The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-06
ABOUT The STATE
Happenings Of Interest from Differ
ent Sections.


Rev. o. ]. Anderson of the Richford
Methodist church goes soon TO France
to be engaged in Y. NJ. c. A. work.
Reuben Levin of Manchester Depot
has been admitted to the bar in Ban
gor. Me. He is a graduate OF the
University of Maine college of law.
A. f. Butterfield of Rutland was
fined in municipal court there on the
charge of passing bogus checks. He
was fined $3.50 and costs, amounting
to about S25.
A big Packard touring car, bearing /
a Pennsylvania number plate. tipped .
over ON the mountain near Peru with
its five occupants. The chauffeur,
colOred man, was pinned, beneath the
car and several ribs and his jaw were
broken
Harlan. jr.. son of Mr.. and Mrs. II
S. Kaplinger of Springfield. Mass, /
who have been visiting in Orleans.
was badly cut in the calf OF one leg
a few days ago by younger brother,
who did not realize the danger and
picked mp a scythe, swinging it about
his brothers leg.
Arrested for reckless driving and
married on the same day was the rec
ord of Miss Doris =. Clark of Bridge
port, Coma, who was driving a car in
Brattleboro Monday which cOllided
with a motorcycle in which were rid
ing Har an Amidon, an emplOye OF the
Twin State Gas and Electric company
in Brattleboro, and Elroy Carey, a.
laborer of West Chesterfield, ~ II.
Amidon had TO have his leg ampntat-
ed four inches below the knee and
Carey has a broken leg. The acct,
dent happened in the forenoon and in
the afternoon Miss Clark was married
10 Lieuteant Gordon of the aviation
service, stationed at Fort Sam Hous-
ton Tex Miss Clark was arrested
and placed on bail of $500, awaiting
/ further hearing d
( Over 1000 people attended the Sec
ond annual field day of the employees
Of f. & T Fairbanks & Co, at st.
Johnsbury Labor day.
( The order for surgical dressings re-
ceived by the Essex Junction branch
OF the Red Cross in its latest quota is
4 five times larger than any previous
orde..
A barn owned hy Mrs. Melina Hold
ges of Wallingford was burned to the
ground last Monday, with rs tons Of
baled hay and large quantity Of I'M.
baled hay. The loss is about $4,000
Raymond A. Briggs Of Randolph, n
student In the University of Vermont
has been commissioned a second lieu.
tenant at the fourth officers training
school at Camp Grant, III.
Miss Marion Thomas. daughter Of
Isaac Thomas of New Haven, Conn.
former principal OF the Burlington
high schools, sailed Aug q for
France to Join a Smith college unit at
Chateau Thierry.
First Lieut.. DeVere II. Harden the
first American officer to be wounded
in France, who has been visiting his
wife in Burlington. has now gone to
College Park Md, where he has been
sent as an instructor in the signal
corps.
A union of churches was effected at
Whiting Sunday, when the Baptist
church accepted an invitation to join
with the Congregational church in
worship and work for the ensuing
, year, with the intention of making the
, union permanent if the temporary ar
, rangement proves a success.
Middlebury college has become 9
member of the American University
, union in Europe. The union main
tains club for American college meI
in Paris and has headquarters at var
ious centers for the assistance Of col
$ lege men on furlough. About lOl
e American institutions are represent
ed in membership.