The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-03-04
BENNINGTON BANNER.
BENNINGTON:
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1909.

IL. ". LA uttb DCOl III OACOhlOtut
Mass, this week.
MRS. DAVID BOWEN has been quite
sick with Ia Grippe.
SEVERAL car loads of machinery have
arrived for the Lasher mill.
MRS. A. A. NORTON has been quite i'll
for week. She is better now.
MR.. AND MRS. F. L. BOWEN gave a
GARD party Tuesday evening last.
CHAs. G. PHILLIPS has purchased the
Peter Story dwelling on Depot street
THE next meeting of the Fortnightly
Club has been postponed until Saturday,
March 10Th. The subject at that time
will be "Florentine Art"
AN interesting article on Chile and its
resources, in another place, supplements
4 long letter we published few weeks
since on that South American Republic.
Read it.
II, A. TAYLOR, agent for the Her
nance stove pipe damper, is having good
success with this unique fuel saver. 1t
Is just the thing to reduce coal and wood
bills in the family expenses.
WATSON, the North Street Artist, is to
open his studio about March 10th. He
will have everything new and will be
glad to see his friends. The studio has
been remOdelled since the fire, and you
will hardly know the place.
C. C. KIMBALL himself a hunter and
trapper of some little renOwn, has gone
into the business of buying furs. This
may be something of interest to some of
our readers, and supplies lOng-needed
home market for those having raw furs
to sell.
Miss NELLIE LEONARD gave an ele-
CANT card party at her home last Tues
dav evening. The guests were numer-
GUS and the collation. passed by the host
ess was very fine. The handsome prizes
will be greatly valued by the winners as
souvenirs of the pleasant occasion.
HART & COMPANY lead the town on
everything they keep. You should note
their leaders each week. No use to buy
in package lots in Troy when the same
groceries will be delivered at your door,
In any quantity at the very lowest pack
age price by this firm. The Mill store is
the place.
WE are glad to learn that the proceeds
of the "Four-leaved Clover operetta
will aggregate about 500. The Rebekah
money in doing good. and those who
have the knowledge that some one will
be blessed by the fact.
LEWIS E. WILCOX, young man we'll
known here but living at Hoosick Falls,
r.. Y, and connected with the w. A.
Wood Company, sailed for Europe last
week. He goes in the interest of the
Wood moving machines, the sale of
which he managed so well in Egypt and
the farther East last year.
THE following is a list of letter adver-
tised at the Bennington postoffice for the
week ending, Feb. 9th, 1892: Mr.. f. s.
Amidon, Mr.. Z. Burt, Isaac B. Fleming,
Esq, J. l.. Fleming, Mrs. Mary Murphy,
Miss Carrie Reed These letters will be-
sent to the Dead Letter Office, March
18th, 1892, if not delivered before.
PosTMAsTERs have been notified by
officials at Washington that circulars
and nOJices in which the reading matter
is reproduced by mechanical process in
s1oh close imitation of typewriting that
it cannot he readily distinguished, must
ne prepaid as letters. Heretofore such
circulars were received as printed mat
ter.
The store of w. A. Wall & Co., is
situated little out of the center of bust
Hess from the north. west and south part
of our town, but what is few rods
travel when one is enabled thereb to Sc
lect from first-class stock of wall pa
pers-seasonable papers-nO remnant
lots, but all fresh and new? Try it and
be convinced. Prices are away down at
Walls.
The subjects of the sermons by the
rector at St Peters church on Sunday
next be at 1890 Il. m, "Lenten Duties"
at 3 p. M, "Following Christ" On
Wednesday evenings at 7.3O p. M, the
rector will give series of sketches from
Church History; and on Friday evenings,
lectures on 1.-THE Spiritual Life and the
Holy Eucharist" On Thursday after
MONS at 5.15, there will he a series of
sermon stories for children.
THE Reformer of last week says: "But
the Graded school opened on Monday as
usual although one of Editor Stillson's
daughters was teacher i'll that institu-
ton with case of scarlet fever at her
home" This is an error as far as Miss
Stillson is concerned She did not enter
school after it became known the dis
ease was in her hOme-a substitute teach
er was promptly placed in her room, and
the school authorities and Board or
Health were notified. This misinfOrma-
ton, rejecting upon our intelligence, and
care for the safety of others, is entirely
Qstuitous on the part Of the Reformer.
PROF. r. H. BoWLEs, Jr. formerly
superintendent of our graded school,
died very suddenly of apOplexy on
Thursday last at his home in Buffalo,
N. Y. The Buffalo Inquirer of the 18th,
ult., says: "Mr. BOwles was a native of
Connecticut, and after being graduated
at Trinity College, Hartford, in 1868, he
engaged in teaching, and filled the posi-
ton OF Superintendent of Public In
structionsin several New England towns
at various times. He came to Buffalo in
1890 and established private school
preparing young men for college as well
as conducting classes in rudimentary in
structiOn. He was Mason and a mem
Der of the Delta Epsilon Fraternity He
leaves widow, formerly Miss Laura j.
Hill of East Douglass, Mass His father.
the Rev. Ralph II. BOwles. is rector of
Christ Episcopal Church at Stepney,
Conn. Mr.. BOwles was a faithful and
earnest churchman and had recently
been licensed as lay reader"
THE. New York Life Insurance Com
pany has had its full share, both of crit
dsm and praise, during the past year.
The recent examination of the Insurance
Department showed 1t to be in excellent
financial condition, with a surplus June
20 of nearly Fl teen million dollars. The
election early in 1902 of Hon. John A.
Mccall as President Of tho Cnpnnany