Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1896-01-10

street, for keeping Intoxicating liquors,
was called in Municipal Court, Monday.
He pleaded guilty, was fined and settled.
MRS. 1. E. GIBSON, district deputy
grand master and staff, will go to Man
chester Depot, Monday, to Install the
newly elected officers of Excelsior
Lodge.
THE Bennington County National
Bank elected the following directors,
Tuesday: S. NJ. Sibley, John S. Holden,
william E. Hawks, 1. e. Gibson, j. T.
Shurtleff, A. X Richie, and G.. W.
Thatcher. The directors will complete
their organization Saturday,
DEPT. COMMANDER CANNON, G. A. r.
of Vermont, has appointed n. NJ. Putter
of Sixth Corps Post of Bennington, one
of the Committee on Report of the AS
sistant AdjuUant General. to be present
ed at the encampment to be held in Rut-
land, Feb. 1lth-12th. This is one of the
most important committees of the en-
campment.
THE Misses Mary and Carrie White
gave card party to their lady friends
Thursday afternoon from 4 to : o'clock.
Eight tables were provided Miss May
Sanford, of the Centre, won the first
prize. The other winners were Mrs. E.
D. Bennett, Mrs. Sanford and Mrs. E
w. Bradford Refreshments were
served.
THE souvenir calendars issued by M.
E. Watson, may be had ready for mailing
; for twenty five cents each at the BANNER
Office. Send 80 cents with all mail or
ders. These calendars, with their tasty
cover, and twelve leaves, each with cal
= endar for one month and handsome
half tone view of Bennington, are pro
nounced the handsomest calendars ever
issued here.
The lecture by Rev. D. n. Beach, at
the Second Congregational church, on
Monday evening, will not fail to carry
, out the high standard set by the first
lecture of the course. A prominent
, Massachusetts clergyman, writing to the
chairman of the lecture committee last
week. said: 81 don't know how you
+ succeeded in getting such big guns as
Beach and Andrews to come to Benning-
, ton, but big guns are in accordance With
theRevolutionary traditions of the place. "
t MANAGER TIFFANY states that the
5 scenery carried by The Tornado" Co.,
5 which appears here Monday evening, is
probably the largest in amount carried
, by any troupe that has appeared in the
Opera House and that an excellent and
+ enjoyable entertainment will be present
ed. Several startling and sensational
q scenic effects are promised, especially
the tornado scene, in which fences, trees,
9 ETC., are carried bodily from the stage
! by the force of a terrific wind, produced
by large revolving FANS and the collision
= of the boats in mid ocean.
: CAPT. FILLMORE, Lieutenants Davis
| and Durham, of the Rifles, Gen. Bates
aud Col COffey, of the Governors staff,
Adiutant Hover and Sergeant Major
: Stratton expect TO attend the officers
= school, which opens in Burlington, Mon
day. Last Monday evening, the Rifles
began drilling in the new tactics. The
= latest revisions of the tactics consist
mainly of changes in the manual of
arms The company expects to be in
= spected, shortlyby Capt. TutherIy. u.
! S. A.
= at Coopers mill, kindly furnishes the
e BANNER with the following report of the
G temperature for the past three nights
, Tuesday night, p. m, s degrees above;
s, 4 above; TO- 2 above; II, midnight, l
r above; 2 a. M, below; /, II below; q,
10 below. Wednesday night: 6 D. m,
2 degrees below; s, 2 below; 10, above;
, II midnight, above; "a. m, above;
4, 4 above; &, 5 above. Thursday night:
6 D. M, IS above; s, 10 above; 10, 10
above; - midnight, is above; 2 a. M,
II above; 4, 16 above; g. 16 above
GEO. B. WELLINGTON, one of Troy's
prominent lawyers, and who Is well
, known here, seems to voice the senti-
ment of the people in his city when he
says, in reference to the McGough con-
fession by which Bat Shea hopes to es-
cape the electric chair:-"Its no better
than any other bunco game. The vice
lies in time The extension of time
amounts to nothing; no one cares about
that, but by it counsel for Shea are given
opportunity to apply for new trial on
the ground of newly discovered evidence,
whereas the evidence in the Shea case
was just as positive as any evidence
which could be given to a court. The
question at stake was of altogether too
much Importance to be triled with, as
it was a question of whether or not the
law could be enforced"