Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-03-26

IT is seldom one sees such an assort.
ment of clothing in country store, as
Cole, the Opera House clothier, has now
obtained for his spring trade.
THE Bennington Sons of Rest have or
ganized anew for the season and hold
daily outdoor meetings on sunny street
corners.
THE Green Mountain flyer between
New York and Montreal, via the Fitch
burg and Bennington and Rutland roads,
will be resumed about June 1st.
THE entertainment by the Juvenile
Templars, April Sd, is to procure funds
with which to purchase regalia. 1t is
under the direction of Mrs. L. S. Frost.
VIM. H. BRADFORD has sold his pacing
gelding FOggy, to parties near Albany.
Foggy held the championship of the State
his record 2:134 being made at Provi.
dence, r. l., two years ago.
THE Bennington and Rutland railroad
have recently erected tasty looking sta
tions at North Dorset, Clarendon and
have one building at Cold River. The
flyer over this road will be resumed again
about the first of June.
THE taxpayers of Bennington, who
have any claims of abatement of taxes
are reminded again that the Board of
Civil Authority meet tomorrow at the
town offices. Those who claim to be il
legally assessed will, also, be heard.
JUDGE CARNEY will be in Readsboro
April 4th and hold court to accommodate
the people of that section who have Pro-
bate business to transact. He will re-
turn the 9TH. Those here will make a
note of this as the Office will he closed
during his absence lover the mountain"
AN Ensor Club was formed last Thurs
day at LanSingburgh, n. Y, as an
nounced. Officers were elected. In the
Troy Press report, of one-third column,
we find this: The rules of the Benning-
ton club will be adopted. About fifteen
members of the Bennington organization
were present and suggestions were Of
fered by n. NJ. Puffer and D. E. Moore
of that place. A piano selection by Mr..
Hadley closed the meeting.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the POstoffice at Bennington, for the
week ending March 25th, 1895: Mrs.
Agnes Dixon, Mrs. Ellen Elwell, Mrs.
Micheal Kelly, Fred Moore, Norman Ma
con, Will Potter, Joseph Wilson, F. A.
Widen. These letters will be sent to
the Dead Letter Office April LIST, if not
delivered before. In calling for above,
please say advertised" giving date of
list.
E. D. MOORE, secretary of the Vermont
State Fireman's Association, has received
a letter from parties in Burlington saying
that G. w. Wales of that city, agent for
a hose comp any, would present to the as
ISOLATION tireman's trumpet to be con-
tested for under the rules OF the associa-
ton. Mr., Wales presented the gold
badge that has been won three success
sive years, and is now the property of
the c. G. Knight Hose Company of Fair
haven.
THE employees in the carding room of
the BlaCkintOn wooden mills struck on
Thursday, and Friday at noon all hands
went out. Saturday morning all hands
with the exception of the carding room
returned to work. Some time ago they
were reduced ten per cent, with the I'M
Outstanding that as soon as there was
plenty OF work the ten per cent would be
returned to them. During the week the
company became in hurry for certain
goods, and they rushed their work, which
made it appear that they had plenty of
work on hand. Messrs. Archer, Schou.
Ter and Kearn addressed the strikers and
made known the true situation, and all
returned with the exception of the card
ers. They are obstinate, and say they
will not return.
KEELY's Motor is once more before the
public for serious consideration. His
theory is based on sympathetic vibra-
tions" of air, producing tremendous
sound waves which cause explosions, the
setting in motion of mighty forces, and
moving of things generally, promising to
do away with the expense of steam or
water power. For instance, he claims
that by sounding the keynote of gold
quartz he reduces that substance to an
impalpable powder. This theory has
lately been soberly discussed in such
high. class periodicals as the "New
Science Review and the Nineteenth
Century" Doubtless it must have been
through this force that the walls of Jeri
cho were tumbled down by the blowing
of rams horns.
IN the year 1Sj-, when wages were low
and hard work was the rule. a certain
Vermont farmer, not far from Benning-
ton, attempted to increase the small in
come of his farm by a winters LOB" of
numbering. He had for an assistant a
tall, lank youth of Is. In the late fall
the trees were cut and the logs "skid-
ded'-that is, drawn together in a pile
on the brink of a SteeD bank where thew