The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-06-27

friends and relatives.
II. A. TAYLOR has been quite indis-
posed for time, and last week was
obliged to quit work. He is better.
H. N. WILLIAMS and wife are visiting
in town. They have many friends here
where they have lived so many years.
MRS MONROE, daughter of A. D. Stew
art. has been critically i'll at her fathers
in this village, but is now more conf, IT.
able.
A SERIES of preaching services will be |
lnauguraIed next Sunday at Woodford. |
the Rev. w. j. Chapman preaching at
O'Clock.
CADET G. W. PIERCE of Norwich Uni
vCrs tv is home for the summer vacation. |
He has completed the first year with
credit.
FRANK WEAVER is engaged in redecor-
ating Odd Fellows Hall in the Adams
block. The style is not to be materially |
changed.
DON'T gulp down ice water and ruin
your digestion. Take bit of Ire in |
your mouth and let it slowly Dissolve if
you must have ice.
APPLICATIONS have been received for
employment in the Bennington wooden
mills, although the deeds for the prop
erty have not yet passed.
THE Green Mountain Summer Home
Company has already erected five cot.
tages on the Woodford property and has
nearly completed the hotel. The first
excursion to day is noted elsewhere.
MRS. A. B. PERKINS has been critically
/ | for few days past, and Mr.. Perkins,
has come on from the west, arriving
here Tuesday evening, We hope that
more favorable symptoms will succeed
these, and that she may recover.
Two weeks ago the Graded school
raised a fund for the benefit of Nellie
Williams, former pupil of the school,
and one of the sufferers of the Johns
town disaster, In letter, written to
one f the teachers to acknowledge the
receipt of the check, she says Say to
the teachers and scholars that thank
them for their substantial token of ym-
patty ; that | love them for it. May
God reward them aud rai-e up friends
for them IN their hour of sorrOw."
THE firm of j. Ell. Walbridge & Co.,
whose advertisement Is in another col
umn. are making run" on parlor sets
By mschanCe in transportation last
months invoices OF these goods were de-
layed, and the June offerings are there
ore double d. Two car loads may now
be seen at prices way down." The as
sortment will remain complete but day
or two, 50 now is your time, as pushes
are advancing in value and the prices
foI the next lot can rot be forecasted.
LAST week we noted the improved
train service for Bennington, of the sum-
mer schedules, printed elsewhere and
corrected to the dates named therein.
The postUffice has been quick to take al
vantage of this and yesterday the full
New York and Boston mails reached
here at / 80 p. m.-two days after the
railroads changed time. This is the
earliest arrival from those cities B IN
nington has ever had for its daily mails,
and we are indebted to the Lebanon
Springs railroad officials for the benefit,
THE photographs taken by Watson of
the State Baptist Sunday School Con-
ventiOr and the Vermont Division, S o.
| V. grouped about the Battle M Inument
are pleasing souvenirs of those occasions.
| Besides. these show the skill of the ar
tist under difficulties which all phOtOg-
raphers cannot overcome. Watson is a
progressive fellow, and his small "pho-
tos, designed especially fer exchange
by graduates and others are having
deservedly great run. There is nothing
cheap about his cabinet and card yes.
THE new postmaster at Rutland is
| Fred A. Field, a veteran in the service,
and good fellow besides. He has been
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capacities since he was II years old, be-
ginning in March, 1S67-serving under
tour pOstmasters eighteen years in the
Rutland office. The balance of the time,
excepting an inteTegHum of few
months, he was inspector with head
quarters at Boston. The news reached
Rutland at 40 yesterday morning and
friendly reporter awoke Mr., Field and
told him of his good fortune.
THE BANNER bindery has just com
pleted a handsome set of books for the
Stark Paper Company of North Benning.
ton. They are elegantly and substan
tally bound in full leather, and stock
books in canvass with leather corners.
1t is no uncommon thing for this bind
cry t. turn out half a dozen lbs like
this at once, because one OF the very
best binders in the country is employed.
Ruling, binding, and everything done
by anyone in this line can be procured
here at short notice and to compete with
prices in any part of the country for the
same class Of work,
THE Herald cri icisms on the late
field day of the PArlarchs Militant, l. o.
| o F., have precipIlated a controversy,
an the Herald is faulted as knowing
less than it supposed. We give else
where an explanatory item on this sub
ieCt. inasmuch as the Bennington Can
ton were the leaders in the aft ir which
eliminated so ausplclOusy. Those who
knew the Vermont COmman1ant, Lit Col.
N. NJ. Puffer. expected success, and
they Mere not disappointed We are
also glad to learn that the financial pOr-
ton was so well managed that the eX-
penses are very light compared with the
usual cost Of such occasions.
THE Rev. G. NJ. Severance, son of the
esteemed pastor Of the Old FIRST Church,
will deliver II lecture on the Hawaiian
islands," at the S cOnd Congregational
Church next Sund,y evening. THIS
will be union SET wee, aud large aud
fence Is expected to listen To one who is
abe TO speak fr mi personal knowledge
Of fe and work among a heather peo-
pie, who p esent to-day an Obi ct lesson
of strategic Importance in all discu sions
upon missionary and educational enter
prise. MIR. Severance was for one year
teacher in oahu College, He Is a
graduate of Middlebury, and is at pres
ent student at the ID vinily School at
New Haven Conn.
DIR. B. c. JENNEY was called home to
Leicester, VT, last Thursday, by The
cri al illness of his father He reached
the homestead in the afternoon and his
parent died that evening, as noted else
where t day. Mr.. Jenney was born in
Leic, s er and had passed his life in his
native town. He has brother surviv-
ing aud living next door, who will be 80
years Of age next February. Mr.. Jenney
was prominent citizen of the town and
county, had held many responsible offices
and WAS greatly respected by all who
knew him. He had been usually well
up to within few months of his de
cease-kidney disease finally becoming
the fatal malady. The funeral was
largely attended, showing the esteem in
which the family are held. DR.. Jenney's
mother il living a; the age Of 73.
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