Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-12-04

The Republican Office. The notice will
be worth as much as the bills in drawing
crowd.-St. Johnsbury Republican.
This has been the practice of the BAN
NER for some time.
The Eastern Star Chapter, tomorrow
evening, will sit down to a supper after
the regular convccation. As it is the
annual meeting the Worthy MatrOn and
other officers request a full attendance,
and especially of the brothers belonging
to the Chapter. A cordial invitation is
extended to all members of the Order, at
7 o'clock promptly.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the Postoffice at Bennington, for the
week ending December Sd, 1894: Mr..
Frank Carey, Mr.. w. Donovan, o. V.
Paine, Fred S. Weatherhead, Mrs. Henri
eta Eliza Smith. These letters will be
sent to the Dead Letter Office December
18th, if not delivered before. In calling
for above, please say "advertised," Civ
ing date of list.
News has been received of the death,
in Kansas City, recently, of Marshall T
Shackett, who was for number of years
known as one of the largest buyers and
shippers of cattle in Western Vermont.
He was the plaintiff in one of the most
celebrated divorce suits ever tried in Adj
olson county, at the conclusion of which
he went West and located. He was we'll
known through Western Vermont and
Eastern New York
THE Free Press of Saturday says: 1.-THE
flyer on the Rutland division of the Cen
trail Vermont is to be discontinued for
the winter after Saturday next, and the
Wagner parlor car will be put back on
the mail train. Postmaster Wheeler will
discontinue the detail of clerks whom he
has been sending to Rutland to sort the
Burlington mail on the train while it
was en- route. 1t will make difference
of half hour in the evening delivery"
SATURDAY afternoon while Louis Tiff
fanny was out hunting, the dog that he
had with him run across wild cat, that
Immediately tackled the dog. A well di-
rected bullet from the rifle that the hun
ter had with him, killed the cat, which
was brought in and exhibited on the
streets. He was fine specimen, but in
poor condition. The fur was of brin-
die color the length "a inches and
weight little less than ten pounds. Mr..
Tiffany will have the animal stuffed
THE new law authorizing fishing with
seines and set lines in Lakes Champlain
and Memphremagog, provides that the
Fiji and Game Commissioners shall is
sue permits to residents of the State to
fish with seine from Oct. LIST to Dec.
1st, in each year. 1t is further provided
that the Commissioners shall also Issue
permits to residents of the State to fish
with set lines, not exceeding 70 feet in
length, at such times and places as they
deem best, having in view the preserva-
ton of the fish.
THE American Wool and Cotton Re-
porter of last week contained the follow
ing: con Jan. LIST, Mr.. G. F. Leonard
retires from the firm of Holden, Leonard
d Company, owners of the Bennington
Wooden Mills, and will locate, after a
well-earned rest, with his ia nily in the
South, in New York or Boston. Mr..
LeOnard's ability as salesman and orig
inator of styles for dress goods is well
known throughout the market, and he is
sure to be a great help to any mill he
may become connected with. Mr.. Leon
ard with Mr.. Holden bought the Ben
nington Wooden Mills property some five
or six years ago, and after a short time
took in Mr.. G. w. Leonard who still re-
mains with the firm. These mills have
been running overtime for the past year
and are we'll sold up to-day"
The Unionist- Gazette of Somerville,
n. j., publishes letter from Hon. A. V.
editor of the New Jersey
Law Journal, as the opinion of one who
has read the Rev. Mr.. Reads book, "a
Domino in Bible Lands" now offered
for sale, as holiday work, by the BAN
NER Stationery Store. We copy in part
that our readers may see what is the
Judgment of a competent critic, as fol
lows: No one will be more surprised
than its author that l rush into print"
to say what l think respecting this work,
any invitation by him or by you
to do so. To declare that it is a good
book and worth any ones reading, will
not properly give my judgment upon it.
Mr.. Read, believe, had never prepared
a book-certainly has never had one
publshed-bu he inherits the gift. His
father before him we'll knew how to
make up volume, whose value wide
circulation proved, and now this new
traveller to the East gives us, in delight
fully turned sentences, and in the
smoothest and purest of diction, book
of travels which equals any of the kind
to be found in the libraries. l was pre-
pared for a readable book, but not for
one so precise, full, interesting from
cover to cover, packed with details of
costumes, customs, sights by the way,
sights oyer the way, sights Scriptural
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