The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-11-13
VERMONT NEWS
Items of Interest From Fourteen
Counties Of State

Counties of State
Mrs. Lizzie Deyino Witt of Stowe
has been sentenced to not less than
one nor more than one and one-half
years in the state prison at Windsor
for bigamy
While shoveling gravel in North
Dorset recently, William McDevitt
was buried in a land slide and had
to be dug out three times before he
was finally safely removed. He was
uninjured
Rev. F. Wilson Day has resigned as
pastor of the Congregational church
at Franklin, the resignation to take
effect not later than Jan. l, 1912. He
will take a post graduate course at
Oberlin college.
Thursday morning the farmers in
the section of Middlebury we're mott
fed that they had been granted an
increase of Is cents a hundred on
the price of milk, beginning Nov. l..
This will make the price of milk
$3.50 a hundred pounds.
A whole herd of mich COWS belong
ing to Martin Prindle OF St. Adams
came near being wiped out last week
when they were fed large quantity
of nitrate of soda in mistake fer salt
The error was soon discovered and
a veterinary summoned, who saved
all but one.
A Russian Orthodox Greek Catho-
linl nhtsrah aIffca ft,cf hnan Cd
icated on Seminary hill. Springfield
only ten years ago. and the purchase
and remodeling of the church edifce
represents no small degree of sacri-
fee. The townspeople have literally
aided in raising funds.
The railroad velocipede which was
smuggled into this country from Can.
ada by John Martelle OF Shelburne,
Rutland railroad man. was sold at
auction by the United States Gus
toms people at Burlington last Fri
day afternoon to George w. Wright
of East Fairfield. II brought SIS.
Although Governor Mead has
granted a conditional pardon to Mar.
shall Way, a life term prisoner in
the state prison at Windsor, on ac
| count of age and physical condition,
this does not mean that Way will be
released from the state hospital for
the insane at Waterbury, where he
has been since July. 1899.
Ernest r. Monroe and Miss Alice
o. Harrington, the Wildwood, N. H.,
| aInnfnor rntrV1a that NJ
Lyndon last February and have since
been in Jail at St Johnsbury, were
married recently in the jail by Il. c.
Potter, justice OF the peace. Mon.
roe was a married man at the time
of the elopement. His wife obtained
a divorce and the marriage at the
Jail followed The man is a black.
smith and he and his wife have gone
to Danville, where he has work.
A start has been made on the
nurses home for Brightlook hospital,
st. Johnsbury, and the foundation
for building 4OxSO Ieet in dimensions
will be put In this fall and the
ground. graded about II. The plans
for the building are not complete
but 1t will be a two.story building on
the brow of the hill south of the
hospital building. Mrs, Rebecca
Fairbanks has given $4,000 and the
will of Carrie Underwood provided
for another $4,000 for the construc
ton of the building.
The nmber of barrels of apples
carried by the Champlain Transpor
tation company from Isle La Motto
this season is 5000, which is much
smaller than usual. In 1904 the com
pany took care OF 10000 barrels
That was before the Rutland rail
road entered the field and since Their
the business has been about equally
divided. The comparatively small
number of barrels this year, there
fore means that the crop is consider
ably smaller than a year ago wheI
1000 were handled. and far smaller
than In the years previous. Abou
$500 barrels have been shipped from
Burlington by means of canal boats