The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-01-28
VERMONT NEWS

Hedgehog bounties were paid on
1i2 heads in Stratton in one week re-
Gently.
Passengers on trains January ~
noted that farmers below Putney sta
ticn were blowing the fields.
AS result of the icy roads in
Proctor last week, Charles Mead lost
~ bottles of cream and some milk by
the upsetting of his sleigh. He was
thrown from the sleigh but was unin-
jured.
Superintendent Wilfred Smith of
the Woodstock h ectric company re-
ceived a shock from a switch carry
ing 1900 volts, while at work at the
station last week. AS he was stand
ing on an insulated box, he escaped
with badly burned hand,
George Wilson, an employee of the
s. A. Smith company of Newfane, is
in the Brattleboro Memorial hospital
i'll with blood poisoning. Mr.. Wilson
| got silver into his knee about seven
weeks ago, which was taken out with
a knife that had been used to remove
covers from cans. Blood poisoning
set in and his condition since then
has been serious.
Three trunks full of smuggled arti-
cles of wearing apparel, about 500 in
all, seized some time ago by the gov
eminent authorities in Vermont, have
been ordered condemned by Marshall
noflaU nd mill he ~
Burlington about March l. One hun
dred and seventy-five cases of bad
catsup seized because it did not com
ply with the pure food law has been
ordered destroyed.
e p. 'Osgood caught a peculiar bird
in Newfane Tuesday AS he was
driving along he espled the bird hop
ping about the meadow and after
about fifteen minutes succeeded in
catching 1t. 1t has a long neck and
biz. The plumage is white on head.
throat and under part Of the body
The back is spotted white and blush.
The bird has web feet and apparently
belongs to the water 81
Elijah J. Davenport, for many years
an employee OF the American Fork
and Hoe company of Wallingford,
died Friday OF last week of blood
poisoning. Mr.. Davenport got a
small piece OF steel in his thumb
about a week ago, but was not taken
seriously i'll until the day before his
death Physicians were to have am
putated the arm the day his death oc-
Cured, but when they arrived at his
home found that the poison had in
fected his body.
The Windsor County Agricultural
society held Its annual meeting last
week Thursday In Woodstock and
found that the fair had left sl37.36 in
the treasury. The sum OF Sl,S32.42
was received from tickets OF admis-
sion to the fair; SASS from the grand
stand, s433.S5 from the hucksters.
The total receipts were $5,2S3.16 and
the expenditures $5,l45.S0. There
was only one change in the board of
managers. J. S. Eaton succeeding c.
II. English, who retired as treasurer,
after many years Of service.
Six Washington, D. c., high school
boys have been suspended from
School as result OF 10y ride" TAX
en- by them one day last week in an
electric automobile owned by Repre-
sentative David ]. Foster. The boys
after drinking some wine which two
OF them got at saloon took the au-
tomobi e, which was standing In front
OF school building, and, after run
ming IL around for some time, left II
at the Washington monument grounds
considerably damaged Mr.. Foster
was disposed to be lenient in the
matter of prosecution, according TO
the Washington Star. II the boys or
their parents would pay the expense
Of repairs to the automobile
A peculiar accident In Grafton
caused the death of John Hakey,
aged rs years, las Tuesday. He was
working with others on a pulp job
and a chute had been built for sliding
the pulp wood down steep bank TO
point whore 1t could be taken by
teams. The pulp was lodged in the
chute and Hakey was some distance
down the line, Clearing the jam. when
stick was started from the top. A
. fellow employee shouted TO the man
below, and when Hakey Jumped
aside he went over the edge OF the
bank. He was found about ten feet
down In an unconscious condition
from which he never rallied, dyint
that evening. The singular feature
OF the case was that, while symptoms
indicated an injury to the brain, there
was not the slightest external injury