The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-04-01
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Fourteen coun-
ties Of State

Items Of Interest From Fourteen Coun-
ties Of State
The Vermont State Gun Club tour.
nament Is to take place in Montpelier
June IA and Is next under the aus
pieces OF the Montpelier Gun Club.
Barre Is confident OF having a new
auto fire truck before Montpelier The
city council has been advised OF the
need of better fire protection for the
granite shed section Of the city.
The Vermont Wood Reduction Co.,
recently organized at Ludlow, purpo-
SEES to erect plant in the near future
OF the proposed capital $4,000, some
$50 900 has already been subscribed.
Barres agitation for "death-proof
building has resulted in reports on
various public buildings. OF the
churches around the city square the
doors of only the Congregational
church open outward. Fire escapes
have been ordered on several build
ings.
The Vermont Telephone and Tele-
graph company is to increase the
number Of its lines between Montpel-
Ter and Barre from II to IS, is to
build an additional line to Waterbury
and improve the long distance service
between Montpelier and Groton. This
company spent last year about $4,000
in Improvements in Barre and Mont
pelier alone.
Indications are that there will be
| additional granite industries put in
at Morrisyille at an early date 1t
is said that granite company from
| Hardwick to be anxious to loo lte
there and that inducements he'll b.
the village are favorably roce wed.
Should this concern locate in Morris
vile ii means the bringing in oil a
plant that employs at least thirty
hands.
John Loudenen and Napoleon Cen
ier who were arrested Tuesday night
at East Calais and taken to county
Jail at Montpelier were released on
Wednesday afternoon by Sheriff Ira
cey as there was no charge that
would warrant the officers in holding
them. Frank Machinson, otherwise
known as Frank Mackey, is held
awaiting the arrival of an officer from
Port Arthur, Ont
Joseph NJ. May, of Tunbridge, has
been committed to the Orange county
Jail at Chelsea for IS days on the
complaint of his mother who is rs
years old The son struck her with
a small stove shovel, she asserts.
The evidence showed that she was
the aggressor, and the justice gave
her 60 days, but owing to her advan-
ced age sentence was suspended and
she was placed in the charge of the
county probation officer Both mother
and son were being supported by the
town at the town farm.
Rents in Montpelier will be higher
after April /, according to the reports
current among the larger real estate
owners and the building contractors
There is also big building boom in
prospect even larger than that of
last season when more than double
the usual number of houses were put
up Since the town voted yes on the
liquor license question stores that
rented for SO to $25 a month have
gone up to $40 and SIS month and
with two to ten bidders on them even
at those prices
A young man from Stowe took
with him to college in a neighbor-
ing state package of maple syrup,
intending TO have a sugaring off for
the benefit OF some of his friends.
student from Denver, who was una
ware of the course of events in the
progress of syrup to sugar on snow,
asked for some of the syrup, and on
receiving some in bowl filled it with
snow. Asked what he was doing
with the contents of the bowl. which
he, was stirring and eating. he said
he was having sugar on snow"
The old farm home on lands owned
by the f A. Walker estate in Ben
| son, has been torn down. The build
| ing was erected lis years ago and
was known as the old Olmstead tav-
ern in the days OF the stage coach
Parts OF newspapers were found in
the structure bearing the dates of
| 1877 and l7SS. In one the Vermont
almanac for 1889 is advertised, also
a list OF letters remaining unclaimed
in the Burlington postoffice Hand
made nails were used in the structure
some of which had brass heads.
w. r. Dewey Of Montpelier, presi.
dent of the Vermont Sons of the Am
ericsn Revolution Mr. and Mrs. G..
II. Cross of st. Johnsbury, and other
| Vermonters who have not yet fully
determined upon the trip, expect to
attend the 22nd annual congress of
the National society at Louisville, Ky
April 80 to May with headquarters
at Seelbach hotel The program is
sued for the meeting is somewhat UNI
usual in that it contains a map OF
Louisville and a complete train
schedule in and out of the city.
The Green Mountain Marble Co.
successor to the Middlebury Vermont
Marble Co., composed of Boston and
New York stockholders. resumed
| work af tie ouarY.v In L,ou,Ior Mo-oI