Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-05-29
Miss EMMA CHAPEL is visiting her
sister Mrs. S. B. Hawks.

DON'T forget that good adj, adver-
Using good article, should be run in a
good paper.
Miss EMMA HARRINGTON of Benning-
ton, was the guest of Mrs. j. D. Wyman
of Hoosick Falls, N, T., last week.
THE Rev. C. H. Peck of North Ben
nington, occupied the pulpit of the Sec
Ond Congregational church Sunday,
preaching from Luke viii, 81.
THE news comes from Hoosick, n. Y,
of the dangerous illness of Fl. G.. Breese
from appendicitis. He is proprietor of
the Hoosick Valley fruit farms.
JOHN Wool GRIswoLD and family of
Troy, N. Y, are now at their summer
residence at the Centre. Others of the
Trojan colony are expected there this
week.
MRS. CHESTER REYNOLDS and two
children from Chicago, arrived in town
Thursday, and will stop for some time
with her mother, Mrs. Henry E. Brad
ford.
EX-SENATOR EDMUNDs has rented a
cottage at Newport, r. l., for the sum-
mer. Some of the people of Southern
Vermont own cottages at that famous re-
sort.
ALDERMAN H. W. HALL of Burling-
ton, spent couple of days in Southern
Vermont last week, returning home Sat
urday. He was in town for few hours
Friday afternoon.
THE improvements in the cutters and
highway on Main street, where it cross
eS Willow, are great improvement, and
there are a number of other places
where like work would be acceptable.
THE June term of County court will
commence at Manchester one week from
to-day, Judge Taft presiding. As it is
Grand Jury term there is likely to be
more than the ordinary amount of bust
ness to be done. ?"
UNLESS your envelopes state the num-
Der of days you wish your letters held,
the postmaster, by new ruling, will
This is important to- men who do not
wish their letters, when not delivered,
detained over five or ten days.
THE Argus and Patriot figures that
Coxey will be out of Jail just in time to
attend the Vermont Populist Conven-
ton. Just imagine Coxey and our old
friend Bowen of Dorset, with his patent
illumination, comprising the orator and
chairman of said convention!
VERMONT may not be the best place in
the world, but at this time when Ohio is
cyclone swept, and Western New York
and all of Pennsylvania are buried be-
meath flood, second only to Noah's,
Vermonters have reason to sit on their
hills and smile, as they survey their sur
rOundings, and say to those fellows: 81
told you So"
"a BLIND girl in Iowa has learned to
set type with speed and accuracy" 1t
would be interesting to know how the
editor expresses himself when his little
treasures of sentiment appear with their
ears Topped off, and their bonnets on
back side before. No un-emancipated
man would feel like visiting the proper
maledictions on a poor blind girl.
The supreme court of Massachusetts,
last week rendered decision that per-
son who dashes across railroad track
to take train on the farther side, hold
ing in his pocket trip ticket, and is
struck by another train, is not passen-
ger upon the railroad and his legal rep
resentatives cannot maintain an action
for damages for his death against the
railroad company,
LOUIS ARMSTRONG met with an acct
dent Thursday evening, that badly de-
moralized the bicycle on which he was
riding, but fortunately was not injured
himself. He was coming down Silver
street, when in attempting to turn, he
ran into one of j. Ed. Walbridges teams
which was turning up on to the new road
leading to Mr.. Walbridge's house. The
front wheel of his bicycle was broken so
badly that he will have to get new one.
WHILE one of our local fishermen was
trouting in Glastonbury, one day last
week, he suddenly came upon a she
black bear with two cubs by her side.
The old bear, as if to protect her young,
raised to her launches and assumed
position that meant fight. The fisher
man not being armed and having no de-
sire to engage with bruin, and believing
thatin his case, discretion was the bet
ter part of valor, stayed not on the Or
der of his going, but got away from that
vicinity as fast as possible.
THE Free Press of Saturday, had an
item that is of local interest to our fire
men: ''The Boxers last evening elected
q. G. Munson delegate to the annual
convention of the Vermont State Fire
mems Association, to be held at Ben
nington, July 18th and 10th. The COM
pany will begin at once to practice for
the tournament. The Ethans elected A.
L. Walker delegate, and at a special
meeting, to be held next Friday evening,
will make final arrangements towards
attending the convention and tourna-
ment,"
SOME of our exchanges are urging peo-
pie not to stay away from church Sun
days, but if they will stay away then
the next best thing to do is to buy and
read the Boston Sunday Journal" This
is an indirect way of saying that Sun
day papers keep people away from
church, as is claimed by Sabbatarians.
We fail to see the logic of this. Why
should aSunday paper keep one from
church any more than Mondays daily
does from business? And the truth is
that there is no such thing about the
Sunday issue.
THE summer time table of the Fitch
burg railroad, that took effect last Sun
day, makes but few changes. Those of
ourreaders living on the Main line will
be interested in knowing that the Sub
urban Circuit, Waltham and Boston,
will have two additional Sunday trains.
The 3.05 p. m. accommodation Boston to
Bellows FAILS will be run on weekdays
the same as last season. The Sunday &C
commodation train, stopping at all sta
tons, will leave Boston 900 a. m, arriv-
ing at Troy, N. Y, 4.25 p. m. The Sara
foUa gpaaial .Eynrncc will