Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-05-18

N. Js CRAWFORD ID DultuluR now oluO
walk, grading and terracing around his
new residence, on Grand View street.
1t is nearly completed.
Mss MABEL ToRREY, the teacher of
the new department in the Graded
School, was obliged to go to her home,
in Dorset, Monday, on account OF ill
ness.
THE menagerie at the Soldiers Home
has been recently increased by the addi-
ton of couple of foxes, born there.
The remainder of the animals attract as
much attention as ever.
CLEANLINESS is next to Goodness.
This is the time of the year when disease
germs breed and multiply with great
rapidity. Keep your houses and door
yards clean and thus keep well.
SUNDAY the Goth will be the first Sun
day after Trinity, and the services at St.
Francis dc Sales church will be Of an I'M
usually interesting character. Bishop
Michaud will be present and confirm
quite large class of candidates.
MRS. f. II. SCOTT is making consider
able improvements and repairs on her
residence on Pleasant street, for num-
Der of years the residence of the Hutch
ms family. Russell 6 March are doing
the work.
A wELL-KNowN citizen Of the village,
while handling over pile of wood on
| Wednesday, came across serpent in
the shape of spotted adder about three
feet long. He killed it as soon as pos
sible.
| ]. ED. WALBRIDGR has men at work
grading and levellng off the sides to the
new road he built last spring, and SOW
ing the same with grass seed. Tho road
with its surroundings has been well
called the boulevard of the village.
HARRY BURT of Grand View Terrace,
has Crescent bicycle which is great
help about delivering his daily papers.
Louis f. Armstrong has Remington
wheel, Harold Larrabee has fine Cres-
cent and Fred H. Wilder has new Vic
tor. Wheels are as common as 1.-THE
flowers that bloom in the spring"
TIE nomination for the colt stakes to
be trotted at the Cambridge fair, Sep
TENDER 4th and 7th, next, includes the
following from this town. FoalS of 1891,
II. G. White. In tho nominations for
foals of 1890, NJ. II. Deming of Arlington
has one, and in those for toals 1891, L. E..
Potter, of Hoosick Falls, has one.
JOHN F. KELLY, representing tho cir
calation department of the New York
Press, was here Wednesday and Thurs
day in tho interests of that paper, and
with view of trying to arrange for the
delivery of Sunday papers. As the
trains now run it will be matter of i'm
possibility to get New York Sunday
paper here in time to begin its delivery
before 3 p. m, and those who are en-
gagged in the business AID would like to
take hold of it, think that hour too late.
TRAPPING clubs are quite popular
among college students, who on Satur-
days and Sundays take long strolls
through the country, enjoying the
scenery and making their constitutions
rugged. There is such an organization
at Williams College, the members of
which have tramped together this spring
and last fall upwards of 200 miles in the
Berkshire region. Quite party of them
were here last Sunday, where they spent
a couple of hours before they started on
their walk home.
THE adjourned hearing in the case of
| Edward Walbridge of North Bennington,
accused of selling cigarettes to minors,
came off before the Municipal Court,
Wednesday afternoon. The accused
through his counsel, W. B. Sheldon, put
in demurrer, claiming that the COM
plant was not properly drawn by the
prosecuting officer. This the Court over
ruled and fined the respondent 500 and
costs, a total of 1913 or its equivalent
| to term in the work house at Rutland,
if not paid within "a hours. Counsel for
respondent filed exceptions with the
Court, and the case goes to the Supreme
| Court direct.
"THE COUNTY FAIR" which will be
seen at the Opera House, Monday, May
21st, is carried in two special cars, and
the play will be embellished in the same
complete manner as in New York. Tive
great sentimental and sensational feat
ures are announced, viz: An old-fash-
toned husking bee, in which score OF
more people are used, and running
horse race, in which five thoronghbreds
are seen running full tilt, In all the en-
thusiasm of close finish. In this scene
over 10000 pounds of machinery are
used. OF the play itself it is generally
described as superior to "The Old
Homestead" in Its portrayal of New
England character. The conservative
critic of the New York Herald says:
"The play is sweet as the Od0r of fresh
hay and the laughter of village maids in
midsummer"
Hon. JOHN V. CARNEY, president of
the New England Ensor Company, and
w. G. Bull, president of the Now York
| State Ensor Company, were in Lansing
burgh, N. Y, Wednesday evening, fer
| the purpose of establishing one Of the
Ensor Institutes in that place. The
Troy Times says: ''It was decided to
organize company to be known as the
Rensselaer, Ensor Remedy Company, the
organization to be Incorporated, to have
a paid in capital stock of about $1,000
and to establish an institute at Lansing
burgh. There are more than fifty Ensor
Institutes in operation. @. Fl. Brewer,
who has been connected with other En-
sor Institutes, will probably be the SUI
perintendent of the Lansingburgh cure.
Mr. Brewer said this morning that the
affair was not local movement, but that
Lansingburgh had been selected because
it was the most desirable location on ac-
count of its quiet and possessed advan-
tages over Troy" Among the leaders in
this movement are some of the most
prominent business men of Lansingburgh
and Troy.
MISS DELLA A. NANGAN, of this vii
lage, formerly of Rutland, and Mr..
Elmer s. Lasher of Hudson, N. Y, we're
united in marriage at the residence Of