The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-03-02

visiting relatives in town.
THE young people enjoyed a hop at
the Putnam last Saturday evening.
Miss ALICE GIBSON was homo from
school in Saratoga, N. Y. over last Sun
day.
G. B. SHELLEY sheds some Eight on
a we'll known subject in his space to-
day.
MR.. AND MRS. FRANK NOLAN of Ben
nington are at Patrick Carney's in Rut-
land.
MRS. JONES conducts the revival meet
ings at the Methodist church through
this week, the congregations growing in
numbers and interest daily.
THE next regular communication f
Mt. Anthony Lodge, No. ID, F. & A. NJ,
will be held Tuesday evening, March 9th.
A good attendance is requested.
THE American AK and Tool Company
of Ballston, Spa, has announced a cut
down in the wages of employees of from
t n to twenty-five per cent, to take eff
feet to-day.
MISS H. J. MORGAN has gone on visit
to Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and, before she
returns, expects to visit Miss Addie
Courier in Atlanta, Ga.
THE Officers school of the Vermont
National Guard, at Burlington, this week
was a grand affair, and was attended by
the commissioned officers generally.
Those named from here two weeks since
were in attendance.
THE Rev. A. Macgeoree has moved his
family to Bennington this week and is
installed in the pleasant parsonage of
Al Do f;gf ol,,rph Of
this the nightly meetings prior to that
of last evening, were omitted.
WE are requested by the committee to
state that the new Odd Fellows Hall in
the Putnam Opera House block, will be
opened to the public on the 10th anniver-
sary of the Order, April Goth, next, and
to ask that this date be borne in mind
by our people. There will be suitable
celebration to which the puolic will be
invited on that occasion.
E. S. Chosen, whose lunch wagon the
"Pilgrim," has been nightly feature for
several months, at the corner of Main
and North streets, will shortly move his
family from Fort Edward to Bennington.
The lunch wagon, which is familiar
object in some of the larger cities. has
never until now, attempted to gain a
permanent footing in Bennington.
LAST Sunday, word reached work
man in one of the saw mills in Somerset,
that his wife was dead at ROundOut, N.
Y. The man started at o'clock in the
evening to walk to Bennington to take
the first train out Monday morning. He
reached this village at 5 o'clock, having
traversed the mountain roads, in many
places trackless and drifted, and nearly
perishing with the cold. We did not
learn his name or nationality, but such
devotion is not often found.
THE Saunterer notices that James H..
Archer, the Bennington train dispatcher,
who is responsible for the death of two
persons and the injury of several more,
near South SALISBURY. January 10th, has
secured similar position on New Jer-
sey railroad. While it is quite probable
that Mr.. Archer is not now so likely to
make another similar mistake as q new
man would be, if the Saunterer were in
his place, he would prefer to strike out
into some other business instead Of be-
ing continually reminded of his terribly
fatal mistake.-Free Press.
THOSE who heard Mantell last season
will be interested in the following item,
from an exchange: "There is one man
who can speak we'll of la Grippe. Itpre-
vented Robert Mantell from playing a
| recent engagement in Albany. but it
sa red him from the grip of a Sheriff.
He has been adiudged guilty of contempt
of court for not paying the alimOny
granted by the Judge to the ex-Mrs.
Mantell when she was given divorce,
and that lady's attorney had been there
several days awaiting the actors arrl-
VAL"
We wish to call the attention of all ON
people, to the fact, that the Boston Sun
day Journal is an out and out advocate
of Protection. 1t is not free trade at
fair nor an apologist for the Wilson bill,
as are some of the other Sunday papers
of the country. The working man in
Vermont out of work, as well as his EN-
ploSer. will make no mistake if he buys
and reads BostOn's great Republican
! Sunday Journal. 1t has all the news and
! has features of interest to be found only
| in its columns. d. G.. Bart is the agent
in Bennington.
THE Green Mountain Stock Farm Com
pany of West Randolph, organized ua
der the laws of Connecticut with CAPT
tai stock of $2S0,000, assigned Wednes
day, says despatch from New Haven
| Conn. The company is considered the
largest stock concern in the United
States, and has won many prizes at cat
tie shows. The company owns thousands
of acres of land in Vermont. The liza
bilities are placed at $4,000 and the as
sets at S75, 900. Most of the stockhold
ers are residents of Vermont. The rea
son given for the failure is that the com
pany has too much land. William H
Dubois of West Randolph, was nance
as trustee.
AN unheard of thing has happened IL
Vermont with Brattleboro as the focus
sassiety there and over against anC
around about there is knocked higher
than the dog star. The reason of it is
that about thirty young ladies of the
"best" families, organized minstre
troupe, kalsomined themselves witt
burnt cork and paralyzed the ungodll
and what few others drifted in Wednes
day evening of this week The girl!
were argued with, wept and prayed for
but all this was unavailing and thing
went. The entertainment was a magni
ficent success financially, and it is hoped
by some and feared by others, that thu
event will induce other Vermont towns
to go and do kewise.-Hardwick Ga
zette.
Col. N. NJ. PUFFER, commanding thu
Patriarchs Militant of Vermont, issues {
circular-letter of instructions for the APP
preaching annual elections IN this De