The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-11-20


hides to the Boston market this week.
This is something new for Bennington.
GEO. H. MOVES lost twenty eight fat
turkeys last week. The miserable thieves
should observe fast day, instead of
Thanksgiving.
WILLIAM LYMAN of Meridian, Conn,
formerly of Woodford, died few days
ago. He was born in the emory HOl-
lister house in Woodford.
SIXTEEN of our people are in attend
ance upon the Y. NJ. G. A. at Rutland
this week-twelve from here and four
teen from North Bennington.
THE Hon. Luther r. Graves continues
to improve, and he is so as to be up and
about his house. We anticipate seeing
him again at the bank and about town.
THE Bennington Knitting Company
are running their mill until 10 p. m.
these days, beginning one hour earlier,
also, in the morning, to keep up with
orders.
NJ. Z. WATSON for week has been
gathering crop of measles. He has
been quite i'll with the disease, but hopes
to be out again by the middle or last of
next week.
WE are sorry to learn of the continued
serious illness of VIM. B. Sheldon, who
has been sick several weeks. The ex-
hausted condition of his system will
probably make his recovery matter of
time.
S. H. ROCKwOOD's writing school
opened auspiciously, Tuesday evening
1t is to have three sessions weekly:
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Each
Co hnc mir
of the class
THE Central Vermont Railroad will
sell special round trip tickets between all
stations in Vermont and New York
States for fare one way for Thanksgiving.
Tickets will be good going Wednesday
and Thursday, November 25 and 26.
Good returning until Friday, November
q, inclusive. Good for continuous pas
sage; no stop-over privileges allowed.
THE commandery of the Loyal Legion
established at Burlington, we notice is
Differed mostly by Burlington men, but
among the members we note Maj. A. B.
Valentine of Bennington. Gen. VIM
Wells is the commander. We note that
officers of the Union army and officers
sons were among those forming the Yer
mont organization.
THE sermon on "Teaching Temper
ance," preached by the Rev. Charles r.
Seymour, in the Second Congregational
church. September 18th, last, has been
published in pamphlet form by request.
The discourse, with notes, makes four
teen printed pages and is an able exposi-
ton of the subject. The work was done
on the "BANNER Power Press" and is
nice piece of printing. The committee
of the congregation in charge of the
publishing will see to the distribution
of the pamphlets, 800 of which is the
edition.
DIR. E. r. CLARKE of East Arlington,
presents the BANNER with three garden
beets (of the blood Variety, that grew
to abnormal proportions, the three
weighing fourteen pounds. He laugh
ingly remarked that these were a sample
of what they raise in Arlington. The
doctor came down on business, Friday,
and hearing of the visit of the Mid
dlebOro Degree Staff of Odd Fellows,
stayed down to the eXemplification and
drove home in the night.
THE Dennison Herald of Now 18th, has
an account Of a public meeting in that
lOAbh lONll, w SGC II blO OlJl-
zens of DennisOn would raise $4,000 to
complete the sum needed to place the
Cotton Manufacturing Company on its
feet. This is the concern that A. p.
Childs and others, have had to do with
during the past summer. Mr.. Childs
was present, and upon his offer to sub
scribe $500 more, leaving 800 to raise,
the money was forthcoming according
to the IIerdld. Mr.. Childs's interests
therein are stated to be $500, including
the last subscription. From what the
Herdh says we Judge that the action
taken by Mr.. Childs and others promises
the success of this enterprise, which will
be good news to several Northern in
YestOrS.
AN accident occurred in the Rutland
yard Tuesday morning. The Herald
says: "The Tain was running about Is
miles an hour, and the distance from the
switch to the cars on the side track was
too short to give Engineer Clarence
Sears time to slow up much. The front
end of the engine was badly smashed,
but the driving wheels did not leave the
track. The forward end of the passen-
ger car was damaged and several seats
torn up by the force of the collision.
There were not many passengers in the
car and they escaped with few bruises
and bad shaking up. Engineer Sears
stuck to his post and was not injured,
but the fireman, Duane Sears, jumped
and hurt one knee, cutting open the
knee-pan, and injuTing one of his arms.
The blame of the accident is laid on the
crew of freight train, in charge of Con-
ductor Scrivens, that was making up at
hot aY,l s,Ft ho 81 NJ Il, L., 1,
some one of them left the switch wrong.
There was no target on the switch, and
Engineer Sears thinks if there had been
one he would have seen it in time to
stop the train"
A TROY despatch of the 10Th, says:
"Thomas McGrath of Bennington died
at the Troy Hospital Saturday evening.
He was in this city on a visit and last
Tuesday evening started across Mt.
Olympus toward North street About
forty feet west of the road and Just in
the rear of Blake's stair shop, on the
Oliver Boutwell, estate, are three lime
pits. McGrath fell into one of these, a
distance of II feet, and fractured
his spinal column. The accident
occurred at 10 o'clock in the
evening, but the injured man was
not discovered until 1890 o'clock the
next day. In the meantime rain had
been falling almost necessarily, and when
rescued McGrath was nearly dead from
exposure. After his death Saturday
night the remains were removed to the
undertaking rooms of Joseph Burns,
where, by the direction of Coroner Col
Inns and at the request of McGrath's rela-
tives, Drs. O'Connor and Herrick made
dn autopsy. If was found that the in
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