The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-03

other column.
OUR correspondents are request d to
send items one day earlier. Thursday
morning is late, except for important
and emergent news.
FRANKIE PRATT, daughter of ID. j.
Pratt of the Stark House, gave very
pleasant reception to her mates of the
Graded School Tuesday evening.
II. d. FILLMORE has a squash in his
store window which weighs 70 pounds,
and measures 601S inches in cIrcumfer-
ence. 1t was raised by II. d. Whitney
on Union street,
w. H. GILBERT and family Of New
York, who have been in town for three
weeks visiting Col. Olin Scott and wife,
have returned hume. Mr.. Gilbert is a
brother of Mrs. Scott.
A. B. SHELLEY will occupy the William
Bates house on Pleasant street during
Mr.. Bates's absence for six months in the
west, Mr.. Sibley has lived in the DIR.
Benjamin F. Morgan residence at Ben
nington Center.
THE Daily Record appeared yesterday,
filled with good things, and already or
ders from out of town have been sent in
by former Benningtonians interested in
the work expected to result from the
Gospel Services" under the direction of
the Rev. B Fay Mills. The Record will
be issued daily for 10 days.
WIN. w. TOWNSEND died in Richmond,
Mass, Sept. goth, and was buried in
Woodford yesterday. the Rev. W. j..
Chapman officiating. He was 81 years
OF age and deceased of typhoid fever
after short illness. MIR. Townsend
was formerly of Bennington, and has
brother and other relatives here and in
Woodford.
Miss ALLIE CLARK goes to Denver,
Col, this week to visit her brother, and
will be absent six weeks. During her
absence part of her class in music will
be taught by one of her advanced pupils,
Mr.. Harry Phillips of North Benning-
ton. Mr.. Phillips is a promising young
musician, as may be inferred from this
act of his teacher.
THE difficulty attending being heard
from the ground at the top of the Battle
Monument from its present elevation,
has been overcome by a telephone put
up by o. W. Morrison, superintendent
Of the electric light station. This sim
plifies greatly the communication be
tween the workmen at the top and bot
tom of the monument.
The locomotive Frank G. White has
been taken GU. of the machine shops OF
the Bennington and Rutland railway as
good as new, having been overhauled
and rebuilt by Master Mechanic McMas-
ter, The locomotive Hiland Hall has
been taken into the shops and will re-
ceive the same treatment. There is also
being built at these shops new 90 foo:
baRgage-car.
The staff of Miriam D. of R. Lodge,
No. 8, /. o. o. F., of this village, 25 in
number, 90 to the Rutland the 10th, to
assist Grand Master Henderson in in
shutting lodge of this degree in the
Marble City. They will be accompan-
led by Lt-Col. Puffer, and several Off.
GERS and chevaliers of Canton Benning-
Ter the following evening.
THE Vermont Journal says An ap-
plicant for teachers certificate gravely
informed the County Supervisor. the
other day, that "Burgoyne and Gates
were the chief generals of our late civil
war, and that the four parts of grammar
are mythology, entomology, syntax
and parody" She didn't get certifi-
cate, and now her friends declare the
new school law to be farce.
DIR. S. B. PIKE and wife were sur
prised the other day by the receipt of a
two-seated family wagon, just from the
fac. ory of P. P. Mast, Philadelphia,
This was a gift from their son-in-law,
Thomas S. Hoyt and wife Carrie, and
is highly appreciated. Mr.. Hoyt is the
genial manager of the Northern News
Company in Troy, and with his wife,
farm north of this villBge.
Mr., NoRDGREN, the Swedish gentle
man lately here to decide as to the fit
ness of Vermont abandoned farms, and
their availability for his countrymen,
reports more farms in Rutland, Benning-
ton, Windham and Windsor counties,
which can be bought for from SO to IS
an acre, than is needed for double the
number, fifty families, proposed. A let
ter from Corinth, in another column,
will be interesting to read in this con-
nection.
1.-TWO hundred and fifty men are con
stantly at work on the great tunnel I'm
der the Hudson River at New York City.
The whole work will probably be CON-
pleted within the next Is months. There
is $500, 900 of British capital in the en-
lterprise." We take this from our ex
changes. This was project in which
the late Hon. Trenor w. Park was inter.
ested, and, If we mistake not, was the
means of starting When finished II
will rival any example of engineering
skill in the old word.
THE 9th session of the Grand Lodge
of Vermont, Independent Order Of Good
Templars, will be held at Thompson Hall
Underhill on Wednesday and Thursday
Oct. 9th and 10th. Mount Mansfield
Lodge, No. ia, will entertain the dele
gates, assisted by the Ladies' Relief
Corps of the G. A. R. The railroads will
carry passengers to and from the meet
ing for fare one way. The Bennington
delegation consists OF Geo. A. Wattles
Grand Chief Templar Messrs. g, F
Burt and R, Il. Whine, representatives
NEXT Sunday Ia the day appointed fol
the bers OF the F. NJ. T. A. B. Soci
ETY. to renew their pledges. This has usual
ly been done October 10th, but the day
| dutlCIpdtou buib year, 40 nbdtSu' VI az
count Of its coming on Thursday, an in
convenient day for many. The Presi
dent desires US to ask full attendance
Sunday afternoon for this purpose. The
members will meet at Temperance Hal
at three o'clock, and march in body t
the church, where Vespers will be suns
and the pledges renewed according tt
the usual custom. We are glad to mott
the prosperity of this society and hopC
their numbers may be greatly enlarged
The oyster supper in the new and un
finished edifice of st. Francis De Sale!
Church, Saturday evening, was granC
success. The electric lights made thu
place most desirable as to holding thu
festivities. Much interest conferred, o
course, in the award of the elegant golC
watch which was sold in shares Of q
cents each. About 900 shares were solo
and the money will go TO swell the build
ing fund of the parish. The watch wa
awarded to Miss Maggie 0'Keefe. EN-
ployed in the family Of Henry w. Put
nam, Esq, The contractors, Messrs
Dubuc Il Belisle, were induced to rails
some money in this way by their work
men, who expressed desire to contrib
ute something to the church before the.
separated for the winter.
THE revelations in another column o
our Bogus College," recalls the fac
that last fall and winter several iDquir
les from the South and West were re
ceived by parties asking after Medica
College supposed to be located here. Ii
one instance. the reply mailed to Texa
was to the effect that probably Burling
ton was meant instead of Bennington
The Medical department of the Vernon
University las probably suffered b.
means OF the whiom and fraudulen
affair, because Of the credit given. SUP
posing the legitimate Vermont Medics
College was the school referred to. Th