Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-06
Bennington. Vt, July 8, 1894.

LAwLoR received two car loads of
fruit, etc., this morning.
MEzzANoTTI, the fruit dealer, has
opened up Miller's old place.
IT is stated that Barnum's circus will
not visit Vermont this year.
MRS. C. D. GIBSON expects to visit in
Newark, N. j., part of this month.
QUITE band of gypsies passed
through the village Saturday afternoon.
THE school directors have laid tax
SO cents on the dollar for"the support
of the common schools.
T. II. FAssETT and family of New
York city, are spending the summer at
s. B. Sanford's at the Centre.
MARY c. BURT is attending the COM
mencement exercises of the Castleton
State Normal school this week.
MISS BELLE L. AIKEN of Troy, N. Y,
is spending the summer with her sister,
Mrs. George F. Houghton, at North Ben
nington.
THE sparring match announced to
come off at Barber's Pond, Wednesday
evening, between Geo. Bahan and Nor
manday, was fizzle.
SEVERAL of the mills here are running
short of orders, with prospect of again
shutting down, unless there be speedy
improvement in the condition of the
general market
PREVIOUS to leaving for the annual
muster, Company K will spend couple
of days in camp near home, where the
command will be instructed in guard
mount and other camp duties.
A CORRECT count of the number of
widows in town shows them to be 345.
OF this number there are 25 grass wild
Ows. AS the population of the town is
Jess than 5000 the proportion of widows
is thought to be unusually large.
GEoRGE.GAvIN, who has been con-
fined to his house several weeks with
erysipelas in his feet, had three toes am
putated by DIR. H. j. Potter, Jr., last
Saturday, since which time he has been
improving.
Boys should beware of some things.
The Troy Times relates: "Willie Buhr-
master, aged twelve years, died Sunday
at Tribes Hill. 1t lis supposed death was
from poisoning caused by eating green
apples picked up in a potato patch
where paris green had been used"
WHILE Burlington, this State, is jubi-
1ating over new cotton mill, Hoosick
Falls, N. Y, is to have distillery. An
exchange says: Saturday, parties from
Massachusetts leased of E. B. Hurd
portion of the latter's large storehouse
on Centre street, Hoosick Falls, for the
manufacture of whiskey."
THE fountain to the memory of the
late Mrs. Eli Tiffany has been placed in
position at the entrance to the village
cemetery and is now in operation. 1t is
of iron with one outlet for the water
that does not spray. This outlet is sur
rounded by representations of Gala Ill
lies and leaves, there being four of each.
THE weather bureau has sent out
special bulletin announcing that June
was very hot month. We are not in
position to doubt the statement; and as
matter of fact we have felt all along
that this must be the case. What the
great public most desires to know, how
ever, is something about the kind of
weather to expect in the immediate
future.
AT the hose race in Burlington, July
18th, there were four companies entered.
The contest was pretty one and would
llave been won by the Knights of Fair
haven had they not made a false coup
ling which was detected by the judges,
and they were given no time. The re-
suit was: Independents of Vergennes,
Asa seconds; Lafayette of Winooski, 494
seconds; Baxters of Rutland, so seconds.
These were the only contestants besides
the Knights. All four of the, companies
will be present at the tournament here
July 10th.