The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-02-25
NeUs Notes.

The midyear meeting and banquet OF the
2 Vermont Schoolmasters club Will take
/ place in Burlington March II.
{ The second largest trust company in the
/ United States came into existence Satur.
| day. when the Old Colony Trust company
/ absorbed the City Trust company. Both
are Boston institutions. The combined
capital will be $4,000, with a surplus OF
$1,000 coo When all accounts are trans.
ierred the deposits viii total 500, 10000,
4 Masonic temple and land for its erec.
ton were presented Tuesday night at Ben.
nngton 10 Temple chapter, Royal Arch
Masons. at it, centennial anniversary ex.
ercises The temple il to be- erected from
gift OF 10000 by Col. DIN Scott OF Ben.
nington Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Norton,
also OF Bennington, gave the land.
Neil Burgess, known the country over a
a clever character actor, who made one OF
the greatest hits in later nineteenth cen
fury productions in The County Fair, died
Saturday at his home in New York city
He had been i'll for long period and his
death was no, unlocked for Mr.. Burgess
was born in Boston in 1851 and made his
stage debut in that city.
At the annual meeting OF the Vermont
Hotel Mems association in Montpelier Fri.
day the following officers were chosen:
President i. +. Shepard: vice-president,
W. h. johnson: treasurer, T. j. Heaphy;
secretary. Fred II. Kelly; executive com.
mittee. w b. johnson, T j. Heaphy. c.
H. Lalor Jerome f. Hale, A. s. Sparrow
ana H. G. Dunbar All OF the officers were
reelected, the only change being in the
executive committee. in which T. j.
lleaphy takes the place of w F. Davis.
The discovery that the National City
bank of Cambridge. Mass. had been loot.
ed OF sl+i. 600 resulted in closing the doors
OF the institution Wednesday, probably
forever, by National Bank Examiner Ell
lis ). Pepper, acting in behalf of the con
troller OF the currency Six hours after
this action had been taken warrant was
issued for the arrest Of George w. Cole
man, the young bookkeeper of the bank,
who was last heard from in Kansas City
few days ago. Coleman is charged with
embezzling the funds OF the bank The
institution is insolvent. the capital stock
of 100000 and the surplus having been
wiped ont by the defalcation
The Yale Alumni association of the state
OF Vermont took form Tuesday in Rutland
at gathering of about 25 graduates of the
university, who are located in this state.
They gathered at the Berwick and about
! o'clock in the evening drove out to the
Rutland Country club. where course
dinner was served and where the orpani
zntion was effected, The officers for the
year are as follows: President, j. A. Mer
rill of Rutland; vice president. Maxwell
Evarts of Windsor; secretary and treas.
urer Philip R. Leavenworth of Castleton;
executive committee. S. A. Bassett of Bur
lington, Prof, +, d, Collins of Middlebury
and L y. Gleason of Montpelier.
favorable report on the petition of |
the Grand Trunk railway for permission to |
enter Providence, r. l.. will be made il is |
expected, by the committee of the city |
council, which has had the matter under !
consideration. After listening to a state.
ncnt made Wednesday by Il. II. Fityhurh
d Montreal, vice-president of the Grand |
Trunk railroad, the committee voted To |
request The mayor TO call special meeting
,t the city council for SATURDAY noon. 10
AXE action on the railways petition, Mr.
I'itzhngh spoke before the committee at n
private hearing, Members of the commit.
zee later expressed themselves as we'll SAT.
shed with the railways proposition MS
Explained by him.