The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-04-21
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest from Fourteen coun-
ties OF State

The contract for the structural
steel work in the new federal building
at Barre has been awarded TO the
Vermont Construction company of
Burlington.
Anna NJ. Murray and Edward and
Don Murray her brothers were in pro-
bate court at Burlington Friday for
hearing as to their sanity. They live
in South Burlington and have been
acting queerly of late. They were
adjudged insane and will be sent to
Waterbury as state charges
Sheriff G. c. Holmes, Deputy Sher-
IFS j. b. Alfred and Horace Bolton,
and Patrolman Patrick Fitzgerald,
made rail on Frank II. Hebert's
bowling alley in St Adams Sunday
morning ct about o'clcck and arrest
ed Heber. ard four other men who
were playing poke in the place
Martin l.. Wasnburn, aged So, = ma
tive OF Randolph, died in San Francis
co, Cal, Thursday night, following
two weeks illness of the grip. Mr..
Washburn was the son of Levi and
Prudential (FlinD Washburn. He
went to Alaska when a young man,
where he was employed by the Alas
ka commercial company of which the
late b. G. Mcintyre of Randolph was
general agent.
Bert McCloud of Wrightsville was
injured on one knee and otherwise
bruised Friday as a result of being
dragged along the street by his horse
from the Langdon house on Main st.,
in Montpelier to the Methodist church
where the horse was stopped. The
horse ran following a collision be-
tween the light wagon occupied by
McCloud and Otis Lawrence and the
Minott milk wagon.
l.. B. Brooks OF Montpelier. has
shipped package OF maple sugar and
syrup to President William Howard
Taft, enclosing his card on which he
had written, The farmers that put
up this kind OF an article are not
afraid OF reciprocity" Mr.. Brooks
is firm believer in President Taft's
reciprocity agreement with Canada.
The sugar was made by B. w. Dan
iels OF Middlesex and the syrup by
T. L. Lawless Of North Montpelier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Peterson OF
Burlington observed the 50th anniver-
sary Of their marriage April IS. The
ceremony was performed by Rev.
Father Cardinal, who was at that time
parish priest of st. Joseph's church.
Mrs. Peterson's maiden name was
Theodore De Varrenness and she was
IL IL A
Peterson was born in Canada in 1886
They have three children, Mrs. o. G..
Fountain Of Montpelier and Damas r.
and Louis E. of this city
A local passenger train on the Cen
trail Vermont which left ST. Adams
south bound at about 4 O'Clock, met
with an accident two miles south OF
Waterbury Sunday afternoon that de-
layed traffic on the road about an
hour. The enginetender left the rails
but the train was brought to a stop
before serious damage occurred. A
freight engine hauled the cars back
to Waterbury and a special train was
run from Montpelier which carried
the passengers south.
w llildlu OdSSO Cduldlt
with the Aborn English grand opera
company is a Brattleboro boy. pro.
fessional for many years, much of an
athlete in youth. a wheelman, who
was placed upon the stage through
an accidental success when, in Brat
tleboro presentation of "Pinafore.
his singing won such favor that his
father sent him abroad with the addit-
ional money he had himself earned
Mr.. Schuster and Mary Howe were
playmates and studied abroad at the
same time.
Mrs. S. S. Ballard and Mrs. f. II.
Prouty, of Montpelier and Mrs. H. j.
Smith of Barre, have gone to Wash
| ington, where they are to attend the
national congress of the Daughters of
the American Revolution as delegates
from Marquis de Lafayette chapter
OF Montpelier. Mrs. Ballard will al
so attend the national council of the
United States Daughters of 1912 at
Atlantic City. and the mothers con-
gress at Washington, having been ap
| by Gov. Mead. She will be away
about a month.
Through the generous offer of the
Home Gardening association Of Cleve-
land, Ohio, the children OF Burling-
ton are to be supplied with packages
of flower and vegetable seeds for one
cent a package. The work of the as
sociation has been very successful
in encouraging the children to plant
their own little gardens, and thereby
become interested in the growth OF
plants and in nature study. The offer
of the association to furnish seed was
called to the attention of the Burling-
ton Commercial club. and the sore
tary, with the cooperation of the civ
ic improvement committee of the Kill
ia club, has placed an order for 62SS
packages. These will be received in
short time and will be distributed
to the children through all the schools
of that city. The children are eager
ly waiting to plant the seeds, as pri-
yes will be offered at an exhibition
for the best flowers and vegetables
grown To stimulate the interest in
this very worthy object several pri-
yes should be offered