The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-12-15

HullCos 80.
MRS. S. P. BULL of WallingfOrd, is ILL.,
She is the mother of W. c. Bull of this
village.
THE Graded schools close next week
Friday. the 22nd, and open the winter
term the first. Monday in January.
OUR readers will notice in another item
that we call attention in general way to
all our advertisers this week. The adj
vertlsemeDts are new, read them.
AT the last regular meeting of the AL
bany County wheelmen j. Elmer Ayres
was made an honorary member of the
league. This is the compliment they
pay tn the one who took from them the
prize we noted at the time, and is we'll
deserved honor to Mr. Ayres.
WE learn that the three men who came
from Sprinfield, Mass, took the Ensor
treatment, and returned cured. have Sc
cured lucrative situations, aud are at
work. they came here on the recon-
mendation of Gov. Halle and the result
justities the effort. Gov. Halle and
others in Massachusetts are very much
pleased with the cure and the way these
patients were treated. This is the uni
form testimony-the Ensor cure and
managers are reliable.
NJ. S. CoLBURN, Managing Director of
the Bennington and Rutland railroad has
closed contract with the Schenectady
Locomotive works for two new engines
to be delivered about the middle of Jan
uaIy. The engines will have four dri-
vers and will weigh 50 tons when fully
equipped and loaded. They will be
placed in service running the flyers and
sleepers between Troy and Rutland.
The engines that they replace will be put
on the extra trains that will be placed in
service on account of the coal contract
recently made with the Central Vermont
road.
ANOTHER installment of cadets, uni
forms have arrived These are fine and
exact West Point regulation. Our Grad
ed school cadets look as well as any
OTHER corps we have ever seen, and we
would suggest that as soon as practical
BILE all obtain the uniforms. The price
is away down. 1t is understood that,
gradually, as the boys need clothes the
uniform be substituted, which will work
no hardship to anyone. This is as it
should be-a voluntary matter. We
learn that thirty-fve Remington rifles
from Norwich University, have been OBJ
tanned to use for time with an option
to purchase at reasonable rates. Under
these favorable conditions we hope soon
to see completely uniformed and
equipped corps of cadets.
WILLIAM CULVER, laboring man
of this town, has recently received infor-
nation that by the death of half
brother, Ezekiel Burrows, in Tamaro,
H., he has been left about $4,000. Mr..
Burrows, who died recently made will
in which he bequeathed $4,000 to broth
ers and sisters who live in Pawling, N.
Y, and various churches in the town in
which he resided. To CULVER he left
the homestead, large brick house, and
twenty acres of land, with the balance
of his estate. Burrows's lawyer was in
Pawling Friday, where the relatives had
a meeting, at which Mr.. CULVER was
present Mr.. CULVER has gone to Hi
nois to look after his legacy. He has
been Woodworking man and will make
good use of the fortune coming to him.
THos. CLINTON of Schodack, N. Y,
came here last week intending to take
the -Ensor cure. He was just on the
point of delirIum tremens and was treat
editor that malady, by the Doctors Pot
ter, but he could not rally and died of
exhaustion Saturday night. He had not
commenced the EnsOr cure-had not i'll
fact, taken any of its remedies-but was
carefully nursed, furnished warm room
and-stYO attendants at the Institute.
Relatives and Father Brown came OH
from schOdaek Monday and post NOR
TEN was held, followed by an examina-
ton before the Municipal Court, which
developed the facts as above stated.
Father Brown says Mr.. Clinton was a
GOOD man except for the one failing. We
are sorry he came too late to avail him
self of the Ensor cure, because we eel
assured it would have saved him, but
Providence decreed otherwise. He was
IS years of age and for the past 10
months had been hard drinker.
On Monday Miss Lucy G.. Durham
died suddenly of heart disease following
an attack of la Grippe. She had been ill
for several days, but wa; getting better
and on that morning she arose, dressed
herself and was about the room. An
attack came upon her and physician
was summoned, but before he arrived
she passed away. Deceased was well
known throughout all this region, she
having for many years followed the oc-
cupation of dressmaker and seamstress,
aud was woman greatly respected by
everybody. The funeral services were
held yesterday from the homestead South
Of this village, the Rev. Edward ConOver
assisted by the Rev. NJ. L.
Severance. The remains will be laid in
the old cemetery at Bennington Centre.
Miss Durham was III her sixtieth year.
She was member of one of the old
families of our town, which came from
Connecticut and settled here with m any
others. Her grandfather, John Austin,
Was moulder by trade and died in 1857,
vt the advanced age of SO. She was the
laughter of Jabez Durham and Amy
Austin. There were three sisters and
brother in the family of which the de-
ceased was the eldest. Her brother,
Justin, died about the year 1S77-7S, and
two sisters survive: Mary and Harriet, |
who live on the homestead. Miss Dun
nam was member of the Baptist church
If this village, and her family have al
Ravs been of It's staunchest supporters,
Is her father was one of its founders.
THE Hardwick Gazette says, and the
application has wider significance,
names and places: "We have
always believed in and preached that the
right principle was the patronage of
home industries and business firms.
When citizen will purchase barrel of
-four, suit of clothes, stove or any
other article which is dealt in by his |
next door neighbor of an outside dealer |
or a travelling sharper and hummer be-
cause he is made to believe that he can
save few cents by so doing, he strikes |
a direct blow to home industries and |