The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-16
VERMONT NEWS
items Of Interest From Fourteen
Counties In the State.

At the state prison at Windsor,
large wing has been added to the
main building with more than one
hundred cells and other needed i'm
provements are under way.
Another OF Vermonts long married
couples Is Mr.. and Mrs. Orison Put
nam, Of Woodbury.. They were mar.
ried November 26., 1912. nearly 66
years ago. Mr.. Putnam Is SO and his
wife 81 years old. Eight and ten-mile
walks are taken daily by Mr.. Putnam.
A chemical analysis of the sample
of Berlin water, from which Montpe-
ler gets its supply, shows that 1t Is
normal. This sample of city water
was taken from a faucet In the city
and the favorable report from Bur
lington is reassuring TO timid ones.
Joseph Rice, native of Wales and
Civil War veteran died Tuesday in
Rutland where he had resided since
boyhood. Mr.. Rice, who was 20 years
old. served In Company &. 2nd Vt.
Vols, and Company ID. 18th Vt. Vols,
being In the army from 1861 to 1866.
jeremiah Deadly, alderman from
Montpelier's "scrappy sixth" ward, is
one of its most popular citizens. He
has been railroad man for twenty.
| six years, a farmer. merchant. poll
| tician, and philosopher. At the age
OF ten years he ran away from home
to sail the bounding main for two
years and half as cabin boy.
The Dakota cyclone" as the Rev
Is. s. Taylor Of Mooers, n. Y, IL
termed by Western papers, struck
Barre Sunday, says The Times. and
brought with him whirlwind of di
vine truth and revelation. Nothing
hindering, he will prach next Sunday
vices on What Are They Doing In
HELP"
In accordance with an act passed
by the legislature of 1906 provided fol
indexing the books Of the surveyor
general this work has been begun il
the Office Of the secretary of state II
the charge of Representative +. II
Dewart, of st, Adams. These books
are very valuable and contain all thu
records of town lines in ihe state, thu
number Of acres in each town, etc
They had never been indexed and 70
that reason had been of very littl,
use.
Navigation of Lake Champlain vii
open next Monday, when the steame
Ticonderoga will be put into CON
mission by the Champlain Transpor
tation Co. The boats officers for tn
coming season will be as follows
Captain. w. Warren Rockwell, frs
pilot, Il. b. Rockwell; second pilo
John Rushlow; chief engineer, I'D
ward Jeria; assistant engineer, WI
liam Value: purser, Fred Il. Fuller
steward, John T.. Murphy: first mate
William Herworth; stewardess, Mis-
Hattie J. Sowles.
The Rev. DR.. A. l.. Cooper close
Sunday his labors as pastor of tn
Methodist church at Randolph, havin
occupied the pulpit since the middl
of last August when the resident pa
tor went south to teach. Dr. Coope
at that time offered his services o
condition that the church debt be pal
within his term of service, which cor
dtion, 1t is understood, has been me
by the people, the necessary amout
having been pledged In the meal
} time DR.. Cooper has done remarkabl
amount of work for one of 81 year
beside preaching each Sunday, a
without salary.
At Montpelier Tuesday evenin
Gov. Fletcher ID. Proctor heard II
petition Of ]. Ward Carver of Barr
for a conditional pardon for Charlie
Lindlon of Barre city, who thre
, years ago was convicted in Was
, ington county court of assault vii
intent to kill in stabbing John Bar
lett in drunken row and was senter
ed to not less than five years at han
labor in state prison at Windso
r States Attorney Benjamin Gates Wi
{ present at the hearing Lindlon
= conduct at the prison has been goo
Governor Proctor took the matter IL
4 der consideration. He expects to- Wis
q the prison this week and W
@ further investigate Lindlon's cas-
). Governor Proctor left Montpeli
!. Tuesday evening for st. Johnsbur
v where today he will attend a met
@ ing of the road commissioners Of CT
!. edonia county, held under the dire
8 tion of the Hon. C. w. Gates,
n Franklin. state highway commissio
n pr,