Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-10-09

committee or individual.
Mrs. G. E. CROCKETT of Roston is Wis
iting Mrs. o. Slack.
o. G. FRIsBIE, wife and family of West
port, N. Y, have been visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. A. W. Braisted.
IT is declared on good authority that
the total potato crop of the United States
for 1894 is unusually small.
THE strange news comes across the sea
that in Smyrna horses and cattle are be-
ing fed on raisins and other dried fruits.
A ROSE bush in the yard of Enos
Adams on Pleasant street, has on it some
roses in full bloom, as well as several
buds.
THE Rev. M. D. Jump, who had been
quite i'll with la Grippe, has recovered
and will preach Sunday.-Troy Press,
Saturday.
THE delegates from Bennington to the
Grand Lodge of Good Templars at Lyn.
donville, are: Geo. A. Wattles and Miss
Mabel Frost.
THE condition of Mrs. Jerome Benton
is still one of solicitude, although she is
little improved. 1t is feared that if she
gets up, one side will be helpless.
A BICYCLE, run by vapor power is
among the late inventions. The ma
chine weighs about sixty pounds, and
the vapor of ether is used instead of
steam. 1t is expected to run mile a
minute.
IT is said that the fall crop of house
flies are covered with little red parasites,
which propagate the disease known i'll
Bohemia as "red DEATH" 1t is easy to
test the truth of this by examining few
of these pests.
PERSONS who are afflicted with that
tired feeling'' are advised to examine
and see how their newspaper accounts
stand, and if behind to pay up, for the
SEMI-WEEKLY BANNER, and see how
quick that joyous feeling will come in.
THE editor of the Glens Falls Times
publishes each day at the head of his To-
cal column just what he proposes to eat
that day. Judging from his last menu
the poor fellow is in clover. Invite in
some of your poor relations. "-Poultney
Journal.
THE Daily Journal wakes facetious.
Here is an illustration: One of the Or
ders left by a member of the House for a
newspaper was for the largest and
Paterot;" another was for the "Bratel-
boro PhGnice." Other rural "dees-
tricks" are to be heard from.
JOHN ROBINSON has purchased thus
far, this fall, about 1900 barrels of APP
pies for shipment. He has paid from
81 to SIPS per barrel Recently buyers
have been in town, purchasing even cider
apples to ship away. The indications
are that prices will be higher before
long.
W. A. NILES, several times an occa-
sional cOmpositor in this office, has start
ell paper in Cambridge, n. Y. 1t is
called the Valley Record, is neat little
sheet, and modestly announces that it
seeks home interests and local news first
of all. 1t is well filled with local Incl
dents and makes creditable display of
advertisements. We trust that Mr.. Niles
will find his venture paying one.
MRS. W. G. RIDELL of Buffalo, n. Y,
and her sister, Mrs. j. B. Meacham,
went to New York City last week. The
return home after short stay in the me-
tropolis. Mrs. L. D. Hamlen went with
them as far as Albany on her way to Buff
falo for visit. When Mr.. Hamlen goes
out both himself and wife will visit
friends in Pittsburg and other places in
the Keystone State.
News comes all the way from Ohio,
through an old farmer of Columbia cOun-
ty that coOns and possums and young
lambs and geese have very thick coats
coming on; that chipmunks are laying
in big winter stores, that insects are
leaving the north side of trees, that ha-
zelnuts are plenty, and that therefore a
infa no Tha
muskrat and corn husk prophet will now
please step forward.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the Postoffice at Bennington, for the
week ending October 9th, 1894: Miles S.
Gilman, Thomas Hallum, Geo. H. Ling
ham, Orrin w. Sumner, Miss Lizzie
Davoc, Mrs. o. II. Fish, Miss Nora Keefe,
Edward & Ruth Smith, Miss Lizzie
Waite. These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office October 22nd, if not
please say advertised" giving date of
list
THE Wilmington Times says: IAN
old lady was found out on the Searsburgh
road about half mile from the village,
Wednesday, by G. NJ. Ware, in very
pitiable condition, which seemed to be
drought dDOuJ ny poverty anu Olu aye
? She gave her name as Rebecca Papers
and claimed to have come from Shafts
bury. She told very pitiful story of
sufferings, and claimed to be without a
relative in the world. She has been
taken to the town farm"
THE Right Rev. Bishop Michaud Wis
tied the Catholic church at Readsboro,
Sunday. By the way, the appointment
of this bishop as coadjutOr to bishop
with the right of succession was a most
"droit thing, says an exchange. The
Vermont diocese contains large num-
her of Irish as we'll as French Catholics,
and the selection of bishop of either
nationality would naturally have been re-
garded with some disfavor by the other
Bishop Michaud, who is a Burlington
boy, is half Irish and half French, SO
that he exactly fills the bill.
SAMUEL S. AMEs of SALISBURY, the
harmlessly insane individual who for
many years has been present at the open
ing session in a vain attempt to convince
the members of the legislature that he
was elected to the place in the United
States Senate now held by Hon. Justin
S. Morrill, was on hand this morning
decorating seat with the members of
the third House." AS the years go by,
he is getting to be little uncertain
L.