davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
BANKS TREASURES IN HOTEL
When Moneyed Men Of Maine Feared
for Their Gold.

For two years, from 1912 to 1874,
the treasure of all the banks OF the
Forest City lay in the parlor OF the
Marrett house in Standish village, and
as evidence OF the fact to-day upon the
parlor door can be seen the huge lock
which was placed there nearly a cen
fury ago to add safeguard to the
treasure.
During the war OF 1912 the bankers
OF Portland thought their treasure was
in danger of being looted by the Brit
ish forces, and in casting about for a
safe place their choice fell upon the
town of Standish and the Marrett
house as a depository for the treasure.
Loaded upon six-ox cart and guarded
closely, the money, thousands OF dol
lars of it, was transported l6 miles
and deposited in the place of safety,
where it remained for two years with
a guard of but one man to watch II.
The door OF the parlor in which the
money was placed was REINFORCED by
a heavy lock having brass handle
and extra supports were placed under
the floor OF the room to sustain the
enormous weight of wealth. The house
is still owned by descendants OF Rev
Mr.. Merrett and Is one of the Oldest
of the town.ALewiston Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
REroRT WITH A STING IN IT
clergyman's Story Of Repartes Be.
tween Grande Danes.

Rev. C. w. Gordon OF Winnipeg
startled his brother clergymen at a
recent convention by advocating the
saving Of souls right of the bat He
said that souls worked upon slowly
were apt TO go bad on ones hands"
Afterward Mr.. Gordon compared the
honest and sincere ways of the from
tier with the false and venomous ways
Of certain circles OF society. He II.
Illuminated the comparison with dia.
logue.
Il overheard this dialogue" he said.
at a reception that | once attended
In Washington. The speakers were
two grande dames-I believe that is
the word-two powerful social lead
ers, one from Philadelphia, the other
from New York.
well, said the first graude dame,
I must be of. I've got to go and see
my mother
"The second put up her lorgnette
aud drawled:
'Really-ah-you don't mean to
say you've got a mother llyingY
THE first grande dame laughed--a
high, thin laugh, with something biting,
like acid, in IT,
"'oh, yes, she said my mother is
still alive-and she doesn't look day
older than you do, assure you"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
erea, Men Who Danced.

A paper devoted to the doings of so
ciety seeks to bring the non-dancing
man to confusion by citing the exam
pies of the great dancers of the past
In classical as well as Biblical times,
II seems. dancing was not considered
beneath the dignity of the greatest
men. David danced before the ark
and Socrates and Plato somewhat de-
spised those who could not dance with
ease and grace. The famous Sully,
minister to Henry Nv. was a noted
dancer and so was the notorious Car
dinal Rlchelieu, Why, then, should
the modern young man consider 1t be-
meath his dignity to trip the light fan
tastic toeY
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

Mrs. Mary Gavin and children are
visiting In Cheshire.
Mrs. Adele Smith has gone to Gard.
ner Mass, for weeks visit.
II. j. Cole went Sunday morning to
New York on business trip
Miss Annie Quinn has returned
from visit In Meehanicville.
The village trustees will hold their
regular monthly meeting this evening.
Miss Bessie Fitzgerald of Troy is
1 the guest Of her uncle, Rev, A. ].
Barron.
Engineer William Murray of the
Rutland railroad and daughter spent
Sunday at Stephentown.
Marshall Bently OF Depot street is
doing the Mason work on the Holden
Mausoleum foundation.
The Rutland railroad excursion to
Lake George Sunday was patronlzed
by IT'S from Bennington,
Rev George A Cone and brother,
Joseph Cone, are spending the week
in Burlington and vicinity
Postmaster and Mrs. C. NJ. Graves
and children returned Saturday from
an outing at Annisquam, Mass.
Thomas Ryan and Mary Ryan at
tended the funeral of William Nor
CROSS Sunday afternoon at North Ad-
ans.
Misses Bessie and Marion Sibley
and Miss Lena Smith left this morn
ing for an outing at Old Orchard
Beach
James Inglis of Troy who is to
build the Holden Mausoleum was in
town Saturday. Marshall Bently of
town Saturday.
A gypsey outfit consisting of two
covered wagons with horses strung
all over them passed through the vii
lage this forenoon on its way over
the mountain TO Brattleboro.
The new cement walk on South
street in front of the residences Of +.
l.. Bottum, C. H. Mason and Charles
Adams has been completed and is one
of the best pieces of sidewalk in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Riyerd and Mr. and
Mrs. T Tremblay and Mr.. and Mrs.
l.. p. Berard OF Montreal were regis
tered at the Putnam yesterday, hav-
ing come from Canada by automobile.
The funeral of William Norcross
was largely attended from St Francis
church Sunday afternoon at North
Adams at 2 o'clock Mr.. Norcross
was father of Frank Norcross of this
town.
Mr. and Mrs. Adelbert w. Bralsted
and son, William, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph A. Jubb left Sunday morning
for Camp Twilight on Lake Cham
lplain. aRSff
! Mr.. and Mrs. h. H. Holden left
Sunday morning over the Bennington
and North Adams trolley road for a
two weeks outing to be passed in
Boston and vicinity and at Fall River
They intend to make as much of the
journey as possible by trolley.
Mr.. Estabrook expects to complete
the foundation for the Holden Mauso
leum the last of this week. II is 81
feet and inches long and 90 feet
3 inches wide. The excavation was
made feet deep The soil at that
depth was dry gravely loan. This
structure will stand on the highest
point of land in the cemetery and q
splendid view of the grounds and
the surrounding country can be OBJ
tanned from this point
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
The Three Weeks, Grin.

