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The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-04-02

E.E Howe of Albany spent last week
in town.
R. G. Nc Kee recently sol hoise to
a Mr.. Adams of Jackson.
Miss l.. l.. Oltmln of Sllem spent a
part of last week with friends in this
place.
Miss Sarah Fleming left town Monday
for Troy where she will reside.
Miss Clara Hanaman spent last week
in Sunderland.
Miss Mamie Hayes of Hoosick Falls is
a. home for a few weeks. She is now
sick with measles.
Miss Maria Beattie closed the school
in district No. I, March Goth, and has re-
turned TO her hon in Hebron.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemuel Hanlman of
B 'unswicF, n. Y, spent last week at A..
Hanaman's. They were called home
Friday by the illness of their daughter.
Mr. Benedict, nephew of Mrs. H. NJ.
Farnham is visiting her.
Robbie Fisher and mother of Cam
bridge, n. Y, were in town last week.
The usual amount of moving is taking
place this spring. John Rafter is going
to Arlington street, Joshua Bentley has
moved into David Bucks new house
Will Bevis into F. o. Hanaman's; b.
Turner into F. Howard's; Fred Caldwell
into G. L. Bucks.
Miss Fannie Haskin left Monday for
AnaquassicOke, n. Y, where she will
teach the spring term OF school.
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Our Lime WOrks:-The manufacture
of lime from our native rocks is no
longer an experiment, but is well estab-
lished as leading and permanent in
dustry in our village. There was a time
in 1856 when Andrew Whipple built a
lime kiln and made some lime for
market, but few years afterwards the
business was abandoned, and the kiln
gradually fell to pieces and the stones
that formed its sides have been mostly
appropriated for other uses. In 1893
three young men came down from
Adams, Massachusetts,, where they were
then making lime, and after testing the
quality of our rocks, purchased OF
Alonzo Whipple the site of the present
works. Their names were Reuben A.
Whipple, Henry f. Whipple and John
W. Whipple, who did their business
under the partnership title of Whipple
Bros Last June they sold their plant
in our village to John E. Whipple of
Rhode Island its present proprietor and
owner. His son, John II. Whipple, is
his resident agent and Overseer. They
have two patent kilns with running
capacity of one hundred and twenty
barrels of lime per day. For this pro-
ductiOn eight cords of wood are daily
consumed. The quality of the lime is
equal to any in market. Scientific
analysis finding it almost absolutely
pure. 1t is mostly sent to Holyoke,
New York and Cuba, where it is used
Tor bleaching and refining purposes. II
is perfectly free from gypsum and is as
good a lime as can be found in all the
country BY means of this industry,
wood market is provided which would
not otherwise exist, and farmers are
furnished with supply of ashes fol
their land. Mr.. Whipple intends to in
crease his works by adding new kilns as
soon as certain necessary conditions are
supplied.
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AN AWFUL DISCOVERY,

President Harrison has been detected.
We learn that the surprising and sadden-
ing truth from an article with tall capital
headlines in an English Mugwump news
paper. 1t appears that the president
had for some time successfully concealed
the terrible offense now at last brought
to hight through the devoted eXertions
of the Democratic press.
We learn from this exposure that Pres
ident Harrison, entirely ignoring the
precedent and example of the English
court, so dear to the Mugwump heart,
has actually permitted the housekeeper
of the White House. his own sister-in.
law, to mingle in society and be intro.
duced to his guests, just as if she were
not mere common hOusekeeper earn
ing her own living. This is something
that Queen Victoria and King Humbert
would never think of doing, and we dc
not wonder that our Anglo-MugwumI
friends are indignant at such an utter
defiance by an American president of the
customs of European royaly. 1t is true
of course, that President Hrrrison might
plead that he has never enjoyed the
Mugwump advantages of familiarity
with princes, dukes and all that; that III
is a mere American citizen and conten
to remain such, and considers respect
able housekeeper the equal of any woman
in the land. But arguments of that kline
will never answer; at least they will
never answer for the Mugwumps AM
their friends, the princes and dukes
N. Y. Press.
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utlnnd,

