Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-01-22

l. ". ". T., dT6 W eA6Iupuly Il0 DoduII-
fed work." the first Monday evening of
each month.
ATTENTION is called to the testimonial
of Michael Martin, who has been cured
of the morphine habit. Taking remedy
only twenty-five (22), hours. Mr. Martin
is walking the streets again, the fifth day,
saved man. Mr.. Gordon, General
Agent of Boston Narcotic Cure Company,
will be at the Putnam House the bal
ance of the week.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the Postoffice at Bennington, for the
week ending Jan. Dist, 1895: Anna l..
Brown, Miss Joseph Baulim, w. H. Beat
tie, Carlo Canciane, Will House, Henry
Haley, E. L. Harvey, John Murray, Mr..
f. Lampson These letters will be sent
to the Dead Letter Office, Feb. 4th if not
delivered before. In calling for above,
please say advertised" giving date of
list.
AT a special meeting of Mt. Anthony
Lodge, held last evening, the matter of
taking the third story in the proposed
Richie building was considered. 1t is
the voice Of the membership that the
Masonic Bodies move if satisfactory ar
rangements can be made. On Mr.. Ritch-
les part he is willing to build the third
floor for a Masonic Hall, according to
the Fraternity's own plans. The COM
mittee are: DR.. John 7. Shurtleff, H. S.
Bingham, Judge Darling, VIM. E. Muir
ply and j. L. Finn.
THE season is about at hand, says Brer.
Harris of the Hardwick Gazette, when
the city markets will dust up and place
in their windows their tlyblown signs of
new Vermont maple honey" composed
of a basis of raw molasses and the addi-
ton of glucose, rubber boots, cottonseed
oil, logwood, cOchineal, epson salts, acid
phosphate, second hand inner sOes, tar
tar emetic and picra. Our city cousins
will spread this dose on their pancakes,
and sigh for the old farm and the sugar
house of their childhood.
The idea seems to prevail generally
among farmers and business men, says
the Hartland correspondent of the Yer
mont Journal, that the coming spring
will bring with it better times both to
him who sows and reaps and him who
buys and sells. The last Congressional
elections have given assurance to the
country that no further steps will he
taken in the direction of British free
trade. This of itself is sufficient to in
sure the return of better times. Every
body seems to feel that this is the case,
and this very feeling will prove a strong
factor in bringing about the desired re-
suit. A slight verbal change, In famil-
lar verse, seems appropriate:
'Ye fearful souls, fresh coura &c take
The clouds ye SO much dread,
Though dark and dismal now, shall break
In sunshine rOuI YOUR head"
The Cleveland Administration seems to
have met the same luck on the currency
bill as when it sailed out to restore Queen
Lii and reform" the tariff. Grover
should stick to fishing and duck shoot
ing, and let wiser heads run the govern
ment.
ASIDE from the multifarious home du-
ties of his office, Bishop Hall of the
EpiscOpalian diocese of Vermont finds
time to fill many outside engagements.
His engagements for the next few months
include the following: Jan. Odd, st. Al
bans diocesan missionary meeting; 9th,
Hartford, Conn, council of the guild of
st. Barnabas for nurses; 30th, Middle
town, Conn, Berkeley divinity school;
Feb. LIST, Boston, Massachusetts Woman's
auxiliary; Sd, Boston, lecture at st.
Paul's church; 4th, New York, address
to clergy; 18th, New York, Woman's aux
Hilary; 14Lh26th, retreats in the diocese
of Pittsburg and at Cambridge, Mass;
9th, st. Adams, course of sermons on
the Wednesday evenings in Lent; March
LIST, Burlington, a course of sermons on
the Tuesday evenings in Lent; 3d. Yer
gennes; 10th, ,Shelburne; 18th, Brandon
and FOrestdale; 24Lh, West Rutland and
Rutland; 3lst. Swanton; April It'll, 18th,
st. Johnsbury; 18th, Cambridge and Jer-
icho; DIST, Chester and Proctorsville,
Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, Springfield;
May 18th, Richford, East Berkshire and
Montgomery, Enosburg Highgate and
Sheldon, Milton and Georgia; Goth,
Poultney, Middletown Springs and Wells,
Fairhaven, Hydeville, Csstleton; June
10th, Winooski.
THE BANNER begins its fifty. vol
ume with to days issue. In its earlier
years, following the custom of the Old
Vermont Gazette the circulation, locally
speaking, was of wider extent than of
later years. The writer distinctly recalls
that both these publications were well
come visitors to the ancestral home in
Granville, n. Y, and that in the '4O's
and sos the territory intervening was
common ground of rivalry to publica-
tons in either town-Bennington and
Granville. One of the pioneers has just
died, and the item reads as follows
"Marcellus Strong, believed to be the
oldest editor and printer in Wisconsin
| diad Friday after short illnacc ua