The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-06-13
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Mrs. RANDALL of Petersburgh, N. Y,
is visiting Mrs. Eli Gokay of this village.
JUDGE SHELLEY advertises for rental his
new Queen Anne cottage on Dewey ave.
nue..
Miss MATTE WESTFALL has been vi it.
ing her sister. Mrs. II. l.. Hover, OF this
village.
DR.. AND MRS. L. E. POTTER passed
Sunday with their parents. Mr., and Mrs.
A. Holnbeck.
Miss FANNY HAWKS has gone to Bad
ford to at end commencement at Brad
ford academy.
MISS MINNIE BLACKMER has returned
from q two weeks visit to friends in
Hampton, N. Y.
MRS. ELI TIFFANY had new potatoes
for dinner last Sunday, raise in the
open air this year.
Miss HATTIE FISHER was in town from
North Adams, Mass attending the Bap-
fist State Sunday school convention.
Miss CORA KNowLToN returned to her
home in Petersburgh, N. Y, this week,
after a visit to her sister, Miss Matte
Knowlton.
THE family of w. II. Sipperly are soon
to remove to Vergennes, where Mr.. Sip
perly has established himself in the ar
fist profession.
PROF. CHARLES S. DAVIS. the new SUI.
schools, was in town yesterday and to-
day looking over the schools.
Mrs. CALVIN DART, who passed the
winter in Cambridge, N. Y, is visiting
relatives here. She is accompanied by
her daughter, Mrs. Roster Morse,
w. b. PIERCE and his mother, Mrs.
DR.. Pierce, of Alton, ILL.,, are visiting
RELATIVES here. Mrs. Pierce wi visit
some time east, but her son returns in a
few days.
LOUIS w. AUSTIN, grandson OF Dea. u.
L. Taft, at Middlebury College and who
is OF the class OF 80, has been awarded
the highest honors" in physics and
chemistry-a rare honor.
WORK on the new baggage car that is
being built al the Bennington and Rut-
land shops is progressing well. II is ex-
pected that 1t Will be completed 81 AZ to
be put on the road by July |.
THIS from the Philadelphia Record is
quite apropOs There was quite diff
ference between the Qleen's Gabled sym
patty on Saturday and the solid $4,000
lump of sympathy cabled from Dublin
the very same day."
SEVERAL weeks since we alluded to a
'looper trimmer" for knit goods, invent
ed by Z. H. Brown of this village. He
has now obtained a patent, and will
manufacture the machine here, thus
adding anotherto Bennington's growing
industries.
WIN. J. BLAIR has been in town this
week preparatory to moving to New
York City, where he has been for some
three months past. Mr.. Blair suprrin-
tends the manufacture Of ryelet presses
and other stationers' supplies for Judge
E. l. Sibley.
THE Rev. VIM. B. Walker. Command
er j. A. N. Williams and Il. l. S IIlson
represented Taft Commandery, No. 8,
Knights Tempars, in the Grand Com
mandery of Vermont Tuesday. Mr.. Wi
Jams WAS elected in that body to the
Office Of Grand Captain Of the Guard.
Miss LIBBIE CoLBURN Of D. trrit, Mich :,
who has been vleiting her brother, Col
NJ. S. COlburn, and other friends east,
passed Sunday with Mrs. Clark and her
daughter Edna in this will e., returning
To her home this week. Mrs. John II.
Whipple and MISS JAMIE COlburn return
with Miss Colburn.
JOSEPH V. HUFF, who always has
an early and productive garden, presents
the BANNER with sample of his lettuce
of Mammoth heads" a choice and rare
variety. The captain has potatoes plant
ed in May which are in blossom, and
his flower beds are among the finest we
have ever seen-all grown in the open
air.
POSTMASTER General Wanamaker has
asked all postmasters in the country to
keep record of business done on each
Sunday in June, including record Of
stamp sales. number of calls, number of
mails sent out, letter carriers collec-
tons, number of employees on duty and
hours of service. There is to be less
work on Sunday if possible.
THE Auxiliary" of 81. Peters Church
last week Thursday elected these officers
for the year ensuing President, the
Rotor. er o6iciO dIrectress, Mrs. L. P.
Norton /; vice directress Mrs. Dr. CHS
holm secretary, Mrs Chas. Barnes +,
treasurer, Mrs. John H Norton The
officers of st. Mary's Guild are the same
as the Auxiliary with the addition of
Mrs. II. w. Martin, second vice presi-
dent.
THE vandals who tore off the wood
bine from the Methodist Church, and
broke the windows, on an evening re-
Gently, should be found out and pun
ished. For several years it has been
hoped to cover the stone walls of that
edifice with this running vine, thereby
Transforming a hOmely building into
one of handsome outward appearance,
but the attempt has been frustrated each
time by just such occurrences as this,
A YOUNG Peoples Society of Christian
Endeavor was organ ze1 June 5. at
WoOdfOrd, with an active membership
OF five young women. Here is veritably
a Handful Of corn upon the top of the
mountains" 1t is believed that the
fruit of 1t will Shake like Lebanon"
and that every one Of the twenty-five
homes in the village will be blest by
this earnest group Of christians who have
consented to take the Iron clad" pledge.
WE have received bag of four straw
berries from a local gardener. which
weigh three ounces and each OF which
measures as follows : Strawberry No. l,
- inches No. Q, AZ inches No. 3,
Al inches No. 4, inches the four
berries, 1874 inches. These are of the
'Sharpless" variety. When this record
il passed around. the donor promises, if
1t should be beaten, t. try again. These
specinmn we're grown o. vines set out
last year.
LOAN J. MARSH made his parents
flying visit this week He began yes
terday an engagement with Miller &
Co., extensive lumber dealers of Boston,
as bOokkeeper. Ever since Mr. Marsh
went to the Hub to carve for himself
his fortune promotion has attended his
footsteps, and this position is not only
more lucrative but more responsible
than those hitherto undertaken. We
are always glad thus to speak OF the ad-
vancement of deserving Bennington
boys.
The Rev. VIM. Bogert Walker, rector
of st. Peers Church, has declined
very urgent invitation to accept call
from one of the most promising city
parishes in a western diocese. This is
the fourth important call Mr.. Walker
has declined since he has been in charge
of ST. Peters, and this fact would seem
to an outsider to call for grand support
from his people. We happen to know
that in each case the salary would have
been much larger than in Bennington,
hence the emphasis of his people rally
ing as a unit to aid the good work their
pastor is willing TO make sacrifices for
the advancement of their parish.
The History of Education in Flori-
da," being circular No. 9, of the Nation
al Bureau of Education, has an illustra-
ton and notice of Rollins College at
Winter Park, in that State. Prof. Aus
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