The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-03-30
VERMONT NEws
Items Of interest From fourteen
Counties In the State.


Items Of interest From fourteen
Counties In the State.
The Bristol house, Bristol will
change hands about April /. Thomas
Leonard will be succeeded by c. A.
Burnham as manager.
+. II. Foss who has been postmaster
In Vergennes for the past ten years
will turn over the business OF the cffice
to Thomas Mack. the new postmaster
April l.
+. l.. Edison of Brookline, a lumber
dealer, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy His liabilities amount TO S..
S42.6l and his assets aggregate SASS
of which SIPS is claimed exempt.
The Washington Star tells how
George Legs. Barre man, was bun
coed out of 81 by two men who met
him at the Union station and offered
to secure a position for him In vir.
ginia.
Baseball gossip has started in Rut.
land with talk of four-team league
to include Glens Falls and Hoosick
Falls, N. Y. and Rutland and Burling-
ton. Two of these four cities have
reported favorably on this plan but
Burlington is not one of them.
The Pittsford selectmen report that
during the year ending February IA,
1908 eleven farmers in that town lost
LOG sheep and three cattle. the animals
being killed by dogs. This damage
was appraised at $435 while the
amount received from registered dogs
in town was only 1921.
The report of State Auditor Horace
f. Graham, Joseph A. DeBoer and DIN
Merrill, the committee named by Gov.
Fletcher ID. Proctor to prepare a set
of rules and method of bookkeeping
to govern the Office of the state auditor
which has just been completed, is
soon to be sent to the governor.
Hobart ]. Stanley & Co. Burlington,
are closing out the book department
OF their business, with the intention
of devoting themselves entirely to
their wholesale and retail stationery
departments. Books have been sold
on this corner for II years, the busi-
ness having been established in 1897.
From the agricultural appropriation
bill before being laid aside for further
consideration by the national House of
Representatives was stricken out the
provision for new weather stations in
seven states, among them Vermont.
The station would have been at North.
field In connection with Norwich Uni
versity.
A petition Is being circulated In Mid
dlesex asking the board of liquor T.
cense commissioners not to grant a
license for saloon during the coming
year. Such a petition was presented
to the license commissioners of Mid
dlesex one year ago but as a majority
OF the voters wanted license the com.
missioners would not interfere, and 1t
Is very doubtful if they recognize the
petition this year.
At a special village meeting In
Middlebury, the article to see what
sum the village would vote nj addition
to 5000 to defray the expenses of the
Vermont firemen's tournament. to be
held at Middlebury, was laid OH the
table. The trustees were instructed to
investigate the present fire alarm sys.
tenn and at tn same time get figures
on other alarms and report at a spe.
cial village meeting to be held. on or
before May /.
In Washington county court at Mont
pelier Thursday Ulysses G. Austin OF
Warren, pleaded guilty to a breach OF
the peace and was fined s25 with costs
of $ll.66. January last Mr.. Austin
fired shotgun at Frank Carleton, who
Is now defendant In case for alleg
ed alternating the affections of the
wife of Mr.. Austin. In behalf of Aus
tin II was pleaded that he fired the CUR
to scare Carleton away from his house
and not with the intention Of hitting
him.
Gertrude, the two year old daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Rice of st
Johnsbury, Is cOnvalescing from an iii
ness, which but for the prompt w0rl
OF physicians and nurse would have re
suited fatally. The little girl swallow
ed a quantity Of strichnine and irol
tablets. which she obtained unknown
to her mother and ate, evidently think
ing they were candy A half hou
later she was I'm critical condition
and remained so for several hours.
Is now thought that she is out OF dar
ger.
One spectator in the Washingto
county court room at Montpelier wa
sharply reprimanded by Judge A.
Hall Wednesday afternoon. When tn
Jurors were excused several specti
tors started for the door, among ther
!, one with his hat on. BY direction @
the court he was brought back an
sharply called to account for his cor
duct. On representing to the coul
!, that he meant no disrespect by wea
ing his head gear inthe court ROOF
he was allowed to go.
: The divorce petition of Chariot
Gates VS.. Jonathan Gates was hear
: In Chittenden county court Thursda
and a bill was granted for wilful d.
serti0n and the petitioner was give
g leave to resume her maiden name.
was shown by the testimony that tn
parties formerly lived in Milton an
that there were no domestic difflculti;
except that the husband did not I'm
!. to work. Finally one morning, twel
}, ty-five years ago, he left home, sayiu
!. he was going to see neighbor and n
wife had never heard from him since
At Sc years old, John Bailey,
Wells is broad shouldered, erect, clei
l. leyed and of firm. elastic step. Fl
8 over thirty years he has been a dire
y tOr nf tho National has,b nf Nau,l,,