The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-25
Local..

mIbSES IDA AND STELLA DEcREEST OF
Troy;N N. Y. are at George II. HarwOod's.
Hon. E. B. BURTON Of Manchester. is
spending few days at Bennington Cen
ter.
WELLS VALENTINE and wife, were reg
istered at YOung's Hot.l, Boston, Satur-
day.
MRS. THATCHER PERRY OF Brattleboro,
IL visiting her son, Mr.. G. s. Perry Of
this village.
s. s STREKTER and Miss Fannie Street.
er Of Brooklyn, N. Y. are visiting Mrs.
J. T. Sawyer. -...
MRS. WIN. MOORE and sons have re-
turned home from trip to Sandlake and
CohoeN, N. Y.
HENRY s., son of DR.. F. w. Goodall, ia
home from Washington for a three
weeks vacation.
ENSIGN RICHARDSON Of Annapolis, Md. =.
and wife, are passing the summer at the
Fairbanks homestead.
ELMER AYREs was taken very serious
ly with Inflammation of the bowels last
evening. and ID very ill.,.
AMONG the 'Fourth-class postmasters'
HppOlutCu ld6I "cCk, we L0HL vi
Julius Hill of Sunderland.
RUSSELL P. HoYT Of New York City,
has been in town looking over his late
purchase, the PowDal iron mine.
MISS MINNIE BLACKMER is confined TO
her house with sickness. The doctor re-
ports her condition more favorable.
Mr. AND MRS. ROBERT E. DAY Of Hart.
ford, Conn.,, friends Of Mr.. Charles NJ,
Bliss, have been at the Putnam this week
MRS. JAMES E. Bowen has been ser.
iously ill, and confined TO her bed fol
three weeks past. At this writing she j:
better.
MRS G. II. BURTON of Brooklyn, N. Y.
accompanied by her daughter, Miss Corr
Burton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. F. g.
Day Of this village. -
The quarterly election Of the Good
Tempiars occurs Tomorrow evening
This organization is highly prosperous
as it deserves to be.
THE Young Peoples Society OF Chris
tian EDdeavor of the First Baptist
Church will picnic at Camp Comfort
Wednesday, July 81.
MRS. II. E. PENFIELD and Miss Penfielt
of Kalamazoo, Mich, were in town thil
week en- route for Albany, N. Y. They
stopped at the Putnam.
H. NJ. HARRIS is visiting his sister IL
White Plains, N. Y. After an absenc,
Of couple of weeks he is expected homI
tomorrow or Saturday.
q. A. NORTON and wife. Of Newark
N. j., are visiting their son. Mr.. Harri
son l. Norton of this village. Mics L
E, Norton accompanies them.
A. G. PATCHEN is experimenting thu
new decorations Of Temperance Hall, IL
the Hawks building. Main street. Tit
Father Matthews will hardly know thei
quarters.
The Methodists are contemplating ar
excursion to Lake Pleasant, 8 miles easl
Of Greenfield. Mass, and hope soon Il
announce the arrangements. This viii
make fine excursion.
MRS HARRISON l. NORTON is enjoying
a visit from her mother, Mrs Boyer, O
Walls Walls, Washington Territory. anC
also from brother and sister. who re-
side in the same place.
THE Ftchburg, Bennington and Rut.
land, and Lebanon Springs roads hav,
made preparations to carry large mum
Der Of people to the Troy District CAM
meeting, which opensat Lebanon Spring
July 81.
THE Rev. s. d. Towne has resigned tn,
Passionate of the Congregational Church
at HampdeD, Me-, to accept the appoint
ment Of the Maine Missionary Society u
labor in the counties Of Penobscot anC
Hancock. g.,
SERGEANT MINER Of Warren, formerly
OF the Ninth Volunteers, now very feeble
at the Soldiers Home in Bennington
has donated $500 for he sol Tiers library
This money has been carried in a bel
upon his person for many years.
IT ia hoped that the wooden mills vii
ust next. Mr.. Holden and'the superin
tendent, Mr.. Green, have arrived, anC
good progress has been made towards
repairing the bulk-head and other part
connected with the mill.
THE authorities are in receipt Of coin
plants that boys have begun their law
lessness in clubbing fruit trees and steal
ing small fruits, etc. Some Of tn 81 arr
members Of families who ought to stoT
the depredations without the interven-
ton Of the police, and it may save dis
grace aud costs il some OF these annoy
ances are discontinued.
THE long headed farmer keeps hi
frolicsome cows from jumping a fenc'
by removing their lower eyelashe'
which causes them to think, il cows d.
mediate, that the fence is st least three
times as high as it really is. II you Gu
away the upper laehee, 80 he claims,
reverse illusion will be the result, caus
ing the COW, as she views the fence, Il
imagine she has "a walk over"
THE "Angelua," one OF the most IA
nous pictures OF one of II most famou
French painters, is to come to New Yorl
for the Metropolitan Museum. Tn,
French government lid on the picture
but failed to make good it's bid, so tina
1t went to the American who was tn
next highest bidder. We have in Amer
lea more attractive angels (and some o
them IN Bennington than there are any
where else in heaven or earth, and II i
all right that we should possess the An
gelus."
THERE are a number OF our subscriber
who have neglected to pay for the BAN
NER, and to whom statements have re
Gently been sent. These should be at
tended to at once. A newspaper in Ohi'
recently brought suit against forty tire,
men who would not pay their eubscrip
tiOns, and obtained judgment in eacl
case to the amount OF each claim. o
these, twenty eight made affidavit tina
they owned no more than the law al
lowed, thus preventing attachment
then, under a decision OF the Suprem
Court, they were arrested for petty lar
ceny and bound over in the sum OF tire
hundred dollars each. All but Fix CAV
bonds, while six went 10 Jail. The new
postal law makes it larceny to take
newspaper and refuse to pay for 1t. =
THE Island Pond Herald Is printing
series Of articles, "a Trip Through Yer
mont" and has this TO say OF an even
at Rutland, which Ia of interest TO Lieut.
Col. Puffer and his Vermont command
The writer says Leaving Burlington
after q nights sojourn there, we reache'
Rutland in due time, and soon fOun,
ourselves comfortably fixed in the Bard
we'll House. By the various trains tn
number Of gueets constantly increased
most Of whom were 10 Rutland for th
same reason that we were there, viz
The Annual Convention Of the Dioces
Of Vermont. The convention did no
meet until the evening, 80 we had tim
and the opportunity to take in the dem
onstration OF one OF the phases OF Ode
Fellowship in progress in the town. Tn,
societies were called Cantons, but pre-
cisely what that means we know not. a
we are not among the initiated. On
thing. however, we do know. and that |
that they were handsome body. New
we'll fitting uniforms, gorgeous In color
and gold we'll drilled and full Of ami
mstion, made them in marching ant
dress drill as handsome as the male Sc
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