The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-11-05
VERMONT NEWS
Items Of Interest From Various Parts
of The State.

of The State.
Miss Olga Temple OF East st. Johns
bury raised beet this season when
weighed five and one-fourth pounds.
Martin 'Barts of Pawlet was nned
500 on the charge OF trapping musk
rats out OF season. The open season
did not begin until Nov l.
Someone broke in to gum machine
at the store of p II. Conway in Rut- /
land recently, stealing gum worth on
cents and pennies amounting TO 80 OF I
s.. .s b bsp
Bellows Falls new industry, box
making business, now employs ~
hands and work is rushing. The num-
Der Of hands employed will later be
increased TO so.
A wall-eyed pike was caught in
Lake Bomoseen last week by George
A. Bucklin. Rutland, which was about
80 inches long and weighed over nine
pounds,
The canning factories in Brattle-
boro and Westminster have had an eX-
cellent season, the output from Inc
Brattleboro factory being 100000 cans
and from Westminster 100000 cans.
While Darrell Howard was running
a threshing machine in st. Johnsbury
Center Oct 10, his right arm was
caught in the machinery and mangled
so badly that II had to be amputated
Mrs. Thomas lyric, wife OF Rev.
Thomas lyric, former pastor OF
Grace church at st. Johnsbury, died at
her home in Haxardville Conn, Oct.
"a. Mr.. lyric is pastor OF the Metho-
dist church in Hazardville.
Miss Miriam Livingston of Ludlow
who was appointed to succeed A. L.
Taft as letter carrier one one OF the
rural routes, decided she would not be
abe to do the work in winter and Sc
, resigned before she began.
i Recent heavy rains caused the dam
9 of the Rutland Ice company TO give
+ way Wednesday, taking out one bridge
g and flooding several acres OF land, do
! ing no special damage, except the loss
of the bridge and the injury to th'
= dam
It An interesting sight for the time o
e year is field OF wild kale in full
d bloom at the junction of the Connect
J. cut and White rivers in White Rive
L Junction. The kale has grown sine
a crop of corn was harvested from tn
II field
ID Joseph Dempsey Of South Acwortf
lie n. H.. Is in the Rockingham hospita
y AT Bellows Falls with FIVE ribs crust
y ed. the result OF an accident in mi
n In South Acworth, when his clothin
10 was caught in the machinery ana u
was whirled about in II.
at Street railway lines in Rutland r.
IT. fected the lack of patronage durin
III the influenza epidemic, receipts OF tn
ei second week showing falling off
as s314.71 from normal and the thii
On week in the month the receipts wei
~ s261s4 less than normal.
n ne Pvt. James j. Muilin, son Of Mr.. al
w. Mrs. James Mullin of Rutland, di'
" in Potsdam. n. Y, this week, whe
he was attending the merchilit
army training school at the Clarks'
institute. The telegram did not 81
the cause of death. He was 20 yea
,s ~. old and had been in service only Y
a weeks.
no Beginning last Thursday morni
di. all freight and passenger trains Q
Ae of White River Junction are to ma
nd up with the steel cars succeed
me each other and the same respect
,od wooden cars 1t is said to be a dai
,ol err to have the steel and wooden CT
in intermixed.
he Harry Smith, known as Cana
md Blackie." who escaped from the hot
of correction and was at large
re- several months before being rec
to tured. has been released from
gly charge OF postoftice burglary
)se. which he was first imprisoned.
rug now will be tried on the charge OF
breaking.