The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-05-29

West Dover has 10 cases Of influenza,
st. Johnsbury is to try a concrete road
Potatoes are retailing at $40 per bushel in
Vergennes.
1T is reported there are 1854 children in forty |
families at Websterville,
There is but one inmate in the Jail at New.
fame and that is a woman.
Windsor has voted to nay its fremen 80 cents |
an hour for services at fires.
The Barre fire department are busily prepsr-
ing for the Rutland muster.
Work on the foundation for the Roman Cath
olic church at Montpelier has begun.
Edward Ray Of Hinesburgh was kicked by
COW the other day and seriously hut
The lists Of Weathersfeld show a decrease
from last year in everything but polls
"A through freight is now run over the Fitch
burg road from Bellows Falls to Worcester,
The Grand Jury of the United States Circuit
Court at Windsor found II true bills.
-Persuant to a vote of the town of Poultney,
her highway will be worked under the old dis
trict system.
Mrs Caroline NJ. Howe, aged n, and Myron
E. Fuller Of Tunbridge, aged A, were married
the other day.
The woman's Home Missionary Union of
Vermont will hold their annual meeting at Brat
tleboro on Tuesday, June 9th.
e. G. Shaw of Barton, while In Florida the
past winter sold several of his Vermont made
violins at prices varying from $50 to 800.
Bethel has man Nathan Parker, who obeys
the fish laws. He has lived there So years and
has never dropped hook into the water.
Otis Flint of Tunbridge had one hand badly
mangled by cross hog the other day. IL is
J feared the wound may prove poisonous and re.
suit in hydrophoba.
The Connecticut river is filed with logs be-
, tween Wells river and Clay island. They are
some Of last years drive, this years not having
reached thereye
A pile of lumber fell on three children at St.
Johnsbury the other day and covered them
nearly out of sight, Some workmen who were
near by liberated them
-Marvelle W. Cooper formerly OF Rochester,
but now appraiser of the port Of New York, is
talked OF as soon to be appointed consul-general
to Liverpool.
Joseph Amel of Mortified thrust his head
l under cutting machine in the Excelsior mill In
Q that town the other day, and the knife bearing
: lever struck him, cutting off one ear.
D David Bullock of Brattleboro started to 20
fishing but got drunk instead got into fight
pulled revolver was arrested and locked up in
default Of $500 bail.
: The trustees of the Brooks library at Bratte-
of the town Of Brattleboro by Robert Goode
I nough, being dated l7l0
: Hugh R. Hughes of West Pawlet, employed
= at slate quarry In Granville was badly injured
Monday by heavy stone, which fell upon him
g and crushed him terribly about the back and
, head.
r BY generous subscription Of 800 by Mrs
: Frederick Billings the Congregational church Of
l Woodstock is qualified Tor election perpetual
member Of the General Theological Library in
! Boston. All the pastors forever may now use the
library and draw books gratis
/ DIR. Moren, the State cattle inspector, went to
, Swanton Friday night to see the hogs owned by
Edward Bell which it was feared had some in
l fictitious disease, He made careful eXaminR.
9 tion and said that the swine had no contagious
disease, but were suffering from paralysis Of the
hind legs.
9 Leonard johnson, the station agent ct West
Pawlet, has resigned his position. Mr.. Johnston
is. doubtless, the Oldest station agent on the
| Rutland and Washington branch of the Della
{ ware and Hudson, having held his position at
West Pawlet since the establishment Of the rail-
, road station there.
The next annual excursion of the Vermont
l Press association leaves Vermont points Friday,
July 10th, and the members are to rendezvous at
Boston the same day and banquet at the Ameri-
/ can house in the evening Saturday is to be spent
IN Plymouth, Mass, and Sunday at Nantasket
Beach.
TROUT fishing in this vicity has been excep-
tlonay good thus far and the season is getting at
its best" says the Hardwick Gazette "They are
beginning TO take flies, and good strings are re-
ported nearly every dar. The six.inch law.how-
ever, is openly and persistently violated by those
, whose age and standing should induce them to
/ respect it in some degree, as well as by small
boys.
, Judge John B. Hollenbeck died Sunday at
Burlington, aged 90 years. lie was born in Rich
mond. February 18th, 1872, nnd served as lieu
tenant in the war Of 1912 and took part in the bat
tie Of Platsburgh. He was initiated into Mason.
, ny March 6th 1913, and was supposed TO be the
} Oldest Mason in the world. MIR. Hollenbeck was
Grand Secretary Of all the Masonic bodies OF
/ Vermont, commencing in 1858, and resigning in
1879 at the age Of So In 1871 he was elected Jus
Q tice Of the Peace and held the office until 1888
when he fell and broke his hip, necessitating his
retirement from public life. The funeral was
!, held Monday afternoon the Masonic services be
ing conducted by the officers of the Grand Lodge