The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-11-27
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen
Counties Of State

Counties OF state
Several voters in Plymouth have
signed a paper petitioning Lieut.. Gov
l.. F. Slack of st. Johnsbury to enter
the race for the governorship.
Rev Archibald A. Lancaster of St
Louis. Mo, who recently accepted a
call to the Congregational church at
Middlebury, will arrive there about
December 90
Henry l.. Doty of Rutland is exhib.
iting freak deer that he shot near
Shrewsbury pond. Its horns are
somewhat palmated. looking much
like those of young moose.
Mrs Albert Laraway of Stowe was
taken to the hospital in Burlington
on Wednesday to have removed from
her right leg the bullet which she re-
ceived from some hunters gun last
Saturday.
Four men haze been bound over in
Vergennes court to answer for alleg.
ed killing of does They are Wallace
Fleming of Hancock, Thomas and
Michael Connors and Erford Fleming
Of Addison.
Harvey Smith, the eight year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Smith
of Middlebury. had three fingers of
his left hand cut off while collecting
shavings near a circular saw at the
Dickinson saw mill Saturday.
The reins becoming entangled
around his neck when a air of hor-
SEES ran away at Proctor the other
day, Andrew Allard Jr., was dragged
300 feet with the result that one
shoulder was wrenched and bruises
were received.
The Roman Catholic diocese of
Burlington has bought the l.. II. War
rem and Mrs. Lydia Chubb houses on
Main street, Hardwick, paying $240O
for one and $4,000 for the latter. Both
are located near the Hardwick Cath.
-olic church
John Lowell who with Arthur
Sweeny escaped when Harmed OUT
by the Franklin county Jail authori-
ties to work on the electric light
plant in st. Adams, is still at large
and is believed to be in Canada.
Sweeny was caught after a few days
, liberty,
William Hopkins whose parents
live in Shelburne. although one OF
the youngest horse jockeys in the
United States stands at the head hav.
ling won the largest number OF races
in America this year. He has been
in 400 races, has won lis first money
and 200 second and third money He
goes soon to South Carolina for the
winter circuit Of races
1t is reported that OF all the far
mers in Middlebury and vicinity in
whose cans watered milk was found
during the past month by the repres
entative of the Boston Dairy Co.
have made arrangements to settle the
amount which the company claim
that they have lost by inadvertently
accepting the milk. The settlements
are to be made under condition tina
no further action will be taken b.
the company
For the third time in the past few
years, Fred c. ellison OF Dummers
ton stood at the telephone in the Val
3 Ness louise in Burlington Tuesda
! night and heard of the death of
p member OF his immediate family. II
left at once for his home followin
. the reception OF the message whic
told of the suicide of his sister. UI
on the former occasions, Mr.. Gilso
b was called to the phone TO learn tha
his father and then his mother ha
/. died
. George Washington, aged 90 year
, and born in slavery in Virginia, die
: November rs at his home in Swal
, ton. The deceased came to Swanto
in the summer of 1864 when a youn
. man with the late Capt. Hiram Pla
. when the latter resigned his commi
+ sion as captain OF Company + lOi
!, Vermont regiment. in the Civil wa
] and returned home. For years !
+, was employed by Captain Plat In h
y WOODEN mill and in other capaclti'
4 and later BY the late Col. r. W. Je'
4 EFT in connection with his hay an
y lime business. For the past 20 yea
or more. the deceased had tollow'
= the occupation of truckman. For
. years he was n notable figure on Il
Swanton streets and was homes
!, steady and always faithful