Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-05-31

A DAUGHTER was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Kemp at noon to-day.
w. E. FROST was called home toPort-
land, Me, Wednesday, to attend his
mother funeral.
THE Rev. DR.. w. S. Smart,of Brandon,
chaplain of the 14th vt. Reg't., was the
Memorial Day orator in Vergennes.
FRANK j. BATTLES and Fritz Uhlrich
left this morning for bicycle trip to
Lake Bomoseen, near Castleton. They
will remain a day or so for fishing.
THE Rev. Mr.. Blanchard, pastor of the
Methodist church in SALISBURY, deliv-
cred the address in the North Benning
ton cemetery. 1t was highly spoken of
by all who heard it.
KATIE, only daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Gone, died on Tuesday, of con.
sumption, after an illness of some
months. The funeral took place this
morning from st. Francis de Sales church
Rev. A. j. Barron officiating.
FLOYD f., the five year old son of Fred
c. Burch, who has been in st. Luke's
Hospital, New York, died there Monday
morning The immediate cause was
brain fever. The remains arrived here
Wednesday morning. The funeral took
place at three in the afternoon, Rev. Geo.
L. Richardson officiating. The burial
took place in the village cemetery by the
side of his mother, who was buried last
Christmas day.
| THE quarantine will be removed from
the house of Abram Moon this week.
| The cause of the quarantine was the i'll
ness, with scarlet fever, of Mr. Moons
six year old granddaughter. The child
has now completely recovered. There
were three other children in the house
with this child at the time it was taken
sick, but the prompt action of Health
Officer Stillson in isolating the sick child
saved further sickness.
We Judge that our carriers are now
doing their work quite thoroughly, as we
hear of but few cases where our village
subscribers fail to receive each issue of
the paper. Now and then a subscriber
will probably be overlooked, until the
boys become thoroughly familiar with
their routes. We hope that every sub
sCriber Of the BANNER, failing to receive
the paper promptly, will so inform us,
that any cause for oversight may be re-
moved.
OFFICER JOHN NASH received tele-
gram Tuesday from the Chief of Police
in Rutland, stating that three men want
ed there for an assault were headed this
way, and asking him to arrest and hold
them if he saw them. Three men ans
wering the description given were seen
here but they disappeared before they
could be arrested. Wednesday morning
three men, apparently tramps, appeared
at the residence of Joseph Mcnamara, in
Centre Bennington and asked for some
thing to eat. Mrs. Mcnamara started to
get them something, and while engaged
in that work, one of the men found
pOCketboOI containing IS and took the
contents. The loss was discovered soon
after they left, and word sent to Deputy
Nash. He followed two towards Wood
ford and arrested them and locked them
up in Jail. They acknowledged that they
took breakfast at Mrs. McNamaras S, but
said they had nothing to do with steal
ing the money, that as soon as the other
one got out he started for the woods,
leaving them to go their own way. No.
thing was found on them, and the third
party has not been found.
A FORCE of men was at wolk near the
summer residence of Seymour Van SAINT
voOrd, about two miles east of Benning-
ton village, Monday on the construction
of the Bennington and Woodford Elec-
trio railroad. The rails will be laid first
from that point toward Bennington. The
old roadbed of the Bennington and Glas-
tenbury road is used for the electric line,
but as that roadbed has been abandoned
for number of years, except a small
portion in Bennington village there are
rumors that several persons owning land
along the line will oppose building the
road, on the ground that the charter of
the Bennington and Glastonbury road is
void and that the land reverts to the orig
inal owners. The Bennington and Rut-
land railway company bought the Ben
nington and Glastonbury road a number
of years ago and has since the time of
purchase operated a small portion, and
it is alleged by the former company that
the charter has been kept alive. Troy
Times.
THE First Baptist church of this vii
lage met Monday evening by special call,
to act upon the resignation of its Pastor,
Rev. A. Macgeorge, to take effect June
9th. The coming of Mr.. Macgeorge to
Bennington marked an era in the spirit.
ual uplift of not only this church, but
extending throughlthe entire community,
as the multitude flocked to hear the
wonderful presentation of the Gospel in
its pure simplicity. When it was made
known to the church that there was
much larger work to which he felt called