PART I
I googled "venjiont" yesterday.
1) Got a link to an article from the Amsterdam Record-Elizabethtown Post from 1924. The preview of the page as it appeared in my searches said something like "Dr and Mrs. Groff drove around
Venjiont in their new car." Yes, VENJIONT!!!! When I clicked on the link and read the actual article, which was a scan of the newspaper, it was actually "Dr and Mrs Groff drove around Vermont in their new car." Weird how this happened in print, too.
2) Also came up, in the preview, a Venjiont mentioned in the Plattsburgh Republican newspaper from 1958. In the actual scan of the newspaper, no Venjiont.
3) Venjiont also appears in James Madison's papers. "accord- ing to the report ; and, secondly, a reference in tlie first instance to the acting authority in
Venjiont, to be followed, in case of refusal or neglect of justice ..."
However, I do not have the time or patience to read the papers to get a better idea of Venjiont (or Vermont).
PART II
What else could Venjiont be? Well, here is a 1998 list of cities, towns and villages in New York State:
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/genealogy/townlist.htm
Bellmont, Franklin Co.
Bemus Point, Chautauqua Co.
Bennington, Wyoming Co.
Fremont, Steuben Co.
Fremont, Sullivan Co.
French Creek, Chautauqua Co.
Piermont, Rockland Co.
Pierrepont, St Lawrence Co
PARTIII
Venjiont was a building or street in Fulton, right? So maybe the caller meant that a group of kids who hung out in that building or on that street wore those shoes? (For example, when I was in ninth grade, there was a bunch of kids who used to leave campus - against the rules- and go to the local sub shop " Sunny Sandwiches" for lunch. Doc Marten boots and Converse high-tops were popular with them. So, I might say something like, "Doc Martens and Converse high-tops were popular at Sunny.")