How long do you expect to be
gomez" asked the manager of the fam
fly hotel to the man who was going
away for a vacation.
"A little more than two weeks" the
guest replied.
I'VE have planned to stay three
weeks, JIM" whispered the mans
wife. why didn't you tell him so?'
Just because It is three weeks"
said the man. Il didn't want all those
folk hanging around the desk grin
ming at me like Cheshire cats. That
is what happens the minute anybody
says anything ringing in the title of
that COMPOUNDED book"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
HUNTERS REST
New Camp Opened On the oiasten'
bury Stream.

Hunters Rest" is the name OF a
camp nearly completed on the Glas-
tenbury stream and owned by Grant
Harbour. c. A. Wood, s. +. Wood,
and 7. J Mallory II is pleasantly To-
Gated at the head OF auto navigation
on the Roaring branch and Is built
on the site of an old homestead and
which probably went to ruin half a
century ago as the land Is grown up
to trees and brush, though there are
still lilac bushes, roses, currant
bushes and some garden herbs grow
ing around the place, showing how
hardy these plants are withstanding
the encroachments of the wilderness.
Scattered along up this valley OF
the Glastonbury stream north OF
where the Bickford Hollow brook
Joins the main stream, just beyond
Camp Comfort are not less than a
score of old cellar holes showing
where homes once existed but now
entirely gone. Here is valley over
four miles long and once cultivated
its entire length, now without a single
habitable house beyond the old
schoolhouse at the foot OF Hell
Hollow" save this new camp just
built.
Not only are the houses and people
gone but the forest has reclaimed the
land. Not an acre of II is now till
able and only two or three insignifi-
cant clearings break the forest. II
10 said that there are some still liv'
ing who were born up in this valley
and there are many who remember
when several of the houses were
standing and a well travelled road led
up into Glastonbury to where the
railroad to bring out the lumber was
afterward built.
1t is an ideal place for a camp.
The main stream and It's branches
furnish unlimited trout during the
open season. II Is the natural haunt
OF deer, bear and small game, and
still is within easy access Of the town.
The camp owners Sunday entertained
q party of friends at dinner and made
a reputation that Is likely to bring
them more company In the future.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.


