The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-10

INK was lOl blO UNlOnh Vi tiAC AAlooiNh
airy Committee of the Ladies' Auxiliary.
Mrs. Fred N. Squire entertained.
NELSON A. BURRITT, late of Fort Ed
ward, formerly of Bennington, is now To-
Gated at Rouse's Point as station agent
for the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, in place of f., n. Corben, who
resigned.
THE seats in the new Opera House for
the Schubert Quartette of Boston to-
morrow night are rapidly selling, and
the prospects of a packed house are fiat
tering. Popular prices-75, 90, 80 and %
cents, at Shurtleffs.
Mrs. HATTIE HURLEY is quite Ill at
her fathers in this village, and Mrs. G.
Fred Burch has been critically i'll with
pneumonia Monday they had council
of physicians, but the symptoms changed
for the better and conyalescence is now
hoped for.
ON our second page to-day will be
found number of local items, the most
important of which are those relating to
the proposed shoe company for Benning-
ton, and further particulars concerning
the Green Mountain Club. A belated
Pownal letter will, also, be found on the
inside pages.
A PRIVATE letter informs us that
George b. Cady of San Francisco, Cal,
died in that city Feb. Sd. Mr. Cady was
brother of the late Col. VIM. II. Cady
and went to California from Bennington
many years ago. His disease was con-
sumption. Mr.. Cady's visit home few
years ago is pleasantly remembered by
many of our readers.
THE trains and mails have been late
for several days. A trestle on the Fitch
burg was washed out on Monday night,
but the break was repaired Wednesday,
and slight accident at North Benning-
ton delay ed the sleeper south Wednes-
day morning. No one was injured and
the damages in both instances were in
considerable.
THE town auditors and officers are
hard at work on the town accounts, ana
the printed reports will come out
promptly. 1t is too early to attempt any
reasonable guess as to how matters stand
One thing is certain, the $1,000 of the
funded debt coming due in 1892 has been
paid, and the interest upon the whole
was met at maturity.
NEXT Wednesday will be Ash Wednes-
day, or the First Day of Lent. Services
at st. Peters church 10 a. m. with cele-
bration of the Holy Eucharist and SER
mon; 1880 p. M, service and sermon.
Services during Lent daily at 10. a. M;
Wednesdays and Fridays 1880 p. M, all
other days AIS D. m. The Holy Eucha-
rist will be celebrated every Thursday.
LIST of letters advertised in the post
Office at Bennington for the week ending
Feb. 18th, 1893: Peter Bowen, W. P.
Davis, A. l.. Grover. Harry Ramsdell (2),
Frank III. Skinner, Mrs. Nance j. Has
kell, Mrs. Rebecca A. Johnson, Miss Y.
j. Cummings. These letters VIII be
sent to the Dead Letter Office Feb. 18th,
if not delivered before. In calling please
say advertised giving date of list.
On Sunday evening the pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church will give the
sixth lecture in the course he is deliver
ing on Sunday evenings. These lectures
are illustrated on large blackboard and
differ from anything heretofore presented
in Bennington. The singing will be from
"Pentacostal Hymns" the books will be
furnished to all persons present. The
public, and especially the young people,
cordially invited.
THE freight business on the B. & r.
railway never was so great as at the pres
ent time, Every locomotive is in use
and as soon as one gang of men arrive at
terminal points they are relieved by an
other, and SO the rolling stock is kept
moving night and day. We are glad to
note this evidence of prosperity. The
road, moreover, does not appear to be as
unfortunate in its accidents as many of its
neighbOrs.
In an exchange we find the following
account, to which reference is made in
another item: The Fitchburg railroad
iron bridge, near Pownal, was carried
away by the freshet of ice and water
Wednesday morning, in the Hoosick
river. just after the structure gave way
the Boston express came laundering
along. Frantic men rushed up the track
and tagged the train, which was brought
to standstill short distance from the
roaring current, thus preventing ana aw-
full catastrophe"
We notice the curbing of blue stone,
especially that laid down fiIst-a year
ago last falls not solid and that the
action OF the frost is opening the seams.
One piece is actually split lengthwise
into four pieces and will have to be re-
placed. This is unfortunate. The
Howe" stone-near this Village-is a
much iirmer material as is shown by the
st. Francis de Sales church building, and
it seems pity this quarry was not util-
lied. 1t will be a pity if a great part of
our new curbing has to be relaid.
S. X. BROOKS of North Port, Ontario,
one of our Old subscribers, sends us
clipping from a Canadian paper by
which it appears that the trOtting dog
doc" is still alive. The letter is dated
at Brighton, Ont, January 2Sth, and
says MY attention has been called to
an item of Geographic news in your issue
of the goth. inst, which l wish to pub
lIcly contradict, viz, that referring to
the trotting dog Doe being killed in a
railroad accident in New Jersey last
Tuesday morning. There is not word
of truth in the report. We returned
home with Doe" in November. at the
close Of a very successful season in the
United States during which time he had
earned over SIS, 600, and have not been
away since. Doc is in the pink of con-
dition, and capable of trOtting as fast, if
not faster, than ever. We have a long
list of engagements ahead of us for the
season of '93. Among the trophies we
have, as the result of his wonderful
tretting, the most valued is the hand
some silver tankard presented to Willie
by the Montreal Carnival Trotting Com
mittee of 1889"
LAST week we spoke of the death of
Aurora Cady of Rochester, N. Y, and of
his visit to Bennington in 1886 By ref
erence to orr files OF Oct 29th Of that