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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1894-01-20
THE BOYS DEPARTMENT.

Mothers, your boys needs fixing
up for school. You will want some,
thing strong that viii never rip or
tear. Our stock contains just what
you are looking for.
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The Merchants and Farmers
Bank
-OF-
naJtipsbhrg, VIVA.
CAPITAL $4,000.

Does a general banking business. in
GLIDING loans on real estate. Interest
paid on time deposits at the rate OF four
per cent. per annum.
The Banking Room is equipped with all
the latest improvements.
Business conducted upon sound, conser
vative principles.
Sale notes furnished free.
Directors ". BrsHoP. y. Il.
RoBERTs, n. ID. BAKER, JOHN kENSE-
DY, ) N. MYERS, w. ii KfIMER. John
e. BoYD, j. H-yGETT,SGER. J. W. KFT-
TERING.
Papers discounted every day.
Regular meeting Of Board on Thursday
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.-Wii take
from 25 cents up to 50 at time and when
your deposits amounts TO $40 VIII issue
you certificate Of deposit. bearing inter-
est at the rate Of per cent. per annuin
FLICK q WRsrrxnAy ,1a :. A ~ n I.
MaY u. 1904 r..
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Misses, Fine s.eoes in all the latest
STYLES and prices to suit your pocses;
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WV. 7. STEWART, Pass., G N. BOWERS, v. PFrs
GEO. S. Hill. CASHIER
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Thompson & TabIer,

GENTEEL CLOTHIERS.
Martinsburg, w. Va.
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Jan. 6td.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-02
POWNAL.

Measles are prevalent in this village.
Miss Bertha Card is recovering from a
severe attack of la Grippe.
Amasa Thompson recently had very
fine work horse severely injured.
The entertainment that was to be given
by the Epworth League this week, has
been postponed.
People have been filling their ice
houses the past week. The ice is about
ten inches thick and clear.
Two mastiff dogs owned by parties in
the Centre, recently killed about ten
sheep, and wounded about twenty more.
The sheep belonged to A. B. Gardner of
this town.
Patrick Barnes, a village smithey, re-
Gently obtained a patent on a tire upset
ter, which he perfected some time ago.
He is now at work on tire shifter.
At the Tuesday evening meeting this
week delegates were appointed to attend
the coming Epworth League convention
to be held at Hoosick Falls, N. Y.
George H. Dunn and Miss Bessie
Bates were quietly united in marriage by
the Rev. A. d. Clark on Wednesday
afternoon at o'clock. Mr.. Dunn is a
very popular young man with host of
friends. The bride is well known here
and in other towns as beautiful singer,
and for her pleasant and winning ways.
She recently sang in Bennington at the
opening of the Methodist church. After
taking wedding trip the young couple
will live in this village.
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RUTLAND,

The Howe Scale Works are running to
full capacity eight hours day.
A Special Grand Jury has to be sum
moned for the March term of court.
George c. Underhill. formerly of Man
chester, is the leading candidate fol-
mayor at the election, March 9th.
Grand Master Henry G. Farrar of the
Odd Fellows, will institute a Rebekah
Degree Lodge at Manchester, next week,
Bishop-E Elect Hall, during his brief
stop in this city on Monday, was greeted
by Rector Niles and the wardens OF
Trinity church.
The Young Mems Catholic Union
cleared 81, 800 atits recent fair. Conduc,
TOR Lee of the Bennington and Rutland
railway, was awarded the lantern.
The House of Correction is filled to its
fullest capacity with unemployed men;
also. with tramps and DRINKS. Many
committed for vagrancy would work il
they could find it to do.
Gov. Fuller has appointed Hon. Henry
G. Root of Bennington, and Hon. Edgar
N. Bissell of Shoreham to represent
Vermont at the International Wool Con
vention at Denver, Colorado, Feb. 9Th.
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NATURE AND cATAcLYsMs.
The onderfuI Rarity and COmparatiV
Smallness of Great Disasters.

