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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Observed at Greenfield by Former
Bennington Couple.

Bennington Couple.
There was a large gathering of
relatives and friends today at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick L.
Lyons in Greenfield Monday, the oc-
casion being the 25th anniversary Of
their marriage. The home was beau
tifully decorated with evergreen,
palms and flowers and the guests
were received between and O'Clock
in the afternoon and Z to 10 O'Clock
in the evening by Mr.. and Mrs. Lyons
who were assisted by Mr.. and Mrs.
William c. KEENAN, of Wells street,
Mrs. William d. Rifenburg played
the piano and there was singing by
Miss Gertrude Smith Of Hadley and
Miss Blanche Vincent, Mrs. Mabel
Adams and William Hough. Following
the reception at the home there was
dancing at Grinnell hall from 10 until
2 o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyons entertained
their out-oftown guests by giving a
chicken dinner and during the recep
zion refreshments were served by
Mrs. Helen Waite, Mrs. F. f. Smith
Frank Smith, Misses Edith Carl, Mary
Dunn, Ethel Davis, Blanche, Eunice
Edith Lyons
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyons were married
Feb. s, 1888, at Mortified, by A. j
Washburn justice of the peace They
are both natives of Bennington, VT
Mrs. Lyons was born Aug. 2, 1865, the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson A
Kennon. Her father died some years
ago and her mother was among the
relatives present.
Mr.. Lyons was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Lafayette Lyons and was born
Aug. 2S, 1868. His parents are bott
dead. There are four sons, Louis +
Leon n, Nelson X. and Fred h. Lyons
all of Greenfield. After their mar
riage Mr. and Mrs. Lyons lived II
Bennington for seven years then
year in North Brookheld, and have
since lived in Greenfield Mrs. Lyons
is active in the work of the Edwin d
Day Relief corps, the w. c. T. u, tho
Second Congregational church ant
Sylvan Rebekah lodge of Odd Eel
lows.
Mr.. Lyons is a carpenter and build
err and succeeded the late Gilbert E
Jones.
Among out-of-town guests were
Mrs. n. A. Kennon, Mrs. Helen waite
and sons. Randall and Fred, Mr.. an6
Mrs. II. Lyons, Misses Edith and
Eunice Lyons, Ward Lyons, Mrs. 5. G
LYONS. Miss Blanche Lyons, Mrs
Addie l.. Elwell, Mrs, c. s. Morse and
daughter. Elinor, Mr.. and Mrs. Clear
ence Morse, Il. N. Kennon, Mrs. ELL
nor Houghton and Miss. Hattie Twit
chell of Bennington; Mr. and Mrs
George Cary and Mr. and Mrs, George
Elwen of North Benningtoni Mr.. ant
Mrs. Frank Lyons and daughter RUBY
and son, George Lyons Of East Wind
sor Hill. Conn. Mr. and Mrs. william
Neral of Broad Brook Conn; MT
aud Mrs. Walter Smith and daughter
Miss Gertrude of Hadley; Mr. ant
Mrs. c. II. Kennon of Wardsboro, W.
MIR. and Mrs. Herbert Waite OF Brat
tleboro. Mr. and Mrs. Lyons receive'
many beautiful gifts in silver chin
and cW-glass.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
The difference.

ITS funny what difference II
makes said the woman whether
we are eating dinner with the man in
the little blue kitchen, or at a table
dhote. If he feeds his ear with his
spoon in the little blue Kitchen we g.
into fits, but look at him nowl Eating
his spaghetti with his bread stick and
wlping his fingers on the table cloth,
and don't care at all DO your
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

NaN9HN LTNI " VII W.T.
Catching a fox alive with an over
coat is a feat performed by David Gil
nard, a member of the Fox Hunt club
Of Winston Salem ~ c. After long
and exciting chase Mr.. Clinard with
six hounds had tired Reynard out, and
in doubling the fox came so near
Mr.. Chnard that he threw his long
overcoat over the animal and succeed
ed in capturing 1t just before the dogs
arrived.-Fur News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

Dividend January ist 1909, was at the rate OF
aper cent per annum.
Dividends are declared twice year, viz: as
of the first Gays of January and July, according
TO law.
All dividends not withdrawn will be added to
the principal and draw interestas new deposits.
whether bank book is presented or not
Deposits made on or before the htth day Of
any month draw interest from the first day Of
that month.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Too Great a Strain.

