The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-08-02
Mrs. H. ]. MORGAN has returned from


o'clock.
Miss A. MAY SHELLEY is spending FEY
days at Ballsion and Saratoga with rela
tives and friends.
Miss ALICE DEvLEN of Fort Edward
N. Y, is visiting her friends an
relatives in town.
DURING the month of August Evel
song in st. Peters Church will be he'll
at 7.30 o'clock instead Of as heretofore
Miss NELLIE TIFFANY is to teach il
Williamstown the coming school yea
beginning with the Autumn term mex
September.
JOHN G. BIRMINGHAM has fallen he'll
to $4,000, left him by an uncle il
England. He works for Jas. s. Lindley
This is good fortune indeed.
MRS, ELLA WILDER, Mrs. Frank
Bradford and others accompany A. K
Richie and family to Block Island this
week for sojourn at the sea side.
ORLANDO w. MORRISON can write
campaign poetry it seems, as well as run
our electric light plant. The Year Oh
Jubilo" is printed elsewhere to-day.
A LADY correspondent writes us from
Bennington Center that the good people
of that pleasant locality all rejoice over
the couvalescence of Miss Rosie Roach,
who has been dangerously i'll.
THE Dismal Failure of the gathering
of State Republican Clubs at Burlington
last week (Uiie the Poultry Organ, is
fully reported on our outside to-day. 1t
will pay to read the account.
Mr.. AND Mrs. ALANsoN WILCOX, and
Mrs. D. II. Smith and children have
gone to Cottage City, Martha's Vine
yard, to spend the summer. After
couple of weeks Mr.. Wilcox will be here
part of the time.
BY an oversight last week we omitted
to say specifically that our campaign
offer of the BANNER at TEN CENTS was
to be sent to addresses only within this
State. This is a grand opportunity and
ought to be improved.
MRS. F. H. BURGESS presents us with
a sample of North Carolina grapes and
late peaches just received from Mr..
Burgess. The grapes evidence the
ability of the Old North State to COM
pete with other sections of the Union.
THE Street Commissioner should see
to it that people trim up the grass about
their fences and sidewalks, The DIR.
Clark, Kellogg and Dewey farms, with
mile or more street front each, are
models for some small householders in
the village to follow.
F. A. STILLsoN is wearing log cabin
badge in shape of an old fashioned lady's
breast pin, having on it the following
words: Harrison and Reform. $780,"
The badge belongs to Mrs. Daniel Smith
of Evelyn street. Rutland Telegram.
Mrs, Smith is the mother of Conductor
D. Hop" Smith of this place.
AFTER the hot and dusty days, sue
ceeding each other 80 long, how pleas
antly came the cool, refreshing showers
of Tuesday Next morning the grass
greener, there was faint per-
fume in the air as if from new mown
fields, and the trIl of the birds was
clearer, and the flowers lifted up their
heads as if grateful for the rain.
THE ReY. 7. A. Snively, whose sum
mer home is at Bennington Center, has
spent no Sunday in Bennington this
summer thus far. He has been absent
at his old parish in Quincy, Mass, for
a Sunday. Last Sunday he preached in
Hoosick Falls in the morning, and at
Hoosick in the afternoon. He goes with
his family to Quebec, next week for a
stay of several weeks.
THE Good Templars elected the follow
ing officers at their quarterly meeting
last Friday evening: Lyman Reyes, G.
T.; Miss Abbie Sinclair, V. T.; Chas.
McDonongh, Sec.; Olin w. HARDWOOD,
F. s.; Miss Eliza A. Puffer, Treas;
Elisha Wadsworth, Chaplain; Chas. Fl.
Potter, M; John Shaw, Sentinel; Geo.
A. Wattles, representative to Grand
Lodge; II. L. Stillson, L. D. The in
stallation will take place tomorrow
evening.
LAST Sunday there was a little effort
made to start subscription towards
building the new church of st. Frances
DeSales, notice Of the committee of
which we published last week. Over
$4,000 was raised, the pastor ind John
Robinson leading with $500 each. The
amounts ranged from that sum down to
$50. This is an suspicious beginning.
We hear it unofficially stated that the
foundation will be commenced soon and
probably finished by November.
HEEL HoLLIsTER of Pawlet, friend Of
the Hon. Geo. w. Hartman, is in Osmego.
Pa, summering. BE writes that he
rides nearly every day IN an open wagon
from twenty to thirty miles, and that
the people, with whom he visits in that
State, are strictly temperate without
scarcely an exception, but not one OF
them proposes to vote the third party
ticket this fall, although some of them
did four years ago. They do not intend
to play second fiddle any longer, nor act
as tail to the Democratic kite, and by 30
doing help to keep the solid South in
power and finally bring free trade upon
this country. They do not feel like
helping in any way to establish con-
federate rule.
The Republican rally in the open air,
under the campaign banner, on the cor
ner on Main street, opposite the Putnam
House, Wednesday evening, was spirited
and enthusiastic. We have hardly ever
before witnessed at any political demon
stration in this village so many young
men ard such a full representation Of
our working people, native and adopted
citizens, as were present on this occasion,
irrespective of party. Hon. j. l.. Mar
tin gave a clear, cogent address, from a
Republican standpoint, upon the issues
of the day. The proceedings were en-
livened by several songs sung by cam
paign vocalist, and excellent music by
the Hoosick Falls band. The Young
Mems Republican Club are entitled to
,ra,sa for their zeal in campaiRn work