Carl Natter was at Sucker pond
Sunday.
Mrs. f. T. Brennan and Miss s.. o..
Conner have gone to Schenectady for
weeks outing
Mr. and Mrs. William Warren Of
Troy are visiting Mr.. Warrens par
ents on School street
Rev. A. S. Armstrong and Mrs.
Armstrong were the guests over Sun.
day of Mrs. II. G. Roster.
Mrs. Charles Cooper and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Geo. s. Stoddard, were at
Stockbridge over Sunday.
Miss Marguerite Connally OF Gage
street left this morning to spend the
month of August at the seashore.
]. w. Hulburd, president of the
Bennington Wax Paper company went
this noon to Albany on business
trip.
Mrs. Mary Adams, assistant in the
Office OF County Clerk Stakeholder
was at her home in Arlington over
Sunday.
F. j. Kennedy, with A. X Richie
& Co., returned Sunday from his va
cation which he passed in the vicinity
of Boston.
W. H. Nichols went Saturday night
to New York, whence he will go tC
Boston to attend the Knights OF
Pythias convention
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Warren
of School street are receiving con
CALCULATIONS over the birth of nine
and one half pound son.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
NORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs Frank Harris called on friends
In town recently
Mrs. Lane of Dandy spent few
days visiting at Mrs George b Griffith
Albert Bush of Coscof, n. Y, is
visiting his parents Thomas Niles
and wife
Stewart Mayhem who has been Wis
iting in Rutland and Brandon re-
turned Saturday.
Several from here took the oppor-
tunity to take in the excursion to Lake
George yesterday.
Mrs. JANET Knapp has been visiting
friends in town the guest of her
daughter, Mrs Effie Papers,
Miss Florence Northouse of Ben
nington spent Sunday in town the
guest of her sister Miss Louise
Northouse.
Howard Monroe left this morning
for Lake George where he is to spend
a month in a training school for Y.
M. c. A instructing.
Don't forget the lawn party We'd
nesday evening on Ed Covin's lawn
for the benefit of the Stars baseball
team. The North Bennington Cornet
band will furnish music.
The Olympics Jr.. defeated the
Eagles of Bennington at River Side
Park yesterday afternoon by score
of 16 to l. Battery for the Olympics
Jr., Powers and White. This is a
new team recently organized with
Wendell Corey manager, Fred Babson
captain
The Stars met their defeat yester-
day afternoon at River Side park,
when the Valley Falls team captured
the game by score of 2 to l. Fassett
pitched for the Stars doing excellent
work. Some of the features of the
game was the double play by Rus
sell to Harlan, and the fielding by
Powers
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
TOUCHED THE FATHERS HEART.
Old Man Willing to Be Liberal "
Johnny Came Back Alive


The ambulance had changed its way
Into the sQualid East.side street, had
paused for few minutes before the
ay-blown tenement, bringing all the
frowsy women and broods OF neglect
ed children to windows to stare. and
now II had noisily dashed away, car
rying little Johnnie away with it. says
the New York Times. Upstairs-oh.
way upstairs and back in the smelly
twilight of the place they called their
home-Johnnie' family sat, hereaved
and shaken, for the horror Of the hos
pital, which haunts the foreign poor
upon them. 1t was as II that man in
his white coat and trousers who had
lifted the suffering child in his arms
and tenderly borne him away had
been the very Angel of Death and his
destination the grave itself.
The shock of the separation and OF
the long good-by that seemed immi
nent fell hardest on the heart-broken
ldtNcI. IuuuiCu III ms paehSSS SiN
chair, he buried his tear-wet face In
bis hands, rocking to AID fro in fear
and remorse, for It seemed to him
he had not been as kind to his boy
as he might.
"Ach, mein Gott mein Gott!" he
cried, pinched by some sudden mem
ory. "Only give mein leettle Johann
back and he shall haf everything IA
essen und gear-everyting. vii
spare no expense. II he come out OF
den hospitalen alive"-he choked
down sob.-'T buy him flannels
goot, tick. winter hannels, no matter
vat dey cos. 40, not even II dey cost
Won dollar!"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Last Word. Of John Quincy Adams.

The dramatic death of John Quincy
Adams on the floor Of the house OF
congress gave the writer's of his day
an opportunity for putting fine words
in his mouth and rearing another his.
toric hero. At that time DR.. w. A,
Newell was member Of congress
from New Jersey. and subsequently
became governor OF his state. He was
the first to reach the stricken man as
he sank to the floor.
DR.. Newell later In life insisted that
Adams last words, spoken to him,
were:
This is the end; quick, little
brandy"
Which doesn't accord with popular
histories Of the event by long shot.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
UNABLE TO SEE THE FUTURE
short.slehted English Statesman De-
nounced Penny Postage.

"Of all the wild and visionary
schemes OF which l have ever heard
or read 1t is the most extraordinary.
That was the official comment made
by Lord Lichfield, postmaster general
Of England, on Rowland Hills proposal
to establish a uniform postal rate of a
penny throughout the United King
dom. And that was at time within
the memory of some men still living,
only II years ago Despite Lord Lich-
fields condemnation OF ii, the scheme
was within three years an established
fact. And men who in their childhood
might have seen and read the first let
tiers ever sent from one part OF Eng
land to another for penny may this
year see and read letters sent around
the globe and practically to every part
OF the English-speaking world for the
same small fee. The achievement will
be not only most impressive rebuke of
the short-sighted and timorous admin
istrator Of two generations ago, but
also an equally impressive demonstra-
ton of the constantly accelerating
progress Of civilization.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Needed a CHANGE Of Air.

