The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-05-01
VERMONT NEWS
Items or Interest From Fourteen coun
ties OF the State.

4
Eighteen men have enlisted at Rut-
land this month for the regular army
The author OF book, just issued,
1.-THE Christian Faith and the Old
Testament" Is President-elect John
M. Thomas Of Middlebury College.
4 Alfred Bigelow OF the Simonsville
road, Windham, has made 200 pounds
OF sugar from thirty trees and has
not put away the sap buckets yet.
May 1 Bellows Falls milkmen will
reduce the price OF milk from six to
five cents quart, this being the
regular reduction for the summer
months.
The annual convention OF the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Unions OF
Rutland county will be held at West
Rutland May /. Miss Christine Tinl-
Ing, Of Liverpool, Eng, will be among
the speakers.
Homer Calkins OF Hardwick was
nMontpelier Friday and took back
to Hardwick the team left In Mont
pelier a week ago by M IL. Foster,
town and village clerk OF Hardwick,
who has been missing since that date.
Il. N. Carter OF st. Johnsbury, sup
erintendent OF the st. Johnsbury and
Swanton fish hatcheries who was
successfully operated upon for appen-
dicitis at the Boothby hospital Bos-
ton, last week, is rapidly improving
In health.
Miss Elizabeth Johnson. who is en-
ployed as a domestic In the family OF
A. c. Blanchard OF Montpelier, mar
rowly escaped death Tuesday evening
by drinking wood alcohol by mistake.
The prompt work Of physician saw
ed her life.
Bristol's annual village report gives
$15,06949; total cost of water sys-
TEN to date, $60.335.66; receipts, $13,-
$500; water bonds, $4,000; to be
provided for this year, $l2,371.5O; as
sets, $1,565.S2.
Al Dr. ID. ID. Grout, superintendent OF
I the state hospital for the insane at
! Waterbury, has been In Vergennes
1 looking into the case OF Charles New
ton who recently escaped from the
. hospital Newton was taken back "a
Waterbury. II Is now thought that
Newton will not lose his feet, as had
been feared
Attorney f. H. O'Brien, who is al
the Rutland City hospital, suffering
I from injuries received In a runaway
y accident last Saturday. is considerably
improved. He will be able to leave
A., the hospital in few days. The con
dition of Deputy Sheriff +. s. Whit
taker, who was injured in the same
accident, is much better.
The hotel property at Thompson
point Tin Charlotte) has been sold L
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard f. Muzzy o
1 North Ferrisburg and they are plan
ming to open the house for the camp
4 ing season at an early date. Mr.. Muz
Zy will make many changes In ant
about the building. He hopes to have
the postofiice continued In that hotel
: A hay famine does not exist aroun,
Brattleboro where the farmers sa.
they have sold practically no ha,
since the last crop was harvested
The 1907 crop was heavy In Wind
= ham county and when the time come
for turning out stock good suppl
will be left in the barns. The bes
i quality of loose hay is offered Their
: at SIC ton.
! All the members OF the commission
y on double taxation were at work a
the state house, Montpelier. Frida
on their report. The report Of tn
subcommittee is practically compile
d ed, and the whole commission has 1t
n work so we'll in hand that there VII
:, be no trouble in getting the comple
ed report in the hands OF the governo
before June, the time fixed by law.
y The offices Of the state auditor an
state treasurer at the state house
Montpelier. will soon be supplied wit
the daily report cards, which wer
IN recommended by the commission al
- pointed by the governor to devise
u better system OF bookkeeping in thes
two Offices. Under the new systeI
the treasurer and auditor will be keI
in daily touch and the orders issue
and paid each day will check agains
each other. -
In the south of the state the on
look for good trout season is r,
garded as exceptional. Fishing ma
begin legally in ponds May 1 and
brooks fourteen days later. There
some snow yet at the head of til
rivers but the warm weather wi
soon put them In good condition. A
there have been no great freshets, tn
size and quality OF the trout is e,
pected to be good as the brooks wer
full of half grown fish last season.
The seven-year-old daughter OF NJ
and Mrs. William Wheeler, of Halifa
met with a serious experience wit
fire recently. The parents, who wer
in the yard, heard screams from tn
child and rushing into the house foun
the little girls dress in flames. The
succeeded in putting out the fame
by smothering them before 1t was to
late, though the child was badly bur
ed. For several hours she was In
critical condition, but will probabl
recover.
A boy about fourteen years oil
who was taken from the BurlingtC
home and worked at the home
John Cadarette of Milton was sc
iously injured recently He W,
leading four-yearold colt, when
some way the halter slipped and Il
animal, which was newly shod, kick,
= the boy in the head so severely tn
bones were broken and the brail
burst out, It was some time befo
the boy gained consciousness and the
is small hope Of his recovery.
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