The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-10
STATE NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen
Counties Of State


Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Morrison of
Groton celebrated their 55th wedding
anniversary March l.
The quarantine which has been on
at the Vermont Industrial school al
Nergennes for some time past has
been declared removed.
Judge and Mrs. George NJ. Powers
Of Morrisyille have returned from
Florida where they attended the 5Oth
wedding anniversary of Mrs. Powers
parents. ex-Gov and Mrs. L. A. Wood
bury.
Frank Allen aged % and Mrs. Ber-
tina Battease aged 30. who were ar
rested in Rutland at midnight last
Saturday pleaded guilty TO adultery
and were sentenced to rs months in
state prison by Judge A. A. Han.
Fish and Game Commissioner H. G.
Thomas of Stowe is going 10 Sher-
bume. n. Y, to investigate a state
game preserve at that lace. He viii
collect data for incorporation in his
biennial report looking toward the es-
adjustment of a game preserve in
this state
Frank Mylott, the ten year old son
of Mrs. Nellie Mylott. of Rutland, met
with a painful accident in the mach
inc shop of the Rutland railroad. The
! little fellow was not working there,
/ but happened to be in the shop when
heavy tire of a locomotive wheel
fell over, striking him on the left side
and fracturing his hip.
Raffaele Pizzi, the man who owned
the store of the Cory. Deawitt &
Frost dam, near Montpelier. which
was raided two weeks ago by Sheriff
Frank H. Tracey, appeared in city
court and pleaded guilty to keeping
intoxicating liquor for sale He was
fined $500 and costs. This cost will
include the cost Of destroying the FIVE
kegs of beer which were captured and
condemned.
Two of the competing architects
who are preparing plans for the new
Hotel Burlington, have already sub
mtted plans and others are expected
TO do so within a short time. so that
the decision on the drawings will be
made soon NJ l.. Powell said that
II was the wish OF the promoters to
have the work begun on the building
as soon as possible and to rush it to
completion with all dispatch.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy has been filed against Harry
+. Wood of Windham a merchant.
The petitioning creditors are the De
Witt Grocery company, and Durham
Bros. Co.. all Brattleboro wholesalers
Lucy A. Rowell of Ludlow, a woman
farmer, has filed a petition, giving
her liabilities as S640.24 and assets
as S57S, of which $199.5O is claimed
exempt Louis Morgan, Milton la
borer has filed a petition with liabili-
ties of $23550 and assets of S73.40,
of which $50 is claimed exempt
Friday, April 1. has been decided
upon as the date of the annual "sug-
airing off, party of the Vermont AS
ISOLATION of Boston, and the festiyity
will be held in the Mechanics build
ing. The sugar will be served at $50
o'clock, previous to which beginning
at 1880 and after the sugar also, there
will be dancing with music by the
! First Cadet orchestra. The associa
ton has ordered sugar enough for
six hundred persons and twenty bar
rels of snow will come with ii from
Vermont,
At the opening session of the
March term Of the Rutland county
court A. D. Tossing, a Rutland mer
chant. pleaded guilty TO a charge oil
selling oleomargarine for butter and
without proper label. He was fined
500 without costs which he paid.
Several farmhouses in Sharon have
been maroOned, the water in thG
White river having been forced bacl
on low-lying land by an ice jam neal
the Sharon dam. The water stand!
four feet deep on the first floors o
these houses and some of the fami
lies were taken from the second storl
windows on to the ice and conveyed
to a place Of safety
The Morrisvile committee proyid
ed in a resolution relative TO sold
iers' monument to act with a commit
tee appointed by the c. A. r. post
has organized with the following of
fcers: Chairman, Prof w. A. Reebe
! secretary, A. A. Niles, treasurer, II
, A. Slayton The monument is to cos
; not less than $250O, $500 of which il
to be paid by the towns providing th'
$1,000 is raised by the James M. War
ner C. A. r. post and citizens.
Or. Fred f. Steele one of the mem
bers of the state board of supervis
ors for the insane, says the rebuild
. ing of the burned wing Of the stat
hospital for the insane. at Waterbnr,
is progressing rapidly and, with III
exception of the stating of the root
r which is nearly finished, all of tn,
, outside rebuilding has been complet
; ed. New hard wood floors will be tn,
rule throughout this dOrmitory bu
? otherwise the finish will be along tn
/ same line as the original building
r which proved very satisfactory. Tn
| insurance on the property cannot b
, used by the hospital as by a stat
law all insurance money which accu
, mulates has to be turned into tn
state treasury State Treasurer Dea
/ wifi SAYS STh 000 of the insurance ha