Alfred Laid, aged " ycays, died on
Sunday, week. He has been great suf-
ferer from neuralgia, and surgeons had
removed three nerves from the face in
the last two years. lie was veteran of
Roberts Post and was the seventh to die
within the past 10 days.
The treasurer of the Supreme Council
of the Royal Arcanum has transmitted
10 Mrs p. Redfeld Kendall a check of
$4,000, the amount of his benefit certif
cate in that order.
In six years the village of Rutland will
have been incorporated half century.
Farmers hereabOuts, report that the
weather conditions that have prevailed
the past winter have been generally IA
vorable for farming interests through
the Otter Creek and Battenkill Valley.
An application will soon be made to
the trustees of Evergreen Cemetery for
the assignment of a location for the
erection Of a crematory.
1t is probable that the court will take
no further notice Of the petitions for the
removal of Henry II. Smith from the
office of county clerk.
Rutland was full of melody on Easter
Sunday. Emblematic music echoed and
re-echoed throughout all the churches in
celebration of Easter. The observance
of this holy day in many of the Rutland
sanctuaries, the close of the long Lenter
fast, was of an elaborate character. The
principal houses of worship, underwent
transformation in the hands of florists
and a considerable amount Of money wal
expended for palms, ferns, cut floweri
and ported plants from both the tropica
regions and our own temperate climate
were brought into the service of making
the churches bowers of beauty. Thii
beautiful custom never wanCs Easte
would not be Easter were it hot for thu
wealth of floral display in the churche
. and the rich strains Of music which hav,
! been prepared expressly for the occasion
J That the music rendered in the variou
city houses Of worship Sunday wcs equal
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Remington County Court,
DECEMBER TERM, lS9O-LIBEL FOR d.
NORCE.
CHARLES TURRER

DECEMBER TERM, lS9O-LIBEL FOR d.
NORCE.
CHARLES TURRER
VS.
CELESTIA TURNER
Whereas Charles Turner Of Pownal. in the
County Of Bennington and State OF Vermont,
brought MS libel for "A divorce from and again.t
Celei tia Turner, to the June Term OF the Ben
nington County Court, A. D. 1850. which said
cause was duly continued to this the December
Term of said Court, A. ID. 1890. Sad petition set
ting fnith that on the 2ith day Of November A.
D. 1864 Ut orth Adams in the County of BerE-
Sc re in the Commonwealth If Massachusetts, he
was lawfully marri-d to ue'cslia Staples by
George Willard, a Justice Of the Peace.
I hat from the date OF said marriage until the
LIST day OF August. A. u. 1881. he lived with the
said CelesiiA as her lawful husband in the due
observance on his part Of the marriage covenant
at Pownal Aforesaid.
That in August, A. D 1851, the sal / Celestial
deserted the petitioner without any justihable
cause.
That the residence of the petitione- has been in
the Town OF Pownal in the County Of Bennington,
| in the State Of Vermont for more than twenty
| four years last past and praying for a bill OF
divorce from said Ceestia Turner aud q appear
ing that said Celcstia Turner is without this state
so thIta simmons cannot be served upon her.
1T is ORDERED, that no ic Of tine pend incy o
aid libel be given TO said Celestia Tu ner by
publishing the substanc" thereof with this order
/ three weeks succes syely In the Bennington BAN
NER, newspaper printed at Benn ngton, in the
| County uf Bennington. the last of which pubca
tiOi shall be at lea-t six weeks previous to the
commencen ent Of the next stated term Of the
Bennington County Court TO br held at Manches-
ter the first TUESDAY Of June, A. u. 1891. TO
which term said cause il continued. which shall
be deemed sufficient notice to the said Celestia
Turner 10 appear and answer said libel and abide
the order Of the Court thereon,
By the Court,
EDWARD j. Hall, Clerk
| CHARLES ii DAZZLING, Attorney for ibellGnt.
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WoodfDrd.

