The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-07-11

g. F. BURT, in the employ of the Man.
hatten watch company, is home for a
brief visit.
HENRY CARPENTER is home from the
west, visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
David Carpenter.
R. P, BATES of Chicago, accompanied
by his wife and daughter, is visiting al
the old home here.
EUGENE GRAVES and family of Cleve
land, Ohio, are stopping with the family
OF the Hon. Luther r. Graves.
SEVERAL parties from this place spent
Sunday among the mountains, some al
camp Comfort, some at Lake Hancock
TEN car loads of excursionists spent
the afternoon at Camp Comfort Tuesday
The people came from Troy, N. Y, and
numbered, including children, over 700
UNDAUNTED by the rainy morning
four hundred excursIonists from Troy
are at Camp Comfort to-day. The after.
noon weather has somewhat recon-
pensed them for the forenoon draw
backs.
WE are paiped to learn that Prof
Davis, now id Saratoga, has a child who
is not expected to recover, He is to re-
move TO Bennington as soon as arrange
ments can be made and circumstances
permit.
WE are told by the County Supervisor
OF Schools that in addition to the com
mon school branches, applicants for first
grade or five year certificates will be ex
amined in algebra, English literature
and general history. This will be of In.
terest to every teacher,
THE school district known as the
"Lyons" is negotiating for consolidation
with our Graded school corporation
Their location makes this very desira-
BILE move on thee part of residents, buI
just how the proposal will strike our vii
lage people remains to be seen.
The people of che Second Congrega-
tional Church are 10 have the pleasure
next Sabbath OF hearing the Rev. Geo
w. Phillips, d. D., the highly esteemed
pastor of the First Church of Rutland
who will preach morning and evening
in exchange with Rev. Mr.. Seymour.
ARTIST WEAVER is again at work dec,
Grating the Graded school rooms. Il
Will be remembered that few rooms
were fixed last year, and during the
present vacation others will be subjected
to like treatment. These are permanent
improvements and will last for year:
without further outlay.
THE copy of change in the advertise.
ment of G. V. S. Quackenbush & Co, OF
Troy, N. Y, is received too late for this
week. This old and reliable firm offer
great bargains in white costumes, fancy
shawls and wraps, silks and satins, thin
black goods and colored dress goods, al
prices defying competition, This is a
grand place to trade.
THE Saratoga Electric Railway Com
pany has filed articles of incorporation
with the Secretary of State. The incor-
porators include j. M. Burt, Bennington,
Vt. w. B. Ferguson, Boston, Mass.
j. L. Butman, ]. d. Hayes. c. w. Nit
chell, G, W. Morton, j. H. Parding and
D. Vail of Saratoga. Capital stock $50,
OOO.-Sdratogd Correspondence.
The meeting of the Young People,
Society Of Christian Endeavor of the
First Baptist Church will be held as
usual on Sunday evening next, begin
ming promptly at $50 p. m. The topic
will be Study Of the Model Constitu-
ton, led by the pastor. A ten minutes
praise service at the beginning of the
meeting. All young people most cor
daily invited.
THE Bennington wooden mill case,
which had another hearing in Saratoga,
N. Y, Tuesday, before Judge John R.
Putnam, was adjourned till July 90. This
is the suit against the New York party
to recover the alleged capital of $50, 900
which figured in the Haines incorpora-
ton, and has nothing whatever to do
with the property now. The creditors
of the late concern are $50, 900 better off
ii this suit prevails, that is all.
WE take this interesting piece of news
from Western contemporary "a
newspaper in Ohio recently brought suit
against fogty-three men who would not
pay their subscriptions, and obtained
judgment in each case for the amount of
each claim. OF these, twenty eight
made affidavit that they owned no more
than the law allowed, thus preventing
attachment ; then, under decision of
the Supreme Court, they were arrested
for petty larceny and bound over in the
sum OF $500 each. All but ak gave bond,
while six went to Jail. The new postal
law makes it larceny to take a newspa-
per and refuse to nav for L.