The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-12-11

MRS. fhED. ~. hANNEN mas D6en very
ill this week, but is slightly better to-
day. '''a
B. F. PooRE has gone to Andover,
Mass, to visit his mother for a week or
ten days. 'N
Z The large boileEpf the Lasher Stock
ing Company has arrived and is placed
in position. .-.- 49,,
WE regret to hear Of the serious illness
of Mrs. E. G. Read of Somerville, N. J.
We hope to hear of her improvement.
THE Rev. ]. NJ. Brown of Clarendon
is to assist the Rev. ]. S. Michaud of st.
Francis de Sales church, until after
Christmas.
THE high wind of last Friday levelled
the engine house of the L. S. R. R.
This was built by the N. Y, R. & NJ,
railway few years ago, and was, com
paratively, new building.
THE ladies of the Methodist EPISCOPAL
church will hold gingerbread social
Friday evening, Dec. 18th. A few fancy
articles, commenced for the fair, will be
on SALE A cordial invitation is extended
to all.
THE remains of Mr.. j. H. Kellogg,
brought here this morning for intermenG,
were accompanied by his three brothers
and brother-in-law, Mr.. Clark. Rev.
Hector Hall and Rev. A. d. Williamson
officiated at the grave. Mrs. Kellogg
was unable to be present.
AN increasing number of our people
are subscribing for the New York Daily
Press flor $3.50, in conjunction with
the BANNER. The Press is a fearless
champion of Republican principles, has
all the news boiled down" and is af-
forded at one-third the price of the
ordinary metropolitan daily.
OUR subscribers received since our last
issue copy of the Boston Weekly Jour
nal, sent to them to show what sort of a
paper it is. ANY one paid for the BAN
NER in advance can have the Journal for
year by sending us 45 cents; and with
the BANNER it is sent for $1.95 as stated
elsewhere. Send in your subscriptions
now.
Col. OLIN SCoTT's Bennington Machine
Works are driven these days to keep up
with orders. He has a great number of
machines to build of the Scott & Roberts
pulp grinders-a machine that has revo-
lutionized the business of manufacturing
wood pulp for paper-making. AS stated
by us last year, manufacturers must
have these grinders OF get out of the
pulp business.
HERE is problem for our Graded
school scholars to solve. 1t is old, but
has again started the rounds, so we give
it as follows: "a farmer had sixty eggs,
thirty of the largest he placed in one
basket and sold at the rate of two for a
cent, while the remaining thirty he sold
from another basket at the rate of three
for cent. From the first basketful he
realized Is cents, and from the second
ten cents, total of % cents. When he
next went to market he thought that as
three eggs for cent and two eggs for a
cent were the same as five eggs for two
cents, he would not bother to sort his
eggs over, but would put the sixty in one
basket, and would sell them at the rate
of five for two cents, as he assumed he
had done on his previous trip. He did
so, but found when he came to reckon
up his receipts, that he had only realized
"a cents from them instead of 25 cents
the amount received when he sorted them
over, and sold them two for cent. The
question that puzzles the farmers, and is
puzzling the mathematicans, is what be-
came of the missing penny ?'
The Hon. jerome B. Bromley of Cas-
Teton, formerly of PawIet, has three
glass decanters, each of which has an in
teresting history that dates back to oc-
currances in which Bennington took a
leading part. The first, which is traced
back for l35 years, was formerly owned
by Jonathan Willard, at one time lead
ing man in New Hampshire, who was
the first grantee of lands in the New
Hampshire grants and who received
more grants of land in those early days
than any one man. He was grandfather
of George Willard of CastletOn and he
died In Rutland in 1904, aged "a years.
Another, which is over 100 years old, was
owned by Col. Ozias Clark, one of the
early settlers of the southern part of that
county. 1t was left by him to his grand
daughter, the first Mrs. Bromley. Col.
Clark died in Pawlet in 1851, aged 81
years. The third, which comes down
from another grandfather, belonged
originally to Jonathan Baker, cousin
to Remember Baker of Green Mountain
Boys fame, and has also been in the
family over century. Jonathan Baker
died in 1S49, aged 90 years.
THE Young Women's Association of
the city of Troy observed the fifth ami
versary of its incorporation, at the Sec
ond Presbyterian church last Sunday
evening. Among Others, Hon. Martin |.
Townsend made an address in which he
complimented one well known here,
very highly. He said: when the sub
ject of raising so large sum for the pur
chase of the building necessary for the
carrying on of this work was preached
had my doubts about its being sub
scribed, but contributed a little, 9th
ers contributed little. and it was finally
raised. When saw George b. Cluett