The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-11-11


ill for several weeks, is better
The boys have succeeded in finding a
short name for bicycle, 1t is bike"
MISS JESSIE SMITH has returned from
her visit to Mrs. VIM. M. Sanford OF
Troy, N. Y.
MISS SIBLEY has a change of adver-
tisement in this weeks issue that will
repay perusaL
A DANCING school with a class of
twenty-five young lads and misses was
started last week.
CORRESPONDENTS are once more re-
minded that their names should accom-
pany their communications.
MISS RosE LINDLRY has entered the
Troy Conference Academy at POultney.
She was student there last winter.
GOVERNOR LYMAN KNAPP of Alaska
was here Thursday ard Friday visiting
his brother+in-law, Rev. II. l.. Severance.
GENERAL j. G. MCCULLOUGH is one of
the trustees of the New York Security
and Trust Company, with a capital of
$1,0O0,0O0.
REPRESENTATIVE DEWEY was home
over election. Mr.. Dewey is making his
mark at Montpelier as one of the most
useful members of the House.
THE ladies of Miriam Lodge, l. o. o.
F., held a sociable in Odd Fellows hall
Yesterday afternoon, and the brethren
were entertained to tea at $50 o'clock.
MRS. E. w. BRADFORD, who is having
a course of medical treatment in st. Vim
cents hospital in New York city, has
been much improved in health since she
went there.
IF the prices that E. E. Hart & Com
pany quote in another place to-day do
not move goods nothing will Flour at
$500 is lower than has been quoted
fore the war.
since W. lone paper and the
YOUR favorlte 49, world, both
leading city weekly OF the 80. n of
papers for $3.50 per year, or the prlU~
the BANNER alone. See another column
.c cE ~ e. -: .her particulars
WE notice that Messrs. Pilling d
Scullen of Cohoes, NJ. Y, are proprietors
of the Standard Hosiery Mills of that
city. The senior of the firm is Mr.. John
r. Pilling, formerly of Bennington.
THE annual fair of St. Francis de
Sales church will be held in Library
Hall, beginning Dec. 18th. 1t is hoped
that the receipts will make quite lift
toward paying the debt on the new
church.
Col. n. M. PUFFER and D. f. Moore
have been in Boston on business this
week, returning yesterday. Mr.. Moore
has taken an interest in the Aldine mills
and will be an active manager in that
concern.
CHARLES S. KEHoE has received a
commission as Deputy Great Sachem of
the Improved Order of Red Men for
these hunting grounds. Mr.. Kehoe is
Past Sachem of Mohegan Tribe, No. 6,
one of the most flourishing in Vermont.
Mrs. l. E. GIBSON is too late with her
copy for change in the advertisement
of Microbe Killer, wherein prominent
Philadelphia dentist tells of the remedy's
wonderful effects in curing rheumatism.
The letter will appear next week, and
for particulars we refer the reader to an
other column to-day where disease in
other forms are enumerated by cures.
WITH the scarcity of potatoes in this
section, reports from Scotland are to the
effect that the potato crop in that coun-
try is very, heavy. Immense shipments
are being made to this country, the
Scotch producer being able to pay duty
of seventy-five cents a barrel, and still
compete with American farmers. Were
it NOT for the tariff American growers
would suffer still more.
THE Republican defeat in the country
is not without its touches of humOr.
Harrison carried Woodford by four ma
jority. Woodford has been considered
as stable as the Green Mountains for
che Democracy heretofore, but it gave its
vote for the Republican candidate. This
rather goes to show that Woodford was
really Republican in September. What
has our friend Amos got to say?
THE following is list of letters adj
vertised in the postoffice at Bennington
for the week ending Nov. 9Th: F. S.
Amidon, A. Dorian, w. S. HARDWOOD,
George White, Mrs. Clara NJ. Reed, Mrs
S. W. Ranney, Miss Mary BOuker, Miss
Anna Galraby. These letters will be
sent to the Dead Letter Office Nov. 10th,
if not delivered before. In calling please
advertised" giving date of list.
THE Musical Record for November, by
the Oliver Ditson Company, is number
that all our musical readers should pos
sess. 1t contains not only the usual re-
views of musical literature, new music,
ETC., but the department of major and
Minor is particularly full, affording a
complete survey of the world of music.
Dexter Smith, the veteran editor, still
presides over the destinies of this stand
ard monthly. Subscription price 81 per
year; single copies 10 cents. Address
the publishers, Boston.
The sale of tickets for the ,chlldren's
concert to be given in Free Library Hall,
Nov. 18th, for the benefit of the Kings
Daughters, will begin Nov. 14th, at
Squire g. Rawson's. Those having
already secured tickets will do well to
call either Nov. 14Uh and 18th at the
above place to select their seats as there
is every evidence eff a large house. The
programme includes piano, violin and
banjo solos, vocal soles and duets, reci-
tatiOns, the cantata of flowers, lilipu-
tan minstrel troupe and the Court
Minnet.
THE death of Erastus Albro, announc-
ed in another place, removes a brother
of Mrs. Lyman Patchen of this place.
He formerly lived in Pownal and went
to New York in 1874 or AS, going down
on the boat Swallow" the wreck of
which on the Hudson River is somewhat
historical. Mrs. Conkling of Benning-
.tOn was drowned in that disaster. Mr..
Albro lived until October 2lst, alt, and
died on his birthday having been born
Oct. Dist, 1905. He was much respect
ed citizen of the metropolis, but had for
years been retired from business. He
was an uncle of George and Charles
Albro.
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