Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-11-06

very D6SJ OF nulCnlnS lOl AAuAO NOOo anu
shrubbery.
THE English game of golf, which is be-
coming very popular among fashionable
people on this side of the water, has re-
mote resemblance to Skinny" only it
isn't half as lively.
THE fish story season wanes, but just
listen to this from Maine, where it is said
deer are seen on the line of the Bangor
and Aroostook railway like droves of
cows, and the engineers have to whistle
them from the tracks every trip.
OTIS WARREN, one of the best known
farmers in the town, has gathered from
one tree on his farm 81 bushels of the
Northern spy. One buyer has taken l.
300 barrels of apples for shipment from
his district most of them going to New
York.
THE man who only devotes week to
the advertisement of new thing, and
then rails because he did not get great
returns, is like the boy who studied with
q LAWYER for two days and then came
home and said, "The law amt what it is
cracked up to be. I'm sorry 1 learned
it."
THE football craze is on among the
village boys, and the fun is rapidly ex-
tending among the boys of more mature
years. Scrub games are daily event be-
tween picked teams, and the sale for ar
MICA and liniment at the drug stores is
booming to an extent hitherto undreamed
of.-Hardwick Gazette.
THE blue heron or bittern as it is some
times called, which has been on exhibit
ton in the show window of L. S. Frost,
and the silver grey fox in the front win
dow at Van Week and Potter's drug
store, have attracted much attention es-
pecially among the children. Both are
fine specimens of their respective varie-
ties"
THERE was not very large attendance
at the mind reading entertainment given
under the auspices of the Bradford Hook
and Ladder Company, Friday evening,
although there was good sale of tickets.
Mr.. Calef carried out his different tests
well, and no matter what opinions there
may be upon the subject, there was no
collision between him and the commit
tee, He succeeded in everything he I'M
dertook, even skipping the town and
beating everybody who had anything to
do with him.
AT late meeting in Boston, the Rev.
Mr.. Dickinson illustrated the Kurn Hat
tin Home for Boys, which is situated at
Westminster. Here it is sought to make
a home for bright, poor boys where they
can be properly brought up and taught.
The views showed the pleasant scenes
around the large farm house, and the
boys at work and play. At present there
are eight boys there, but it is hoped that
many more can be sent. 1t is one of the
features of the church work which needs
aid in order to do the good which the
plan has made possible.
CANADA makes strong bid for desir-
able immigrants in it's offer to furnish
100 acres of land rent free, for five years,
with a clear title to the same at the end
of that period, if improvements to the
amount of s. per acre have been made in
the meantime. 1t is also stipulated that
not less than 80 families shall make a
settlement, and each family must possess
$500 worth of property. This offer is
said to be attractive to the Norwegians,
and some Of those who have settled in
our North western states are inclined to
leave our country for Canada. These are
a class of our foreign-born population we
can i'll afford to lose.
THE Sunday Budget had the following:
"The Rev. Geo. L. Richardson, whose
marriage to Miss Grace Belcher will &C.
cur on Wednesday evening, is well
known in Episcopal Church circles in
Troy and Albany A graduate of Will
liams College and of the Fairbault,
Mimi, Divinity school, he very accept
ably filled the place of rector of St.
Johns parish as a supply for some
months before the Rev. Mr.. Freeman as
sumed his duties. AS assistantrector of
st. Paurs Church in Albany and as rector
of ST. Peters church in Bennington, Mr..
Richardson has made many friends and
gained an enviable reputation as an earn
est, eloquent and successful young
preacher"
MRS. II. S. BINGHAM, who is the Ben
nington member of the Woman's Com
mittee, went to Montpelier Monday, and
was present at the counting of the vote
yesterday (Tuesday.) In conversation
with a BANNER representative Mrs Bing-
ham said that although she sent circulars
explaining the matter to every town in
the county, nine failed to respond to the
invitation she sent them, asking votes or
opinions on the matter. The total num-
Der of votes returned to her has been !, =
$50. OF this number, by far the largest
were for the clover. Bennington re.
turned $50 votes, $50 of them being for
the clover. OF 80 votes at the Soldiers
Home, Sc were for the clover. The vote
in the Graded schools here was: Glover
ass, buttercup 49, scattering 4. Of the
opinions gathered by the scholars in the
schools here, 1922 were for the clover,
2,123 for the buttercup.
WE quote the following from Wash.
ington, to show our readers the folly OF
prtronizng concerns they know nothing
about. 1t has been for years the pol
! icy of the BANNER not to aid these con
Germs by inserting their notices. Here is
the DESPATCH THE Postoffice Depart
ment has declared to be fraudulent fifty
six companies engaged in selling pre-
pared medicines at South Bend, Ind
The Department has been informed OF
other companies at Cairo, ILL.,, engaged
| in this business, and is now conducting
an investigation into them. 1t is known
that there are many Others in different
parts of the United States, but they have
not officially been brought to the atten
ton of the Department. The order is
sued by the Department against the
South Bend companies prohibits then
from using the United States mails"
In the Office of Enos Adams & Com
pany is an interesting old relic, especial
ly to those of the older people here.
is frame containing "a different daguer
reOtvpes and ambrotypes, and was frs
used as sign by Calvin Dart, who 10
Gated here over so years ago and began
taking pictures. The contrast between
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