The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-10-28
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen
Counties in the State.

an enrolment of 156 students and the
sewing school 147 This is the lar
gest number since the schools were
started two years ago.
Rev. C. V. T. Richeson who is the
central figure in the Avis Linnell
case, Boston. was once a candidate
for the Windsor Baptist church pas
torate and preached there Feb 10.
1910.
Work has been begun on making
a complete card index OF the records
of Chittenden district probate court.
These records date back to the year
1897, so the new system will cover
144 years 1t is expected the work
will require six months.
The funeral of DR.. William II.
Rockwell a former superintendent OF
the Brattleboro retreat and a trustee
for over 30 years was held there DC
tober g. lie died October 20, aged
II years at Nutley. n. J. He was
also a director of the Vermont Nat
ional bank for a long period.
Rutland physicians have voted I'M
animously that filtration is the only
method whereby pure water eau be
insured They have appointed a com
mittee to work among the people OF
the city giving true figures regard
ing the cost of building, and opera
ting plant, and also as to its bene-
fits.
The trial calendar for the Noyem
Der term of the supreme court which
will open at Montpelier November
has been issued and contains five
Windham, two Windsor, three Or
ange, one Franklin, five Washington,
two Rutland, three Caledonia, one
Lamoille and four Chittenden county
cases
Three children and their mother
have been removed from the Chaffee
dairy farm east of Rutland to the iso-
lation hospital in that city They
are members of the family of Mr..
and Mrs. w c. Kimball, who run the
dairy that supplies a milk route in
Rutland. There are nine children,
three of whom became i'll with scar
let fever October 10.
The building of the Austine institu-
tion at Brattleboro has been beset
with difficulties. The frequent rains
of the early fall hindered excavation
and there were long delays in getting
the material shipped. Now there is
a shortage OF skilled bricklayers and
the contractors will be unable to com
plete the building before winter
comes unless they can increase their
force soon
Miss Alice Kenney, teacher in the
sixth grade, in the Bellows Falls
schools was taken i'll with diphtheria
Saturday, and the school Is temper
arily closed From time to time there
have been several light cases of diph
liberia in the village, all OF which are
supposed to have come from the orr
ginal case produced by the opening o.
a cess pool in connection with evcava
lions for a store. None of the casel
have been severe. Two more diph
liberia cases have developed in tbs
Rutland schools.
Joseph Stowe of Dundas, Mimi
won the prize OF cane offered by
firm Of furniture dealers in Mortified,
MINI. recently to the oldest persol
attending the Rice county fair a
Mortified Mr. Stowe was born 4
Halifax, VT, April IA, 1911, and there
fore is more than 100 years old. II
has lived in Minnesota more tina
half his life and is now living wit
his son, John Stowe, on farm
Dundas. He built the first house
Mortified. One man 81 years oil,
|. another 80, five men more than 81 an
a woman IS also attended the fair
b The Brattleboro board OF trade
in correspondence with the ThermC
Bottle company Of New York City r
: garding its contemplated change
5 place of business This company
e rated from $4,000 TO 100000 wit
: the highest credit, and has larl
trade scattered all through the cou
e try II has decided to remove fro
: New York City and will locate
/ some smaller place within easy a
n cess of New York. where 1t can ha
r die its increasing business. I'll
J. town offering the most satisfaction
i inducements win secure the concel
: which employs more than 200 skill,
J. mechanics
q Walter Freeman. aged 80 year
A and said to have been the smalle
!. man in the state, is dead at his hon
In Barre He was three feet and S
/. inches in height. weighed 80 poun,
!. and had lived in Barre all his III
a except for a short time in Plainhel
!. His father, mother, brothers al
: sisters are all of normal size his fat
!. er being perhaps the smallest
p them. Walter Freeman was OF nc
!. NAL size when born, but his grow
!. was stunted, AT one time he recei
q ed an order to travel with circu
. but declined. He was not strong al
r did little work except about Il
n house
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