The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-03-29
VERMONT NEWS
Items of Interest From Fourteen
Counties Of the State.

Counties OF the State.
State Forester A.'W. HAYES who is
to reside in Burlington, viii arrive in
that city April LIST to assume his du-
ties
The statement that Joseph w Law
renee had leased the Mountain Spring
hotel at Lake DunmOre proves to be in
correct.
The following appointments have
been made in the rural letter carrier
forces for Vermont: Windham, NJ Fl
ingalls,, carrier, Eva +. ingalls,. substi
tute, route No. l.
r. ii Perkins who has been employ
ed The United States clothespin fac
tory at Montpelier has just lost all the
fingers OF the left hand, the members
having been cut off while he was
working about s>saw. He is well along
in years.
The choir OF the College street
church, Burlington, will unite with the
choir Of the Unitarian church at the
latter church in that city at the even
ing service Sunday. April 4, when the
oratorio THE Seven Last Words of
Christ by Dubois will be rendered.
Beginning with Monday morning,
March 20. the names of the following
stations on the Boston & Maine rail
road will be changed, South Newbury
will be COnicut; Stanstead Junction
viii be Beebe Junction; and Beebe
Plain will be called Beebe.
Ludlow shippers are doing big bus
mess these days, eight or ten freight
cars sent there recently at their re-
quest finding no room in the railroad
yards as the space was already occu-
pied by cars being loaded with pulp
wood, chairs, and other commodities.
The championship of Brattleboro in
spelling has been won by the woman $
club team captained by Mrs Clarke
c Fits, wife of Vermont's first attor-
ney general. Claremont, ~ H., is ex-
pected TO challenge Brattleboro TO a
spelling match for interstate honors,
and the Brattleboro spoilers are prac-
ticing regularly and are reported very
fast and exceptionally accurate on the
longest and hardest words.
Mrs. Almira NJ. Morris. aged about
a. years, died Thursday at her home
in Hartford. She was the widow of
Ephraim Morris, for many years one
OF the leading business men Of Hart
ford, who amassed a large fortune and
among other evidences OF munifcence
built the Hartford public library. Mrs
Morris had been prominent in church,
social, and literary matters in the vii
lage
Among the 81 girls elected from a
senior class of 40 at Smith college.
| Northampton, Mass. to membership in
Phi Beta Kappa, the national society,
to which other college students of the
highest standing are eligible, is one
from Vermont, Miss Florence Eva
Paine of White River Junction. Elec-
ton to the society is made on basis
of scholarship throughout the entire
college course.
In Addison county court at Middle
bury Friday, Judge f NJ Butler of Rut.
land, presiding, Chauncey G. Austin, of
| St Adams, filed an application to set
aside the verdict in the will case OF
| Huldah n. Brevort Olin, the Rev. Mrs.
Miriam McKinstry, prepayment The
court took the papers under advise
ment and It is expected that when the
court reconvenes Wednesday morn
ing decision will be handed down.
The salaries of the Barre city Off
GERS have Just been fixed. There is
no change in the list with the eXcep'
ton OF that of the city engineer who
/ will receive $1,000 instead of $ll00
The other salaries are as follows.
Superintendent of streets, $1,000; wat
er superintendent, $1,000; fire chief
$50 q month; fremen, $50 a month
call men, S35 year; chief of police
/ S75 a month; patrolmen, 500 month,
superintendent of fire alarm, $50 a
year.
In the Vermont department of the
Grand Army OF the Republic deaths
have been more numerous than add
lions since 1890 when the organizat
ion reached It's highest enrolment
with III posts aud a membership oil
SAB. December 81, 1907, it had 270I
members in 90 posts In 1875 there
were SCI comrades in 10 posts a
steady growth was noted until 1888.
when the posts numbered a.. The
following year q new posts were
formed the. next year nine, and aftei
that several year was the record.
MY three year old boy was badl,
constipated and had a high fever ant
was In an awful condition. | gav'
him two doses of Foley's Orino Laxa
tive and the next morning the feve
was gone and he was entirely well
Foley's Orino Laxative saved his life,
A. Woll1ush, Cashier, Wls.-Quinlan'
Pharmacy
q "a no MIA.
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