The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-04-16
vERM MONT NEWS
items or Interest From Fourteen coun
ties of the State.

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running full force full time and has
| an abundance OF orders ahead.
The postponed concert by Madam
| Schumann-Hein will be given In Bur
| lington the evening Of April 49,
Fred c. Swinnerton, OF Rutland has
been appointed deputy clerk of United
States courts for the district Of Yer
| mont.
Memorial day orators announced are
Hugh Henry of Chester, ut Grafton
and Sherman Evarts. of Windsor. at
Windsor.
A westerly gale Saturday lifted the
roof from j. T.. Jones dry goods store
at Woodstock and dropped 1t into
| the yard at the rear OF the block.
70 save the pretty post card pic
lures from being injured, Vermont
| postmasters have been instructed from
| Washington TO stamp the cards only
on the front.
| The spring crop of lambs at the
| Billings farm. Woodstock. numbers
$50, all healthy but wobbly about the
legs. Shearing Is finished, $50 sheep
having been clipped
| Windsor county officers are com
| planning because of the failure Of the
auditor TO audit their accounts. 1t Is
about eight months since this has been
done In the county.
The First Congregational church OF
Hyde Park. Mass. has extended call
to the Rev. J.. f. Reed for the past
seven years pastor of Bethany church.
at Montpelier Mr.. Reed has the call
under consideration.
The annual meeting Of the Daugh- |
tiers of Vermont will be held at Hotel |
Vendome, Boston, Thursday afternoon. |
Reports and election of officers will be |
followed by a social hour and tea, at
which maple sugar will be served.
. The Rev. DR.. John NJ. Thomas, of
East Orange, N. j.. president.elect of
Middlebury College. is to deliver the
commencement address at Mount
Hermon, Mass and an address at
Buffalo, n. Y. In the near future.
Residents of Brattleboro are trying
to explain to themselves why 1t costs
thirteen cents more to go TO Boston
than II does to come home. The fare
back by way of Greenfield is S257 and
the bill going the same way is $40
A unknown donor has presented
the Rutland high school a silver low
ing cup for the purpose of keeping up
interest in baseball and other athletics
by creating n healthy class rivalry
A series OF class games will be begun
soon to win the cup.
BY an order which went into effect
April Z, the full force of one hundred
men IN the motive power department
of the Boston Il Maine railroad repair
shops at I.yndonville began working
full time for the four days OF the week
which the shops are operated.
Burlingtons new $4,000 mechanical
, filtration plant is in operation, al
though it will not be turned over to
the city by the contractors, the Ley
Construction Co. of New York. for
some time. as there is considerable
work to do in the way OF interior fin
ish OF buildings grading, etc.
school district has been organ
lied in Chester whereby one super
intendent will supervise thrty-fve
schools in six towns. Andover, Ath
ems. Chester. Grafton, Londonderry
. and Windham. This Is the first school
. district to be formed by State Super
intendent NJ S Stone this year.
1t is said that many Vermont veter-
ans will be affected by recent ruling
of the commissioner of pensions. be-
cause the first. second. third, fourth
. and sixth regiments of the United
81, s,, oh hnNs
ed in the Civil War. were occupied in
frontier duty and did not assist in put
ting down the Rebellion.
John ID. Spellman, of Rutland. has
accepted an invitation to attend the
second annual banquet OF the indie
pendence League. to be held the eve
ming Of the 27th, at the Hotel Knicker-
booker. New York City, and will de-
liver an address on Independence as
, Our Dirthright" William r. Hearst
will be the guest of honor.
, Some time ago C. T. S. Pierce COM
mander Of Ethan Allen Post, G. A. K.
Vergennes, secured Gen. J. H. Gould.
ing, of Washington, for Memorial day
speaker in that city. but owing to
an unexpected call to the Pacific
| COdSt, Dtutldi NfOululllS has bSti W.
liged to cancel the engagement. and
II. S. Peck. OF Burlington, has been
I secured for the occasion.
| Henry Miller, having resigned the
/ office of postmaster at Dummerston.
| no one else appears anxious for the
| job. Congressman Kittredge Has
| kns has called upon the patrons to
| suggest candidate. and unless this
is done the office will be discontinued.
II appears that most of the former
| patrons receive their mail now by
rural free delivery route from Put
ney.
i C. d. Waters, of st. Johnsbury,
travelling agent for several years for
the National Dispatch and Grand
! Trunk railway lines, is to succeed
Fred w. Morse as general freight and
| passenger agent of the Montpelier &c
! Wells River railroad. Mr.. Waters has
been in the railway service for more
than thirty days. He will assume
the duties of his new position about
April 20.
At the village meeting in Morris
vile Monday evening the new lake
formed by the damming OF the La
noble river at Cadys Falls was ofic-
iaIlv named Lake Iamoille Hunting