The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-26
VERMONT NEWS
Items of Interest From Various Parts
of The State.

of The State.
! Mark Alger of Huntington, has a
squash that weighs 81 pounds.
State Fish and Game Warden Her
bert A. Booth reported that in attend
ing TO his duties through the state that
the viloators of the fish and game laws
are for the most part outsiders and
that in general the men of the state
respect the laws.
H. l.. Badger of Highgate. author
tcf the popular song entitled Give All
the Praise to Mother" has received
[ copies Of the same The World Pub.
fishing Co., of New York will act as
distributor The song is already max
ing good hit in the West.
Articles OF association have been
filed by the Vermont Silver Fox com
Ipany with offices in Charlotte, and d
capital stock of $4,000, The incorpor-
GATORS are Joe Hug and f. d. Barstow
OF Chittenden and NJ, Grace Barstow
of Rutland: The company will issue
81 800 of stock at this time
The KenwCod Farms Inc of Bur ing
ton have filed articles of Association
in the office Of secretary of state for
the purpose of buying, selling or leas
ing the land and conducting a farm
which is understood to be in Charlotte
The capital stock is 100000 while the
papers are signed by c. D. Ordway
and II. l.. Winters of Burlington and
p. j. Hodgkins of Charlotte.
Charles Def Bancroft who has
been gathering from the tombstones OF
the cemeteries Of Montpelier records
of the number of persons who died
in the city previous to 1870, has com
pleted the job He found some .2S0
names. To these must be added the
number that were en- record in the
city clerks office so that when the cor
pilation is completed there will be
about 5000 names sent 10 the sec.
rotary of state comp wing with recent
legislation on that matter
On Friday morning as Mrs e. E
Hire of Ripton was coming up the
cellar stirs, they gave away carry
ing her to the floor of the cellar, with
such force as TO break one limb above
The ankle and otherwise seriously in
juring her. Or. Flagg was called and
reduced the fracture She, with her
two small children were taken to the |
home OF her sister, Mrs f Dragon |
who is caring for her
The cause of the fire which destroy
ed the fine boathouse of George H. |
Allen of Burlington. On the shore OF |
Shelburne Bay is being investigated
and there seems to be little doubt
that the origin of the fire was of an
incendiary nature Some days pre-
yiCus to the fire Mr. Allen had receiy-
ed a note warning him that unless
he leave a sum of money the amount
being 5000 in a field nhis premises
his boat house, which is one of the
finest on the lake would be destroyed
The warning was ignored and the re
suit was the fire which destroyed the
building.
The Sc ectmen of the town of Brat
tleboro have started cut on a dog
hunting expedition as the result of
complaint of damage to sheep own
ed by Robert M Williams West
Brattleboro farmer Mr.. Williams has
fine flock of Lincoln sheep and they
have been worried by dogs the past
few days. Eight sheep are unaccount-
ed for and some others have been
badly frightened Persons who saw
the dogs chasing the sheep have fur
nished descriptions of the dogs but
the selectmen have net been able to
locate them.
Gov p w. Clement intends to
beautify the lot of land in the rear of
the State House and recently took sew
eral landscape gardeners from diff
ent parts of the country to look over
the lot as well as the plot which Miss
Katherine Viles recently decided to the
state for a park. Among those who
were with Governor Clement We're
Augustus aSint Gaudens of Cornish,
N. H.. Mitchell Kendall of New York,
Charles Noon of Detroit, Mich, and J.
R. Pope of New York
The Rt Rev ]. j. Rice, bishop OF
the diocese of Burlington, has made
the following appointments The
Rev. Bernard Kelley of Poultney,
succeeds the Rev w. N. Lonegan, at
Holy InnOcents' parish in Rutland.
Father Lonegan died a month ago. The
Rev NJ S. ODonnell Of Randolph
succeeds the Rev. Arthur L. Lever,
assistant at Our Lady of Victory par
ish, st. Johnsbury succeeds Father
ODonnell at Randolph
Reports received by Linus Leav-
ons, fish and game commissioner, are
Nhat there is plenty of all kinds of
game this fall. This is due largely
it is understood to the dry weather
enjoyed this summer during the
matching time. Grouse are more
plentiful than last year, while deer
in tN2 northern part of the state are
reported very plentiful but in the
southern part of the state it is diff
ferent, due to the fact that many
have been shot while damaging crops