Every once in a while the actor
while taking the part of dude in
play would spend large sums of his
stage money. On one of these occa-
sions it seemed too much for a GER
tain person in the audience, when a
voice rang shrill and clear through the
house Hey, Bill, how about that
FIVE you owe me?'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

The realm OF lhe possible was given
TO man to hope, and not to fear in.
II Gin sorrow the thought
strikes you that We are punished for
our sins-mourn for them, and not for
the happiness which they have pre-
vented Rather thank God that he
has stopped us in time, and remember
his promises Of restoring us If we
profit by his Observation-Disclosures
Kingsley.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
His oaera Hats.

One Of the mos5 consistently dressed
men in the world lives in New York
ard is seen frequently at the opera
When a work b. a French composer
is given he always wears an opera
hat he bought in Paris. and when they
give Italian operas his Tile bears the
label of a halter in Milan.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Riqhtl

Does it do any good to worry? 1t
does 1t gives the doctor a chance
to earn the price of meal ticket, the
maker of dyspepsia dope a chance to
work OF his truck upon your system,
and eventually it gives the graye-dig
ger a job. OF course it pays to worry.
Los Angeles Express.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

TRUSTEES: lie. Gibson. Presi-
dent; j. R. Judsc n, Vice President;
E. D. yelling, John Robinson, A.
B. Gardner, E. H. Putnam, Ed
ward L. Sibley
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
IN MEMORY OF COL. VAT
Plans to Preserve Memory Of Veteran
Of Indian and Revolutionary Wars

rlaue 10 preserve Memory OF veteran
Of Indian and Revolutionary Wars
Rutland Feb. l4.-Plans are under
way here TO make several improve
ments in the spring at the grave in
North Clarendon of Lieut. Col. Joseph
Wait. veteran OF the Indian and Revo-
lutionary war and one Of the heroes
Of Ticonderoga. who is said TO have
been the first Revolutionary soldier TO
be buried in this state. Colonel Wait
beburied in this state. Colonel Wait
died near old Fort Hin in what is now
Clarendon from a wound inflicted by
splinter from a gun carriage in a
skirmish with the British at Valcour
in 1876. He was on his way home
to Massachusetts when he suceumb-
ed TO wounds and his comrades bur
led him beside the fort, all traces OF
which have long ago disappeared but
the ancient headstone which they
erected in his memory is still in posi-
ton on a lonely mound on the Harriet
Barrows' farm enclosed by a rickety
iron fence The grave is in a pasture
a few rods from the highway and few
travellers recognize its historic inter
est.
The grave has been decorated with
flowers every Memorial day for forty
years by Gen. Levi G. Kingsley, of this
city. The general and lawyer Horatic
Loomis Wait, formerly of Burlington
great grandson of Colonel Wait are
the prime movers in the plan to raise
the stone. now nearly covered with
drifting sand, repaint and straighten
the fence and grade the twelve square
feet of ground enclosed by it.
The stone bears the following in
scription which is still readable after
facing the storms since 1776:
ITO Perpetuate the Name
of
1t. Col Joseph Wait,
an officer in the American Revolution
airy War who died on his return from
Canada, September 1776.
This stone is erected in testimony
Of respect by his brothers in arms
Then follows these lines which tell
briefly the history of the gallant sol
der
Lieutenant Continental Army
Born A. d., 1882,
Ensign Ephraim Williams. Regt.
1775.
Capt. Rogers Corps of Rangers
1859,
Commissioned Lieutenant Colonel
January, 1875.
KILLED in skirmish with British
Army
Buried by His Comrades Where He
Fell Here Sept ME-
Lieut. Col, Wait built the famous
Boston road monument in the wilder
ness now standing in the city Of
Springfield, Mass
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
EvII Mrouaht By want Of rhouaht.

Evil Wrought by Want Of Thought.
Lack of thought Is often at the root
OF our mistakes in this world Even
our most serious mistakes, over
which we have prayed in anguish.
could In all probability have been
ayerted If We had given to our prob.
lens a little gift of time and thought.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Worlds Largest Fountain.

