The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-05-06

MRS. ID. CAMERON, who has been visit
ing her daughter Mrs. B. f. Poore, has
returned to her home in Fulton, N. Y.
G. B. SIBIEY has graded up the
grounds about his residence on Union
street this spring, and greatly improved
the appearance thereof.
MRS. SARAH J. POTTER is painting
and otherwise improving her School
street residence. E. V. Chase, of South
Salisbury is doing the work.
CHARLES MCGEE, brother of Arthur
MCGEE, is going to move to New York
city, having secured situation there at
advanced pay. He has been at work in
the wooden mills.
MRS. S. H. BROWN celebrated her 8Sth
birthday on the 4th of May. A number
of her friends called to congratulate her
and to wish that they might live as
many years, provided they be as bright
and sweet as she is.
Mt. ANTHONY LODGE of Masons meet
in regular communication next Tuesday
evening In Masonic Hall. 1t is expected
that this Lodge will entertain a number
! of brethren from Lansingburgh, N. Y,
the next time the third degree is worked.
Mrs. INGHAM, who will speak on
Saturday and Sunday evenings, desires
especially to see all the young ladies in
town at the Methodist church parlors, on
Saturday evening, at 7.30 o'clock, and at
the Baptist Church on Sabbath evening
at the same hour. Come all.
THE Eastern Star Chapter will meet in
Masonic hall, next Wednesday evening.
There will be work in the degrees. A
"Chapter of Sorrow will be held by this
body in the near future in memory of
Mrs. John Wylie, lately deceased, one of
its charter members. She was daugh-
ter of Charles S. Clapp.
THE trout season opened Monday in
the Adirondacks and Vermont. Several
| Trojans, says the Times, will visit the
vicinity of Bennington this week to join
| the fishermen. The trout streams near
Bennington are the two forks of the
Roaring Branch, the south stream run
ming toward Pownal and the north to-
ward Manchester.
The Cohoes, N. Y, correspondent of
the Troy Press, under date of Wednes-
| day, says: "The death at Bennington,
yesterday, of Edward Thibadeau, form
erly night clerk at the Harmony hotel,
was announced here this morning. The
body will be brought to Cohoes for
burial. The deceased had not been well
for several months"
The Hillsdale, N. Y, Hdrbinger of
April Goth ult, says: "On Thursday
night of last week Rev. and Mrs. Cook
came very near being asphyxiated with
coal gas which escaped from stove.
They had just removed to the parsonage
on Cold Water street, and put up stove
not knowing that the flue which the pipe
entered had been closed. On Friday
morning both were very sick from the
effects of the gas. 1t would no doubt
have proved fatal had it not been that a
window in the room was left partially
open during the night
THE Governors proclamation for Ar
Dor Day will be found in to-day's paper.
In sending out this document Cover
nor Page writes letter to the editor, as
follows; 81 hope that you will feel an
interes with me in our Arbor Day, and
that because you do you will be dis
posed to urge upon your people its OBJ
servance. Several towns in our State
planted large number of shade trees on
that day last year, and believe they are
all much pleased with the results of
their labor" We certainly do second
the Governor in his ideas of the day;
and, moreover, we have two village i'm
provement societies in town that will
further the cause.
A CORRESPONDENT writes: "a bark
ing dog never bites" We temperance
ladies do bark loud and long; and we
growl, too; but our teeth though sharp
enough cannot find our subjects, they
are so shielded by soft hearted or apa-
thetic friends. 1t is not our fault that
our wise laws are not enforced. Will
some of our easy, peace-loving citizens
rise up from their slumbers long enough
to suggest what we can do? We realize
that it means self denial to do this, as
well as all other aggressive work; but in
self-defence, in our own interest as
mothers and wives, as sisters and daugh-
tiers, we have rights. How shall we
avail ourselves of cur privileges? If any
kind-hearted man with integrity OF char
acter will take thought long enough to
give us light in the midst of this darkest
time of free, public liquor selling and
drinking, we will act, even at the risk of
seeming to do what is unwomanly and
bold. l am one who is in earnest, as one
of the women in Bennington who be-
lieVeS in the execution of law.
AT the fire in Arlington, noted in our
East Arlington items to day, j. C. Farm
ham, who works for Harry Willoughby
in this village, lost all his clothes and
books. The fire destroyed the dwelling
of his parents, aged about so years, and
the story as told by the Troy Times is as
follows: Saturday afternoon the barn
belonging to Perkins Farnham was dis
covered on fire, The neighbors rallying
removed the household goods before the
house took fire, which was onlya short
time. The barn belonging to the Her
bert n. Shaw house also took fire, which
was likely to consume this house also.
The furniture was quickly removed.
The wind turned and the house was
spared. Mr.. Shaw was in Bennington at
the time. Mrs. Farnham was in weav- |
ing room when the fire broke out in the |
shed, and to escape from the flames she |
jumped from the upper story window |
and was Frustrated on the ground for a
time. A gentleman had two horses in
the stable at the beginning of the fire
and only one could be removed In the |
attempt to release the other he was
badly burned himself. The loss of the |
one horse and the building may aggre- |
gate 81, 800. There was some insurance.
In reply to letter of inquiry from
Chief Nash to the Chief of Police, Au-
burn, n. Y, the Bulletin of Saturday.
April Both, says: "Convict Charles II.
Towns has again fallen from grace, if he
had racovarad hio footboId 4Loro -.