The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-09-04
Arlington.

and the places which have known them
so long will soon see them no more. ~
John Rafter has started a livery stable
in the barn belonging to Mrs. James
Welch, near the Church of ST. Colombo
Hiram Hyde of Chicago, Ill, who has
been the guest of Hon. NJ. H. Deming
for few weeks, left for his Western
home on Monday.
Jerome Gault has been quite sick with
asthma G.. NJ. Brownson has been con-
fined to the house for several days. Both
are convalescing. -.---.,..4..lssat %. .
Quite a number of people from this
town attended the Cambridge fair, where
our townsman D. G.. Barney has stall
lion and PAGER entered in the races.
The base ball team of this town played
a team from Manchester and Manchester
Centre on the Riverside grounds August
.29th, resulting in an easy victory for the
home team. Score 10 to 4.
Mrs, C. B. Viault acted as chqperone
to party of young people camping at
Hedges Pond (near Lake Lauderdale),
last week They report very pleasant
time. ....-. ,........
News is received that Chancellor Jas.
II. Garfield and family are domesticated
in their new home in Lincoln, Nebraska,
where Mr.. Garfield has entered upon the
| duties of his new position.
On the Doth of June last, E. NJ. Lath-
rop had valuable horse stolen from his
barn in this village, and although dill
gent search was made by the officers and
no expense was spared by Mr.. Lothrop
no trace of the horse or thief could be
found until the 9th of this month when
Deputy Sheriff Wilson received informa-
ton which resulted in the recovery of
the horse in Northampton, Mass. The
| thief if an old offender well known in
Massachusetts, having served two terms
in States prison there and is now in Jail
awaiting the action of the grand jury for
burglary on June DIST in that State.
Sheriff Wilson also lodged complaint
against him there to which he will have
to answer when the authorities in Massa-
chusetts are through with HIM. The
name of the thief is Benjamin F. Wilson,
alias the "copper" thief" His age is
sixty-four years.
On Friday, August 2sth, Marshall
Convey I'd, of this town, met with what
came near proving a very serious acct
dent. He was crossing the wooden
bridge over the Battenkill in the front of
E. NJ. Lathrop's shop and mill and when
nearly midway of the bridge the whole
structure gave way, precipitating the
team, load, Mr.. Convey and another man
into the water. The horses are large,
heavy span weighing 26OO pounds. He
had on nine oak logs which would make
when sawed about 10 railroad ties, not a
heavy load. The bridge is about 60 feet
long and it was about Is feet from the
water at the point where the team went
down. All that saved Mr.. Conveys horses
and possibly himself and man from seri-
GUS injury was the depth of the water, as
the river was swollen with the recent
rains The bridge was examined by the
selectmen of the town last spring and
pronounced safe. 1t has now been tenn
pOrarily repaired and is said to be safe
for light loads.
[Received too late for last week.
The third annual tournament of the
Arlington Lawn Tennis Club, began on
Tuesday, Aug. 25th, with delightful
weather. The playing up to Wednesday
night was very good, and promised ex-
cellent work in the finals, but the
weather of Thursday compelled post
ponment. 1t is hoped that everything
shall be finished on Friday. The follow
ing is the record of the matches up to
present writing. In gentlemen's singles,
in the preliminary and first rounds, S. c.
Deming beat Percy Liscomb, 60, Ga.
Deming beat j. E. Hamilton 8-2, 6-2.
Burton HOLSTER beat G. Kellogg 6-1,
Ga. Percy Judson beat John Mar
bury 6-1, 60. C, A. Adams beat
Hemenway 6-2, Ell. A. J.,;Holden
beat R. c. Graves 81, 60. q. L.
Reed beat Ernest West, 6-2,6-2. Ell.
Hall beat A. McCaffrey, 60, 12-1O. G.
P. McKearin beat - Edison by de-
fault, and J. E. Wild beat II. G: King by
default. Adams beat Holden, 90, Go.
Hollister beat Judson, Ga, Sc. In
the second round, Adams beat NICK EARN,
fe-2, 90. Hollister beat Demine, Ga,
Ell. Reed beat HAIL. B-9, O-3. Wild
won by default. This leaves for the
semi-fnals, Wild to play Adams, and
HOLSTER to play Reed, =
In gentlemen's doubles, Sykes and
Clemens beat Marbury and Wilson, 81,
f6-0. HOLSTER and Reed beat Edison
and Kaufman, 60, Ell. . Dening and
Adams beat McCaffrey and Hemenway,
8-3, 6-S. Judson and Lfscomb beat
Hamilton and West, Ga, 6-S. Kellogg
and Wild beat Sykes and Clemens, 60,
6-3. Deming and Adams beat HOLSTER
and Reed, O., 60. In the match be-
tween Judson and Liscomb, and Kellogg
and Wild, the former won the first set,
81, the latter took the second, 60. In
the third set, the latter had three games
to one taken by the former when the
darkness put an end to playing. On &C
count of an engagement taking Kellogg
away, he and Wild defaulted to their
onnonanfs AS soon as the vvaathar mar