The onderful Rarity and Comparative
Smallness of Great Disasters.
Many are half inclined to accuse Provi.
dence for allowing great loss of human life,
forgetting that we are all under capital SEN
tence, and that the occurrence of deaths
wholesale instead of i'll detail cannot make
much difference in the great scheme, and
many more doubt if Providence does not
leave the world to go its own way and pro-
vide for its own needs-a theory which can
not be strengthened by any individual oc-
currence Our reflection would be differ
ent one-the wonderful rarity and compare
tive smallness of the cataclysms which
affect man. Outside the effects of huge
wars, like the barbarian invasion of Rome
or the Mohammcdan conquests, audible
history does hot record one, not even the
burning of Rome, which has much affected
the course of events or the happiness OF
mankind.
Behind history, if Sir H. Howorth is right,
such cataclysms may have occurred, but
within history we know of none. The very
biggest was probably the outbreak of the
black death, which in 1851 destroyed a
third of our own population and certainly
detected the course of it's social history.
The volcanic outbursts have usually &C.
Cured in thinly populated districts. Among
capitals only Lisbon has been heavily
struck, and it revived, while, though there
have been numberless famincs, no famine
has ever destroyed a race.
Wild tribes have passed away, there is
reason to believe under the attack of cpl
demics-the people Of Feejee nearly persisted
in our own time-and localities have been
desolated, but no civilized people has died
out through disease. Yet there seems no
absolute reason why an epidemic should
not gather strength for months, as it usu-
ally does for weeks, until it's ravages de-
stroyed nation, why storm wave should
not overwhelm country like Holland, OF
why city, or port, or, for that matter, a
vast reach of inhabited territory in harvest
time, should not perish in fire.
Think what masses of inflammable ma
terial we gather together, and how few are
the great firesl How much dynamite is
there stored in London or Liverpool or per.
haps unloading at this very moment in
Cardiff? There is hardly limit to what a
fire, or flood, or the cholera might do, and
yet men live on, full Of reasonable secur-
ity born in all of long experience and
strengthened in a few by confidence not
quite so reasonable that Providence will not
suffer huge calamity. Providence has
probably suffered the humiliation OF
| worlds. Every now and then the security
is broken by an event like the explosion OF
Krakatoa, which has never been sufficient
! ly described, and which might have altered
the face of the world.-London Spectator.
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MANCHESTER DEPOT.

TIE subject of the next Sunday after
noon lecture at G. A. r. Hall, "Divine
Love in the Book of Genesis"
1t is expected that Grand Master Far
rar. of the Vermont Odd Fellows will or
ganize Rebekah Lodge here soon.
The following officers of Skinner Post
q. A. R., were installed Friday evening,
12th Ora Whitman, commander; e. w.
Boyle, S. "; A. Wyman, j. v; f. w.
Cook, quartermaster; F. B. Warner, ad-
jutant; Dr. Hemenway, surgeon: j. G.
Blackmer, o. D.; A. j. Mason, 0. G..
NJ. w. Utley, chaplain; delegate to State
Encampment, DR.. Hemenway: alternate,
F. B. Warner. The next regular meet
ing will be held the second Friday even
ing in February. A full attendance is
requested, as the report of the State En-
campment and other business will come
before the meeting.
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WEST ARLINGTON,

Mrs. George Hoyt is some better at
writing.
VIM. Pratt was in Cambridge, N. Y,
on Monday.
Bert Field of East Arlington, was in
town one day last week.
Miss Finch was called to MinervilIe re-
Gently, by the dangerous illness of rela-
tive.
Mrs. F. G. Hanaman spent several
days last week with her sister, in Hoo
sick Falls.
Robert Haskins lost horse on Mon
day, its death resulting from being
hooked by cow the day before.
Miss Edith Derrick, who has been Wis
iting relatives here, left on Thursday for
Cambridge, N. Y. She was accompanied
by Miss Grace futile.
The social last week at Miss Anra
Hanaman's, was we'll attended notwith-
standing the storm, about fifty being
present. The next one will be held a!
Mr. John Sherman's.
Mrs. Julia Shepherd and daughter
Lottie, were guests at H. G. Bucks sew
eral DAYS last week, returning to theiI
home in East Arlington on Sunday.
Quite snow storm prevailed Monday
and Tuesday, accompanied by high wind
Enough snow fell to make fine sleighing
but it is blown off in many places and
drifted in Others. Lumbermen are tax
ing advantage of what there is.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-02

The world still has room for an increased
amount of railroad building. The presi-
dent of the Junior Engineering Society OF
London, an eminent engineer, gives some
suggestive figures in this direction. He
points out that within the past 40 years the
capital Of British railway companies had
increased from a24s,OOO,0OO to e919OOO,-
600, or go per cent, and the number OF
passengers from s., 100000 to s45, 900, 900, OF
900 per cent, while the mileage had only
increased 800 miles, or 30 per cent. In the
meantime the population had increased
from % 100000 to IS, OOO,O 900, difference OF
1000, 900, or 81 per cent. In the great en-
pire of India they had at present but some
1850 miles of railway; in South Africa
only about 5000 miles; in Australia, New
Zealand and Tasmania, about $4,000 miles,
and In Canada t4000.
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DORSET.
Ice houses are nearly all filed.