The largest fountain In the world
is that established by the municipality
Of Geneva az the entrance to the port
Of that city. It is 800 feet In height,
and at distance looks like a great
white sail Everywhere
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Have EnuaIltv In Rank.

In the Turkish navy the crew and
officers of warship form a regiment,
and the officers hold the same rank
as on land The captain is lieutenant
colonel. and so on.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Merely NaaaIna.

1t is surprising how many "don'ts''
sre said every day to children who
ore really doing nothing in the least
harmful to themselves or to other
people
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Nourlshment in SUGAR.

1t is said that there is 25 per cent.
more nourishment in sugar than any
other food that can be purchased for
the same money except wheat -four
and corn.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Aegravauns.

1t makes man mad to have his
wife CAD about all day and then bring
home no scandal worth listening to-
Kansas City Journal
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Az We sow. We Rean.

De Maistre; The blessedness or
misery of old age Is often but the
extract of our past life.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

Where ten men will cheerfully lay
down their lives for woman only one
will carry her scuttle of coal.-Man-
chester Union.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
The Office and the Fool.

When king creates an Office Prov
idence at once creates a fool to buy
it.-Colbert.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

SdrSdtabS is5s so%Si9 90 a. T -
for al humors and eruptions stomach. liver and
kidney ailments. loss OF appetite, that tired feel
ing They are a solid extract Of Hoods Sarsapa-
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Pleasant % take and exceedingly economical.
farIing tablet 10 liquid medicines 100 doses q.
Druggists OF nail. c. /. Hood Co. Lowell, Mass
1t Made by Hood It's Good.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

STATE OF VERMONT, II, L. A. GRAVES
County of Bennington IS. ! Cashier Of the
ahOye-uamed bank, do sOlemnly swear that the
above statement is true 10 the best of my
knowledge and belief
L. A. GRAVES, Cash er.
Subscribed and sworn 10 before me this 18th
day of teDrul rN, 1909.
COLLINS NJ GRAVES, Notary Public
Correct, attest.
GEO. +. GRAVES,
l.. +. ABBOTT, Directors.
WILLIAM A. ROOT,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

DEpORr OF THE CONDITION OF TIE
II Fsf National Bank az Bennington In Tie
state of Vermont at the close OF business
February g 1919.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

STATE OF VERMONT /, G. McCul
County OF Bennington, IS. Tough, President OF
the above named bank, do s0lemny swear
that the above statement is true TO the best
OF my knowledge and belief
}, 4. Met ULLOUGH, President
SUBSCRIBED and sworn 10 before me this
18th Jay of February, 1903.
FRANKLIN SCOTT, Notary Public.
Correct. attest:
HALL PARK MCCULLOUGH
e. ID. WEI.LlNG. Directors.
CHAS. Z. YELLING
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
TO RENT

no RENT-The tenement over the Gates
l store, corner Main aud Stafford streets
This Is a cOmmodious, pleasant tenement In
good condition ana will be rented at n reason
able price. For particulars enquire OF Charles
h. Powers. Savings BahkBuiding 54tf
no IlENT.-Desirable tenements, ottces
/ stores. mill property with water power
liiVidual storage lockers. VIM. r. HAWKS
u north 81.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
No. 1884,

DEPORr OF THE CONDITION OF THE
N First National Bank at North Bennington
IN the State of Vermont, at the close Of business
February s, 1903.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
Speed Of the polphIn.

The dolphin can travel 40 miles an
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

LNANTED-Poslto by first class laundress.
w 20 years experience. Inquire at the
whitney. s6H
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15

WANTED for automobile 9tS rob cdr driving and
course In Boston; easy payment, largest and
best school; free home study course. Send
stamp for catalogue. Boston Auto School,
500 fremont St., Boston
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
WANTED

IN ANTED-25 cords good stable manure
w Appl, TO the Banner ONCE. sat
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-15
WANTED

Everyone to know that ! am prepared to do
all kinds of Stag or gravel Roofing Cement and
Tar COncreteing, Sidewalks, DTiyeways, Gut
tiers. Curbing Steps etc in first class workman
ship And honest material. Drop postal or call
phone 465-i2
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11
A RECORD MADE.

