The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-06-07
STATE NEWS

Mary Baker Allen chapter d. A. r.
of Cornwall has placed the marker
that was made late last year at the
west end of the covered bridge span
ming the creek between Cornwall and
Salisbury. 1t points the way TO the
memorial marker erected on the site
of Ann Storys cave by this chapter
last August.
Arrangements are made for Il re
union of the early graduates and
pupils of the Johnson Normal school
in connection with the week begin
ming June 10. A portrait of Prof.
Pearl, the first principal, viii be pre-
scented to the school by his old pupils,
and an address Will be given by Or.
j. NJ. French of Milford, Mass.
A negro, who was one Of a party Of
horsemen en- route from Montreal to
Newport News, Va, to sail with
horses for the European war, jumped
off the train somewhere between St
Armand, Que, and lIighgate Springs,
Friday night ana was not located I'M
I'll noon OF the next day when he was
found at Hisheate with a dislocated
shoulder. Tic evidently did not
realize what lie was doing in jumping
from the moving train.
Miss Eunice knight, aged 81, deaf
and with failing eyesight, was knock
ed down in West BrattIeboro Friday
evening by cart in which two youRe
children, Maxine Stellman and Ralph
Perry, were riding ON the sidewalk.
Miss knight was thrown into the gut
ter, where her head struck against
some empty tar barrels and was bad
~ bruised and cut and one knee was;
also considerably hurt. The children.
have been accustomed to use the.
sidewalk as speedway and assert
they shouted to Miss knight of their
proximity, but she did not hear them.
Experiments undertaken in Wind
ham county for the determination of.
grasshoppers seem to have been sue.
cessful, as in demonstration by
Agent A. w. Swceton of the Wind
ham county agricultural association
on the farm of loomis brothers in.
East Putney, over 200 grasshoppers
were killed on square foot of land
which had been treated with mix.
ture recommended by the United
States department of agriculture. In
East Putney last year grasshoppers
became a pest and did large
amount of damage. Mr.. Sweeton will
aid the farmers all over the county
by demonstrations.
Since the statement in recent w
G.. r. U. convention in Bellows Falls
that Brattleboro women liked lemon
ade better with stick than with
out, they have been getting liquor adj
yertisements, either accidentally or
with design. Mrs. Harriet Tucker OF
Brattleboro. who was responsible for
the statement which has travelled
through the state press, says she is
willing to stand back of anything she
has said. In alleged conversation
with members of the Brattleboro
press, she hints that there were
many things further which she might
have said truthfully along the same
line
st. Adams has a colony of noted
musicians among her summer guests
this season. including Mr.. and Mrs.
Ossip Gabrilowitsch of New York
and Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Stokowski
of Philadelphia. Mrs. Gabrilowitsch
is daughter of the late Mark Twain
Samuel l. Clemers) and is promi
nent voca list, while her husband is 4
noted piarist. Mrs Stokowski is
known in the concert world as Nine
Olga Samaroff and her husband is
one of the leading orchestra conduc-
tors of the country, having been
conductor of symphony, operate and
work in Paris and London
before coming to the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gabrilowitsch have |
rented a house in st. Adams for the
summer.
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