The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-10-16
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of interest From Fourteen
Counties of State

hospital in Burlington. The addition
will cost about $123,000 and will pro-
vide about 80 new rooms.
Tenements are becoming plentiful
in Springfield, rents are dropping,
people are leaving town in search
of work, and the outlook for winter
is rather gloomy. The Parks and
Woolson Co.. has discharged a num-
Der OF men and has placed the re-
mainder on four day week sche-
dule.
Dwight Stone who fell about six
feet through an opening in the floor
at the Barrett farm in West Brattle-
| boro last Thursday evening, died on
| Friday evening at Memorial hospital
without recovering consciousness af-
| ter the fall. An operation was per
formed that evening as his skull was
fractured. He was born in Rowe,
Mass.
A partridge weighing nearly three
| pounds few through window in the
| home of Mrs. F. l.. Narcotic of St.
Johnsbury recently, sending the win
dow glass in all directions. II then
few against a mirror. which 1t did
not break, but swept shelf below
| the mirror of a collection of fancy
china, breaking many of the pieces.
| After nying around the room In an
| endeavor to get out, 1t alighted on
a table where 1t was caught and kill
| ed
! John c. Farrar of Burlington has
been awarded first prize. check for
| S. for a poem in the young peoples
prize offers in the Woman's Home
| Companion. The poem was entitled
THE Apple Tree" and will appear
in the magazine. Mr.. Farrar is the
fiction editor of the department
notes. published by the boys depart
ment of the Y. NJ. C. A.. and he also
wrote the pageant, presented at the
Y. NJ c. A. camp Abnakl last sum
mer.
G. A. Richardson of East Dummer-
st0n nearly lost his own life in saw
ing that OF three year old boy, the
son Of W. Preston Smead. Several
children were riding from the field
to the barn on LOAD of corn for the
silo when the front stake broke and
the little boy, who sitting beside Mr.
Richardson, the driver, began to slip.
Mr. Richard tossed the boy to the
ground. but fell himself and the load
ed wagon passed over his side, shout
ders and face, cutting him lady He
Is now recovering.
While Bernard Colburn, the Ave
year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. V. A.
Colburn OF Brattleboro was chasing
his two year old brother Frank
across a bridge. he stubbed his toe
and fell. rolled under the railing OF
the bridge and dropped 26 feet into
/, Milestone brook Workmen from
the Estey organ shops were just pass
ing and r. H. Winchester jumped In
to the brook and saved the boys life
The child was lying face down in the
water when Mr.. Winchester reached
him. He will recover
An important real estate transfer
took place in Middlebury when the
large brick structure on Main street
known as the Federation building
which had been controlled by tn,
= Knights OF Columbus and the Catho
lie Order OF Foresters, was decided
to St Mary's parish by these two so
2 cieties. What the new owners OF tn,
building Will do with the structure
I could not be learned, but 1t is under
! stood that in the near future tn,
J. building will be fitted up with
large assembly room, reading rooms
e and other conveniences for the ben
5 eft OF young men.
"The Marine Hoboes' is the title
suggestive OF reckless wandering
q which has been adopted by three mel
q OF Jacksonville, Fla, who are making
\ a tour OF the eastern part OF the Uni
. ted States by canal, lake and river
, and who made stay in Montpelier
: They are ]. II. Dillaway and H.. A
. Dillaway, candy dealers and ]. T
: DeGroot, newspaper Photographic
and their craft is a 20 foot power boa
. OF seven feet beam, called Harpoon |
/ II is Of the Skipjack type, has 4;
! Idraught OF 2h feet, and is driven b!
q a seven horse power Fairbanks Mors,
4 engine. The trip is to be self-suppor
I ting
James II. Hooker, formerly a wei
known Brattleboro man, at conven
toon to nominate a Republican can
didate for mayor of Schenectady, N
Y. as the candidate OF the progress
sives, lost 55i9 votes TO 2Ols, but the
division OF the delegates did not be
gin TO show the closeness OF the
. contest in the primaries. A change
OF 40 votes out OF 5000 cast would
have given Hooker a majority. AZ
. ter the city convention was held MI
Hooker was offered by both progress
sives and regulars the unanimous
nomination for the assembly from
Schenectady county, but he refused
. the honor.
5 The Van Dyke log drive next yeal
J. will probably be the largest evel
n brought down the Connecticut rive
4 for the company plans to have 10000
}. 600 feet in its regular drive besides
& between 20,000,0O0 and S0,0O0,O0I
!. which are now at Fifteen mile fall
!. In two big jams. The last Of thi
,. years drive passed through the Cor
= neotlcut River Power company's dar
Friday and are now on their way I
Mt Tom. A large force OF driver
is now at work on the Jams at ri
teen mile falls. These logs will b