John Talbot Smith says that on one
occasion well known and esteemed
priest called upon Archbishop Ryan TO
ask for vacation on the ground that
his health required 1t. AS he was
noted for his frequent absence from
his parish, the archbishop could not
forego the opportunity of good ma
tured dig:
The physicians say that you need
a change OF air, father?"
They do. your grace"
How would II do to try the air Of
your parish for month or SO for q
change?"-Freeman's Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
SOCIALIST TICKET FILED
Barre Man Named for Congressional
Candidate.

Montpelier, Aug. 1.-The Socialist
party of Vermont filed petition in
the office of the secretary of state
here yesterday relative to the right to
a place in the official ballot at the
regular biennial state election next
fall. The vote cast In 1906 was not
large enough to entitle the party to
have its candidates placed on the bal.
lot, but petition was circulated and
over 800 names, more than the re-
quired number, were secured, and the
list of nominations made at the state
convention held at Barre, June 20, was
fled yesterday, the last day 1t could
be done legally.
Sufficient names were not secured
in the first congressional district to
permit of a nomination only 200 out
of a necessary 300 being obtained but
more than enough were signed to a
petition in the second district. The
congressional nominee of the party is
Timothy Hers, of Barre.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.


Briefly for Busy Readers.
Mrs Kate Young has gone to schen.
ectady to visit sister,
James Thomas, express agent at Me-
chanicyille, was in town over Sunday.
Thomas Morrissey of North Adams,
formerly Of Arlington, is in town to-
day,
Clark Spencer of Albany was the
guest over Sunday of his fatherin-law
Henry Marsh.
Miss Belle Kingsley OF Sandy Hill,
n. Y. is the guest of Miss Mary Wells
of Main street
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Hutchins and
Mrs. Mary Hutchins Wilcox spent
Sunday in North Adams.
Harry T. southaIl of the Drysdale
store and family have gone to Wood
ford for two weeks outing.
Mrs. j. l.. Fort OF Gloversville is
the guest OF her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
George Townsend Of Gage street
There will be meeting of the Re
bekah lodge this evening. All the Of
flcers are requested to be present for
drill.
James McDermott of Schenectady
and Frank McDermott of Pittsfield
spent Sunday at their home here.
Mrs. Byron II. Roberts and Miss.
Stafford of Wallingford have been
visiting Misses Edith and Eunice
Lyons OF Congress street.
Mrs. James Lutes and daughters,
Julia and Beatrice arrived Sunday
from Helena, Ark, for visit with
Mrs. Lutes father, Henry Marsh.
Joseph Green. who has been in Jail
for number of days on conviction
for a breach of the peace last Tues
day night paid his fine and was re-
leased last night eixi
Several baseball enthusiasts went
to Hoosick Falls yesterday to see the
game between the Plowtown nine and
Pittsfield. Hoosick Falls won by the
close score of TOT.
County Clerk j j. Stakeholder and
Arthur lockwood returned this morn
ing from a several days fishing trip
to North Hero in Lake Champlain
They had fine luck with bass and pick
erel.
G. w Fairchild of Oneonta, a. Y,
representative in congress from the
37th New York district, Mrs. Fair.
child and his sister composed an auto
mobile party registered at the Putnam
house over Sunday.
The cowboy baseball team which
played with Bennington at Morgan
park Saturday afternoon, left here
by the Bennington and North Adams
trolley line for North Adams where
| 1t plays the North Adams team this
afternoon.
The Brotherhood of St Paul will
meet this evening at p. m. Aconcer
will be given by the choir on Tuesday
evening instead of the class meeting
The classes will meet Wednesday eve.
ming. Weekly prayer meeting Thurs
day evening.
Supt. Estabrook has sold three
more large lots in the new cemetery.
They are across the avenue and a
little to the east of the Holden Maui
solemn site Each of the lots are 80
feet square. The purchasers are. l.
+. Gibson o. NJ Barber and E. L.
Bates.
Mrs. Mary Hutchins Wilcox will
leave for New York on the 18th to
begin rehearsals for the coming
theatrical season. She will appear in
new piece, The Moonshiners a
quartette along lines similar to The
Country Choir" I'm which she had the
soprano part last year. The Moon
sinners" will open the season Sep
Itember /
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
APPLE PIE OF soyHooo DAYS
Description Of Dainty That VIII Set
Many Mouths Watering.

