The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-26

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this week. They give a matinee Satur
day afternoon.
THE Sipperly family with som
twenty invited friends, purposes to pic
mic at Camp Comfort" to morrow il
honor of Mrs. Sipperly's fiftieth birth
day.
GEO. w. YATES, JR., and wife, o
Saratoga, N. Y, were in town last week
They intended to enjoy ride over tn
Green Mountains as part of their sum
mer outing.
EUGENE H. BROWN has purchased o
r. b. Godfrey the lot opposite Dea. q
L. Taft's residence on Branch street, snC
will build thereon a shop to accommo
date his growing business.
Miss IDA MUNRoE returns to Boston
to-day after six weeks visit at Mr.. A
d. Stewards, Mrs. w. w. Muuroe will
accompany her to be absent month.
THE B. Z. V. S. of young ladies and
gentlemen enjoyed a picnic in Law
rence's grove Tuesday afternoon. The
chaperons of the company were Misses
Dixon and White.
THE Chevaliers of Canton Bennington
No. 4. l. y o. F., assist Maj, Puffer in
the institution of Canton at Rutland
next Tuesday evening, en- route to the
Grand Cantonment at Weirs, New
Hampshire,
THE much needed repairs in Masonic
Hall are soon to be made, The damage
to the walls by the leakage of the roof
last winter will be remedied by an en-
- frau,na onh MI ntan in thn
high style of art which characterized
the old decorations.
THE Rev. A. j. Barrow, now Of
Moberly, Mo-, formerly rector of st.
Peters Church here, is to spend his
summer vacation at Lebanon Springs,
N. Y, with his friend, the Rev. DR..
Rylance of New York City. Mrs. Bar
row and the children have been in
FordhLm, N. Y, since leaving Benning.
ton.
THE stars and stripes bearing the
names of Harrison and Morton now fly
from handsome 10 feet pole in front of
the mill OF H. E. Bradford & Co. This
pole was raised Monday afternoon amid
great enthusiasm and both the flag and
its support is pledged for Protection to
AueI lCdho anu AiuSliOa AhH"o"J'
w. H. MAGILL of D. Mason & Co..
publishers of the proposed History of
Bennington County, reports good pro-
gress already made on this important
undertaking. The work is brought out
solely by subscription and now is the
time to obtain the work, which will be
more complete than any heretofore
published.
FOR the benefit of those who are at.
flicted with Buffalo bugs we copy the
following remedy from Good House
keeping" which is said to be very eff
fectual: "Chop up some onion fine and
mix it with powdered borax. Then
spread it on bread. The onion attracts
the bugs and the borax kills them"
THE bill giving the Soldiers Home
here 500 annuity, annually, for each
veteran inmate, passing both Houses of
Congress gives great satisfaction to
The enlargement of the
Home buildings will now be pushed
and large number of worthy Union
soldiers provided with home for their
decling years, This is as it should be.
THE Republicans of this town are re-
again of the caucus to be held
on Saturday afternoon of this week in
Free Library Hall. The notice is short
as to time but the delay of the County
Committee is the Town Committees
valid excuse. AS will be seen the last
clause of the town call proposes a radical
change in the party's policy and is an
matter to consider.
EVERY reader of the BANNER should
give the outside pages to day careful
perusal, Especially the articles which
treat of the workingman, the Tariff, the
end of which Prohibition is the means
(simply), should be scanned with inter
est. The Importance of these things to
every man. woman and child who must
earn their daily bread or go without is
ample excuse for the space devoted to
them.
THERE are twenty six original Harri-
son men now living in Bennington, and
the roll has not yet been completed. 1t
is thought that the list will contain forty
or more when finished, among whom
are several who voted for Cleveland in
1884 and are now outspoken for Harri-
son and Morton. A club of veteran
Harrison men is in order now for his
toric Bennington. Shall it be formed -?
GEN. 7. S. PECK of Montpelier requests
us to state that the Ninth Regiment
Vermont Volunteers will hold their
first reunion at Newport. this State,
Aug. 92d and 23d, in connection with
the annual muster of the State Militia.
The railroads give low fare and sur.
vivors of this regiment are requested to
avail themselves of this opportunity to
renew old acquaintances around the
there to be kindled
THE Londonderry Cornet Band has
had continuous existence thirty-two
years, if they survive until September,
1888, which they are likely to do and for
many more years to come. Among
their more noted historical events is the
fact that but one death has occurred in
the bands membership during the
thirty two years. The personnel OF the
band has changed good deal but many
of the original members remain. This
record is hard to beat.
NEVER was the moon fairer than when
she rose last Sunday night, at first
through a bank Of clouds,
whose gray she turned TO silver, and
then, clearing all obstacles, shining out
bright and full in clear blue sky. But
al midnight she was gone, and a sickly
red disk had her place on the sky for
nearly two hours. 1t was a total eclipse,
and such fine one will not be seen here
again till well on in the twentieth cen
fury,
THE Sunday School, guilds and con-
of st. Peters Church are to
take an outing next Wednesday. The
party will enjoy basket picnic in Dem
ing's Grove, Arlington, going up at S.45
in the morning and returning on the
evening train arriving here at $40 p.
IN. The public are cordially invited and
the fare for the round trip is only fifty
cents. Tickets may be procured at
Shurtleff's and G. E. Graves's stores. II
the day is pleasant there will be large
JOHN FLYNN was in town on Satur.
day and as evidence that he approves
our remarks of last week procured as
many copies of the BANNER as he could
get, and would have taken several hun
dred copies if we had had them TO sell,
Mr.. Flynn's Democracy has been I'M
questioned hitherto, hence his determi.
nation to help elect Harrison and Nor
ton hurts our contemporary press which
makes weak endeavor to play upon
words, as if the BANNER meant a worthy
man of the same name resident here.
The fact is that the enormous detection
from Democratic ranks alarms the pa
pers and managers Of that party more
than they care to acknowledge. And
their alarm is we'll founded besides.
THE Evening Telegram gravely in