The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-10-03
STATE NEWS

Opl Hlbilclu nave SlNSI Pl,OVV loi liS
new hospital at Springfield. The
fund now amounts to nearly $4,000.
Miss Nellie S. Laughlln of Barnet,
who has been teaching in New York
in the mission home for the past
year, has gone to Syria as mission
teache,.
Rev. e. S. Harrison has resigned
as pastor OF the church at West Brat
tleboro and will enter the Gordon
Missionary training school in Bos-
ton, which opens Oct. l.
James Jeffcott has been bound oy-
er to Rutland county court charged
with burglary of the Keene g,ocery
store in West Pawlet early last week
He gives his home as Hudson Falls,
n. Y.
Eva l.. Tudor OF Townshend is SUI
ing the town for $4,000 damages for
alleged. injuries received in an auto
mobile accident October 6, 1912 The
automobile, it is said slid over an i'm
perfectly constructed embarrassment.
A good financial showing was
made this summer at Brattleboro by
The local baseball association. The
season was backed by a subscription
list Of $4,000 and only $500 OF rhe
amount was necessary. !.
The schoolboys in the Bellows
Falls manual training department
are to erect a grandstand on the
playground, as part of the actual
work OF the department. At meet
ing of the village Trustees, held last
week, $S5 was appropriated for lum-
Der for the job, a M ea
Word has been received by Benja
min Gates, secretary of the Mont
pelier board of trade, from the avi!
ator, Arnold Kruiekmau, regarding
his proposed fight from Washington
10 Montreal, or Ottawa, saying he
will make a landing in Montpelier
on his routc if $500 be raised and
providing a suitable landing place
can be found. Mr. Gates has asked
for the opinion of the public.
The Rutland Railroad company is
the defendant in a negligence suit
for $4,000 damages. The plaintiff
is John Harrington OF Rutland, who
was struck by the Horthbound morn
ing passenger train from New YORK
1t the Stewa ID crossing in Rutland
while he was driving in an express
wagon about a year ago. The horse
ran into the side OF the locomotive
Mr.. Harrington is deaf. J. c. Jones
and c. l.. Hoe Of this city are coun-
sci fer the plaintiff and E. w. Law
Tor the defendant
The twentieth annual convention
of the We mont branch or the Inter
ma ionai order Of Kings Daughters
and Sons will be held in Burlington
beginning Tuesday evening with a
receItion ut the Unitarian Church,
the regular program to begin We'd
nesday morning at 10 O'Clock at the
First church. The meetings are
open to the public. Wednesday af-
ernoon at $3.50 o'clock. Mrs. Isabella
Charles Davis, of New York city,
will give an address on the Child
Welfa e Movements" and Wednes-
day evening al O'Clock President
John NJ. Thomas, of Middlebury Col
'ege, will give an address on The
County Church.
A Virginia paper contains an inter
esting account of visit of stone
wall" Jackson to Brattleboro only
few months before he went into the
field to lead an army against the
North T. j, Jackson. afterward
general, was In III health in the sum
"a. 10 nf.f
for treatment at a WAGER cure. 1t is
related that on the door of the hotel
was p.inted a schedule of prices, bur
when the general registered he war
charged more than the rates. He be.
came incensed and left at once foi
a hotel in the vicinity OF Springfield
Mass. where his visit in the Con
necticut valley was completed.
Senator Emmett McFeeters OF
Enosbu-g Falls was badly bruised
and received n severe cut on his
forehead Friday while driving neal
that village. His horse ran away
prd threw him from the carriage.
his wounds were dressed by o
physician.
Miss Dorothy Carlson OF Montpel
err. Miss Lillian Bell OF Windsor and
Miss Mabel Wood Of the same place
have finished work at the Taunton
insane hospital Taunton, Mass.
and the rest of the nurses at the in
stitution threaten TO join the strike
unless a recent order of the hospital
authorities is rescinded. This Or
der is that none of the nurses shall
be allowed TO entertain young men
callers aftor ds-S. Unwilling to