Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-05-04

JSooSA
MRS. FRED L. HoUGHToN has been
taken with hemorhage of the lungs and
lies in a critical condition.
JOHN II. LAwLoR of the Main street
market, has a notice of fruits and other
seasonable delicacies in another column.
MR.. AND MRS. WIN. BANiFoRD, of Bal
timore, Md, formerly of Bennington, are
visiting friends in town.
THE Vermont State Prohibition con-
vention will meet at Middlebury, at May
23d. Geo. W. Collins is delegate from
this town.
TIE Troy Press in its Round Lake cor
respondence Wednesday, says: 1.-THE re-
ception rendered Rev. A. d. Heaxt and
daughters, Tuesday evening, was largely
attended"
F. E. BURGESS of Burlington has been
appointed administrator of the estate of
his brother, Edmund II. Burgess, who re-
Gently died at his home in North Ben
nington.
CAPT. R. o. GORE drives one of the fin
est, heavy, young matched teams in town.
The span are coming four, were brought
from Canada, recently, and Capt. Gore
purchased them in North Adams, Mass,
Saturday. The colts are blue roam,
weighed in Canada'2, 900 and will go g.
800 after thier ride and change of fare and
care.
NEWSPAPER men are blamed with a
lot of things that they cannot help, such
as Partially in mentioning visitors, pub
fishing news about some folks and leav-
ing out others, etc. The newspaper man
can't be in two places at once and he has
no gift of second sight. The BANNEE
wants to print every local happening and
cordially urges every one to give its rep
resentative any local or personal item,
as all such are of interest.
RI. REV. JOHN S. MIcHAUD, coadjutor
bishop of the Catholic diocese of Bur
lington, who is now making his annual
visitation to the churches in the diocese,
has made the following appointments to
the churches in this vicinity: May 9th
at North Bennington, and the Church of
the Sacred Heart, this village; 7th and
9Th, Arlington; 9th, st. Francis de
Sales, Bennington; October 18th, Pow
nal and Readsboro.
WHILE the Horse Fair at North Ben
nington does not take place until June
9th and 7th, the people should under
stand that if they have any horses to sell
or exhibit, they must be on the catalogue
as the entries close about May 10th.
Only horses named in the catalogue will
be allowed on the track, offered for sale,
or put up at auction. This is a chance
to sell your horses, which comes but
once year, and as large number will
be sold at auction, more buyers than
usual will be in attendance.
THE Troy Times, apropos of fish
stories, has yarn in which N. A. Bur-
rift, station agent of the D. &. ID. Com
pany at Rouses Point, N. Y, in con-
nertion with several officials of that road,
figures. They had been fishing and on
the return of the party, and while they
were exploiting on the occasion, a tele-
gram came, in which they were informed:
"the party may have more fish at the
same price that was paid for the Others"
We will "take suthin'" Nelse.
MRS. S. Fl. BROWN will give a recep-
ton this afternoon to eighty of her long
time friends IN honor of her ninetieth
birthday. A Troy caterer will furnish
the refreshments. Mrs. Brown, who is
wealthy and much esteemed lady, is
remarkably well preserved, mentally and
physically, for one so advanced in life,
and does not look her age within ten or
fifteen years. She still assumes the
oversight of her home and enjoys the
company of friends. She was born in
Connecticut in 1904.
ABOUT all of those who took advan-
tage of the opening of the first day of the
trout season, to try their luck, returned
home with nice specimens in their
baskets. William E. Hawks exhibited,
as his success, fourteen speckled beau
ties that weighed nearly eight pounds,
two of them weighing two pounds each,
after being dressed. John H. Norton
and G. G. Kimball brought in twenty, the
largest weighing over two pounds. Judge
Mason, also, had fine catch as well as
others, and all appeared to be satisfied
with the result of the day.
THE sale of the Little Pond tract of
land of the Green Mountain Summer
Home Company, took place on Tuesday,
it being to satisfy judgment and costs
of some $500, in favor of the Illustrated
American Publishing Company. An un-
divided one-ffth part of the property
was the final bid, by John Robinson
(who is also receiVer), and the land was
struck off to him. The company in New
York, who brought this suit, did some
advertising for "Camp Comfort and
this suit was brought to get the payment
promised. AS the advertising was done
in "bang up style, it seems to us that
the better plan was to pay and save costs
in the first instance.
THE Rev. Merritt Hulburd, D. D., for
merly of Bennington, has lately been
transferred from Philadelphia to Will
mington, Delaware. Our readers will
recall that he was called from New York
to Philadelphia, some years since, of
which we made note at the time. He
was great preacher when here, but
he has grown with years, and is now one
of the foremost Methodist ministers in
the country. His advent to his new
charge was quite a triumphal entry.
The people in Wilmington had trimmed
the church with ferns, flowers and plants,
an orchestra was in attendance and
grand reception planned. The Philadel-
phia church chartered train and went
up in body to see the Inauguration of
DR.. Hulburd. Speeches were made by
members OF the churches, of welcome by
the clergy of Wilmington, all of which
was pleasantly responded to by DIR. Hull
burd. In closing he alluded aptly to
the presence of his old congregation,
saying: Sometimes new man brings
certificate of character, but in this in
stance few carloads of friends have
come down from Philadelphia in person
to testify to my character" The occa-
sion was an unbOunded success