The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-09-08

THE Forest and Stream club will close |
their clubhouse at Wilmington this
week.
MAJ. A. B. VALENTINE and daughter |
Jennie, started Monday for Chicago to
visit the great exposition.
THE D. of R. Lodge hold drill meet
ing in Odd Follows Hall, following the |
Stark Lodge meeting, Sept. 18th.
A. w. PERRIN and wife are to remain |
in town couple of weeks more before |
they return to the city for the winter.
JUDGE E. L. SIBLEY is absent at the
Worlds fair. We.believe he is the only
BenningUonian who has an exhibit there.
Miss MINNIE SoRGATz was one of the
bridesmaids at the Mitter wedding in ST.
Johns church, Troy N. Y, Wednesday
afternoon. $50
THE oldest man, probably, in Vermont.
died at Hartford the first cof the week.
His name was Phineas Fisher and he
was born in 1903.
E. G. BENNETT is taking the position
as clerk, for the present, in the superin-
tendent's office of the Bennington and
Rutland railway in this village.
THE Bennington and Rutland railroad
will sell round-trip tickets to the Batten-
kill fair at Manchester September II, Is
and IA for fare one way. The tickets
will be good on all trains stopping at
| Manchester.
HEREAFTER the Fitchburg Railroad
Company will carry bicycles only at own
ers risk and baggagemen have received
instructions to rate them at 100 pounds
EACH The minimum charge will be fff-
teen cents each.
WORK on the sewers is progressing at
rapid rate. One gang is going up
Main street; another is at work on
North, and still another on Elm. Con-
tractor Allen says that he expects to get
nearly done this month.
THUS far this season one contracting
| firm has erected new buildings to the
value of $22, 900, and made alterations
and engagements to old structures to
the value of $1,000 Building is yet very
brisk, new houses being started nearly
every day. e
WE are often asked how we can afford
the New York Tribune and BANNER
both one year for only .S1.50. 1t makes
no difference to subscriber If he only gets
the papers and saves seventy-five cents.
Bring or send the $1.50 and we will guar I
antee to furnish both papers one year. (
A TBoY insurance agent says that he
had 500 collections to make on his route
last month. Out of the 500 he only
missed two. He naturally thinks the al
legged hard times are greatly exaggerat-
ed, aud that money is more plentiful
among the people than it is generally
supposed to be.
THE Old Vermont Mutual Insurance
| Company of Montpelier, is represented
in Bennington by Booth and Harris.
This company has very large number
| of risks in the State and is in excellent
shape. Is is really favor1te with many
Vermonters and pays honest losses.
promptly. 9"f
OUR officers yesterday hearing that
four prisoners had escaped from Salem
! Jail the day previous, and that they
pointed this way, pulled in a motley
crowd of tramps, who will be railroaded
to the work house at Rutland in due
time, unlessutheyc give an account Of
themselves satisfactory to the Municipal
court "a, e
THE insurance adjusters have settled
tne losses sustained by, Capt. Albert
Walker in the fire of August 16. Eight
hundred dollars was allowed him for
damages to his tenement house, and
$500, the whole amount, on his barn.
The new barn is approaching compile
ton, and work began this week on the.
repairs to the dwelling house.
SINCE his arrival here Henry L, Sar-
gent, the noted horse thief, has been af-
| fiicted with trouble in his eye to that ex-
tent that Monday, the officers were
obliged to procure for him pair of col
ored glasses. Sargent declines to be in.
terviewed by any newspaper man. The
Jail officers are keePipg close watch on
him.
THE next civil service examination for
the rank of clerks and carriers in the
Bennington Postoffice, will be held Sept.
10th, 1893. The announcement by Chas.
r. Sanford, clerk of the Board of exam
liners, will be found in the Postoffice.
Blanks can be obtained at that place,
and we note that all applications for ex-
aminations must be filed before the close
of business Sept. 18th.
THE attendance upon the Cambridge,
N. Y, fair this week, from this vicinity,
has been immense. Yesterday more
than 300 tickets were sold at the Ben
nington station, and in like proportion
elsewhere. This does not, however, rep
resent the attendance, as hundreds went
by carriage conveyance. This shows
what judicious advertising of good
show will do, and especially newspaper
advertising.
JAMES O'GARY, an old soldier who has
the cocaine habit, was arrested Saturday
night for disturbing the peace and
locked up in the county Jail. Monday
he was brought before Justice Emory S.
Harris and fined. He appealed to the
County court, and in default of $3.50 bail
was remanded to Jail. O'Gary declares
that he will not try to furnish the neces-
sary bail, preferring to stay in Jail until
the December term of the County court.
! WHY employ Italians to dig bitches is
often asked? The Free Press replies to
to this question, as it relates to the Bur-
lington street railway, in these words:
Something has been said about the
cheap Italian imported labor employed
in the reconstruction of the street rail
way. Most of the help employed in the
building of the track has been of the
Italian variety. Why? Because there
was not sufficient number of laborers
who would do this kind of work avail
able here. Beside, many Americans can
not stand it to pick and shovel dirt all
day in the middle of street between
two pavements and two to five story
blocks and many more wont do it if they
can. Italians areiespecially adapted to