The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-09-05
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is visiting Mrs. W. D. Newton of this
village,
b. F. WooD is grading and ornament
ing the grounds about bis pleasant resi-
dence on Union street.
REMEMBER the grand literary and
musical festival at the Second Congrega-
tional Church next Tuesday evening.
THE time for the payment of taxes to
the treasurer, expires Sept. 2Sth, This
is for the town, school and village taxes.
E. B. PATTERSON OF the leash store"
is making run on peaches this week,
and is busy taking orders and delivering
the same.
Mr.. AND MRS. FRANK FERRIN of Hills,
N. H., are visiting with their children,
Mr., and Mrs, Harry Willoughby, for a
few weeks.
WE, in common with many others,
congratulate our friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. g. Evans, upon the late accession to
their family BY the birth of twin girls.
Miss LIZZIE BAssETT, who has been
passing her annual vacation at home,
returns to Washington tomorrow, ac-
companied by her niece, Miss Ethel
Stevens.
MRS. GEO. B. SEARS writes in glowing
terms of her new home on Putnam ave-
nue., Brooklyn, N. Y, saying it is the
most comfortable Of any the family have
ever had.
THE services held in the Methodist
Church last Sunday by Lynn Armstrong,
show him to be very promising candi-
date for the ministry for which he is
now studying.
HERBERT RANDALL being called away
to field service with his class in survey
ing of the U. V. NJ, Cadet Chas, W,
Pierce of the Norwich University, takes
his place on the Bennington street sur
vey. So
GEO. r. MATHERs is raising the roof OF
his residence on Pleasant street, intend
ing to make the house two stories, with
an ell OF one and one-half stories When
completed this will be very fine home
with handsome finish both exterior
and interior.
WE have received from Alonzo Cham.
berlin, Corona, N. j., a copy of the
Teachers and Pupils Guide to Music. F."
Eight pages. Price, 80 cent?. 1t is a
curiosity OF music Typography, besides
being eminently practical, and useful to
teachers and students Of music.
MASTER POTTER, a choir boy from
Troy, N. Y, rather astonished the
natives" at Evensong in St. Peters
Church Sunday. 1t might be well for
our people to recognize the fact that
youths can sing as we'll as those of ma
turer years, and they learn twice as easy.
Rev. L. Fl. ELLIOT, secretary Of the
Vermont Bible society, recommends that
the second Sunday in September be OBJ
served as bible day" by the Sunday
schools, and that on that day the child
rem contribute to the purchase of Bibles
for distribution where they are needed
throughout the State.
A SUNDAY school institute will be held
in Trinity Church, Rutland, on Tuesday,
Sept, 10th, at II a. m. ALI persons in
terested in the Sunday school work of
the Diocese or the religious training of
the young, are very cordially invited to
be present. The Rev. 1. j. Clay, Moran,
Columbia, Pa. will conduct the institute
LEWIS DICKERMAN, an old and success
full farmer of Tunbridge, SAYS "You
cannot eradicate the Canada thistle with
hoe, but il you will cut the thistle soon
after the 10Th Of September, you will
soon get rid of them" Mr.. Dickerman
is the owner of several excellent farms,
from which he has eradicated the Cana
da thistle.
ONE more step is recorded in butter
making-an invention which comes from
Sweden, which takes sweet milk and
runs it through machine that runs off
all the ''skim" milk aud spins out nicely
granulated butter at the rate of a pound
10 the minute. This is step in advance
Of the Danish centrifugal separator,
which stops at the separation of the
cream from the skim milk.
THE ladies of the D. of R., Miriam,
No. 8. hold sociable next Tuesday after
noon in Odd Fellows hall in honor of
&rso teSI %fa1srx sight aoScH6Scf. '""ff in
the evening the "beautified work" will
be exemplified for the visitors benefit,
and this is the ceremony it is hoped will
be adopted by the Sovereign Grand
Lodge of the order when it meets in Col
umbus, Ohio, the third week in this
month.
WE are glad to learn that the we'll.
known Walloomsac House will remain
open during the winter season OF 1889 90
for the reception Of guests. Possibly
some of our city friends who have passed
the summer 80 pleasantly here, may
conclude to see what the country is like
in the winter time. Mrs. Longley lie
nicely situated to entertain sleighing
and pleasure parties, and heretofore
many such have been entertained at the
Walloomsac.
THE attention OF teachers IS called to
Section "a of the School Law, which SAYS:
Every teacher shall ,on or beforethe first
day Of his school, mail to the supervisor
information as to what school he is to
teach, his postoffice address while teach
ing, and the time for which he lie en-.
gagged, and shall renew such information
as often thereafter as any change may
be made" Blank forms are to be found
in the registers, by the filling of which
and forwarding same to supervisor, the
requirements of the law will be fulfilled.
Teachers should attend to this at once.
In another column we give this week
the views OF two eminent gentlemen OF
the old Bay State on the evil effects of
the Interstate commerce law. The
reader need not go out Of town to verify
Morse's statement as to the
effect OF the long and short haul"
clause, because the Bennington pottery
is an instance. Ao we stated few
months after this Granger law went into
operation, the rate Of freights discrlmi-
mated 30 against us in shipments of clay
that potteries near the seaboard could
uudersell those inland, and there was
nothing left to do but to reduce produc-
ton, which has been done.
WE quote this week good words"
from two subscribers. The first, writing
from California, says II enjoy my old
home paper mole than ever out in this
far away country" Another, from
Iowa, writes :"We are in the midst of an
abundant harvest, oats yielding from 40
to 10 bushels per acre, wheat from 20 TO
30 hay light, but since the rains com
about the middle of June, we
never have had more rapid growth of
grass, and in fact, everything. Pros
poets for corn never were better apples
and grapes in abundance, and no end
to horses, hogs, cattle, poul-
try, and in fact, all that nybody needs
II well husbanded."
JAMES E. CURRAN, grand patron Of the
Order Eastern Star for Vermont, has
appointed the following district deputy
grand patrons First district, d. K Sim
onds, Manchester, comprising Benning-
ton and Rutland counties second dis |
trict, ]. W. Stowell, Putney, Windham |
and Windsor counties third district.
W. F. Lewis Of Rutland, Addison and |
counties fourth district, p.
D. Bradford, Mortified, Orange and
counties fifth district,
Levi F, Edgerton, Caledonia county /:
sixth district, W. G. McClintock, Nor
risville, Grand Isle, franklin and La.
noble counties seventh district, E. B.