The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-05-07

A-t6iIo pony VI NO" 1Oih aO oai"iS
of $500.
Only about threc-quarters as much
sugar was made in Wheelock this year
as last.
The Essex county teachers institute
begins at Bloomfield May 10, and will
continue three days.
H. G. Dixie of Starksboro, owns a
three-year-old heifer that weighs 1900
pounds.
Norman Williams and family, of
Woodstock, have gone to Germany to
spend the summer.
Irving A. Burnap of Hartford Semi
nary, will supply the Congregational
church in Weathersfield this summer.
The annual excursion of the Yer
mont Press Association comes off in
July, but definite plans have not been
made.
Reuben Parker of Ferrisburgh has a
pet alligator three feet long that was
sent him from Florida by friend.
Ludlow is building church, has an
other church about to be repaired or re-
built and has a new hotel ready for occu-
pancy.
"A company has been formed in Bur-
lington for canning and selling maple
syrup. 1t has put up and sold 1000 bar
rels this spring,
The Forest and Stream Club of Brat
tlebOro placed 10000 trout from the State
Commissioners in the Wilmington stream
last week.
-Doring's band of Troy is announced
to furnish the music at the commence
ment exercises of Troy Conference
Academy at Poultney.
Henry Ketchum of Hartland, re-
Gently returned from California, coming
around Cape Horn, being on ship-bOard
before the mast Us days.
William Burke of Peru, while piling
logs last December, lest an open face sill
yer watch. Last week he found it, and
it keeps as good time as ever.
The ST. Adams Messenger says that
Company { of the Vermont National
Guard is making preparations for its APP
pearance Memorial day.
The listers of Hardwick filed the
personal property list in the Town
Clerks office the 10Th. 1t shows an in
crease of between $1,000 and $4,000 over
last year.
Work has begun in earnest upon the
new machine shop building at Bellows
Falls. A large gang of workmen are
on the foundation. The building will be
$50 by 30 feet and one story high only.
Clarence Miles, young farmer, who
lives on Wheelock Mountain, attempted
suicide the other day by drinking tur-
pentine and camphOr gum.
Ground was broken for the new
chapel of the Troy Conference Academy
at POultney last Monday, and large
force of men are already at work,
1t is reported that two new trains
will be run daily on the Addison railroad
after May /, to connect at Leicester
Junction with the New York and Mon
treal express trains.
-Quechee River Lodge, No. 40 of Odd
Fellows, was organized in Woodstock
last week Wednesday evening, with the
largest number of charter members of
any lodge in the State.
The steamer Reindeer will COM
mence running excursion trips on Lake
Champlain on June !, and will be com
manded by Capt. Sawyer of Whitehall.
Clarence Niles of Wheelock, who has
been i'll for some time, escaped through
window in the night and was not found
until the next day, when he was discov-
cred i'll sugar orchard with an AK in
his hand.
Theodore w. Smith, an aged resident
of st. Adams, died early Sunday morn
ing at his home on Adds street. Dur
ing the active years of his life he was
one of the most prominent business men
of the town.
S. G. Brown, father of Capt. F. S.
Brown, died at his home in Swanton
Saturday last. The funeral was held
Monday afternoon with the Masonic
ceremony conducted by Past Grand Mas.
ter Hall at the request of Mr.. Brown.
George Atkins of the Billings farm
of Woodstock, has on exhibition there a
mud turtle, caught the other day in
Pogue pond. The animal measures 3
feet from tip to tip, and weighs 40 lbs.
w. S. Croker of Hartland. has a
Bible for which he has been offered 5000
The book is not for sale. 1t was printed
in London, Eng, in 1916, and brought
to this country by Caleb Cotton, grand.
father of the present owner.
"A workman was getting very long
log on the carriage in saw mill at Lyn.
dOnville, when the belt caught on the
flange of the wheel increased the speed
so that it shot the carriage out into the
pond, breaking it in two. 1t was a novel
accident
DIR. Jesse b. Bancroft of Concord, n,
H., who died last Thursday, began the
practice of medicine in st. bloomsbury in
lS45, and represented that town in the
Legislature of 1858. He was an expert
in the treatment of insanity.
Rev. L. b. Phelps, formerly pastor
of the Congregational church Of Barton
but who has been pastor in the church
at Gardner, Mass, for some years, has
accepted call to church in Chelsea al
salary of $500 and house rent.
Last Monday morning gang of mer
was put to work ON the coal chute il
Lyndonville. 1t is big job and will re
quire about Is men all summer to com
plete it. Over 800 spiles are to be driver
and 100000 feet of lumber will be used
w. II. Sanderson, formerly of Bran
don, but now of Dayton, Ohio, has in
vented a scale which not only weighs al
article, but also records its value, at an,
number of pounds. A company has beef
formed with capital stock of S1OO.OOl
to manufacture the scale.
The Vermont Construction Compan,
Of st Adams, has contracted the pas
week with towns in Maine, New Hamp
shire, Vermont and Massachusetts, to
nearly a quarter of a mile of iroi
bridges. This Is the largest weeks bust
ness ever done since the company wa
formed.
"A frisky rat interrupted for tim
the pleasure of the Mary Howe concer
at the Town Hall in Brattleboro tn
other evening by darting about unde
the seats, to the great CONSERVATION o
the women.
The official figures show that durin,
the three months ending with barcI
Chicago received total of 74O, 4SS hea,
of cattle, against 762,6s4 for the sam
period year ago, decrease of 200
head. On the other hand Oh
receipts of hogs for the period name
were larger by nearly million than las
year, or 2,s64,0S5 ane 1905, 72O respee;
lively.