Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-12-11

Press, only $500.
MRS. CHAs. G. WILCOX of Hoosick
Falls, N. Y, is visiting in town.
A MACHINE has been invented for
moistening and attaching postage
stamps
MRS. ALANsoN WILCOX has been quite
i'll for several days, threatened with
pneumonia, but is better to-day.
THE Fortnightly meets on Saturday,
Dec. 18th, subject: education" The
committee in charge is: Mrs. Hoyt, Mis-
SEES Nina Morgan and Rogers.
MRS. NJ. BABBETT of Hazardville,
Conn, returned home last week, having
visited her niece, Mrs. A. f. Loomis, and
ether friends since last September.
A NEW law of New York State, follow
ing Vermont, abolishes the three days
Of grace on the first of January, 1895,
so prepare to pay now when obligations
are due.
Col. NJ. S. CoLBURN, who has been in
Michigan several weeks for the benefit
Of his health, returned home Friday. 1t
is said that the visit has not been as ben
efcial to him as it was hoped 1t would
BE-
SUNDAY there were on cars in the rail
road yard, that arrived Saturday, ten new
looms of the latest pattern that are going
into the mill of Holden, Leonard & Co.,
to replace those worn out. The firm are
also getting ready to put in a new wheel.
PUTNAM HOSE, Ne. 8, are arranging
for a three days entertainment to be
given the second week in January. 1t
will be something a little off the ordinary
line of entertainment generally given
here, and our people will do well to wait
for it.
ENGINE, No. 2, the Luther Park,
after thirty years service on the Ben
nington and Rutland railroad las well as
the Western Vermont, and Troy and
Boston,, has been retired from service.
No. . was built in Philadelphia in 1864.
Saturday nigh it was taken to the shops
at Rutland where it will be broken up.
1t is the last one of the early equipments
of the road and for a number of years
mas been on the branch between here and
North Bennington.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the POStotfiCe at Bennington, for the
week ending Dec. 10th, 1884, Mrs. H.
O. Huntington, Mrs. Sarah f. OsgOOd,
Mrs. Carolina Parsons, Mrs. John L.
VIM, johnny Bernardo, j. O. Chevalier
E. Eldon, Chas. Hale, Fl. Heide, Clyde
Inskeep, Ward Lewis, esq. These letters
will be sent to the Dead Letter Office Dec.
18th, if not delivered before. In calling
for above, please say advertised" Civ
ing date of list.
THE seventh annual report of the Yer
mont Agriculture Experiment Station
has just come to hand. It. is $50 page
volume, containing several illustrations,
the reports of the various members of
the station staff and the financial report.
1t covers the work done during the year
1893, and contains many interesting arti-
cles on plants diseases, dairying, crops,
insects, fertilizers, etc. This report, as
we'll as future or black issues of reports
or bulletins, will be sent free of charge
upon application. A postal card direct
cd to the Experiment Station, BurliGg-
ton, Vermont, is sufficient.
IT will be seen by our High School
Notee' that Col Jewett, of the 2lst U.
s. Inf, is arranging for the detail of
Lieut.. Parmenter to give military instruc-
ton to the High School Cadets. Platts-
buTgh will thank Col. Jewett for this
good service in helping open the way to
military instruction in our schools, a
most desirable consummatiOn, not only
for its aid in physical development and
manly carriage, but because it gives
preparation needful to make good sol
diers in short order when needed, a very
important point, where one great reh
ance of the country is on its militia
Plattsburgh, N. Y, Republican. 1t will
now be in order for Burlington to "fol-
low SUIT" Bennington set the example
some time since, with this difference,
that, whereas our imitators are obliged
to call for help in instruction, the Ben
nington schools have competent military
instructors from among their own gradu-
ates, who are also graduates of Norwich
University.