Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-12

IT will pay our readers to read Harris
ten days sale in another column. He
never does anything by halves.
THE Bennington and Rutland railroad
will put in about $4,000 new ties along
the line of the road the coming season.
The ties have already been distributed.
G. NJ. LEMON of Gardner, Mass, bust
ness manager for Mr.. j. F. Howard, is in
town arranging for two Shaksperian re-
citals to be given in the near future. The
plays will be "ROmeo and Juliet" and
Hamlet" and are given entirely from
memory. Mr.. Lemon will make a per.
sonal canvas in order to secure a sufi-
Gent number of subscribers to warrant
making dates, The Boston Ideas of
March 9th, contains the following in re-
gard to recital given in DR.. Miners
Church, Boston: SIT was an excellent
piece of impersonation. Mr.. Howard
took the various characters with a nicely
and truth to life which showed unus-
ual versatility" The Boston Daily Globe
of March 18th, 1895, says: "Mr. j. f.
! Towards Interpretation of Romeo and
Juliet was very satisfactory. A difficult
task was well performed without any of
the accessories of the stage, the attention
! of the large audience being closely held
to the end of the recital"
THE warm weather of Monday and
Tuesday, followed by the rain that night
started the snow of the mountains, and
we had the first high water of the spring.
A correspondent who went up the line
describes the spectacle as follows, it be-
ing the situation Wednesday: 1.-THE en-
tire valley between Bennington and Rut-
land is under water, and in many places
the fences are entirely out of sight es-
| pecially between SALISBURY and Walling-
ford. A large quantity of logs that were
to have been fOated down the Battenkill
to Greenwich, N. Y, are floating through
meadows. A track walker on the Ben
ningtOn and Rutland railroad discovered
two washouts about mile north of South
WallingfOrd station about midnight that
night The sleeper from Rutland and
the early train did not leave that city un.
til after Q o'clock in the morning. Both
trains went together, as the breaks were
put in condition for them to pass One
was about eighteen feet in length, the
other about ten. A slight washout near
Proctor delayed the tain from the north
about an hour. The track on the Lebanon
| Springs railroad near Berlin, n. Y, was
he'd Ont runc6au hot frame on,,ld
not pass The sleeper from Troy, was
held at Manchester until about s o'clock"
THE sixty third annual session of the
Troy Methodist Conference begins in
Saratoga, n. Y, April 18th, and con-
tinues for one week. There are the us
ual examinations of candidates. meetings
of committees, ETC., the two previous
days of next week. From long sketch
of coming events in the Troy Press of
Wednesday, we copy few interesting
items. The first thing that we note is
the rapid changes that have occurred in
the personnel of the leading men men.
toned when we compare them with the
leaders of 1879, when the Conference as
sembled in this village. The places of
the fathers" however, are filled ably
by those who have succeeded them. Troy
Conference, standing second to
none in its progressive work, among
other Methodist Conferences, has been
hOnored by the church at large on the
election of two of its members to Gener-
al Conference affairs: Rev. James Emery
Cochran Sawyer, d. D., and Rev. Homer
Eaton, ID. ID. The coming session will
be remarkable for the unusual number
of prominent men who are expected to
be present and take part. A number of
our people will go over to Saratoga dur
ing the week.
THE odd Fellows are laughing over an
incident that is said to have occurred in
Granville, N. Y, and the Sentinel tells
the story as follows: hear good story
told of a Granville Odd Fellow, which
shows that some of that fraternity do not
forget their prayers even under the most
trying conditions This good brother
has been to TicOnderoga with other mem
bers of Mettowee Lodge, the Rutland
Lodge and others, some two weeks ago,
and did not get home until morning
just in time to change his clothes and
get to the quarry, where he is employed,
by the hour work is commenced. By
evening he was unquestionably tired, hav-
ing had no sleep since the previous night.
After tea he was ready to retire, and did
so. Half IN hour later his wife had &C.
casiOn to go to the bedroom, and found
her husband on his knees in prayer, as is
his custom before going to sleep. Two
hours later, when she again visited the
room for the purpose of also retiring,
she was surprised to see him still on his
knees. She spoke to him quietly, asking
if his prayer wasn't unusually long, and
hadn't it better be continued in our
next" as the story writers say. Receiv-
ing no reply, she got into bed and waited
and waited. She then got up and
found her husband fast asleep. MOrphe-
us had overpowered him in his christian
act.
THE indications at present do not point
to a very good maple sugar season in
Vermont. The weather thus far has not
corresponded with the requirements of
the old saying, freezing nights and
thawing days" which are the only con-
ditions conductive to the making of good
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