The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-04-06
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Mr.. and Mrs. M. d. Brown, of East
Bethel, observed their golden wedding
anniversary recently when their
friends and neighbors gave them
pleasant surprise.
Tibet opera house at Bellows Falls
has been leased to the Bellows Falls
Amusement Co., which is to pay a
renal Of S2,4OO a year, beginning
July |.
The Vermont house of correction
property at Rutland, Is to be sold by
the state board of control. The prop
erty is estimated to be valued at $780,
900, but 1t Ia understood sum less
than half this is asked BY the commit.
tee.
. A burglar entered the Bartto home
at 1874 North Willard ST.. Burlington,
Sunday evening when the family was
away but was 9eared by the early re-
turn of the Misses Agnes and Odella
Bartto so that he ieaped from a second
story window before he had taken any
property.
Frank w. Agan, OF Ludlow, wooleu
manufactures, who was a candidate
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in 1902. with
p. w Clement needing the ticket on
a local option platform, lunehed in
Rutland Saturday, with Mrs Agan,
on their way home from trip TO Cal
ifornia, and formally announced Inat
he was candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for governor of Yer
mont MIR. Agan said that he had
been correctly reported in The Ludlow
Tribune a few weeks ago during his
absence from the state.
Two little girls, Margaret and Jaa,
ME Steinhour, eight and ten years
old arrived in Burlington Saturday,
afternoon, having travelled alone ali
the way from Detroit, Mich. Their
mother died recently of pneumonia
and as there were five children in the
fa.mily, the father decided to send
Margaret and Jennie to Essex June.
ton to live with their aunt, Mrs. Maud
Barnes, who met them at the union
station Saturday afternoon. The child
rem did net seem to think that their
trip was anything out of the ordinary.
Lieut.. Joseph A. Eaton son of Au-
ditor f. J, Eaton Of the Rutland rail.
road, was married recently to Miss
Helen Lucille Bowman, of Washington,
granddaughter of Gen. and Mrs. J. B.
Smith. They will live in Providence,
r, !. Lieutenant Eaton, who is
graduate OF the Rutland high school
and of Dean Academy was navy
aviator during the war. Before the
armiStice was signed he was obliged
to alight one day on Dutch territory
and was interned until hostilities
ceased.
The plant of the Ruggles Machine
Co., in Poultney was practically de.
stroyed by fire late Saturday after
noon. The loss is said TO be estimat.
ed at more than 100000. Several
houses nearby caught and were saved
with much difficulty, The plant of the
Gray Foundry CO., nearby was I'm.
damaged.
The Vermont Construction Co, of
burlington, whose capital atoclS is $780,
600, has filed articles of association in
the Office of the secretary Of state.
Tho Vermont Toy 8 Novelty Co., of
Newport has filed articles in the office
OF the secretary of state The CAPT.
tai stock is $4,000.
Mrs. Charles Longe, Of Burlington
made two unsuccessful attempts to
commit suicide Saturday afternoon at
her home, She was taken to the Mary
Fletcher hospital, where she is recoy-
ering from the shock and cut which
she inflicted on her neck not THOUGHT
to be serious Mrs. Longe was des-
pendent over financial troubles and
domestic conditions and had repeated.
ly told her husband that she would
commit suicide. She is woman of
about 65 years old and her husband
is older. Saturday afternoon she went
out in the back yard and attached