The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-08
VERmONT NEWS.

st. Adams has over 100 cases the
Ia Grippe.
-Hardwick's new water system cost
S11,O
The stock subscription books of the
Sunset Electric company of Swanton
have been opened.
The fifth Eastern Star district convo-
cation was held at Masonic hall, st.
Johnsbury, January 9th.
Mrs. Sarah Dee of st. JOhnsbury,
while out walking Monday, slipped and
fell, breaking one of the bones of her hip.
Two tramps tried to break into the
house of Horace A. MahurOn in South
Fayston, the other evening, but were
frightened away by small boy with an
ugly looking revolver.
"A little daughter of j. T. Wells of
North WOlcott, fell when running across
the floor with hat pin in her month,
and the pin was driven down her throat,
decorating it badly.
The Fall Mountain Paper Company
of Bellows Falls, which. already controls
thousands of acres of woodland in YER
mont and New Hampshire, hasbe gun to
buy woodlands in Rutland county.
The business at the custom house in
Richford is very heavy. In Dec ember
assessment of duties was the heaviest in
the history of the port, being over Sl35,-
600, about $50, 900 of which was collected
in Richford.
AT fair recently given at Denver.
Col, for the benefit of free kindergarten
schools, all the governors wives had
been previously invited to dress doll
for the fair. Mrs. Page sent one, which
was the first.
The hew dwelling house owned by
George NJ. Moore, merchant, of Tyson,
was burned Tuesday morning. Mr..
Moore had moved into it only about two
weeks ago. There was an insurance of
5000 on the building.
A lot of hay in the barn of Jerry
Heath of Barnard was saturated with
Kerosene and set on fire, but the flames
were discovered and pnt out before much
damage was done. Afterward another
barn of his was fired and burned.
There will be a meeting of the Yer
mont shropshire Sheep association at
MOrrisville, Wednesday, January 18th,
for the purpose of a general discussion
of the sheep husbandry, followed by an
address by Rev. W. E. Douglass.
Col. II. d. Hopkins died Saturday
morning at Montpelier with paralysis.
He had been an invalid 10 years. He
was born in Enosburgh Falls, April oath,
1923, and moved to Montpelier in 1916,
where he was for some years associated
with Joseph Poland on the Green Noun
tain Freeman. He was afterward and
for many years express and telegraph
manager at Montpelier. Col. Hopkins
was also correspondent at the capital for
long time for the Boston Journal under
the nom de plume of "Deming."
The report that Rev. Howard Mac
queary, late of Canton, o., is to marry
Miss Harris of Harrisonburg, Va, recalls
a story lately printed in tho Harvard Ad-
uOCdte about certain family of Harrise
that used to excite the wrath of their
parson every Sunday by coming late to
church. Harris in old times in the cOun-
try was pronounced Herbs. The parsOn
stood IL as long rs he could, but finally
one Sunday, after the services had begun,
the door swung open and the Harris
family creaked and rnstled into church
latter than usual. The good parsOn
opened his bible with bang, and fixing
his eyes on the culprits, read; "And it
came to pass that about this time certain
damnable heresies crept into church."
1t must he this same family of Heresi es
that MacQueary has taken up with.