The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-04-02
VERMONT NEWS
Items of Interest from Various Parts
Of the State.

items OF interest from various raTSS
Of the State.
The Old Ladies' home in Rutland
has received beQuest OF S1,66S from
the estate of Mrs. Laura Wright of
that city.
Fred Perry of ShelbuTne is reported
as making more than $40 day trap
ping muskrats this spring The skins
bring on an average of 50 each.
Frank Houghton, master mechanic
for the Springfield Electric Railway
company, died March 20 OF double
pneumonia. He was 81 years old.
The burlington public schools will
have school gardens again this year,
! but must secure new supervisor, as
Miss George p. Devine. who had been
in charge of them the past two years,
has declined TO take up the work
again this summer.
Motorists who went to Burlington
for the automobile show and remain
ed over until Friday, continued to re-
main on account of the storm. At
/
ever for one day and then motor
home, were unable 10 leave with |
their cars and would not leave with. !
out them.
The lease Of the long-closed Shrine |
theatre in Rutland has been conclud |
ed by Alfred S Black, representing a
corporation with movie houses in !
Maine, New Hampshire and Massa |
chusetts, the property being leased T!
from the Clement National bank. 1t
will be refurnished, renamed and
opened shortly, it is announced
Brattleboro suffered from high
water on Friday, the roads being
washed somewhat, although the dam
age was greater on the Hinsdale side
of the river A boom OF the Ameri-
can Realty company broke at the
mouth of West river and many logs
went down the Connecticut, but an
other boom was constructed farther
down to hold them There was a
landslide in Hinsdale, which left a
hole 80 feet long and 90 feet deep.
A. w. Robinson, az, assistant SUP
erintendent OF the Jones G. Lamson
plant in Springfield since 1909. died
March "a OF influenza. Mr. Robinson
had been employed by the firm in
one capacity or another since he was
Is years of age He was a talented
musician and before he was 16 he be-
gan to play the pipe organ in the Uni
versalist church in Springfield and
was organist there for 25 years. Then
he retired for time, but later was
orsanist there for two years more.
The Vermont State Bankers assocl.
alton, through its committee on agri
culture, has made available for the
season OF 1919, each prizes of S.. So
and 81 to the state winners in each of
the following ~ club work projects
The awards will be based upon recon
mendations by the state leader boys
and girls club work. Vermont agri-
cultural extension service. for real
achievement in home garden, can.
ming, pigs, poultry, potato, corn, calf
sheep, cooking, sewing, handicrafts,
land maple sugar.
Dr. Stanley Berry. a Jonesville boy
who IS now lieutenant colonel in the
A. Il. f. has been decorated with the
croix de guerre. Lieut. Col. Berry
was the commanding officer OF the
316th sanitary train of the ambulance
corps of the Pacific coast. Contrary
TO orders, he commanded the first
sanitary train for distance OF So
miles across mo mans land and es.
tablished a dressing station and field
hospital at Lyscheldt, where practi-
cally every wounded soldier was
cared for. Lieut. Col Berry is expect
ed home from overseas soon.
= The house, barn and contents on
the farm in Marlboro owned by Frank
A. Larrow OF Brattleboro, were de-
stroyed by fire March &c. Twenty
| cords of wood were burned, several
tons of hay, large automobile NOV.
ing van. two sets of double harness,
furniture and household necessities,
several bushels Of potatoes, apples,
onions and canned goods Mr. Lar.
row and his men were numbering and
some of the help were staying at the
house Sparks from the chimney
caught the roof. The house had just
been thoroughly repaired ready for
! occupancy this summer There was
| only small insurance.