The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-07
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John Perry was in North Adams
Sunday and Monday.
George Adams of Williamstown re-
turned to town on Monday.
Mrs. Julia Green was at her home
in North Pownal two days last week.
Darrell Sawyer of Bennington has
been passing few days at Little
Pond.
William F. Temple was guest OF
his brother Bert Saturday night and
Sunday.
Snow is three feet deep in the
woods. Best kind of "doings" for the
lumbermen.
John Rogers who is passing the
winter with Carroll Stone, was in
Bennington Monday.
For about an hour on Candlemas
day the ground hog could see his
shadow. All moonshinel
Fred A. Woodland and Mrs. Nellie
Houghton of Bennington were in
Woodford one day last week
Charles Sawyer went to his home
in Bennington Saturday returning on
Monday to his logging job at Little
Pond
Mrs. Nellie Stone, assisted her
cousin, Mrs. William H. Woodland of
Bennington, whose husband is confin-
ed by illness, from Saturday until
Tuesday.
BY freshness Of the horse he was
driving, Town Clerk Dinwiddie was
thrown from the cutter and sustain
ed lameness which deprives him from
doing the usual amount of labor.
Who would have foreseen in March
90, that all this time would have
passed without seeing Theodore go
down to Washington to occupy Wills
spare room for a weekend visit?
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Davis came
over from Searsburg Monday after
noon and stayed over night at J. r.
Hathaway's. On Tuesday Mrs. Mary
Smith, Mrs. Davis mother, was able
to go home with them. Mrs. Smith
is yet i'll.
Fears are now entertained that
when the large amount of ice goes
out of the brooks much damage will
"esult Some people worry about
'hings that never happen, and don't
7ppreciate the good things that fall
to their lot
! S. NJ. Bowles was a guest Saturday
night and Sunday at the home of his
nephew Edward l.. Stone and wife
Of Bennington. Mr. and Mrs. Rey-
nolds Durham of North Bennington
and Edward Moon of Bennington.
were also there.
A huge icicle four inches in diam
eter at the caves, gradually tapering
down to a point, four feet long, fell
onto Mrs. Bert Temples right foot in
ficting severe lameness. Mrs. Tenn
Dle was alone at the time, but got in
to the house, when she became I'M
/ conscious. After two hours OF in
tense suffering she managed, by rest
ing her right knee on a chair to push
herself to the door and hailed a
passer-by to summon her husband
from Mallory's mill. II was several
days before Mrs. Temple walked on
that foot. She says she will not
! monkey" with an icicle again hang
ing from the roof of the back shed,
or any other old place, notwithstand-
ing Mrs. Temple is a great admirer
Of natures formations.
George w. Turner prolonged his
visit until this week before returning
to his home in the west, of which he
has one in Utah and one in Color
ado. In addition to what we wrote
about Mr.. Turner last week, we can
say that shortly after he left Wood
ford 3S years ago he enlisted in Co,
f, 18th u. S. Infantry, and served
three years during the Comanche war
on the Texan frontier, and was en-
Gagged in a dozen skirmishes which
| he says he enjoyed. In 1876 and II
he went to Alaska as one of a party
on a geological survey. In 1881 and
| so he went on a filibustering exped-
ition to Cuba, returning to Colorado
in "a. when he bought his ranch at
Naturita. where he lived until 1907,
when he went to Bluff, Utah, to pros
peet for oil, and Struck 1t rich
Soon afterward he located the land
at Johns Canyon, Utah, where the
oil well now is, which he says is
yielding bountiful returns. A hamlet
adjacent to Johns Canyon named
Galloway, was laid out by George,
and named by him. Mr.. Turner set
out many of the trees which now
adorn the pleasant village. which
many were DESTROYS of having
named Turnervile. George always
was full Of llfe," and is now. He has
arranged matters so that relatives
and friends, later on, can have shares
in the property he has attained with
out cost to them. Mr.. Turner, when
boy, and ever since, as is evidenced
by what he says, possesses big traits
of philanthropy, and II is, source
OF much pleasure to him to arrange
for the distribution Of his wealth
while he is top of the earth" yet
keeping enough for his own comfort.
George will return home this week,
and everyone who knows him wishes
! him cuccacq md honniness