The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-07
VERMONT NEWS
Items OF interest From Fourteen
Counties of State.

Items OF Interest From Fourteen
Counties of State.
The village OF Pittsford has voted
$500 for electrically lighting its
streets The power will come from
Rutland.
Mrs. Hetty Green, one of Americas
richest women, has been in Bellows
Falls the past week, and it is under
stol ! that she objects vigorously to
| changes in the grade OF the street in
front of her residence and that she
has engaged counsel and will bring
suit
Sanford Pinney of Derby. suffered
the fracture of several ribs and prob
ably internal injuries by driving off a
high enbankment last Sunday after
noon.
The Burlington Free Press announ-
ces that, while no recommendation
has yet been sent to Washington, it
may be said that, in all probability,
Linn NJ. Hays, of Essex Junction, will
be appointed supervisor of the census
for Vermont.
There are at present 2,OS9 pupils in
the Rutland schools, an increase of Al
over last year, all but one of the in
crease being credited to the high
school. The school board has made a
rule suppressing the practice OF COM
polling pupils to donate to athletics
and other school institutions against
their will
Checks and a money order amount
ing to S73 were found Monday near
the Fair Haven fair grounds. They
were the property of Judge H. NJ
Redfeld of Hubbardton, to whom
they were returned. The paper was
in a pocketbook belonging to John
Brough. of Castleton. Both of these
men encountered pickpockets at the
fair.
The freshmen class of Middlebury
college now numbers 90 members, 40
men and AZ women. Five new stu
dents have been admitted to advanc-
ed standing making the total access
ions 101. The registration in all
classes will exceed $50 The geo
graphical distribution of the fresh
man class is as follows Vermont, So;
Massachusetts IA; New York, ~;
New Hampshire, Z; Connecticut, 5;
New Jersey 2; Maine, 1; Rhode Is
land, /.
Under the winter schedule of run
ming the trains on the Boston &
Maine railroad which went into effect
Monday, the Boston and Montreal day
express, known as the air line"
does not stop in Wells River going
north, an arrangement which does not
please the travelling public, and a pc
tition is being circulated between
Wells River and White River Juno
ton to ask the public service com
to have the old arrangement
resumed
Stephen r. Colby, the veteran pas
senger conductor on the Barre and
Williamstown branch of the Central
Vermont railway, celebrated Saturday
the 25th anniversary of his continual
service in that capacity. During that
long period of service not a passenger
has been injured on trains of which
Mr. Colby was in charge, although in
recent years he has received serious
injuries himself once in the Rich
mond disaster several years ago when
he was passenger, and once on the
Williamstown branch when a baggage
car in which he was riding went over
an embankment
George Edwards, known as Port
land Fatty" one of the cleverest
yeggmen and post-offce robbers in the
business, Is reported to be under ar
rest at Toledo, Ohio Edwards was in
dicted August 2S, 1908, for a post-of-
flee robbery at Morgan. He was ar
rested in New York the following De-
cember and held under bail of $4,000 |
for trial in Rutland, May Is, 1909.
When that date arrived Edwards at
torneys said that their client had
been shot in a quarrel with another
yegg and was unable to appear. Pro-
ceedings looking toward the forfeit
ture of the bail have been dragging |
along in federal courts ever since.