:. Let some properly informed Puri-
taness tell OF apple pie. We speak not
OF hanging and footwalls OF dough
lodged with apple sauce. not OF lat
ticed tarts nor open faced counterfeits
of the real. We speak Of what fingers
as a sweet dream half forgot, once
radiant vision dimmed by time, the
memory of childhood ecstasy. This
perfection of pie was bottomed with
a crust which In the finished product
was saturated to the point OF precipi-
tation with the rich juices OF Its In
wards.
But those inwards! Pared and
cored greetings. sliced and laid In
orderly circles, each decked in the
making with delightful little dab Of
fresh butter, sprinkled with sugar
each particular grain Of which came
through the baking gladstone, spark
ling, individual gems. There was, we
think, 4 busting OF nutmeg and per
haps with some other rich spices, the
whole covered with . top crust which
was not crust. but fluffy layer Of
petals Of yellow rosebuds.
This, It is seen, is but an impress
sionist sketch. Let the Puritaness
willing for so great a cause to endure
publicity set down for print the JUS
and exact proportions Of each ingre
dent and all such requisite particu
lars as ignorance may need to know
to produce the perfect pie here faint
ly though reverently suggested.-Nev
York Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Dress as Wei as You Can.

1t is quite in place to declare most
emphatically to all who may read
these lines--let the thought of It bear
fruit--that dress, proper according to
avocation is one of the mandatory
requisites of this twentieth century,
Putting up good front is duty;
backing 1t up is quite another matter
and is more matter Of ability. It is
more reproach not to dress correctly
than 1t is credit to do so, 1t is not
an achievement, It is today a daily
though never monotonous routine, to
forget or belittle which is social and
business sin.-Men's Wear, New York.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
Extraordinary Lightning stroke.

Prof. A. Herschel, in the Quarterly
Journal of the Royal Meteorological
Society, described the extraordinary
effects produced by lightning in the
midst OF an open moor in Northumber.
land. A hole four or five feet in di.
ameter was made in the fiat, peaty
ground, and from this half a dozen
burrows extended on all sides. Pieces
of turf were thrown in various direc'
tions, one three feet in diameter and a
foot thick having fallen rs feet from
the hole. Investigation showed hat
In addition to the effects visible on
the surface, small holes had been
bored in the earth radiating from the
large excavation.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
~ THE LIGHT OF sPLINTERs
Religious Meeting Under Peculiar Cir
cumstanees a Great successA

Elder J. w. Cook. In his "Forty-Five
Years Minister" relates this Incl
dent: II remember one time up in
Clair county, Missouri. l arrived at
my appointment just at night. II wss
raining, but the people turned out Just
the same. The schoolhouse was Of
logs, and inside II was dark as q dark
night could make 1t. A brother said:
VIII someone please light the can
die? But there was no candle to
light, no grease, no oil Of any kind.
The little cabin was crowded and the
rain was pouring down. 1t was q good
half mile to the nearest house where
. candle might be procured. But a re-
sourcefui brother relieved the situa.
ton thus: We must have a meetin';
that's sartin. The boys travelled way
over here to preach for us. and he's
goin' to do It. Now we'll tear of some
planks from the platform and light
'em and take turn about holdin' 'em
90 he can see his Bible. got matches
That meeting under the fiickering
splinter light was an astonishing sue
cess"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
axmnas,lo nurnlar..

A school for burglars has been dis
covered by the police at Toulouse,
France, and 81 burglars and "profes'
sors" have been arrested
Glasses were held there every day,
In which the burglars practiced gym
uastics, and were taught the various
details Of their interesting profession
by experts, who drew comfortable
salaries.
All the members OF the school are
we'll known to the police, for one Of
the necessities of membership was a
proof that the wouldbe member had
committed at least Ave burglaries sue
cessfully, and had lived by his pro
fession for at least three years.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-08-03
The Confidence Of Youth,

"Why don't you want your son to
adopt the profession which you have
followed?"
Because" answered the quiet man
nered man, "Ishould like to go through
life feeling that there is at least one
subject about which that young man
doesn't feel that he knows more than
Washington Star.