Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-16

MISS CARRIE A, WOOD is VlSlClnR III
Troy and Green Island.
CHAs. COOPER is identifying the
grounds of his residence by setting out
number of handsome young sugar ma
pies.
AT the service held in st. Peters
church Saturday afternoon, the rector
administered the rite of baptism to four
children.
On complaint, VIM. Lundergan was ar
rested Saturday afternoon, charged with
selling liquor contrary to law, The case
was continued.
PHILIP T. HrgBELL is not as well this
spring as his friends could wish and we
are in hopes to see him about his accus-
toned duties soon.
SOLOMON WRIGHT of Pownal whose
wife died in Egypt afew weeks ago,is ex-
pected home this week. The remains of
Mrs. Wright will not arrive until next
month.
THE Young Women's Club will meet
with Miss Eta Streeter at the Court
House, Wednesday evening tomorrow,
for their regular business meeting, fol-
lowed by a practical talk.
THEIrain of Saturday and Sunday is
the first long ore here in some weeks.
The snow is about gone on the noun
tain and the streams are unusually high.
The rain will DO much toward settling
the roads and walks.
THERE are a number of humorous in
cidents connected with our late vigorous
collection of taxes. This week $40 Con-
federate bill is said to have been present
ed in good faith" but the currency did
not pass.
AT the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church, Troy, N. Y, James Habberley
of this village, one of the quartette, sang
a solo Easter from the messiah" "Rut
Thou didst not leave his Soul in He'll"
and the Troy papers speak very highly of
it.
Mr.. AND Mrs. II. S. BINGHAM. Col.
and Mrs. l.. F. Abbott, Mr.. and Mrs. S.
Huling Blackmer, Mr.. and Mrs. H. l.
Norton, and others, will attend the Nc
Leod-T Thompson wedding in Troy to-day.
THE campfire of 9th Corps Post, to
have been held Saturday night, was post
poned until tomorrow evening, on ac-
count of the weather Past Commander
Puffer will relate "reminiscences of the
assassination of President Lincoln.
S. B. HAWKS starts for Louisiana to-
day, to be absent for a month or more,
to superintend some extensions to the
water and electric light plant in that
State, of which he is the secretary and
treasurer of the company.
RUSSELL AND MARCH, who took the
contract to move the building on Main
street known as the Pratt homestead,
as well as to turn it around so as to front
on Union street, sublet the job to parties
from Hoosick Falls, N. Y. The wo'k is
being pushed forward as rapidly as pos
sible and the occupants have not had to
move out.
THE Troy Times of Saturday had this
item: observer Sims of Albany pre-
diets clear sky tomorrow and says that
the temperature will be high enough to
allow the display of fineries of the most
delicate texture. The weather report
from Washington for Eastern New York
predicts that there will be fair weather
tomorrow" Observer Sims was way
off on this prediction.
IT is the custom in Barre after liquor
has been condemned by the authorities,
to spill it in Stevens branch. On Friday
the officers spilled the liquor secured in
the raid at George COlOmbo's. AS the
bottles fell into the water three of them
did not break, and three young men were
seen to enter the water and secure the
liquor which they claimed had an excel
lent taste.
THE charming comic opera the mil
ler's Daughter" to be produced at the
Opera House, Tuesday evening, April
23d, will be the musical event of the sea-
son. 1t is full of sparkling music, bright
comedy and pretty dances, and Prof. Will
ley is working hard to make the ladies
and gentlemen connected with the Opera
proficient in their work. Following is
what the Burlington Free Press says
of the opera: "A large and fashionable
audience greeted The Miller's Daughter
at the Opera House last evening, pro-
duced under the auspices of a local So
ciety. 1t was a success. From the rise
of the curtain upon the first act till its
fall there was not dull moment in the
whole performance. The music was i'm
mensely pleasant, and the way it was
rendered by the several performers made
it doubly appreciable."
The trout fishing season in Vermont
opens May 1st, and there is already being
much debate upon the probability of
favorable opening of the season. The
main question seems to be whether or
not the streams will be free from snow
water and ice. Though there is compar-
atively little snow in the immediate vi
cinity of Bennington, it is we'll known
fact that on the Mountains where the