The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-02-06
NEWS OF VERMONT
Paragraphs OF Interest From Many
Parts of the State

PdTtS OF the otdte
Douglas Fairbanks, motion picture
star. was IN Windsor last week He
contemplates renting the Butler place
known as "Highcourt" In Cornish, n
! H.. about three miles from Windsor
for a summer home.
A. B. Smith Of South Lunenburg and
VIII Allen of Barnet made the trip
from Woodsyille, n H., to Los An
geles, Cal. in eighteen days leaving
Woodsyille December ~ and reaching
their destination January @ They
made the trip In Mr.. Shifts Ford car
and stopped over two days en- route
Mrs. Mary Griffith Of East Dorset.
who is spending the winter with her
daughter in Rutland. took her dog
with her when she made the change Of
residence but lately the canine came
up missing, Then word came from
East Dorset that the dog had arrived
home, having made the rs ale trip on
foot.
Mrs. Della Howard g. years old, Of
Jamaica, takes the entire care Of
eight head of cattle, including pump
ing and carrying the water for them,
She milks four purebred Holstein
COWS
Not little excitement was caused
in the town Of South Londonderry by
several men recently going to Mis-
sour! to open up a coal mine and in.
cidentally making some money
About 20 from the towns a'ong West
River from South Londonderry to
Brattleboro have gene,
OF the $4,000 authorized capital
stock OF the Union Novelty Co.,
Massachusetts, corporation with an
Office in Ludlow, $l9,S75 has been
paid into the treasury according to
certificate filed with the secretary
of state, Montpe,ier, aud signed by
p. ]. Gaudette and William Meunier,
president and clerk respectively
City Clerk f. b. Corley Of Burling.
ton issued Monday marriage license
to couple whose tota' age is l16
years. Anthony Jerome Of North ave-
nue. gave his age as SO while that of
Fanny Green, the bride-tI-he, was Civ
en- as 81. Both have been married be
fore. Contrasted with the above
ages, marriage license was recent
ly granted to a gri Is, and man 10.
Guy f.. Johnson, sen of John l..
Johnson of Bratt'eboro, was in the
Knickerhocker theatre in Washing
ton d. c., five minutes before the col
lapse OF the roof Saturday, Jan rs.
He and five others went to that thea
tire, but palt Of theme did not like the
picture and The group left They had
gone but one block when they heard
the crash Of the roof and returned,
witnessing the whole afatir.
Students of the nigh school in Wa
terbury are on enforced vacation, ow-
ing to scarlet fever cases that have
broken out in their ranks and Water
bury faces a complete quarantine If
Roadway is gained by the disease. A
children of the high school are quar-
antined on their own premises, and
steps will be taken to cose churches
and theaters in the event of the chill
dren going around the streets There
is no panic. however but all proven
tive measures are being taken to
keep the scarlet fever within SAM.
tary bounds,
Earl 6 Merry o. Rutland have no.
titled the state highway commission
err that they expect to begin work
within few days on the Sherburne
bridge, federal aid project number
is. This bridge is over the Quechee
river. Richard Criskshank and |
James Davis of the state engineers
department have gone to Sherburne !
in connection with work on this pro.
jcet