he or the poormaster will have
to pay the state for his board bill
which already amounts to about $50.
The residence of ]. b. Goodhue of
Derby Line was destroyed by fire ear
ly Sunday morning December 20. The
fire which must have been shoulder
ing for hours, broke out about
O'Clock in the morning and is suppos-
ed to have caught beneath the fire
place. The family had barely time to
escape. Mrs. Goodhue, who recently
returned from the Royal Victoria hos
pital, Montreal, was carried from the
burning building The house was
built by Mr. Goodhue a few years ago
at a cost of $4,000 or more and was
richly furnished, being one of the fin
est residences in northern Vermont.
The insurance was about $4,000
Nothing was saved except the vault,
erected in the house, in which Mr.
Goodhue kept his books and papers.
The family is temporarily established
In the residence of Col. Charles e. Mel
son which was,closed owing to the &C.
cupants being away for the winter.
A decree relative to the. equity OF
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port against c. II. Davenport, both of
Brattleboro, has been handed down by
Judge Seneca Hazelton. In March,
1906, Z. II. Davenport bought mort
gage on a house occupied by G. II.
Davenport on Oak street which was
held by one of the Brattleboro savings
banks and at once began foreclosure
proceedings. An agreement covering
business transactions existed between
the two men, and it was claimed by
G. H. Davenport that the mortgage
could not be foreclosed without i'm
pairing the agreement "A special
master was appointed to determine
the facts, and on his report the court
of chancery ordered c. H. Davenport
to pay $400, and the balance on or be-
fore July 20, 1907. The defendant APP
pealed to the supreme court and that
court affirmed the decision of the
court of chancery and remanded the
cause for hearing on the question of
fixing a new time for the equity OF re.
denption. Judge Hazelton's decree
is that c. H. Davenport pay on or be-
fore February TO- 1908, the whole
amount due. which is s3,37945 with
costs, and interest from December 70,
1907.
The Connecticut River Power COM
pany which is constructing the big
dam between Vernon and Hinsdale, N
H., proposes to erect within the next
two or three years, or after the COM
pletion of the Vernon dam low dam
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