The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-02-13
VERMONT NEl. 5
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun-
ties Of the State.

/ The r. l.. Chandler company, Bar
ton Landing, reports that prospects
Indicate that 1t will start some bran
ches of its industry about March /.
Ex-Gov. ]. W. Stewart and daughter
Miss Jessica- Stewart, of Middlebury,
have gone to New York City. From
there they expect to go to Colorado for
a stay OF several weeks.
The Welsh people in Poultney, Paw.
let and vicinity are interested in the
eisteddfod which will be held in Gran
vile, N. Y. the afternoon and evening
OF March rs. There will be % con-
tests and As prizes.
Nearly forty men are engaged in
filling the ice house of Swift & Co, at
Newport. The men who struck last
winter for higher wages were turned
away this season. The price paid last
winter was $1.75 while this year it is
Sl.20 a day.
Out of-the 275 pupils from ten rooms
in the Montpelier public schools re-
Gently given the eye and ear test, 15l
or Alb per. cent were defective in
sight or hearing. or 1874 girls exam.
ined SO or 451 per cent were defec-
tive and Of 191 boys ~ or 37.7 per
cent.
Levi C. Foster aged 81 years who
died recently at West Rutland, in his
youth was employed on Mississippi
river steamers and was a sutler In the
Union army in the Civil war. For
forty years he had lived in West Rut.
land and for over 25 years was fore
man Of quarry there.
The first annual dinner of the engin
eering departmental the University OF
Vermont, Burlington, was held at
Dorn's cafe Monday evening, lis uni
versity men being present. The prin-
cipal address was given by.Charles w.
Baker. SO, managing editor of the En-
gineering News his subject being
The Engineer as Man Among Men,
The duties on imports through the
customs district of Vermont for the
month Of January amounted to S34,l10
IL. During the same period the mer-
chandise exported was valued at S55l,-
S4S. The January collections we're
very light this year, the shrinkage be-
ing attributed to the general financial
stringency. The duties for the first
month OF the year are generally light
but last year they amounted to S4S,
36S.53.
In accordance with an act passed by
the legislature of 1906 providing for
the proper recording and indexing of
births and deaths. City Sheriff Pollard
of Montpelier, has for several days
been putting in proper shape the rec
ord of marriages, births, and deaths in
Montpelier since the town was organ.
lied in 1889. Since that time to Janu-
AIRY |, 1908 there have been 1914 births
and 1885 deaths. The record of mar
riages Is not yet completed.
The Vermont Packing company has
been organized at Bellows Falls by S.
j. Cray and II. s. Davis with $4,000
capital paid in. to slaughter hogs. pack
and pickle hams. Five carloads a
week will be slaughtered and twenty
five men employed The company
purposes to build three-story cement
building 100x60 feet on the line of the
Rutland railroad.
At the dog show in Schenectady last
! week one first and two second prizes
were won by the French bulldog own
ed by c. c. Fletcher of Rutland. The
competition in the collie class was of
the keenest. there being II entries
Robert Mac Farlane of Rutland won
| third place in the open class with his
collie pup, Scalp Ruby"
The report of the Montpelier city
auditors for the year ending February
1, Montpelier shows the present total
Indebtedness of the city to be $780,.
S45.02. During the year from the in
come from the water works, the Unit
ed States deposit fund of $l2,200.23
has been paid into the state treasury
and floating Indebtedness of $4,000
has been lifted.
Announcement in the national
House Of Representatives at Washing.
ton Monday by one of the Senate
clerks that that body had passed the
bill promoting to the grade of lieuten-
ant-general, retired, Maj. Gen. o. o.
Howard, U. s. A., retired, of Burling-
ton, was received with applause. Gen.
Howard is the only living federal Off
Ger who commanded an army during
the Civil war.
The Montpelier city hall building
committee opened Monday evening
the bids that had been submitted for
the erection and equipping, for the new
city hall. Twenty-seyen bids were re-
ceived, eleven on the building, ten on
heating, four on the plumbing and two
for heating, plumbing and ventilating.
No figures were given out but the com
mittee is of the opinion that all the
bids were too high and the firms sub
hitting them will be asked to re-figure
on the job.
Henry G. Thomas. who was born
and educated in Richford, is under ar.
rest at Nashua, N H., on the charge
of embezzlement. He was recently
promoted from the position of cashier
to assistant to the manager of the
New England Telephone 4 Telegraph
Co.'S exchange. 1t is said that since
his promotion discrepancies have been
found In his accounts as cashier and
he is said to have confessed that his
accounts were not correct He has al
ways borne good reputation, is mar
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