Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-10-25


sold here for Tuesdays excursion.
THE Starks are after the long offered
prize for the. best decorations to Library
Hall and expect to get it Nov. 10Th and
10th.
THE Imperial Laundry has a new adj
vertisement in another column. A new
scale of prices for work ON certain goods
is published.
w. G. BULL has completed plans for a
handsome residence to be erected on
Grand View Terrace, by e. l.. Hudson.
Mr.. Hudson expects to begin operations
this fall.
A. P. CHILDs, general agent of
the New York Life Insurance Company,
contributes an interesting and final re-
view of life insurance statistics and poll
cy results, in this issue of the BANNER
The offer of the BANNER three months
for only 15c remains open but short
time longer. Send in your name, if not
regular subscriber, or the name of a
OeighbOr or absent friend.
THE ladies of Miriam Lodge, D. of R.,
have issued invitations for Halloween
dlnce, next Thursday evening. AS this
is to be a masquerade ball, none but
those in costume will be allowed to
dance.
THIEVES entered the bee yard of Isaac
T. Pr tt, few nights ago and carried
away u heavy hive of bees and honey.
pared to extend a warmer reception
should he receive the favor of second
visit.
The late, well known railroad con-
ductor on the Rutland and Burlington
Division, Oscar Phipps Of Burlington,
who committed suicide while suffering
from distressing illness, was insured in
The New York Life through the agency
of A. p. Chids and the policy claim will
be duly paid by the Company.
THE BANNER Store has just received
several cases of writing papers. These
papers are all from Hurd's s, and there are
40 better papers made. Hurds goods
are the favOrites in the fashionable
world. Several new shapes, sizes and
styles of finish are shown.
THE merchant who buys goods to sell
rather than for the decoration of his
store, advertises in the BANNER. The
BANNER, and consequently his message,
reaches nearly every Bennington family,
ald consequently the people know where
to buy. A brightly worded ad. is an eff.
fective remedy for dull business where
all other remedies fail.
FOoT BALL has now obtained strong
foOthold in the Graded Schools. Early
this week, team was formed In the
High School with Joe Ayres captain and
VIM. Daley manager, and little later a
second team and team from rooms ten
and eleven. From these three teams one
team will probably be selected to repre-
sent the school and some match games
arranged.
A "GREAT sDiViner of Secrets I'M
known and unheralded, has arrived in
town and asks for the dollars OF Our peO-
pie in exchange for her services as a
clairvoyant. The safest way is to hang
on to your dollars and await further de-
velopments. The mind readers and
clairVoyants who have thus far favored
the town with their presence, have been
puny lot, though, possibly, this one is
an exception.
OWING to the crowded condition of
some of the rooms in the primary grade
at the Graded Schools, the Superintend-
ent's Office was moved this week from
the second floor to the third floor, in the
old physical laboratory room, to the west
of the stage in the large hall. The room
made vacant by this change is now Room
6, occupied by Miss Ross and her pupils
fire m the first floor. Her old room is
now Room A, Miss Carrie Wood, of the
class of '94 of the High School, being
the new teacher in charge.
IT may be something of an honor to
trap bear or two in a season, but the
man who neglects his farm, even to the
planting of garden plat, to roam the
mountains, ought to get caught in one of
his own traps and die there. He never
would be Observation-Disclosures If we
mistake not, there is a Bible quotation
which is frequently used that says, in
effect, that ito him who smiteth you on
the right cheek turn toward him the
left" How well our friend jim obeys
these instructions, is shown by the
above, perfect gem'as au illustration of
what spite will do. Why Jim should de-
sire to revive in the minds of his fellow
men as the above does, those proceed.
ings that, few years ago, came within
an ace of bringing him to trial or charges
of serious misconduct, is one of those
Unexplainable mysteries.
WHILE splitting kindling wood this
morning, Chas. c. Thompson had the
misfortune to completely sever the
thumb of the left hand near the first
joint, and to nearly sever the end of the
fore finger. He hopes to save the finger.
That Mr.. Thompson should have spent
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