Ice houses are nearly all filed.
The 2Sth annual donation at the Dorset
church last Thursday evening was a de-
cided success. A most friendly spirit
prevailed, the supper was excellent, the
occasion seemed one of pleasure and adj
vantage to all, and the net proceeds of
more than SIS was appreciated by the
pastor.
The following persons, members of
VIM. j. Fuller Post, w. r. c., attended
the Department Encampmenta at Burling-
ton this week: CrOssman Lincoln and
wife, A. p. Sheldon and wife, Willard
Crandall and wife, Geo. W. Baker and
wife, John Fisher and wife, Mrs. Lillian
Sheldon, Joseph Brooks.
The Board of Agriculture will hold a
meeting here February 9th and It'll. j..
H. Sheldon will give an address of well
come, G. NJ. WinslOw will speak on
Dairy Cows" Prof. James Cheese
man on "Cheese Making" Mrs. N. E.
Snyder on women on the Farm" DR..
Rice on the Horses Foot" V. /. Spear
on the "Outlook of Farming" II. w.
Vail on Care of the Dairy" and I'm.
Chaplin ON The Rural Man" All are
cordially invited to attend, and no farmer
should miss these meetings.
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MANcHEsTES CENTRE.

The W. U. telegraph Office has been
moved to the residence of G. j. Wait.
There will be a church sociable at the
Methodist parsonage Wednesday even
ing, February 7th. All are cordially in
vited.
Mrs. Charles Richardson died very
suddenly of heart difficulty, on Tuesday
night of last week. The family had but
Just removed from Dorset to the Amos
Richardson place, and her death came
like shock to all her friends.
Joshua Barnard, father-in-law of j. G..
Martin, ESQ.,, died recently at his home
in Winhall, and his body was brought
here on Saturday, for interment. His
wife is being quite i'll and is not ex-
pected to recover
The Rev. WIN. J. Harris, d. D., Do
cease General Missionary, officiated at
the Zion church last Sunday, in the
place of the Rev. Mr.. Flanders who was
called to St. Adams last week, by the
serious illness of his father.
Some twelve or fourteen persons from
here are expecti G to be present at the
conservation of the Rev. A. g. A. Hall,
d. D., as Bishop of the Episcopal
church of Vermont, which will take
place in st. Paul's church, Burlington,
to-day.
We learn from New York paper that
Ernest Lugene, of the firm of Carleton
& Lugene, who has been in that city for
some time, has passed very crcditable
examination before DR.. w. H. Gilbert
and Prof. Seward, consulting surgeons
of the New York Optical College and
the Board of Directors conferred upon
him the degree of Graduate Opticlan.
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It was obvious from such figures that
only the fringe Of railway development had
yet been touched in these huge countries,
while in the vast fields of China and the
remainder of Africa the problem had not
even been reached. The speaker might
have drawn similar conclusions in regard
to the American continent, north, central
and south, while even in the United States,
extraordinary as has been its railway devel.
opment, the map shows room for additional
railways to the extent of tens of thousands
of miles. Railway building is still in its
infancy, and it's wonderful work of develop.
meut will go on in generations yet to come.
Railway Age.
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IN THE LOCALFIELD.
BENNINGTON CENTRE.

There will be a Farmers Institute
held in the old academy here, on Tues
day, February 9th, under the direction
of the Board of Agriculture. The fol-
lowing is the programme: 1000 a. M,
Address of Welcome; 1920, The OUT
look for Farming in Vermont, V. l.
Spear, Braintree; l1.30, Discussion.
200, p. m, Building Up Dairy Herd,
H w. Vail. Pomfret; 800, Discussion.
100, Music. IT'S, Increasing the Fer
tilitv of the Farm, j. o. Sanford, SIAM
ford; SIS, Discussion; $50, Question
Box. The secretary, e. NJ. Winslow of
Brandon, will have a number of reports
of the Board of Agriculture at the meet
ing for distribution. All meetings free
The ladies are especially invited to be
present.
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SOUTH sHAFTsBURY.
E. Hastihgs is on the sick list.