Hiram Weld has visited friends and
relatives in Searsburgh, Wilmington and
Readsboro the past week.
After doing a good winters work
with men and teams, hauling logs to Il Q
banks of the Deerfeld for the Newton
Company at Searsburgh, VIM. Bowles
has moved back home. lie is now nego-
tiating for lumber job at WallOomsac,
n. Y, whittier Herman Bugbee went
two weeks ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Woods little
daughter, Anna, after brief illness of
three days with brain fever, died last
Saturday morning. Funeral was held
Monday afternoon, the Rev. c. r. Sey.
more attending. A blessed thought il
is to know that little children find a
home in heaven!
Willie Howe, the Jesse James lad
who was here as chOre boy five years ago,
has returned to town an colder and wiser
mani"
Albert Lafavre has moved from Sears.
burgh into the Obed Eddy house.
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The Banner.
BENNINGTON. VERMONT
Thursday Afternoon, April 2, 1891

The BrattlebOro Reformer speaks OF
subject that will claim the attention OF
Vermonters in these words, the comment
at the bottom being theirs: State Super
intendent Palmer publishes letter with
reference to school statistics and the
appareutly bad showing made by the
census bulletin a few weeks ago. He
thinks the diminution is very nearly, IL
not wholly, accounted for in the change
of school age, made by the law of 1888,
and in the greater number of pupils in
the parochal schools of 1890. The enum-
Grafton in 1890 included children between
and twenty years of age, but in 1890
only those between and is. But he
properly regards the question OF the
future as more important. The only
wav we can lessen this per cent of illit-
eracy is to bring all the children between
land 1.-THE ages of compulsory attend,
ance-into the schools. We have had
truant laws in this State for many years,
but with few exceptions no attempt has
been made to enforce them. II urged
the late Legislature to change the law
so that the district clerk should furnish
the teacher with list of all the children
of school age, and that the teacher
should carefully examine the list from
time to time and notify the truant office
of any violation of the law" It's sub
iect that needs agitation.
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CsrATE OF LYDIA l., BREWER,
Notice Of Settlement and Application for Dstri-
button

Notice Of Settlement and Application for Distri-
button
STATE OF VERMONT In Probate Court held
Di r ct of Bennington, SIS at the Probate office in
Ban Ingon within and forsaid district, on the S0tb
day of March a. D. 1881.
Present, Hon Alfred Robinson, Judse.
Calvin h, Brewer, administr tor o. the es-
tate Of Lydia L. Brewer late OF Bennington, in
said dis rict, deceased, presents his m nistra
ton account for examination and allowance ami
makes application for decree redistribution AMI
partition OF the estate of said deceased,
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court. that said
application br referred to sessi, thereof 10 lie
held at the Probate ONCE, In Bennington in said
district, on the IS h day Of April, A. D.. 1881,
for hearing and decision thereon; and it is fur
Their ordered, that all persons interested be- Uou-
fed hereof by publication Of notice Of said ap-
plicatiou and order thereon. three weeks success
sivey in the Bennington BANNER, newspaper
published at Bennington. and which circulates in
the neighborhood OF those interested, before said
time Of hearing, that they may appear at said time
and place and If they see cause. object thereto.
A true copy Of record. Attest
ALFRED ROBINSON Judge
Ii ALFRED ROBINSON. judge
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Marv wa.bIor,on mouum.u,.

