The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-09
VERMONT NEWS
Items of Interest From Fourteen
Counties of the State.

the hunters license law goes INTO Ell
feet The answer: September l,
1909.
Montpeliers water system installed
25 years ago is out of debt and its re
ceipts have absorbed $52,225 Of the
citys Indebtedness.
An order for 1000 weighmaster beam
scales has been received by the Fair
banks Scale company of st. Johnsbury
from the United States government
for use in the Philippines
The last of the Italian relief fund
raised in Barre was cabled to the
earthquake sufferers Saturday The
total subscribed and collected in Bar
re for this fund was 1895.
The net earnings of the Rutland rail
road for 1905 were $759.736.S4, a de-
crease from 1907 of sS1O52.2l The
net earnings Of the road for December
were 36,929.57, an increase over the
same month in 1907 of Sl5,5754S.
The Nlchols-Morse Clothing com
pany OF Rutland with a capital stock
of $40. 600 organized to do a retail and
wholesale business, filed articles of as
ISOLATION Saturday in the Office Of the
secretary of state at Montpelier.
Crosby & Parker OF Brattleboro
have been awarded the contract to
build a concrete bridge across the can
al near the railway station at Bellows
Falls. They bid s11,79O The work
will be begun early in the spring and
will require from 60 to so days.
The roster of the Washington En-
CINE company's honorary members has
been found at Rutland and bears date
of May. 1861 1t was a volunteer or
ganization and in the AZ years since
the list was compiled 81 Of the SO hon.
orary members have died, Walter c
I4andon of Rutland is the sole suryiv-
or
Westminster and vicinity were Wis
tied by a miniature tornado Saturday
afternoon which swept up the valley
about two o'clock and unroofed the w.
R. Farr barn, recently purchased by
b. r Phelps The wind broke much
glass in the Abenaque machine shop
and filed the streets and yards with
dead limbs from the trees.
The family of the Hon. Robert T.
Lincoln, son of the president, the cen
tennial of whose birth will be obsery-
ed throughout the nation Friday left
"Hndene, the Lincoln summer home
in Manchester last week for the South
The family will return to Vermont as
soon as the snow Is off the ground
Mr. Lincoln is president of the Pull
man Palace Car company of Chicago
The officials of the House of Correc
ton have bought five acres of meadow
pasture and wood land on which q
barn will be built and a small dairy
established. AS soon as the deeds are
signed this week, the prisoners in the
| Rutland county Jail will be put tc
work clearing the land. For its pur
chase money was saved from an apprC
priation voted the House Of Correc
ton by the legislature of 1906.
To the partial removal of the Deer
field River Lumber company from
Wilmington, is ascribed in greater
part, the decrease in the postofiice re
ceipts of that town, $741.26 the pas
year. The company's purchases o.
stamps in 1907 were about $500 more
than in 1908. The net revenue TO the
government Of the Wilmington office
last year was $2,27439, decrease o.
SSS6.9S from the preceding year.
Yielding to his anxiety, John Pifko
of West Rutland surrendered to the
authorities Saturday Pawel Turkot fol-
whom he furnished bail of $1,000 when
the man was arrested on charge o'
arson in connection with an alleged
attempt Of Rosen's young daughter 20
destroy her fathers business block.
Turkot went to Lowell, Mass and his
bondsman followed and had him re
arrested
The pole line, which will carry wires
for transmitting. electricity from the
Connecticut river dam at Vernon to
the village Of Brattleboro for lighting
and power purposes, is being con
structed. About 10000 volts viii be
carried compared with 10000 nov
available in Brattleboro from a small
dam and power at West Dummerston'
Considerable new apparatus will have
to be bought but it is probable that a
material reduction in the price Of
electric lighting will follow