The announcement that the German steamship Lusitania crossed the At lantic ocean in four days and half is another of the notable achievements of the time; almost as remarkable In some aspects as the discovery of the North Pole. People who have not yet reached middle age can remember when a trip across the ocean was a matter of weeks. The constant inn proyements and developments which have succeeded each other in steam navigation have been followed by an increase of speed which has brought us down to trip across the Atlantic In one Hundred and eight hours.
 There are not wanting sanguins people who predict that this genera ton will see the voyage made in three days. and though this hardly seems possible it would not be safe to assert that 1t will not be done. The constant reduction in tho time required to cross tbe ocean which has been going on in recent years has been so remark able that no one should be surprised If the record of the Lusitania Is beat en before many years have passed This is a time saving era, beyond a doubt
 Another thing that must be taken into consideration in connection with cean-going vessels is the possibilities of electricity as a motive power. Steam vessels require an enormous quantity of coal to furnish power for voyage across the Atlantic and this weight. Who knows that an electric
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER II. 1909
DowN IN HENRY.

The Headiand Post suggests that II tho amendment people want to send out speakers to discuss their side they had better send out '.men who can make a talk with the evidence against them" Well. there are men who car lseadasa forlorn nope, but we dent know that any of them care to take ur the side of this unwise and uncalled for proposition.
 Another suggestion of The Post is that if there is to be a joint discus aion of the amendment In Headland 1t wants to see it pulled off between Governor Conner and Senator Max Hamburger. but 1t will never be grati- Bed The Governor is too sly to run uu against a buzz-saw. He knows Max too well for that. And while on this subject it is encouraging to note that both The Post and The Henry County Standard bring us highly sat- isfactory accounts of conditions in that county. The good people of Hen ry are getting wise to the fact that the proposed amendment is not only dangerous proposition. but that 1t Is politics. pure and simple, and they will not assist in putting politics in- to our Constitution. Good for Henry's citizenship.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11

downstairs. There is this about the furniture, including the big clock on the mantel, that while everything Is plain, with here and there some slight pearance of shoddiness and cheapness so characteristfe of the houses of the same class of people in America.
 This house. with little. very little yard, in front costs SS SO . month. The gas, after the first few months. ley. five miles away, which is 54 cents per 1000 feet.
 This house Is above the average in desirabifity and in rent. At Todmor- den this morning they told me of i've room stone houses. fitted up with the conveniences I mentioned above which rent for s3 month.
 Ruth--that's the girls name--is a weaver in one Of the cotton mills, one mile from her home. She Is a strong, healthy, ruddy- checked young woman. with a bright face. She is simple and natural in her manners. has a common school education. reads some books. and belongs to the girls organiza ation of the parish. but not a leader. Shea just an average working girl. Bhe Is 25 years old, but she looks nearer eighteen. For twelve years. she has looms going. She earns from $4.z0 to $5,4 40 a~week, out of which she sup- ports her mother and herself. Her mother. however, earns a few shillings sometimes, helping my friend the bar maid clean up the tavern.
 Ruth works ffty-flve hours a week. her mill closing every Saturday the year round at 11:S0 a. m. for half holiday.
 She tells me that the cost of living is advancing, and that they could get rent cheaper, as well as other things, in town than out here at 'Olm."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11
Zach McGhee Writes Of
 Trade and Tariff tn England

CT get full infoSmation except from the undertaken, who sent them a bill for x2O0. The partner in a mining ven- ture has never sent them a. line. They sent the money to the undertaken.
 The house Is just like nearly all the workingmen's houses in this part Of England. It ig built of brick with stone. veneer. There are four rooms two downstairs and two upstairs, each l2 by If. There are no passages ex- cept the narrow one for the staircase. You pass through the front room. used for parlor. library, and so forth, Into the dining room. kitchen, siivinE room." all in one. There is no bath room, but water closet, sink with hot and cold water arrangements, a. coal range built into the wall with oven
 hot water heaters, open grate, and some other conveniences belonging to the house. Every room has a fire- place, and although four miles from town. the house is lighted by gas. The walls are all neatly papered. One of the rooms downstairs has stone floors, but they are carpeted. There Is a eel lar nicely cenented underneath one of the rooms. The walls are full of pie lures. not expensive but tasty ones, the furniture Is good and substantial look ing. two iron beds a neat table, several chairs. an immense chinonier In this room--I don't know how I am to get my face washed in the morning, but ] suppose they will lead me to the sink
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11
The Montgomery Conference.