Mrs. w. P. Dillingham;, vice-president
for Vermont Of the National Washing
ton Memorial Association, has made her
final report to the association by which
it appears that the women of Vermont
have contributed the sum of six hundred
twenty-five dollars toward the expense
of a monument to be placed at the grave
of Mary, the mother of Washington.
Contributions were received from all the
counties in the State except Franklin,
Windsor and Orange, and were rs fol
lows, viz: Addison, S50.52; Bennington,
$3.50; Caledonia, 1922; Chittenden,
s55. 10; Essex, S12; Grand Isle, $40;
Lamoille, s22.35; Orleans, 500; Rut-
land, S16S.s0; Washington, S47.35; Wind
ham, 1891; amounting TO S625.08. In
her acknowledgment Of Vermont's con
tribution, Mrs. Margaret Hetzcl, sccre
tary of the association, says ~ call yours
the banner State so far"
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if it did not excel that of former years,
the musical part of the service attracted
immense congregations. Among the
churches where an especial effort was
made this year were Trinity, st. Peters,
ST. Paul's Parish, and the Congregational.
In the preparation of the programme at
the Congregational meeting house, Mr..
l. Henry Engels, Organist and director,
fairly outdone himself. The selections
were of the highest order of composition
and their rendition was up to the stand.
ard of any life music ever rendered in
Rutland. A special service for the day
was prepared by Rev. DR.. Phillips. The
sermons of all the clergy were earnest
eloquent, significant of the day and com
porting with the occasion. Rutland has
never witnessed an Easter service so gen
eral and befitting and nature added t.
the charm in n bright and perfect spring
day, save a chilly wind, and no such i'm
mense congregations ever filled TIL
houses of worship on Easter Sunday.
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south ShaItsbury.
Hiram Matteson is home for a shor
vacation from Norwich.

Hiram Matteson is home for a short
vacation from Norwich.
The entertainment to be given on Fri
day evening of this week, under the
auspices of the "WOrkers" will be quite
varied. There will be music and tab
leaux. The leading features of the even
ing will be, "An Old Ladies Sewing Cir
cle," and farce, "The Greatest Plague
of Life" Ice cream and cake will be
served during the intermission.
At the district school meeting held O.
Tuesday evening, the following officers
were elected: n. II. Hawkins, commit
tee A. d. Hawkins, treasurer; Byron
Mattison, clerk; f. L. Rice, collector.
Eva Hastings, little daughter of Ed.
and Lille Hastings, who has been very
i'll for the last two weeks, died at their
home in Rutland on Monday afternoon.
Her remains were brought here on
Wednesday at o'clock for interment ia
the cemetery. Mrs. Ed. Hastings is too
i'll to leave her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bradish were called
out of town on Saturday TO attend the
funeral of friend.
Mrs. Henry r. Spencer is home again
after several weeks visit at her former
home in New York
Seymour Galusha has purchased the
dwelling house with garden and two and
one-half acres of land, of Alonzo Taft.
Il. ID. Whipple has moved to Nortl
Bennington. Dr. Woodruff has rented
the parlor of them and opened an office
where he will have Office hours ever!
day.
Walter Ridout Of Toronto, Canada, will
spend his summer in town.
Jesse Carpenter of Albany, N. Y, ha
moved goods here to-day Tuesday, an,
taken rooms at Ed. Chase's where h
= will 90 to Housekeeping.
John Harrington of Greenwich, n. Y.
moved into part of Mrs. Gilbert Matt
sons tenement, last week.
Johnnie Evans contemplates moving b
J Bennington.
Miss Emma Dean came bone fToI
Z Hoosick, n. Y, on Sunday, leaving he
sister, Mrs Lee Barnes and her little so
Dean, better.
Mrs. Hitchcock goes 10 Piiicford thi
week to remain until after Conference.
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sB- The Century for April contains
two striking articles in its series OF Cali
iOrnia papers; one a descriptive paper
on The Panama Route in 49," by
Julius II. Pratt, narrating his personal
adventures as gold hunter, and graph
ically illustrated by Gilbert Gaul, after
unpublished Originll dra wings of the
Panama route made from life in the
pioneer period by the late Charles Nahl,
well known San Francisco artist.
Another article is the long-lOoked-for
paper by General Fremont ON THE Con-
quest of Cdlifor ia which Is partly
descriptive and partly historical, pre-
scnting authortatiyely the writer's views
of his relations to the acquisition of tn.
State. This article, which has been
edited by Mrs. Fremont from manu-
scripts and full notes left by the general,
has been much delayed by her illness.
In the department of California" will
be reprinted for the first time the full
text of the important despatch of Blu
chanan and Larkin, the United States
Consul at Monterey, setting forth 1.-THE
official policy for the acquisition of Cal
| ifornia." There is also supplementary
al ticle on 1.-The Hardships of the 18th
mus in 49,"
The May Century will continue the
presentation of original contemporary
materials relating to the gold-hunting
period with picturesque account Of
'Pioneer Mining Life by L. G.. Waite,
recently elected Secretary of State q
California.
To judge from the very large of letters
received by the editor OF The Century
the California series has taken as deep a
hold on the interest of pioneers and
their families as the war series did on
the veterans. These papers are If sep
arate interest, and while there is Tic
attempt to make them exhaustive they
will cover when completed the CHIEF
features of the pioneer period.
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From an examination made of the
samples of maple sugar recently caused
to be tested by Deputy Collector Forbes
and now in his possession, we are salts
fed that only the first quality of the
product can hope to be benefited by the
government bounty. Five of the six
samples run above 80 per cent the min
imum point, while only one fell below.
1t would seem that no scientific test need
be applied to determine the difference in
the quality, but this could be settled
with the naked eye. The five successful
samples were doubtless made by the
modern evaporation process, are light
colored, fine grained and dry, while the
other is dark and of coarse material
The latter product would remind one Of
maple sugar as it was made in potash
kettles generation ago, Orin pans since.
1t would be considered good article
made in the old-fashiOned way. From
what we have seen an opinion is fromed
that sugar made from boiling sap in
pans and kettles cannot hope to win
anything in the shape of government
bounty and only that manufactured by
the 'evapOrator" process. Time will
determine, but we shall be mistaken If
these predictions do not prove true.
Only the best quality of maple sugar can
hope for recognitiOn.-SL Adams Mes,
scnger This was the Judgment of one
of our largest Bennington farmers whom
we talked this matter over with, early in
the winter. We regard the Messenger
remarks as to quality timely. The syrup
made in pans is often the most like
MAPLE" is the verdict of Vermonter'
abroad.
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W. A. WALL & CO.
OF MARY }. NORTH.

