The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-09-06
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court Thomas went into the home of
Edward Summer and while the family
was sleeping. stole an Elgin II jewel
ed gold watch. the property of Mr..
Summer and sold II to chum for n
ueeat 81 The watch was recovered.
Thomas will remain in the school UNI
til Nov 10. 1927.
Albert j. Boynton, manager of the
Hotel Berwick in Rutland, has purchas
ed the hotel, including the furniture,
the Rutland annex and lease on the
Center street building for number
of years For 80 years Mr.. Boynton
has been connected with the hotel.
The hotel was organized into a com
pany ON Jan |. 1916, as the Berwick
Hotel. Inc. and proceeded as stock
company At the time of the pur-
chase by Mr. Boynton, George Vail
qletie Ct Rutland was pre- silept of the
company Mr.. yaliQuetts VIII con-
tiiuc his ros.donce in RuGand.
Since the open zone ,was establishl
ed in Middletown Springs around the.
commercial apple orchard Of -. G.
Buxton, two weeks ago. two deer
nave Beel SNOl.
Or. and Mrs. Fremone Hamilton
and son, John, who left Brattleboro
June for 4 trip to the Pacific coast
by automobile, have decided to return
by water. via the Panama canal and
Cuba to New York.
Peter Wing of Bridport holds the
championship for eating ice cream
against time Sixteen dishes of ice
cream in p minutes was the record
he made the other day at the Con
cord Candy Kitchen in Middlebury,
and thereby won bet. - &hg.
Howard Austin. a clerk M HotaI
Windham. Bellows Falls, broke q
hone of his right arm above the elbow
while pitching a game of ball on the
Vermont academy gorunds at Saxtons
River one day this week. The break
was very pronounced his arm snap
ping while throwing ball and it was
heard in the grandstand.
Three persons were injured and a
Buick roadster and one driven by +.
H. Coursey of Rutland were damaged
in collision in Rutland Monday
night Lieut.. Price of Burlington, the
most seriously injured of the three,
was taken to the Rutland hospital,
but the injuries of the other two, F.
f. Coursey and J. f. Cops, We're not
so serious.
Attorney V. A. Billiard of Burling-
ton is in possession of data regarding
the sale of hair tonics, Jamaica ging-
,-.,ff In, etto 10
(which are used for beverages because
+ of the large percent OF alcohol in
their makeup. He declares that he is
ready to. attack the sale when the
,time is ripe.
- a 3O-foot tower is being erected on
The summit of Haystack mountain in
the northern part of Wilmington 1t
is to be maintained by the state for
estry department TO aid in the discov-
cry of fires and the prevention of SER
ious damage therefrom. A telephone
line from Wilmington to the tower is
being constructed.
Lieut.. Col Walter o. Cooley of Brat
ileboro has brought suit in Windham
county court against Beatty S. Bales
tier to recover $4,000 charging the
alienation of the affections OF the
plaintiffs wife, Mrs. Rose (Putnam)
Cooley Lieut.. Col. Cooley was with
the 372d regiment OF colored infan-
try in France end returned home in
command Of the regiment
A reunion of the Brown family. de-
scendants OF Lieut. Adds Brown of
Nottingham. was held Friday at the
home of Mrs Clayton L. Coane of
Brattleboro, granddaughter about
so members of the family being pres
ent. -Four of the Ave living children.
were in attendance. The youngest,
George, OF Rove. Macs. was 70 years
old the samc day. Representatives. OF
the family We're present from New
hampshire, Massachusetts and Yer
mont.
Frank Smith, an employee Of the
Joseph Dion show. which appeared in
Rutland recently, was in court in that
city Monday and pleaded guilty to the
charge of grand larceny in having
stolen about $500 in money belonging
to the show company. He was SEN
fenced to serve not less than a year
nor more than IS months in state
prison at Windsor. Smith, who is
about 20 years old, was arrested at
the railroad station as he was about
to board a train, carrying a bag of |
money belonging to his employer |
which weighed bout so pounds. Smith |
had worked for Mr. Dion only two
weeks