Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-10-22

THE funeral of John Birmingham was
attended from his residence Saturday af-
ternoOu. The interment was in the
Catholic cemetery at the Centre.
THE foot ball game Saturday after
noon, between the Bennington eleven
and the team from Drury Academy,
North Adams, Mass, resulted in tie,
neither side scoring.
THE border of the walk on the east
side of Mill street from the Main street
to the bridge has been terraced on both
sides and sodded. From the bridge to
the wooden MILL on the west side, the
outside of the walk has been treated the
same way, making great provement
in the looks.
WHILE riding in buggy with NJ. E.
Burgess, Friday afternoon, f. H. Russell
was seriously bitten through the nose by
the pug dog belonging to Mr.. Burgess.
Mr.. Russell says that he was patting the
dog on the head when the animal sud
denly sprang for him and inflicted the
bite, which DR.. Putn1m says is quite Sc
rious.
u. S. MARSHAL HARRIS went to
Windsor Wednesday, and with John
Burwell, one of the guards at the State
prison, took from there William Dris-
coll, alias "Ottawa Irish" and William
Eldridge, alias Brooklyn SLIM" and es
corted them to Albany, where they will
serve the balance of their sentences in
the penitentiary. They were sentenced
to ten and twelve years Imprisonment
for robbing the pOstotfices in Windsor,
Glover and Morrisville. The change
was made because of a United States
law that prohibits the employment of
government prisoners on contract labor.
THE fair of the Putnam Hose Com
pany closed Saturday night after sue
Cessful entertainment of three evenings.
There was larger attendance than
on the preceding evenings, and
business was brisk. Miss
Jennie Riley was decided to be the most
popular young woman working in any of
the mills and was awarded the gold
watch, Miss Nellie Tracy was given
diamond ring, Chas. Mcclure a suit of
clothes, James Nolan a six months sub
scription to the Troy Daily Press, John
Carrgan ton of coal, Mrs. Mary Nc
Kale a plush covered rocker. There
were other distributions. The net
amount realized will be about $500, the
total receipts beins S643.
The village light committee has con-
tracted with the Electric Light Company
t. furnish A., 1900 candle power arc
lights for street lighting. The contract
price is $500. The locations of the
new lights have not yet been determined
upon, but one will be given to each
ward, leaving three lights to be placed
where they will be the most needed
This new arrangement is wholly expert
mental. With the ten additional lights
there will be considerably less candle
power than at present. Now, from the
80 arc lights of 1000 candle power each,
there is total of 100000 candle power.
Under the new system of As lights of
1900 candle power will be total of but
$4,000 candle power, difference of no
small proportions. With this decrease
in the total candle power comes an in
crease of ten in the number of lights.
Whether this scheme will be satisfactory
or not time will tell, though we hope it
will work successfully.
THE 9th Corps Post, G. A. r., gave a
very enjoyable camp fire in the post
rooms Saturday evening. Owing to the
religious services in the second Congrega.
tional church, it was later than usual
when the exercises began. Commander
G.. D. Gibson presided The room was
prettily decorated with flags and mill
tary trappIngs. A glee club composed
of E. G. Bennett, Carroll Partridge, James
Wood and LOring Bingham, sang patri-
otto songs accompanied by George Morse
on the piano. The Y. M. G. A. orches
ira was also present and furnished mu.
sic. There were five minute addresses by
DR.. Lyman Rogers and Z. D. Bennett
and several comrades, and an address by
Col. COffey. Mrs. n NJ. Puffer read an
interesting report of her recent visit to
Louisville, Chattanooga, Atlanta and
other places, which was the feature of
the occasion. The Women's Relief
Corps furnished abundant rations. The
rooms of Company X, were placed at the
disposal of the comrades of the post.
THE cellar for the new residence of
Charles Kehoe on Grand View street is
dug Probably no part of the village
has seen larger increase in the number
of residences than has that part now
known as Grand View, which only few
years ago was cattle pasture. Within
ten or twelve years there have been
erected in that section, the handsome
residences of II. S. Bingham. A. p.
Childs, c. n. Powers, E. L. Bates, all of
which cost over $4,000 each. Following
the first two was the double house of DR..
Cutler and the one now owned nv II