The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-01-13
STATE NEWS.

The police of Bellows Falls are try
ing to trace trace the whereabouts of
Coram Gels, who has suddenly disap-
peared from that town. lie had 5000 on
his person.
1t is said that Mrs. Anna Parker
who died recently in Weathersfeld, was
the oldest living member of the Metho-
dist Church in Vermont, having joined
the same in 1922.
Ned Farr, of Bradford, while chop
ping wood with Fred Jacobs, was cut in
the side quite severely, by Jacobs axe
flying from the helve. Five stitches
were taken. ,..,
Willie A. Rickes, a Vermont cattle
dealer. was arrested in Waltham, Mass,
and fined $50 and costs for overcrowdng
animals into a car. Also A. A. Pond, of
Whitingsvillc, was fined $40 by the
same court, for cruelty to animals.
"A specimen of ore taken from the
Elizabeth mine, Stafford, was found to
be the richest in copper yet found in
Vermont. Excavations now reach
depth of 300 feet from the surface and
the ore is showing better as they de-
scend.
Mrs. Henrietta, the wife of Hon.
Henry Clark, prominent newspapaper
man. who was for many years editor of
the Rutland Herald and Globe, died Mon
day afternoon, after long and painful
illness, aged j6 years.
"A building for the housing of hogs
and calves has just been completed at
the Powers stock farm, Leicester June
ton, with cement floors and chamber
for storing muck to use as an absorbant,
with shutes over each pen for carrying the
muck to the floor beneath, and all the
modern apparatus for feeding.
Rev. Albert w. Dickens, of Ticon-
dero.a, has accepted to call to the Con-
gregational church in Middlebury. and
Rev. l. Pearson Pillsbury, assistant pas
tor of the Maverick church. East Boston,
Mass, accepts call to the Congregation
2l church at Newport.
cheer, help. 1 strengthen, | aid.
gladden. the heart OF man and maid,
set constipation captive free,
And all are better for taking me.
Thus spoke one of DR.. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets. (They are ipills that speak
fer themselves.) Very small, very nice
to take, produce no nausea or gripping,
yet are most eifectual in all cases of con-
stipatiOn, bilious or sick headache, or
deranged liver, Only 25 cents vial, at
druggists. A perfect vest-pOoket medi-
cine.
"A special village meeting was held in
Rutland, Monday, to raise funds to pay
outstanding orders and current expenses
until the city government takes affect,
April 1st. The meeting voted to license
the trustees to pay all bills, but refused
any appropriation. Subsequently the
trustees met and voted to draw no more
olders. This leaves the village in worse
shape than ever.
The Champlain Transportation Com
pany at its annual meeting elected these
directors: Col. LeGrand b. Cannon,
Harry LeGrand Cannon, III. G.. Young, G.
NJ. Spaulding, r. S. Taft, A. L. Inmann,
George RushloW. A directors meeting
was held and Col. Cannon was elected
president; C. NJ. Spaulding, treasurer;
George Rushlow, general agent and
chief engineer, and d. A. Loomis ticket
agent and accountant.
John p. Squire, the millionaire pork
dealer of Cambridge, Mass, who died
the other day, was born on farm in the
town of Weathersfield He rose from
humble circumstances by his own indus
try and ability to a position of afiluence
and influence in the affairs of men that
draws to his career the attention of the
public, and his history will stand a pat