The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-03-04

cart is beauty. 1t is the finest and
Highest weight of any in the department.
WE are glad to note the convalescence
of DR.. Chisholm, who had la Grippe,
suffered relapse and was very seriously
| ill.
MISS BALL, who has been visiting
with her aunt, Mrs. VIM. E. Murphy, re-
turns to hel home in Massachusetts, this
week.
MRS. MARSHALL CLAPP has come on
from New York, to care for her sister
Mrs. A. A. Norton, ill with her old
| difficulty.
WE hear of the continued illness of
Daniel McEowen with regret. Sheriff
Mccall is also laid up for few days
with sickness.
GEORGE ToBEY of Granville, N. Y. ,
with Cluett & Sons of Troy, has been iii
town this week looking after the inter
ests of that firm.
WILLIAM MOORE has moved into his
new home on South street. He intends
to build a house on the pleasant lot
south of his house later on.
A SUNDAY school will be organized
next Sunday at p. m, at the Guide
board school house. All, both old and
young. of that neighborhood are invited
to be present.
THE annual meeting of the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Y. NJ. G. A; will be
held at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of
Thursday, March 18th, in the Y. NJ. c..
A. rooms. Per order.
On Sunday afternoon next at o'clock,
Mr.. Walter B. Street, President of Will
liams College Y. NJ. G. A. and half back
on the football team and Mr.. Lynn
Armstrong, will address the Young Men
at the Association rooms.
JUDGE CARNEY has been sick during
this week. He was not able to preside
at town meeting. Mrs. Carney was i'll
some time before the Judge was attack
ed, she has had quite a serious time Of
it, but we are told she is on the gain.
THE farms of the estate of the late
Joseph l.. Carpenter. sold at auction this
week, were purchased by Emma and
Frank Paddock, heirs of the late l. F.
Paddock of North Pownal. This was
quite large transaction in real estate.
THE father of E. E. Hart of this vii
lage, is about to locate in West Airing
ron, purchasing the store of ii. T. Eaton
in that village. If the father is like his
be surprised at the hustle in business
his advent will create.
In another place to-day Mr.. w. b.
Sheldon shows up phase of the town fl
nances that we had in mind, but were
prevented from carrying out by the sick
ness and death in the editors family.
The document shows for itself as the
reader will readily see.
BROOK trout have been placed this
week in streams at North Bennington
and Readsboro, in this State, and at
several other places in this vicinity, both
in Massachusetts, and New York. The
distribution was made from Troy, the
Car coming from Neosho, Mo-, and con-
tanned 1000 fry.
THE course of lectures on American
hi. tory that the Y. NJ. g. A. is arrang-
ing for, has been delayed somewhat
owing to the death of the father of the
lecturer, Prof. Bernard c. Steiner of
Johns Hopkins University. These lee
lures will be given under the University
Extension plan, which will be fully ex-
planned as soon as arrangements are per-
fected.
w. K. PIERsON has purchased q store
In Orange, Mass, and goes there at
once. MI. PiersOu is one of our active
business young men and we dislike the
idea of his removal, but wish him sue
cess in his new home. Mrs. Pierson
will follow him to Orange about April
list. We bespeak for both a cordial re-
ception at the hands of the good people
of that thriving old Massachusetts,
town.
THE Young Mems Christian Associa
ton has made application to the Weather
Bureau at Washington for telegraphic
reports of the weather. This applica-
ton has been approved by the Superin-
tendent of the Station at Cambridge,
Mass, to whom it was referred, and the
reports will soon be regularly sent them.
The regulation flags will be displayed
from the roof as soon as received. A
full explanation of their meaning will be
printed in later edition.
JUDGE SHELLEY has invented q couple
of articles that must command large
sale. One is an adjustable desk rack for
an office or counting room. This device
is not expensive and is placed upon the
top of any ordinary desk or table. The
other is a document file, equally as sim
pie, and will hold any quantity of pa
pers from one to a pile as long as the
desk or table itself Each of these are
divided into compartments SO that
several lines of correspondence can be
classified before one, at the same time.
WE are told that there are mothers in
this village who allow their children
cOnvalescing from scarletina, to play
with other children, and who appear to
be careles themselves. The terribly
contagious nature of the disease is
shown in another place in to-day's BAN
NER. and the half is not told therein"
1t would he calamity indeed if now,
carelessness should make the disease
epidemic. The attention of the Board
of Health is called to this item. and the
suggestion made that this community is
in no mood for "hush up" policy to
prevail. If people who are likely to
scatter cOntagiOn will not desist they
should be made 10 observe proper pre-
cautions.
The Chester, Mass, local paper, has
an item last week, part of which will
interest the friends of the gentleman
mentioned, and the whole will give
hint as to what is possible to repeat here
Under "Chester Home News" our ex.
change says: AT the meeting of the
National Creamery Butter and Cheese
Makers Association at Madison, Wis,
last week B. G. Bliss, butter maker az
the creamery here, was awarded "A prize
of silver water set valued at $50 for the
best 20 pound tub of butter sailed with
Genesee salt He also won the $40 gold
medal offered for the best essay on the