G.. E. Hastings is on the sick list.
F. E. Rice is on the sick list having
been confined to the house for the week,
Mrs. Charles Martin has gone to visit
her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Perkins, living
in Massachusetts,.
Fred Myers was married to Miss Mary
Ann Mcclure of Bennington, on Wedne
day morning. Later in the day the we'd
ding party arrived at the fathers home
in this village.
Quite number of railroad men were
in town on Wednesday at G. E. Hastings,
hotel where Mr.. Archer had hearing.
The result of the healicg will no doubt
appear elsewhere.
Dr. Goldthwait has been confined to
the house for several days from the
effects of severe cold taken the day of
the wreck He was able on Wednesday
to visit few patients.
We learn from recent letter, received
by Mrs. James Vosburgh, that George
Barber, who has been so dangerously ILL.,,
through good nursing and the faithful
attendance of DR.. Allen, is now conva-
lescing, but it will be some time before he
regains usual health.
The Good Templars will hold their
meetings in rooms prepared over @. R.
and A. B. Hawkins's store.entrance at
the rear of the store. The Lodge bids
fair to be a success. There are % char
ter members and three names were sent
in for consideration last week. Regular
meetings on Friday evenings.
The workers" gave a tea at the
church parlors last Friday afternoon.
The Junior Endeavors are getting to be
quite strong in church work. They are
especially earnest in missionary work
and gave tea at the church last Wednes-
day night, netting between four and five
dollars.
Special 'services have been conducted
by the pastor, the Rev. T. Rogers, three
evenings this week. Owing to many of
the members not being we'll enough to
attend, and the variable weather, the
numbers have not been so great as could
have been desired. The meetings have
been interesting and it is hoped that a
liveier interest will be manifested.
There is a little sleighing now, the
first of the season. Men are hauling
many loads of logs daily to the Eagle
Square Company saw mill. The Square
business seems to be brisk. The other
departments are not crowded, yet the
men are thankful to get little. 1t is
an old saying, but true one that half
a loaf is better than none"
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farming. There is better land here than
we get credit for. But it needs cultiva-
ting. you know, the same as morals!
See? Why not attend the Farmers In
stitute, next Tuesday, at Remington
Centre, held under the auspices of the
State Agricultural Society
Itset parent to thinking the other
Sunday morning when his little boy
said: Papa, l wish you'd go to Sun
day school with me-" If parents
would study more with their little ones
through the week, and then go with
them on Sunday to the house of wor'
ship, it would be pleasant to look back
ward to bYe-and-bye.
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WooDFORD.
s. VIM. Knapp is quite i'll.

Mrs. VIM. Knapp is quite Ill.
R. Flood, the itinerant printer, has
been in town.
Candlemass day was bright and fair;
the old bear could see his shadow!
L. q. Faston received, Tuesday, an in
jury to his right arm and hand in the
Pierce Chair Mandatory at Putney,
and is at home awhile.
John Bugbee's 18th birthday was
Wednesday. Several called on the
Governor to "pay respects"
E. L. Norton and Dr. Pratt and ladies
dined at the Summit House, Sunday.
H. E. Burgess and wife were there the
day before.
Miss Grace Cotton died of diphtheria
last Friday, and was buried Saturday.
We understand she was young lady of
good attachments.
Last week, Herbert Sprague attended
the funeral of his sister Etta's husband,
at Hoosick, who was killed in the woods
by tree falling upon him.
Albert Shultz shot a rabbit that had
three wire snares around its neck. Bert
said had he known the harmless quad.
ruped had escaped a hanging three
times, he would not have "peppered" it.
A letter from the Rev. W. F. Beaman
reads that he arrived safely at Shanghai,
China, and has commenced his mission,
airy work. The reverend gentleman
says he Is in the best of health, and the
whole party enjoyed the long voyage
Mondays and Tuesdays storm II
snow and wind was the severest of the
season. A foot of snow fell in the
woods. In the open lands and high.
WAYS there were big drifts formed. Nc
one finds any fault AS a whole, Janu
AIRY was the mildest for many years.
Certain Woodford people would fine
it profitable to pay more attention tC
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EAST ARLINGTON.

A man named King, got his hand in
jured on a machine in Smiths shop, one
day this week.
We have sleighing again now, and
breaking out of by-roads and mountain
roads was in order Wednesday.
Mr.. Lorenzo Hartwell was called away
by the serious illness of his father, who
lives in Northern Vermont Mr.. Hart
we'll is expected back soon. His father
is reported better.
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PERIL.

