The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-07-01
STATE NEWS

A pretty wedding took place at the
home Of MIR. and Mrs. Matthew g.
Wright Of Richford. Friday. when
their daughter, Vivian Eleanor was
united in marriage by Rev. f. NJ Full
Ter with Waite. c. Bliss Of Omaha,
Neb.
Donald, the young son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Bean Of Enosburg Falls,
nearly met death when he fell from
the roof of one of l.. l.. Marshs store
houses in the rear of the feed store
to pile of stones. Friday, sustaining
three fractured ribs, a severe cash on
the head, and other bruises about the
body.
A consignment OF 5000 small mouth
black bass fry from the United States
government hatchery at st. Johns
bury assigned to local parties arrived
| m the Montpelier and Wells River
station Thursday evening and were
taken to Curtis pond last night by
John Van Orman and placed in that
pond.
\ freight train that attracted a
good deal of attention drew into
Montpelier Junction Wednesday afte'
noon /, was composed Of the engine
caboose and II cars OF coal and was
one OF the heaviest trains that came
into that station for sometime It was
said. The engine was one OF the
heaviest type and a maximum load
was pulled. These locomotives are
allowed to draw 1900 tons over Rox.
bury mountain and this exceeded
Shat figure.
According to the Insurance Press
$4,000 IN insurance vas paid policy
holders in Montpelier during the year
! 1919 In Barre S66.00e was paid. bar
liHaton stood a. the head Of the list
| with Sl23,25O paid. Bennington sec.
end $l06.75O, aud Barre third. Mont
polier is 10th The largest sum paid
was to Charles Z. Dewey OF Benning.
ION slL526 John i. Lewis OF North
Troy carried $4,000. In Roxbury
Sl5.75O was paid; East Barre Sill
625. and Groton, Hardwick, North
field. Randolph North Duxbury, Rye.
gate. Waterbury. Wells Rive. under
slo.00e.
Mrs. J. W. Brown of Petaluma,
Calif who left on Friday last week
for Boston, will return to her home
by way of Denver. She has crossed
the continent several times and re-
marked Friday that of all the towns
between here and San Francisco she
| thought Burlington the most beauti-
full She mentioned especially the
many beautiful homes and we'll kept
grounds, the fine streets and general
cleanliness Of the city.
The school census of Montpelier
has been completed by Charles DEF.
Bancroft and shows that there are
1853 children between the ages OF
four and one-half years and 10 years
in the city. This is an increase Of 3S
over year ago. OF the number $50
are boys and 9e3 girls. Tho school
age is to IL years, hat the census
is taken of children who start at the
September and January terms.
The United States geological SUI
vcy Includes Vermont as material
| producer OF copper in the following
statement: The copper production in
1913 WAS l9.964,229 pounds. valued at
| s3,09f .533-an increase of 69S.7Si
pounds in quantity but a decrease OF
4 SS4.349 in value. OF the total output
1 l9,39O,I50 pounds came from the
Ducktown district of eastern Tennes-
see, from 652.253 short tons of pyrtic
copper ore treated. The remainder
was chiefly from Pennsylvania. where
at the Cornwall iron mines. magnetic
separation of large tonnages of mag
netite ores results in the recovery OF
copper-bearing pyrite. Vermont and
/ Virginia also contributed to the cop
1 PEI output. while Maryland and
] North Carolina. which were produc
I ers of copper in 1912. reported nc