6ifmlngham Age Herald.
 The conference to be held in Mont gomery next Wednesday will bring to- gether a splendid array of the repre- sentative men of Alabama. It will consider methods for defeating the amendment to the Constitution seek Ing to incorporate prohibition into tho fundamental law and will be well at- tended from every section of the State. All indications point. indeed, to very large attendance. and there Is every reason to believe that 1t will be even more generally representative than the constitutional convention in 1901. The convention was composed Of patriotic and forceful men, but a considerable majority of them were lawyers.
 For the forthcoming conference the call invites all men who are opposed to the amendment. While 1t was suE- eested that meetings be held in each county for the purpose of choosing del- egates to Montgomery, the organiza- tfon of the conference VIII be. in the nature of things. informal and hence 1t is that all who feel sincere and welcome. And since its scope Is to be thus broad, the conference will enl- brace the best men from every walk of life-lawyers. farmers, Iron and coal operators. bankers. merchants and me-
 The conference will be notable from every point of view and will in a large sense mark a new and brighter era in Alabama.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11

Against the Constitutional Amendment. New Decatur News.
 After a careful and mature consider ation. we have decided to oppose the tuition. We do this on the grounds or expediency; for the best interests ot church and state and the welfare or the people of Alabama. amendment bscauss It springs from a mesalliance of religion anu pontics, laying a dangerous precedent TOT union ct church and state, the separation or srnment as Is breath to the human body We are opposed to It because every inch Of Alabama soil Is fu1iy protected by the most stringent prohi- and that was possible for mortal mind and legal skill to conceive and execute. Incorporating this amendment in the constitution will not add eple Jot or of these laws and will forever hang a millstone around the necks of the pco pie Tn the event they should at any ru- ture tune desIre remedial legislation.
 We are opposed to 1t because such an amendment mas no more riXhtful plact in the organic law than the interdie- tion of any other miBdemeanor. folopy or crime. It Is not self-executing. aud wltn0ue force and eftect and opens wide the he way for the giving away and sale of liquor in every nook and corner of the State. because 0f the absence of a pen cal lust, born in a hotbed of personai ambitions and greed for office, and wet nurssd by the paps of ofhctal trickerV and treachsry.
 expediency; of cohservation of the best interests Of State, people aTr4 church and the non-commltment of a folty that would entail disaster that suecesd-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-11
The Old Roman Of Etowah
 Sounds Call to Neighbors
Gadsden. Ala. Sept. s, 1909

Gadsden, Ala. Sept. {, 1909. To the Qualied Voters In St. Clair, Et-
 owah, Cherokee, DeKalb and Mar
 shall counties:
 Fellow Citizens-Alabamians The greatest political crisis is upon us that greater than that of the reconstruction period. Then we had to war with car petbaggers. scalawags and negroes. for our political existence. At that time with the aid of a combined and united white citizenship we swept the carpet bagger- sealawag- negro combine from the control of our State Government. Nov we are ,ts eonfronted with q more more of interruptions political aspirants. fa- natics and deluded followers under the leadership of one Brooks Lawrence from Ohio. the "evangel of discord and and the powerful organization known as the Anti-Saloon League, to be re- inforced by the hundreds of newly ap- pointed office holders. to be appointed the new appointments will be found over 200 jury commissioners. the only qualification for ofice that will be re- auired being an affirmative answer to ist?" By this means these fanatical political freebooters hope to control our courts. giving no man who is not . prolaibitionist any chance to secure trol of his property. except by submit ting to tho domination of Conner, Weakley and Carmichael: one said to De aspirant for seat in the U. s. Office of Governor of a State he is seek ing to degrade, and the other the place of Lieutenant Governor of our com monwealth. Brooks Lawrence. with the aid of the fanatics and women hopes not only to feather his nest with con- tributions from the thoughtless, but enthusiastic and misguided reformers. To gain prominence with the prohi-