The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-06
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of interest from Fourteen
Counties of State.

items OF interest from fouFteen
Counties Of State.
Charles X. Jamason is again to as
sumo the publication and manage
ment of White River functions
Weekly, The Landmark. Last Sep
TENDER Mr.. Jamason leased the
paper to r. F. Wells of Hatfield,
Mass, who since then has publish
ed and controlled it. The lease is
now dissolved by mutual consent.
Roberts post, Grand Army of the
Republic, of Rutland, lost 20 men,
bers by death during the past year
The roll OF honor" read at exer.
cises at the Shrine theatre there
Memorial day, was the largest since
the organization of the post.
Louis " Bowler of Bristol observ-
ed his Goth birthday anniversary
May %. Mr.. Bowler assisted in the
survey of the Rutland railroad when
that road was in process of construc-
ton. He recently walked to New
Haven Mills and back, II miles
Henry c. Brownell has arrived in
Burlington from Oxford, England,
having completed his three years
course of study there as a Rhodes
scholar. He will spend the summer
in Burlington and in the fall will
leave for China, 20 teach at the
Canton Christian College.
Application has been made to the
Carnegie hero fund commission for
recognition of the heroic action OF
John Green, who received fatal injur-
les May in Richford while attempt
ing to stop a runaway team and
whose action probably saved the
lives of several children who were in
the path of the team.
Roy Ashley of Burlington. IA, of
family of 10 children, was taken i'll
Sunday with lockjaw at the farm of
Miss Genevieve Horsford in East
Charlotte, where he had gone to
work. Previous to his going there
he had been vaccinated in Burlington
and it is thought that he became in
fected with lockjaw while at work
about the stables at the farm, germs
of the disease thriving about barns.
Norwich University, Mortified, is
on the list of those colleges and uni
versities whose honor graduate will
be appointed to a second lieutenancy
in the United States army without
examination other than physical
Secretary of War Garrison has but
recently signed the order.
The Vermont society, Sons of
American Revolution, will dedicate a
bronze marker on Block House Point
on North Hero island on Friday,
July 4 The point was the site of an
English outpost during the latter
part of the Revolution. The block
house was erected in July, 17lS, by
Capt. Justus Sherwood of the
Queens Loyal Rangers, and the
point was not evacuated till the
summer of 1896. The program will
include an historical address by
Henry Harmon Noble of Essex, ~
Y, and an address by Lieut.. Col A.
p. Sherwood of Ottawa, chief of the
Dominion police. who is the great
grandson of the builder of the block
house. The marker will be unveiled
by Colonel Sherwood's daughter.
Governor Fletcher will speak, Bishop
Weeks will offer prayer, and F. S.
Pease, president of the Vermont soci-
ETY. will preside. John c. Farrar,
of Burlington, has written a poem,
"The Shadows" for the occasion.
Mrs. John Vivier of Brattleboro,
lost the sight of one eye and was bad
ly cut about the face and upper part
of her body when she accidentally
threw a dynamite cap into the stove.
which exploded, throwing the stove
lid directly into Mrs. Vivier's face
and chest. Mr.. Vivier who is a stone
mason land uses dynamite caps fire.
quently had put this one on the top
shelf in the pantry, wrapped in paper
where it would be out of the way.
when Mrs. Vivier was celaning the
pantry she thought the little package
nothing but paper and threw it into
the stove
The Rt. Rev. ]. NJ. Cloarec. vicar
general of the Roman Catholic dio
cese of Burlington, will leave June q
for stay of three months in Europe.
during which time he will visit the
Pope in Rome and pass some time
with nephews at his former home in
Brittany. Father Cloarec is now near
ly so years old. having been born in
Brittany June II. 1888. He was made
priest July 4, 1858. and came to the
Burlington diocese almost immediate
ly and worked under the late Bishop
De Goesriand when there were only
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