The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-10
VERMONT NEWS
Items OF Interest From Fourteen
Counties In the State.

market at S20 ton, remarkably
high price even for the season.
The Rev. John NJ. Thomas, presi-
dent-elect of Mddlebury College is
moving his household goods from
East Orange, N. j., to Middlebury.
State Fish and Game Commissioner
II. G. Thomas. OF Stove, will be ready
10 distribute lake trout from the Rox-
bury state hatchery about April 10.
Fourteen candidates for registered
pharmacists are taking the examina-
lions at the state house, Montpelier,
before the state board OF pharmacy at
its second quarterly meeting.
During the month OF March there
were 81 births in the city OF Bur
! lington, 20 of the new arrivals being
boys and % girls. During the same
period there We're so deaths and three
marriages.
At the annual meeting Of the Es-
Tuesday afternoon, G. ID. Howe, who
has been supervisor during the past
year, was reelected for the coming
year at a salary of $3.50.
The gross earnings of the Rutland
railroad for February were $l67 ,O31.93
a decrease Of Sl0.011.10 compared with
the same month In 1907. There was
an increase of $l5,32O.92 in expenses,
which amounted to 4l,31S.7S.
Joseph w. Sault has bought The
Vermont Tribune at Ludlow with the
job printing plant attached, OF the
Vermont Printing Co. Mr.. Sault went
to Ludlow two and one-half years
ago to succeed Howard l.. Hindley,
and since that time has been editor
and manager.
In connection with the reception
which is to be rendered the Rev. w.
J. O'Sullivan, OF Montpelier, on his re-
| turn the latter part OF this month from
stay of nearly year in Europe, q
substantial purse which Is now being
raised by a canvassing committee will
be presented him.
Rutland's row between aldermen
and school directors, which is delaying
work on an enlarged building, may
cause the Marble city TO lose the state
teachers convention next October. II
was largely because OF the fact that
the proposed addition TO the school
building called for large hall that
the convention was secured for Rut-
land
The money orders taken from the
Stowe post-ofiice by the burglars last
week were numbered from 1892 TO
10000 inclusive. The only way they
can be used Is by giving an order
TO unsuspecting individuals who upon
| presenting them ut the money order
Office will find them worthless. A
clew to the robbers might thus be OBJ
tanned.
John l.. Mosely, president of the
Seventh Regiment Volunteer Associa-
ton, announces that the next annual
reunion OF the association will be
held at the Bardwell house in Rut-
! land June "a and 2j The business
meeting OF the regiment will take
I place the evening of the Oath and
the day following will be given to a
trip TO Lake Bomoseen, Castleton.
The Montpelier correspondent OF
The Boston Sunday Herald this week
says that G. Herbert Pape, OF Barre,
| is one of the three men now consid-
cred by Vermont Democrats as a can
; didate for governor. The others are
v A. Billiard and j. +. Burke, both
OF Burlington. The correspondent also
says that all three are willing to ac-
cept the nomination while friends of
I Eli II. Porter of Wilmington are
7 trying to secure his consent to run.
| 1t is learned that the house of Geo.
| Williams OF Hydeville, union slate
worker who recently returned to work
in one OF the quarries affected by the
strike which has been in progress ten
months, was visited by strikers, sup
posedly, and all the windows in the
front part demolished. In the morn.
ing Mr.. Williams found on his front
door note threatening violence II he
did not leave town. Williams has
kept at his work but every night he
has at his bedside a shotgun loaded
with fine shot.
, DR.. Galen K Edison, "a years old,
left his home at Leroy, N. Y, so sud
denly to visit his son in Canaan that
relatives here thought he had been
kidnapped. He went to Worcester
Mass, relative to drawing out $1,000
deposited there. The matter has
brought up legal complications. Doc
tor Edison says he was denied home
by his grandchildren on conditions
made with his son, but these matters
have been adjusted now and he is
now on friendly terms with them.
The Capital City Press Co, with a
capital stock of $4,000 has filed ar.
ticles of incorporation in the Office
Of the secretary of state, Montpelier,
The present stockholders are Harry T..
Parker II. NJ Goddard. Mason s.
Stone, II. +. Slayton, and Lee Whit,
ney, all Of Monipelier Colonel Par
ker has paid over the purchase money
for this plant which was formerly
known as the Union Card Co of Mont
peier, owned by c. f. Boswell, and
the papers have been passed giving
him possession. Colonel Parker will
not take active management OF the
property until sometime next week
II tc understood thf t1rOnartV WAS MR.