The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-03

1OrK Guy anu VICINITY
MISS NELLIE WILLIAMS of Johnstown,
Pa, isavisiting friends in town. She is
ever welcome to her old home.
THE subject next Sunday night at the
Second Congregational church is: Con
stantine, the first Christian Emperor"
ONE of our large manufacturing con-
Germs has lately received an order for
$50 900 worth of goods. 1t will take seY-
eral months to run it out.
CHARLES r. SANFORD entertained
number of his gentlemen friends at
card party last week Wednesday evening
at his residence at the Centre. Supper
was served at midnight.
AT the funeral of Mrs. Eliza N Wood.
widow of Hon. Walter A. Wood, held in
Hoosick Falls, Friday, Miss Mary l..
Hutchins of this village was the contraltO
in the Quartette that furnished music.
THE condition of Mrs. H. E. Curtis of
Rutland, injured in the late accident.
does not materially change. She is suf-
fering from paralysis caused by an in
jury to the spine. Her friends and ply
sicians hope for the best but her recovery
will be slow.
The town clock in the tower of the
County Court House, the gift to the vii
lage of Mr.. Henry w. Putnam, is set up
and running. The dials were put into
place Tuesday and the timepiece started
yesterday. 1t strikes the quarter and
half hours. and is an example of public
spirit on the part of Mr.. Putnam that
will be appreciated by our people.
THE scarcity of pork in this section has
had the effect to send prices ''up into
the skies" Farmers having fat hogs to
sell are in clover Lard has advanced
from ten to fourteen, and in some places
to sixteen cents per pound. Salt pork is
lac; hams 1Sc; roasts Ice per pound and
all other cuts and kinds in like proper
ti0n.
The local Masonic Lodge has special
communication next Monday evening to
prepare the officers to exemplify the
Third degree before the District C0nven-
ton the following day, Feb. It'll, at Ar
lington. The convention has been fully
noted in our columns. The brethren
will go up on the 2. 10 p. m. train, and
will return on special attached to the
freight train leaving about II O'Clock.
The sleepers' will stop for that night at
South Shaftsbury and Arlington.
THE Green Mountain Club, chartered
by act of the last Legislature, organized
the Both, with the election of the follow
ing officers: L. W. Winchester of New
York, President; Arthur j. Dewey, Vice
C. H. Mason, Clerk; H. w. Martin, Sec
retary. The Executive Committee are:
L. w. Winchester, II. w. Martin and NJ.
book to which we shall refer later.
A SPECIAL and important meeting Of
the Woman's Auxiliary is called for Mon
day afternoon, Feb. 9th, at 8 o'clock at
the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms. 1t is for the pur-
pose of taking measures towards the
carrying out of project required by the
affairs of the auxiliary. All members
are urgently requested to be present-all
ladies' interested in the work of the Y.
NJ. c. A. are asked to come, and to give
their aid in the proposed enterprise. J..
A. Valentine, Secretary.
THE Cooley House fire in Springfield,
Mass, Wednesday was a ''close calP'
for about 175 people, and forty servants,
among whom were A. p, Childs and fam
| lily. The fire occurred about 2:l5 in the
morning and the OCCUPANTS of the hotel
were rescued with difficulty. Mr.. Childs
says: lin ten minutes after the alarm,
myself and family were in the basement
hallway, and we shall not soon forget
our cropping down stairways through the
suffocating smoke, and the spectacle,
both serious and comic, of humanity
which, including ourselves, made us
think that Hawaii had been ceded TO the
United States with undue haste and
without much plan or method regarding
drapery as condition precedent to anex-
alton" We are glad it was no worse.
THE funeral of Chas. w. Silver was
held from the Baptist church last Sunday
afternoon at o'clock. The B. and Ii.
ran train from Rutland and return en-
aiding it's employees to attend, and this
together with friends here made the con-
gregation one of the largest of its kind
ever assembled in town. The services
were conducted by the pastor, the Rev.
u. Marten, and there was not dry eye
in all the crowd as the death bed scene
was alluded TO in connection with Mr..
Silver's character as a man and good
citizen. Six of the railroad employees
acted as bearers, with j. Ed. Walbridge
in charge. There we're many handsome
floral tributes. Mr.. Silver was generally
liked and since his death Mrs. Silver has
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superintendent of the road, testifying to
his worth as an employe and informing
her that it had been decided before his
deash to promote him to conductorship
the first of February. Since his death
the employees of the road have presented
the widow with purse of nearly 5000.
In this connection rs.Silver and family,
and Mr.. Harry Silver and wife, father
and mother of the deceased, wish to ex-
tend thanks to the railroad company and
the citizens of Bennington for kindnesses
received In this dark hour of their dire
affection. The sympathy of all went out
spontaneously to them. 1t is now said
that Mr.. Silver had a presentiment of
coming i'll. However that may be he
bore the pain manfnlly and we believe
has entered into rest.
THE story told by speaker at the
Vermont Dairymen's Association annual
meeting is worthy of publication. His
herd consists of 81 Jersey cows. Their
average yield of butter for the past year
was 407lbs. each. His fodder is ensilage
and hay, He does not insult his cows
10y Offering them hay cut later than July
4th. His grain ration is a mixture OF
bran, cornmeal and linseed meal. II
costs him $52 a year to feed COW. His
butter sells for sos per COW per year. His
profit is further increased by calves and
SKINNED milk. He purposes increasing
his yield of butter until it reaches 500lbs
il year for every COW that he keeps, sever
nj eff Iia. heat caftla having mazda fhai