The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-07
VERMONT NEWS
Items of Interest From Fourteen coun-
ties Of State.


Several students OF the Newport
high school have just returned home
from a trip to Washington.
The Montpelier Gun club has just
elected G. B. Walton president and
c. H. Burr secretary and treasurer.
George d. Sherman of Burlington,
the leader of the Sherman band and
a composer OF note, has written an
other march and named it THE Cham
plain Tercentenary March"
In its opening game OF the season
the baseball team of the University
Johns college at New York Monday
afternoon by score of to 5.
Six new stalls are being built in
the stables at Norwich University,
Mortified, and five horses have been
added to the number on hand for cav
airy purposes These will be avail
able at the opening of the spring term
April 10.
! Lake Raponda in Wilmington will
have a boom as a summer resort the
coming season. The hotel and cot
tages which have lain idle two years
will probably be re-opened and sever
al new cottages erected by private
parties Extensive improvements on
the hotel property are planned by V.
L. Adams TO whom the stockholders
have transferred it.
The nominating committee of the
Associate Alumni OF the University
of Vermont, Burlington, is sending
out ballots bearing the names of h. n.
Foss, of Jamaica Plains, Mass, Of the
class of 1881, II. w. Hill OF Buffalo. N.
Y. of the class OF 1876, and Elias Ly-
man of Burlington, of the class OF
1870, from whom the, alumni are to
recommend a trustee to fill the next
vacancy in the board.
Before filling a vacancy on the Brat
tleboro board OF listers last week the
selectmen offered the place to former
Atty-Gen Clarke G. Fits and urged
him to accept 1t. In a recent address
before a society OF Vermonters in
Springfield, Mass, Mr.. Fits said that
100000 worth OF property in Brat.
tleboro escaped taxation every year
In view of this statement, the select
men considered Mr. Fits the logical
person for lister, but he declined for
lack OF time.
The petit jurors of Washington
county court were discharged for the
term Monday afternoon after a ser
vice of twenty-nine days, the shortest
term in Washington county for many
years. Henry G.. Andrews who was
convicted Saturday of selling intoxi
eating liquor, was sentenced to not
less than four nor more than six
months In Jail. This case will go to
supreme court on exceptions and in
the meantime execution of sentence
has been stayed and the respondent
admitted to bail in the sum of 500.
Col. Oscar C. Hatch. president OF
the Littleton, n. H., National bank, is
to retire on May / from the active
management of the bank, after hav-
ing been in the banking business more
than forty years, thirty-six years of
which have been in the Littleton bank
Colonel Hatch will remain as a direc.
tor and member of the investment
committee. Colonel Hatch's banking
career began when he was is years
old in the village bank at Newbury
where he was banking clerk. He re
manned there four year as cashier
going from there to Littleton. In
1892 Colonel Hatch was elected rep
lresentatiye. He was senator in 1885
and a member Of Gov f. w. Rollins
stan with the rank of colonel