The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-02-01
VERMONT NEWS
News From Fourteen Counties of the
State.

hShJ VI. Didutuhlu has DeeT
reappointed postmaster at Newport
which office he has held for the pas
eight years.
Mrs. Fletcher d. Proctor left Wash
ington Tuesday night for Boston to
attend the Vermont Association meet
ing with Governor Proctor.
Company H. LIST. Inf, ". N. G.
Montpelier, defeated Company NJ
Mortified, in basket ball game
played in Montpelier Wednesday eve.
ming by score of 20 to IL.
The collateral inheritance taxes due
TO the state from estates settled In
the Brattleboro probate district for
the month of January amount to 1913
This amount will be paid into the state
treasury at once.
A fatal accident occurred on Guern.
sey's mountain, Belviders, January
"a, when Frank Bashaw was almost
instantly killed. While letting down
the logs from large pile one slid
from the top, the end striking him
on the head and crushing it against a
tree.
The bill providing for extending
immediate transportation privilege
to the SUPPORT of Alburg has passed
the national House of Representatives
This provides for the forwarding of
merchandise in bond. without ap-
praisement, to ports in the United
States.
Il. A. Cooley of Waterbury is the
inventor of window stop The stop
is nickle or brass plated and, fastened
into the window:casing, makes very
attractive fixture. The stop is so ad-
iusted that the window can be stopped
and held at any point Mr.. Cooley
is to apply for patent at once.
The death of Frank Brown of Mont
pelier Monday evening, January q,
makes the fourth death in the family
In a little over month, In Decem.
her Fred Brown of Montpelier,
brother of the deceased, died; about
ten days ago Theodore Brown, the
father; and as Thomas Ryan of Ber-
lin, son-in-law of Theodore Brown.
was preparing to attend the latters
funeral. he dropped dead
The postal clerk on the Central Yer.
mont mail and express car which was
ditched at Jewetts Crossing. Conn,
near State Line. Monday, was w. j.
Dare of Brattleboro and the baggage
master on the baggage and smoking
car which was also ditched was Fred
Golden of Brattleboro. Both men
were bruised and badly shaken up.
but they returned to work Tuesday.
Conductor D. W. Patch, of New Lon
don, Conn, who was hurt about the
head, is in Brattleboro every second
night
The annual report by the superin-
tendent OF the water department of
the city of Barre shows that the ex-
penditures We're kept below the re.
ceipts and that the sum of S5,92491
which was due the city treasury Jan
uary |, 1907, has been paid. The cost
OF maintenance of the department
during the year was $l3.3S5.47,
which is the largest item of the ex-
penditures. The obligation to the city
treasury having been wiped out, what
ever surplus there may be can be
applied as the city council sees fit
James F. Lamb of Rutland in his
annual report as president of the
board OF education announces that
the new school building when COM
pleted will cost about $4,000. II was
hoped at first to keep the cost down
httf % 4
prices in labor and material the con-
tract was finally let at $4,000. The
wiring, grading, and furnishing will
bring the total up to the figures men,
toned. Because of this great ex.
pense the contemplated addition to
the high school has not been made
this year, although plans have been
prepared
Henry c. Wheeler, aged SO years,
who died this week at the state hos.
pital for the insane at Waterbury.
formerly resided in Montpelier. He
was a son of George Wheeler and
in his youth he was phenomenally
bright, In 1854 he was sent to the
Brattleboro asylum for temporary
treatment and since that time had
been kept at Brattleboro and Water.
bury. His bodily health had always
been good until he was attacked with
erysipelas a week ago. So advanced
was he in his studies as youth, that
he began teaching when he was IA
years old. Twelve years laer his
mind failed.
Nelson Soulia was seriously injured
while chopping in the woods on Fred
erick Horsford's farm at Charlotte
Wednesday afternoon. The branches
of the tree that he was cutting down
became caught I'm the top of another
tree and when. it was suddenly dis
lodged Mr.. Soulia was not able to
get out of the way He was struck
a glancing blow on the head, and his
scalp and the side of his face were
cut open at considerable length.
There were other men near him and
they carried him to his home where
the injuries were attended. Although
he suffered great loss of blood 1t is
not expected the injuries will result
seriously. Mr.. Soulia is about 40
years old and has wife and family
dependent lpOn him.