Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-17

fever. 1t Is milo case Inus ldr.
EVANS sells shoes as low as any "bank
rupt sale'' and no old goods. Patronize
a Bennington taxpayer.
MRS. S. It. POWELL and family of
Lansingburgh, N. Y, are here with
friends for few weeks.
]. II. RUSSELL, wife and daughter,
Edna, and Mrs. Perrin, came up from
New York last week and are at Mrs. Al
bert A. Norton's.
THE choir of the First Baptist church
are enjoying vacation during July, and
will be in their places as usual, the first
Sunday in August.
Mrs. JOHN STEVENS and daughter,
Ethel, of Brooklyn, N. Y, are spending
the summer with Mrs. Stevens parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Bassett.
D. j. PRATT returned from New York
last week, feeling better, but this week
he has been worse. He will have to
keep away from business while longer.
G. C. EDMoNDs of Johnstown, N. Y,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
Barnes last week. His son is rector of
st. Marks church, Hoosiok Falls, N. Y,
EUGENE WATTLEs, and j. B. Packard
went to Manchester, Saturday evening,
and ON Sunday, in company with friends
from that place, enjoyed trout dinner
at Peru.
MISS LULU SPAULDING of Lowell,
Mass, who assists Capt. Eddy in his Kir-
mess work, is spending portion of her
vacation with her friend, Mrs. E. H. Nc
Intyre.
THE Rey. Chas. R. Seymour takes his
annual vacation of one month, begin
ming this week. His plans are not yet
fully arranged for his out-of-town So
journ, and are dependent, some what up
on the convalescence of Mrs. Seymour.
WE saw load of wool drawn through
this village yesterday, and asked what
the owner received. The reply was ten
and twelve cents. To this strait has
Cleveland times reduced farm products,
especially wool. If this is the shadow,
what will the reality be9
THE pulpit of the Second Congrega.
tional church will be occupied for the
next two Sundays by the Rev. A. II.
Putnam of Elm Hill church, Boston,
Mass. Mr.. Putnam preached here last
season it will be remembered and his
audience will be glad to meet him again.
INSTEAD of 80 male members as re-
ported last week, the Second Congrega-
tional church has on its rolls May LIST,
the names of 129 males and 200 females.
Since that date revision of the list OF
non-residents has somewhat reduced the
number but the proportion remains
about the same.
Miss CARRIE WHITE will sail from
New York, Friday, on the "City of Para"
81, .rhara no tn cnanH a
couple of months with her sister, Mrs.
j. H. Leverich. She.will be accompanied
by Miss Louisa Leverich, who goes home
to spend her vacation, and who arrived
here from CleYeland, OHIO, Monday.
JOHN B. SEYMOUR, son of the pastor
of the Second Congregational church,
recently took fifteen of the preliminary
examinations for entrance to Yale col
lege and passed in them all. The
full number, we believe is 20 or %,
and so it comes to pass that he will not
have very hard task before him when
he enters in 1895. Mr.. Seymour is fitting
for college at Willlston Seminary, East
hampton, Mass, and, as one can readily
see, is bound to work his way.
THERE is quite a large sum paid, an
nually, by the people of Bennington for
interest. With the sewer orders, issued
last year, the principal has been in
creased nearly $4,000, and the question
of rate is something that careful finaD-
ciering will look after. The town of
North Adams borrowed last week, of
the Boston Provident Institution and
savings bank, $4,000 for 81 per cent
Why cannot Bennington do as we'll?
THE electric railway of Hoosick Falls,
with its extension to Wallomsac, was
opened last Thursday afternoon. The
first car over the road was run Wednes-
day, and contained the following per-
sons: J. H. Vail, president of the Me-
chanical, Electrical and Engineering Co.,
of New York; President +. H. Twitchell
of Bath, Me-. H. MacL. Harding, gen.
eral electrical agent of the Walker Man
ufacturing Co., of New York; E. A. Ber-
~, an expert from Cleveland, Ohio, and
Secretary Charles B. Story. This is the
line that has been talked of as likely to
extend to Bennington.
THE last North Adams Transcript
notes the retirement of Judge James T..
Robinson, its veteran editor and long
time publisher. Judge Robinson is one
of the ablest men that ever welded the
editorial pen in the "Bay State,' and we
are sorry to say that the cause of his
retirement is i'll health The Sunday
Morning Call of Pittsfield, Mass, says:
''For years he has been in the editorial
harness and graceful and pungent
writer he is. His pen mas always been
active for the right and against the
wrong, and gradually his paper, which
he and his son, Mr.. Arthur Robinson,
have for some years conducted, is among
the best country weeklies in the State"
EMORY S. HARRIS, U. S. marshal, was
home the first of the week. He had
just returned, Monday, from trip after
a man accused IF smuggling wool. 1t is
said that he is an old offender on the one
side, while the defense is as equally pro-
nounced in telling the story that the
prosecution is put up job to get
even with defendant for catching the
complainant this side of the Canada line,
and making him settle an old score. The
prisoner, E. A. Matthews, a wealthy
farmer of Fort Covlngton, N. Y, was To-
Gated by Mr.. Harris at st. Johnsbury,
was arrested and brought, Saturday, be-
fore United States Commissioner, George
E. Johnson at Burlington. Matthews
was held in $4,000 bonds to await the
grand jury. The compliments, as we
understand it, are men whom Matthews
employed to buy wool for him in Can
ada.
DIR. F. R. HUDSON of Hoosick Falls,
N. Y, has arranged for field day to be
held at Webster's grove near that village
Wednesday, August LIST, next. Among