The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-10-11
) vesMoNr NEWS
items Of interest from Various, Parts
OF State.


Leonard +. Cobb pleaded guilty in
municipal court in Springfield last
week to stealing milk cans from the
milk house in the railroad ,yardS,apa,
peddlins the contents about town' Hhel
purchasers sppposing him 20 be Sell.
lng for some farmer lie vas fined.
$50 and costs With six months sen
iepee lft.sthe bpase, OF ceftecllpn, alpl'
on his paying hlssilne and costs, also
.a6iaRlcg iiaistS %S nSsl suspended Si " "
sftsi Bapt1ifubst~sot the uni.
fefsity lot Hermant have eieen DIR.
RiJi i6ttef lHclit6ifSi leave Of absence
fq& 40 yeariRpthes swill return 10
france the iirsty of pecemheI 70 re,
stlHfe war work -&4th the army and
pasyY. N, c. a. or as .. ohaplain insa
regiment OF engineers, l,h,se -
A twoinch surgeons needle ,wastre-
Gently removed from the spine OF Nh.
clan Carmi ]. NJ Benoit, who IL al
ilittmore. N. e., andssnce thesis he
seems TO be recovering from a severe
attack OF meningitis. 8hs
PVT. Raymond ], Crouch, son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Wayland Crouch Of Brattle-
bOro, is in hospital In France re-
covering from severe burns cansed by
mustard gas. There are burns about
his legs and blisters on his arms.
Townshend had three accidents on
Friday, the most serious being onedn
which W. G. Adams severely injured
his back when he was thrown from a
wagon. lie hit the horse with tho
reins aud the animal caught one rein
under the tail, In trying to release
the rein, the wagon was tipped over
and the horse ran away FIVE gallon
oil can of gasoline tinped over as Mr
Keyser was about to move II and
Caught fire and The man was quite
badly burned in trying to exiingulsh
the flames. The third accident was
the spraining Of the ankle of G.. Z.
Robinson AS he went for the cows.
c. Leslie Witherell OF Cornwpll
shipped 1870 barrels OF apples from his
belmont farm orchard on Wednesday
aud accomplished the task In recoyd
TIME, by the employment of an auto
truck OF 40.barrel capacity. he moTd
all OF the $50 barrels OF apples from
his orchard 10 the station In Middle.
bury, about three miles away, making
five trips in all In total OF hyB and
one-half hours. BY the horse and
wagon method. which Mr. Witherell
had previously employed. II took three
DAYS to accomplish similar ship
men, s.a-u 4
An extra large yield OF squashes is
reported By Frederick A. Fish and son
OF Clarendon Springs. Early In June
Megsrs. Fish planted the SeedsEef one
red rainbow squash on n plot OF
ground "a by 2S feet In Dimensions
with the result that they repaid by
I1lO squashes weighing 7G2 potihds By
exact weight. There we're squashes
of red. yellow. black, pink, blue and
gray hues. ~ Aa
David A, Elliot, for 10 years past a
resident OF White River Junction.
leaves for Island Pond Nov 10. be.
come the cashier OF the Nationalebank
and treasurer of the electric light aud
power company. Mr. Elliott is the
grand master Of the grand lodge. OF
Vermont. F. and A.. NJ, and The pres.
ent IN his second term In that posi-
ton In 1910 he was the Hartford
Town member OF the lowcr branch OF
the state legislature and In Iai2 he
was sent TO the state Senate from
Windham county. he came 10, Awhile
RIVER Junction from lirsitlehoro and
for several years was q hardware
? merchant, but for the past three years
has been The manager and principal
owner Of a dry cleaning pTaAt Mr.,
Elliott is treasurer OF Nj. Start
templc. lie will succeed Luther 4.
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