The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-10-31
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3. N. FOSTER, ESQ, of Chicago, H.,
has been east for a week, making his
many friends in Bennington, Pownal and
flying visit.
Miss GHFFITH's opening, noted else
where this week, is commended 10 the
attention of our readers. Her show
windows are very tastefully arranged
The old and reliable Troy house of E,
w. Boughton d Co., have an announce
ment in another column to-day. Send
for their illustrated catalogue of styles.
JOHN II. DwYER, of Hoosick Falls, N.
Y, having finished his two-story double
tenement on Grove street, has broken
ground for another on the corner of
Grove and Gage streets.
THE habit which some correspondents
have of writing on both sides of the
sheet saves paper, hut it sometimes
causes great waste of "cuss" words on
the part of newspaper men.
The annual concert and ball of the II.
W. Putnam Hose Company, last Friday
evening, was success, and Melted about
$50, The elegant spread at the Putnam
was enjoyed by more than eighty.
PROF. VAN OLINDA, formerly director
of the Bennington Choral Union, organ
list and choirmaster at St. Georges
Church, Brooklyn, has organized in the
parish musical society of225 members.
THE row Sunday evening at or near
Hal Mathers' greatly disturbed some
good people who were entitled to the
peace and quiet the law is supposed to
guarantee. Six inebriated men can
make considerable noise when they set
out for free fight as in this instance.
LEWIS BRoCKLEBANK, late of Co, /, 9th
N. Ii. Infantry, died at his home in New
port, N. H., Of paralysis. on the Goth
inst. He and his wife were employed at
the Soldiers Home during its first year
He was charter member of VIM. c..
Tracey Post, G. A. r., of Windsor, Vt.
SEVERAL people in our village and vi
cinity are sick, some with fever, others
threatened with fever. Among these we
note Robert Drysdale, Horace Wood
man, II. e. Camp. Frank Amidon is
suffering from an accident, and Charles
Jewett is critically i'll with Bright's dis
ease.
THE Prudential Committee of joint
school district No. of Bennington, and
No. IL of Pownal, have notified the pa
rents of delinquent scholars that unless
these children attend school twenty
weeks, as the law provides yearly, there
will be more to follow. This is move
ment in the right direction.
THE Good Templar election, post
poned last Friday on account of the
religious meetings in town, will be held
tomorrow evening, and good at
tendance is requested. This Lodge will
now resume the work which has been
held in allegiance during the revival
services of the past month.
The repairs on Masonic hall are CON-
pleted, the carpets are down, and Taft
Commandery, tomorrow evening, will
be the first body to meet therein. The
Eastern Star will follow next Wednes-
day evening. The Lodge has met on
bare floors and improvised seats for two
months and will appreciate their re-
newed quarters the second Tuesday in
November.
ALLSANT's DAY will be observed in
St. Peters church, tomorrow by a
Celebration of the Holy Eucharist at 6
a, M; a Second Celebration at 1890,
followed by a sermon, and Choral
EVensog at 7,3O o'clock. The flowers
brought to the church, will be placed on
the graves of the commemora:ed, on
All-Souls Day, Saturday, following a
very ancient and beautiful custom of the
church.
The Communion season at the Second
Congregational Church next Sunday
will be marked event in the history Of
that denomination. Not since revival
years ago in the Old First Church, has
there been at one time the large number
that will unite with this church His
tory repeats itself with the Second as
well as with the First society. One
good feature is the large percentage OF
letters, which, with those who will join
on profession of faith" emphasizes the
quality of Mr.. Mills's work.
ASTRONOMERS tell US that the sun hal
a pull" of thirty-six quadriion CSC, 900,
OOO, 900, O00, O0O 000 tons on the ca nth, and
that If this force should cease il would
take nine telegraph wires attached tC
each square inch Of the earth's surface
TO hold 1t from dropping into the bot
tomless pit of space, Now pay the print
er, say % the Plattsburgh, N. Y, Republi
can, from which we quote, and escape
the wrath to come. Notwithstanding
this alarming condition of things W.
shall continue to hold the price of tn,
BANNER at $3.50 year il paid in ad
vance.
REFERRING to the recent warm spell
the Detroit Free Press says "IndiaI
summer never yet came before the frs
Hurry OF snow, and it probably never
Will, and nobody ever saw frost on ar
Indian summer night. This is simply de
cent October weather." This accords
with experience and tradition. There is
prevalent disposition to regard tn,
warm, sunny days, alternating will
crisp, frosty nights common to mid DC
tober as the so-called Indian summer
But this is mistake. The true "Indiar
summer" is of an altogether different
character. 1t invariably comes some
time in November, though it is not o
annual or regular occurrence. 1t j:
marked by q genial warmth of the at
mosphere, and peculiar haze which
gives soft and gentle aspect to tne land
scape, and the country presents pic.
ture of dreamy beauty, though denudeC
OF foliage and the greenery OF the earlier
season. Open-air exercise is then q de.
light.-Troy Times.
Miss SALLY ABBOTT, whom we report
ed as very i'll when we went to press las
Thursday, died that evening. She haC
made it her home with her niece. Mrs
IL. =. Bradford, for the past 25 years
and the long evening of life Of this eX
cellent woman was made very pleasant
by one who knows so well how to assis
in smoothing life's pillow. Miss Alb
bott was daughter of John Abbott, and
was born in Holden, Mass, in March
1901. When her brother, Asa Alb bot
and his family, came to Bennington, she
came also, and this has practically been
her home ever since. The funeral was
attended Saturday afternoon. the Rev
VIM. j. Chapman officiati ng, and the
interment was in the family lot in our
village cemetery. Miss Abbott was a
lifelong and consistent mem Der of the
Methodist Church. In her ctive years
she was prominent in all tha.t goes To
make up good and faithful la Dor for the
Master. She had passed the bounds OF
her more active work when she came
here to live, and was little cen except
in attendance upon public worship when
ever able. In the family circle where
she is best known, however, her lovely
and christian character will be long re-
membered.
WE note that the bill for the late sur
vey of the village, made in accordance
with the terms Of the charter, was laid
on the table" at the special meeting re-
Gently. If for the purpose of investiga-
ton to see that the work had been prop
erly done, and the map drawn a credita-
BILE outline, as no doubt il is, then all
right. But if from opposition, the soon
er the official mind is disabused of its
error the better. The terms of the char