Notice OF Settlement and Application for Distri
button
STATE OF VERMONT, 60
District Of Bennington.
In Probate Court, held at the Probate OF
Ace in Bennington, within and for said District OF
the 10th day Of March. A. D., 1891.
Present. Hon. Alfred Robinson. Judge.
L. Rosco. Stillmsn admins traitor de bonis non
of the estate of Mary j. North Of Pownal. II
said district deed, presents their administration
accountfor examination and allowance and make
application for a decree Of distribution and par
tition Of the estate Of said deceased
Whereupon 1t is ordered by said Courr, tha
said account and said application be referred &c
a session thereof, to be held at the Probate Ohict
aforesaid. on the 4th day Of April, A. ID.
1891 for hearing and dec sion thereon; and, 1t Is
further ordered. that notice thereof be given Il
ali parties interested, by publication Of the SAINT
three weeks successfully In the Bennington BAN
EER. newspaper published at Bennington pre-
vious to said time for hearing. that they may ap
pear at said time and place, and show cause, !
any they may have, Why said account should no
be allowed and such decree made.
A True Record, Attest -
A True Copy OF Record Attest
ALFRED ROBINSON Judge.
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rial fevers.-For cure of Headache, Con
stipation and Indigestion try Electric
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or money refrnded-Prices 80 cts ant
Sl.OO per bottle at j. T. Shurtlefl's Drus
Store
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A Wonder Worker.

Mr.. Frank Huffman, young man of
Burlington Ohio, states that he had been
under the care of prominent physicians,
and used their treatment until he was
not able to get around. They pronounced
his case to be Consumption and incur
able. He was persuaded to try DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs
and Colds and at that time was not able
to walk across the street without resting
He found before he had used half of a
dollar bottle, that he much better; hC
continued to use it and to-day is enjoying
good health. If you have any Throat
Lung or Chest Trouble try it. We guar
antee satisfaction. Trial bottle free a
]. T. Shurtleffs Drug Store.