The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-09-01

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MISS A. e. CLARK has returned from
her trip to the West.
THIS town has Society for the Pre-
vention of cruelty TO animals, lately or
ganized. 1t starts off with 70 members
four life members. and the
amount in the treasury is $65,
Maj. r. ]. Coffey is president; W. G.
Richardson, secretary; Miss Susie /.
Rogers, treasurer: H. T. Gushman, pros
ecuting officer The membership in
cludes our best people and it is to be
hoped that some of the outrageous things
we have heretofore seen will become
thinsg of the past.
RECKLESS driving on our streets
does not seem to have been stopped as
| yet. Wednesday evening at dusk, as
| w. G.. Richardson and two ladies were
driving on North street, they were run
into at the foot of Pleasant street by a
man in road cart which went COM
| pletely oyer the wheels of Mr.. Richard
sons pheton, badly damaging the latter.
If the offender, whose name is known,
had been driving slowly, so that he could
have controlled his horse, the accident
would not have happened. Fortunately,
no one was hurt
THE Board of School Directors, S. G.
| LYONS, Chairman, has made the follow
! ing appointments of teachers for the fall
term of the town schools, that will open
next Monday, Sept. 4th. The schools
take the numbers of the old districts,
and No. 16, will not begin until the 18th,
because of diphtheria in that district:
No. 1, Hattie Wilcox; No. 2, Harriet
Durham; No. 3, Alice Rudd; No. 4,
| II n IL NJ do rhnn IaN.
No. 7, Ethel BrattOn; No. s, no school;
No. o, Kate Griffin; No. IL, Charles
Hawkins; No. IL, Mary Temple; No. IA,
Hattie Kelley; No. 16, Maggie Silk; No.
10. Bertha Griswold. The BANNER sug-
gests to those teachers that they read
the rules published last week in the viii
lage papers, inasmuch as diphtheria has
recently been prevalent in three of the
districts, viz: Nos. 7, IL, and 16. The
physicians of the town will be supplied
with printed forms of certificates for use
and to save trouble.
THE Graded schools will open for the
coming year next Monday morning,
Sept 4th. The corps of teachers is as
follows: Cora B. Whitney, Mrs. NJ. J. w.
Hicks, Julia A. White, Flora E. Ball. NJ
Blanche Sibley, Virginia Scarborough,
Nellie Hathaway, Claudia A. Ross, Kate
Keefe, Maude L. Carpenter, Anna D..
Rogers, Hattie L. Havens and l.. Estelle
Burrows. The last three named are to
teach in the High school. The attend
ance in the grades will be about as usu-
al, but that of the High school promises
to be beyond the capacity of the rooms.
The freshman class numbers about 30
members, which is probably the largest
class that ever entered. The High school
will be personally organized by Superin-
tendent Davis, and in addition to his
work with the grade teachers, he will in
struct one or more classes in the High
school and assume entire charge Of the
literary work of the graduates. In the
High school there will be classes in
Latin, Greek, German, French if re-
quired, algebra, geometry, 8: s. history,
Grecian history, Roman history, civil
government, rhetoric, physical geog-
raphy, elementary physics, advanced
physics, bookkeeping, and such other
subjects as the needs of the pupils and
the best interests of the school seem to
demand.
THE storm of the first of the week,
that prevailed with so much violence
along the Atlantic coast, made sad havoc
with fruit trees in this vicinity. Limbs
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farmers have been kept busy the balance
of the week cleaning up, and repairing
fences. We, in the Green Mountains,
experienced only the last part of the
storm. This hurricane had its starting
point in the West Indies. Sweeping in
land, the tornado struck Savannah and
shattered it, dealt Charleston heavy
blow, and rushed northward with rail
road speed, carrying destruction as it
went. Savannah, the port of entry of
the Empire State of the South, and one
of the handsomest of Southern cities,
has suffered most. The list of fatalities,
already long, is constantly growing.
Many Portions of the city are said to be
practically destroyed. North of Savan-
nah the region that lay in the path of
the storm presents scene of Gevasta-
ton. Buildings have been leveled by
hundreds, crops destroyed and multi
tudes of people impoverished. The SYM
pathy of the nation will be extended to
the sufferers. If the emergency de-
mands it, material assistance will be
furni he'd as promptly and generously
by the North and West as on the occa-
sion of the Charleston earthquake.
JUDGE CARNEY has received long
, letter from w. J. Thompson, now in
Delaware, Ohio, working the Ensor cure.
Mr.. Thompson writes of his work, that
it is progressing. In speaking of the
good the Ensor Cure does, he says
''Several poor families have sober hus-
bands and fathers. One family had a
husband and father in Jail. The little
, girls, two in number, came to see me
, about their father being cured l went
with them to the jail and they, poor
little ones, while the mother waited out
side saying, she could not bear to go in,
I, these little ones-prayed in that cell
to help that father. Judge l have seen
a good bit of sorrow but never did see
: anything like this. That was over two
: weeks ago, to-day he is sober-cured
Those little ones come to see him every
day. He is a good man when sober
You ought to see these little girls-hoW
happy they are" This sounds like work
elsewhere. 1t is testimony that can be
appreciated in Bennington, where sc
many were cured of drunkenness, and
: where the work is still going on. Oul
' local institute has treated hundreds, boil
J out of town and people here, and still
the results are sure-the work goes on.
THE Troy Telegram of Wednesday
saws: ''The trial of Mrs. Alice Hurd OF
the charge of shoplifting, occupied the
: attention of Assistant Police Magistrate
, Hannah and jury for long time yes
: terday afternoon. X. G. Tower d Co.
were the compliments. Assistant DIS
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