Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-08-21


Mrs. A. BUEL SHELLEY has been ill,
recently.
Miss KATHERINE BROWN is visiting a
school friend in Garfield, n. Y.
MISSES JESSIE AND NINA DAVIS of
Rutland, are visiting in the village.
MISS AFFORD OF Boston, Mass, is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Geo. F. Leonard.
Mrs. CHAs. CLAPP is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Taylor, in Berlin, n. Y.
MRS. D. A. BALDWIN spent portion
of last week visiting her brother in Sun
derland.
Mrs. A. P. CHILDs, Miss Childs and
Mr.. Hammond Talbot have been in Sara
toga for few days.
WILLIAM MURRAY, an engineer on the
Bennington and Rutland railroad, buried
a baby last Friday.
MRS. LYONS of Cohoes, N. Y, is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. William Toomey,
Grand View street
A. H. WINsLow returned last week
from a vacation of four weeks, that he
passed down east" at the seashore.
DIR. AND MRS. A. S. M. CHISHOLM and
son are visiting at the farm of her broth
er, Rev. w. W. Foster, jr., at Pittsford.
NJ. B. HoUGHToN has so far recovered
from the injuries he recently received by
being kicked by a horse, that he is able
to be out of doors but not to business.
WILLIAM E. HAWKS left for Minneap-
oils, Saturday afternoon, to attend the
National Water Works Annual Conven-
ton. Mr.. Hawks is one of the officers
of the Association.
THE Troy Times says: Mrs. Wash
ington Akin of this city and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Houghton of Benning-
ton, are spending few weeks at Alex
andria Bay"
PRIVATEs LEMON and Thwing and
Corporals Frier and Chapman of the
Thirty-second Separate company were
with the Bennington Rifles company at
the Vermont State camp, last week.
PATRICK CASEY of Bennington, was
admitted to bail Thursday in the sum of
$500 by Judge Griffith. He had been in
generated in Jail on charge of stealing
a horse and wagon from his mother and
selling them to secure money with which
to go on a spree.-Troy Press.
ARTHUR A. WRIGHT of this place has
been granted patent for a dishwasher
comprising tub and table, cylinder
provided with a piston and piston rod
and fixed relatively to the tub and
adapted to be swung horizontally, and
means for controlling the flow of fluid to
and from the cylinder.
GooD times will never come to the lazy
farmer who finds his best employment
in watching the sky for clouds to fertil-
ize his worn out fields and groaning at
L. 30 l,n lon &c
content to run in the old grooves, worn
out by his ancestors. Move up, or the
procession will leave you.
SOME one came into the office, recently,
and asked for copy of "The History of
Bennington County," published in 1882
We were unable to supply it and have
forgotten the enquirer, but we now have
an elegantly bound copy of the work,
that can be obtained at reasonable
price at this Office. Come early as the
owner is anxious to dispose of the vol
ume before he leaves town.
A HOME without a newspaper is where
old hats are stuffed into broken windows
where the wife looks like bag of wool
with string around the center; where
the husband has tobacco juice piano.
rama painted on the bosom of his shirt,
and the children are ragged and wipe
their noses on their jacket sleeves. So
says Brer Lewis of he Morrisville News
and Citizen, and he's 'jest right"
cit is we'll known that the gifted writ
ers Alice and Phoebe Cary, declined mat
rimony yet were always letting off their
wit at their spinster condition. One
Sunday evening Horace Greeley, Frank
Carpenter and other friends were din
ing with them when Phoebe had so
stirred up Mr.. Greeley with her fun that
he said: Phoebe. we'll have to put a
curb on you'll Not Bit she said; 4
would rather have bridalp"
MATTHEW ANDERSON was brought be-
fore the court in Williamstown Saturday,
for illegally selling Intoxicating liquors
and was fined $3.50. Anderson was one of
the men arrested at the Lime House," a
place on the Vermont and Massachusetts
line, which has given the officers great
deal of trouble, and it was believed by
many that he would not be found guilty,
or if so he would in some way succeed in
evading the law. He appealed the case
and was put under $500 bonds.
In the event of the election of all the
Republican candidates to the State Sen.
ate, which possibly may not happen, the
composition OF that body by occupations
will be as follows: Eight farmers, seven
lawyers, four merchants, three bankers
three manufacturers, three physicians,
one railroad station agent, one newspa
Der manager. This will make a pretty
we'll diversified representation of the
business interests of the State-Hard
wick Gazette. Now let US have the usua
howl that the farmers are ignored.
Col. ALDAcE F. WALKER, formerly Of
Rutland, and well known here, has beer
appointed received of the Atchison rail
ways. He was till lately the chairman
of the Western Traffic Association and
has long been prominent in the railroad
world. He is well known VermonteI
born in Rutland in 1912. He was lieu
tenant-colonel of the 18th Vermont regi
ment. He served two terms as STATE
Senator, and was one of the origina
members of the interstate commerce
commission in 1887. In 1889 he resigned
to become chairman of the Interstate
Commerce Railway Association, anC
later accepted the Craftsmanship of the
Western Traffic Association. He prac
tees law in Chicago and is now in Eu
rope.