The sick ones are nearly all improv-
ing, except Aaron Lyon.
One of the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage's
interesting sermons was read at the
church last Sunday, by Mr.. Davis.
The winter term of school, taught by
Miss Della Hapgood, for the benefit of
the more advanced scholars of the town,
is progressing nicely.
The snow storm Friday night, spoiled
the coasting and gave the road commits
sioner, Mr.. Davis, chance to use his
new snow pillow, which makes a very
fine road.
A pair of street lamps, largely gift
of Edward P. Simonds, has been pur'
chased to set each side of the church
steps. The good book says: Let your
light SO shine"
A meeting of the Board of Agricul-
ture will be held here February and 8.
The speakers will be v. 1. Spear, on the
"Outlook of Farming in Vermont" and
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ARLINGTON.

Mrs. Susan Morrissey is critically i'll.
The funeral of Charles Hard, who
died Tuesday evening, was held Thurs
day afternoon.
The Rev. Mr.. and Mrs. Carnahan and
Mr.. E. G. Woodwork attended the con-
secration of the bishop at Burlington.
The young ladies of Arlington have
been having very pleasant series of
dances, the proceeds of which are to go
for lamps for the town hall.
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RUPERT.

John Housey is slowly recovering
from his illness.
Mr. Wilkinson of Dorset has moved
into G. F. SheldOn's tenement mouse.
The school directors and town author
tiles have got into a tangle which may
require a lawsuit to straighten out.
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THE BENNINGTON BANNER, FRIDAY FEBRUARY ?, 1894

Building Up Dairy Herd" Cheese
Making will be treated by Prof. James
Cheeseman; "Home Markets" 10y H.
w. Vail; Horse Breeding" by 9. NJ.
WinslOw; "Our Resources; Peru Not
Dead Yet by NJ. J. Hapg0od, and J. O..
Sanford will speak on "Road Building
and Poultry Raising" Farmers and
their wives and daughters cannot afford
to miss these meetings, which are free
to all.
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MANCHESTER.

r. C. Gray and son are visiting friends
in Troy, N. Y.
E. S. Isham and wife of Chicago, were
in town last week.
Warren Fowler of West Lebanon, n.
Y, spent Sunday in town.
February End, Candlemas Day. One
half your corn, one half your hay"
The project of bringing water from
the foot of Mount Equinox to our village
is under consideration.
Principal Graves at the Seminary, is
still confined to his residence by the in
jury to his knee, received last fall.
Mrs. NJ. H. Wooster, who has been
visiting in Pawlet several weeks, re-
turned to her home here, last week.
H. W. Madison has begun the founda-
ton for brick building on his lot re-
Gently made vacant by fire. James Ami
don has the contract,
Judge Munson was home over Sunday.
The session of the Supreme Court will
two or three weeks longer. Some OF the
Bennington cases were heard last week.
w. Boynton, who bought the E. D..
Cook place, is building an addition, be-
sides making several other improve
ments. He has leased it for a term of
years to Hoyt Spelman of Brooklyn.
"A meeting of the voters of Fire Dis
trict, No. 2, has been called at the Court
House, Monday evening, February 5th,
at 7.30 o'clock, to consider the question
of water supply and additional fire ap-
paratus.
Mr.. Orvis says the prospects are good
for prosperous season at the Equinox
House next summer. Emerson W.Judd,
agent for the Raymond Whitcomb Com
pany, has been here and arranged for
two excursions, including trip up the
Equinox mountain, one on July Dist,
and one September 18th.
The body of Royal F. Manley was
brought here for intermen1 in Dellwood
Cemetery last Friday. Mr.. Manley was
born in Dorset seventy-two years ago,
and most of his life was spent in that
town, though he resided in Peru and
Manchester for several years. His son
Leroy and daughter Mrs. Newell, we've
well known to Manchester people.
The following officers of Adoniram
Chapter were elected and installed by P.
81. p, D. X. Simonds, last Thursday
evening: e. r. Carpenter, NJ. E. II. P. j;
j. H. Whipple, K. X; w. Bennett E. S. ;
|. H. Dench, g. of H.; J. P. Black, treas
urer; E. G. futile, secretary; H. Eggles-
ton, P. S.; L. Shaffner, r. A. c.; c. L.
Dench, NJ. "; D. K. Simonds, NJ. 2 v.
G. L. Woodcock, NJ. "; j. II. Whip
pie, chaplain; c. Meachin, sentinel.