The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-25
STATE NEWS

There are already 200 names TO g
on the Barre list of habitual drunkard
and others which licensees must keel
posted in their places of business anC
TO whom liquor may not be sold.
Cyrus NJ. Belden celebrated his 90tl
birthday anniversary last week at hi!
| home in Benson. Mr. Belden was {
boatman on Lake Champlain in his
! earlier days. He is in good health
| and last summer carried on one of The
best gardens in Benson.
Lit, Col. John W. Bennett, late lieu
tenant-colonel Of the 1st Vermont cav
| airy, has just sent an oil painting OF
himself as gift TO the state, to Gen
| Lee S Tillotson, and it has been hung
| in the latter's Office in the state house
Bennett had command of Vermonts
cavalry regiment when it made its
| great record at Cedar Creek,
Patrick H. Fleming OF Bellows Falls
secretary of the United irish league,
| received a box OF shamrock few days
ago from John E. Redmond, the Irish
leader of Dublin, Ireland. The sprigs
were in good condition when they ar
rived and Mr.. Fleming distributed
them among his friends. Mr. Red
mond also remembered the Irishmen
fighting in the trenches and sent
thousands Of boxes of shamrock to the
fighting men.
The Fairbanks museum. ST. Johns
bury, has offered to the pupils of the
manual training classes of the schools
OF st. Johnsbury prizes for the best
bitdhouses made without help. They
are TO be judged on their merits in
workmanship. design, and utility for
birds homes. Already there have
been about so entries for this competi-
ton.
Mrs. Eleanor Pollard, clerk in
Montpelier, while in New York took
what is shown as the mercantile tests.
OF the class OF ~ Mrs. Pollard was
the only one from Vermont, and she
was one of TIE three who marked
100 at the completion Of the examina-
tons. Mrs. Pollard specialized in
laces and the goods which she general
ly handles in the store.
Several officers, whose names fig
ure in dispatches in military affairs
on the Mexican border have been sta
toned in Vermont during recent years.
Col George A. Dood, was at Fort
Ethan Allen about the time OF the
Spanish American war and command
ed crack troop of cavalry famous
for athletic feats. Major Frank Temp
kins, a son Of Brig. Gen. Frank H.
Tompkins, retired, was commandant
at Norwich university from 1910 to
1913.
Monday. March 10, was the 145th
anniversary of the old Westminster
court house massacre. which occurred
on March 10, 1775. In the death OF
William French Westminster claims
the first blood shed of the Revolution
Daniel Holton was also seriously
wounded and died within few days
At the time of the massacre. Westmin-
ster was a shire town and the court
house stood at the top of court house
hill, few rods east of the old Gem
etery in which a monument with an
appropriate inscription has been erect
ed.
One hundred and forty cases OF
tuberculosis were treated at the Pitts
ford sanatorium last year, according
to the annual report just given out. or
these 46 were sent there by the state,
10 different cases were aided by the
Vermont chapter of the American Red
Cross society and one patient was sup
ported for - weeks by the Vermont
Federation of Women's clubs. Since
the sanatorium was opened. eight
years ago. 720 patients have been treat
ed. For the year just past there was
daily average of over II.