The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-07
VERMONT NEWS
Items OF Interest From Fourteen
Counties in the State.


All signs hung over the sidewalk
will have to be taken down, says Chief
| of Police Whitaker of Rutland. This
is in accordance with a recent vote of
the city council.
Montpelier is discussing revival of
the lecture course. using some local
speakers and importing others. The
first lecture will be given the latter
part OF this month by c. A. G. Jack
| son.
c. c. Warren, of Waterbury. made
| a new automobile record Friday. driv-
ing his machine ON snow path from
his home in Waterbury to the Pavil.
ion hotei, Montpelier, twelve miles. in
twenty-six minutes.
The 1907 building record in Bellows
Falls has been an unusually short one,
| not exceeding $4,000 expended above
ordinary and necessary repairs. Pres
ent prospects do not warrant lar
ger building expenditure the coming
year.
The night school for which the
faculty at Montpelier Seminary has
arranged was opened Thursday even
ing and will be continued through the
winter. Applications for admission 10
this school have been surprisingly
large.
G. M. Miller, the Bethel weather
expert finds that the December Just
past was the mildest of the century.
statement of morning temperatures
in December follows: 1900, 149: 1901,
ISL; 1902, 1871; 1903, Il; 1894, 8; 1905
1872; 1906, 1874; 1907, 203
United States Deputy Marshal Hor.
ace w. Bailey, Of Rutland has reap
pointed the following deputies: Office
deputy, Frank H. Chapman, of Rut.
land; deputies. Thomas Reeves, OF
Burlington, L. ID. Miles of Newport,
G. C. Graves of Waterbury, E. s.
Whitaker of Rutland
Up to January l, DIR. +. c. Barrett,
of Montpelier, the veterinary surgeon,
had tested in his district since April
last 2,40S cows, Of which 129 were
condemned and killed Doctor Bar
rett's district includes Washington
county, Richmond Stowe, Craftsbury,
and Elmore
Peru is elated over the fact that only
one per cent of the town taxes re-
manned unpaid when the tax bill was
placed in the hands of the collector.
Economical administration of town af-
fairs is given as the cause for prompt
payment, not paucity o. numbers, as
Peru has 1875 taxpayers.
Kimball Brothers e. Co. of Enos-
burg Falls have filed articles of as
ISOLATION In the office of the secretary
OF state at Montpelier. This company
has capital stock of $4,000 and is
formed for the purpose OF manufac
turing toilet preparations proprietary
medicines and tlavoring extracts.
Madam Webb, of East Granville.
observed her ninety Christmas
day by taking sleigh ride to Rox-
bury and taking dinner with her
daughter Mrs. Kendall, returning
home in the evening She was pleas
antly remembered with over fifty
presents and cards from relatives and
friends.
Napoleon Vassar. of Winooski, while
engaged in unloading coal from cars
at Fort Ethan Allen, met with pc
culiar accident which will disfigure
him for life. He attempted to step
from the car when wagon caught
him on the side of the head as he
jumped. The whole upper portion of
the ear was shaved off.
Capt. Luke Bowen Fairbanks, who
died in the Austin, Mimi, hospital re
Gently following an operation for the
removal of cancer from the bladder,
was former Bethel boy and one of
the five Fairbanks brothers who went
to the Civil War from taat town. He
was an older brother of Charles Fair
banks. lately appointed pension agent
at Concord.
Mortified Grange proposes to CO
operate with the Randolph Water
bury. and Roxbury Oranges In ap-
pointing a working committee to es-
tablish a uniform price for sweet
canning factories. 1t is the opinion
of Mortified Changers that $12 ton
is as low price as anyone can af-
ford to ask for sweet corn.
Bethany Congregational church,
Montpelier, is making plans to cele-
brate this coming summer the 10th
anniversary Of the founding of a
Congregational church and society In
Montpelier. At the annual meeting of
this church Thursday evening. d. S.
Wheatley as deacon, T. +. Cotton as
clerk and II. M. Odell as treasurer
were reelected to succeed themselves
w. S. Smith was elected a deacon.
AT the request of Clerk ofthe United
States Courts F. S. Patt of Poult-
ney, Judge J. l.. Martin has changed
the rule. requiring that the Office of
the clerk of the courts be located in
Burlington, to read that said Office be
located In Rutland. The change IN
rule was made effective January and
II is expected that the removal of the
office from Burlington to Rutland will
take place in the very near future.
Charles De F. Bancroft, the Mont |
pelier statician, has compiled the |
list of males who have died in Mont |
pelier during 1907. OF the 81 deaths !
so recorded four were killed by acct |
dent; nine we're Civil War veterans; |
and one, Richard Dodge, was also
Mexican War veteran. The average |
age of these men was go years. This
list does not include non-residents
who died in Montpelier during the
year.
It is announced that the next an
nual muster of the First Vermont