The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-07-27
VERMONT NEWS
Items or Interest From Fourteen coun
ties Of the State.

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Whooping cough is prevalent in 81
Johnsbury.
A pest similar to that Of last yea
is working havoc in Jericho sugar OF
chards.
Nearly all the gardens in East Con
cord We're ruined by frost Thursda,
night, July Is
The management of the LamoillC
Valley fair has decided to bar all gam
bling devices from the fair at Morris
vile this fall.
r. W. Bishop, patent attorney, Wast
ington, d. G., reports the issue OF d
patent on a stuffing box TO J. II. Gate
ly Of Bellows Falls.
The sum of $1,000 has been received
by the Barnet Congregational church
from the Byron S0mers estate In New
Mexico and $500 for the cemetery
Robert w. Palmer of Waterbury a
graduate of the University of Yer
mont, Burlington, has been engaged as
principal of the academy at Lyndon
Judge Henry c. Bates who has been
visiting In Derby and st. Johnbsury
Will return this week to Berkeley, Cal
being accompanied as far as Chicago
by his brother and wife.
Harold Weale, who was employed
| by Edward Hardy in South Albany.
was shot through the left hand by an
unknown man who attempted to hold
him up while he was returning from
the village the other night.
The condition of e. G. Lydecker of
Cambridge who was injured by fall
ing from load of hay onto a pitch
fork. is very favorable following an
operation. The injured man is at the
Mary Fletcher hospital. Burlington.
Bert S, Dewitt of Barton Landing,
died July 20 at Brightlook hospital.
st. Johnsbury, where he was taken
as the result OF injuries suffered in
a runaway accident at Barton Land
ing July HE was about 40 years
old. He is survived by his wife and
two children.
A reunion of twenty members of
Company X. 10 VT Vols, was held
at Willoughby lake last week Wed.
nesday. Addresses were made by
Capt. Hiram Steele OF New York,
Col. u. NJ. Mansur of Newport. and
Perry Porter. The women of the
party served dinner and a campfire
was held in the evening.
The most of the farmers in Yer
gennes and that vicinity will com
plete haying this week. The crop
Is on an average as good as last year
and is of a superior quality. Grain
Is looking fairly well as does also
corn. Potatoes are feeling the effects
of the drouth and unless rain comes
soon the outlook is for a small yield.
Windsor county court began the
seventh week of its June term at
Woodstock Tuesday with the case of
Hicks VS.. Jones g. Lamson Power Co,
on its second weeks trial This will
probably last the rest of the week.
This is the case in which struck
jury was called. The cases of State
VS.. Hickey and against the Poles in
the homicidal case at Bethel are UNI
derstood to be ready for trial follow.
ing this case.
Lewis Perry, of Lyndonville, was
| arrested recently on the charge OF in.
tolerable severity toward Dwight
Spencer, boy 13 years old who lives
at his home, Furnishing the boy. II is
alleged in severe manner because
he did not return quickly from doing
an errand. The boys back and arms
were covered with black and blue
marks, ridges. where the stick hit
him, and in other ways showed the
effect of hard beating. At a hearing
Perry was placed under bonds of
$500 to appear at county court
Final consolidation has been
reached by the firm of s. r. Sargent
q Son of Castleton Corners with the
firm of OsgoOd & Roundy of Ran.
dolph under the name of the Sargent
Osgood, Roundy Co., they having de.
cided to locate large and better
equipped plant in Randolph with a
location east of the old tub factory
building of S. X. Sargent G. Sons
building. The consolidation was has.
tened by the burning of S. X. Sar-
gent & Sons buildings In Castleton
Corners, July l6. The manufacture Of
plows and other agricultural nipple
ments will be the specialties. The
new firm is capitalized at SO5,0OO
Among those who contemplate en-
tering Norwich University, Mortified,
at the opening of the fall term Is
Taraknath Das, a Hindoo, who will
take a four years course. Mr.. Das
has been in the University of Cali
fornia and also In Washington Uni
yersity at Seattle, Wash, from
which place he comes here. He has
also been employed as an Interpreter
in Vancouver, b. A. Mr.. Das Is al.
ready well acquainted with American
ways and speaks the English Ian
guage exceptionally well. He has
published at Seattle The Free Hindu
sthan, which is ably advocating the
cause of free government for his ma
tive country. Mr.. Das expects to
publish his journal here.
There are several cases of typhoid
fever at st. Johnsbury, said to have
been caused by the drinking of infect.
ed water on Harris hill. A sample
Of the water has been sent to Burling-
ton for analysis. The sickness Is con.
fined to children who drank from the
spring while on a picnic at the close
of school. While several of them
have been critically i'll, none are now
considered dangerously so, except
George, the son of Mr. and Mrs
George Asselin. In his case pneumo-