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

been making trip through the east
ern part of the state In the interest o
the endowment fund for Montpelie
seminary, secured 1866 and is still
shy about $4,000
The ninth annual meeting of the
Vermont Funeral Directors associa
ton will be held in Burlington August
3, and 5. Among the speakers will
be DR.. Charles Richmond of New Yorl
and several other prominent physic
ians.
The condition of DeFoe Croft o.
Boston who received serious injuries
to his hand in a Fourth of July acct
dent at Morrisville (where he is pass
ing the summer) is slowly improving
and ne is now able to sit up part Of
the time.
Rev. C. o. Gill, pastor of the Con
gregational church at Hartland, an
nounces that his active pastorate will
probably close at the end of about two
months. He will leave then on his
annual vacation which will be passed
| in coaching the football team of John
Hopkins University, Baltimore Md
December /, Mr.. Gill plans to begin
work in a larger field of service.
The Barre police department report
ed a total of "a arrests in the month
of June four for intOxication, seven for
keeping and selling liquor, two for
breach of the peace, three for search
and seizure of liquor four for larceny,
one for fogery. The health officer re-
ported % births in June and 13 deaths.
Eleven contagious diseases were re-
ported of which ten were measles and
one scarlet fever.
TIE $4,000 bond issue to provide
money to build the city hall has been
closed by the Montpelier city council
and the entire lot has been awarded
to the N W. Harris Co. and Morrill,
Oldham & Co, both of Boston who put
ina Joint bid of $1O1.17 for each 500
worth of bonds or premium of SlO4O
on the entire lot. These bonds bear
per cent interest and are payable in
ten or twenty years.
Bafied by the continuance of many
burglaries, the Brattleboro police are
in a auandary as to the identity of the
men who have again begun series OF
petty robberies in the center of the
town. The stable of Howard a. Year
ly was entered one evening and $40
stolen from a drawer. Two men were
at work in the barn at the time but
heard no sound Tlis is the seventh
break in less than a month.
Investigation of complaints regard
ing the unsanitary condition OF the
Burke building at Morrisville result
ed i'm the officers ordering the building
vacated vita the exception of the
store and office on the first floor by
August /, that necessary repairs and
improvements might be made. The
second floor is occupied by five fami-
lies and that floor was found IN
very bad condition and the chimneys
unsafe.
William Miller of Montpelier has
been summoned to appear In United
States district court at Rutland Sep
TENDER Z to answer to the complaint
made by the Moxie Nerve Food com
pany of Boston. that soft drink call
ed "Berzeva" manufactured by Mr..
Miller is put out in bottles similar TO
the Moxie bottles. Mr.. Miller says he
has never sold this thirst destroyer as
Moxie and his name is stamped on the
bottles.
The four year old son of Henry
Cushin of Montpelier was operated up
on at Heaton hospital for the removal
of a small round ball like the kind
used in air rifles. The child was ac-
shot by an air rifle In the
hands of a small boy. The bullet en-
tered the skin just below the eye ana
penetrated about half an inch. HAD
the ball struck an inch higher IT
would have entered the eye and des-
troyed the sight.
The Rev. DIR. Stephen G. Barnes OF
st. Johnsbury preached the sermon III
a commissioning service held at the
Congregational church at Dalton, N.
H.. Thursday at which Miss cara
Childs Richmond, of Dalton was com
missioned for foreign missionary ser
vice in Asia Minor in Cesarea, the
western Turkey mission. Doctor Bar
mes. also, in the name of the Ameri-
can board of commissioners for foreign
missions. presented the commission.
b. A. Brehmer has an ancient piano
picked up by a travelling peddler IN
Rutland county which is of more tnan
nsual interest as an antique. 1t is
an upright, having a San Domingo
mahogany case and was MADE ABOUT
100 years ago. Instead or having met
al mates to withstand the strain OF the
strings the curious instrument is brac-
ed behind by timbers three by i've IN
ches in size held together by half men
iron bolts. The piano is much smaller
than the upright of today.
William Durnet of Barre was fined
500 and costs which he paid, In con
nection with an alleged illegal deer
killing. Peter Patenaude and waiter
Soup. who were also placed under ar
rest. pleaded not guilty and were pla-
ced under bonds of $3.50 the cases be-
ing continued for trial. The men were
arrested on Tuesday night following
raid on the house occupied by Durnet
and patenaude where tae officers
found some picked deer meat in
jar.
Charles L. King of West Danvllle
recently bought cattle of the farmers
in Craftsbury and Glover, giving IN
payment checks on the First Natlohal
hank at St Johnsbury. Later 1t was
discovered that the checks were worm
less. there being no deposit IN tne
bank to his credit and four warrants
we're sworn out for his arrest. A. Z.
Chase of Greensboo, took tne VIRUS