The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-09-25


FRANK NJ. RYAN left town this week
Wednesday to accept good position
with the Friction Pulley Machine Works
at Sandy Hill, N. Y. ,
THE Rev, Bostwick Hawley, D. D., well
known here, has been elected president
of the board of trustees of the Child
rens' Home at Saratoga, N. Y.
Mrs. a, W. DAVIES of Cleveland, O.,
known to many of our local readers as
Miss Susan Weeks), is visiting Mrs.
Hiram Bingham and other friends after
an absence of dozen OF more years.
B. c. BLISS has accepted an opening to
take charge of 2 creamery in Chester,
Mass, a flourishing institution running
the year around, Mr.. Bliss is an accom-
plished butter-maker and has been. with
the Bennington creamery one and one
half years.
MRS. CHARLES BARNES has been visit
ing in New York city for time Last
Sunday she was with Mrs. Geo. B. Sears
and attended church at st. Edwards the
Martyr. Mr.. Barnes was absent a much
shorter time than his wife has been, both
going down to the Metropolis together.
WE are sorry to hear of the continued
illness of Geo. M. Sibley. He is publicly
known as the basso of the Bennington
male quartette, which enjoyed an envia-
BILE reputation when in practice some
time since. We hope to hear of him
again enjoying recovered health.
MEssRs. CRAWFORD AND CARNEY are
putting the machinery into their new
shoddy mill and will have it running
within ten days. This is pretty enter
prising work when it is taken into &C
count that the freshet disarranged the
water power as well as all the founda-
tons of the old mill August 9th, ult.
The funeral of Mrs. Nancy Smith was
attended from the residence of her son,
James F. Smith, in Woodford Hollow,
Tuesday morning. The remains were
taken to Cambridge, n. Y, for inter
ment. At the time of her husbands
death he had been member of the
Methodist church over fifty years, and
was then the oldest lin years of continu-
GUS membership, layman in the Troy
conference. Mrs. Smith was a lifelong
member of that communion also.
THE Y. NJ. c. A. make an announce
ment elsewhere to-day of an Entertain
ment Course" of six parts, three con-
certs and three lectures. Since the Y.
NJ, A. discontinued their annual lecture
courses there has been nothing particu-
Lar to take their place, and we are glad
to know that course of three lectures is
promised this year. We say lectures be-
cause we are, personally, in favor of
these educating influences and not be-
cause we are averse to concerts or other
entertainments ON the lines laid down.
THE Rutland HeWld says: 1.-THE fall
time table of the Central Vermont road
goes into effect to-day. Th6e are no
changes except in the arrival and de-
parture of the, vestibule trains as pre-
viously announced. These trains, which
have been SO popular through the, sum
mer, will be continued through the fall
and winter" This affects for this week,
only the south-bound vestibule train
which runs earlier, the the time of leav-
ing this station being 3:O5 p. m, instead
of 3 :3s as during the summer. We are
told that next week the up flyer will
also run earlier.
On Wednesday. Oct It'll, Prof. A. r.
Clark, the New York eye specialist. be-
gins another weeks engagement in Ben
nington. His Office and consulting
rooms during this visit will be at the
Putnam House. In the relief of eve
troubles and fitting those important Or
gans to proper glasses, Prof. Clark's
success is well known here and can only
be attributed to his thorough knowledge
of the eye, and his long and continued
practice of over thirty years. Our read
ers are reminded that it costs nothing TO
consult the Professor and have a thor
ough diagnosis made of the eyes.
WE find the following complimentary
notice in the Enterprise published at
Ludlow, and edited by r. s.. Warner:
''SoIne took us to do because we advo-
Gated decency in editing OF making a
garbage wagon of a newspaper. We fail
to see any reason why newspaper
should not be as clean as a table cloth,
clean enough to read in schools. We
have read the Bennington Banner for the
last two years and it lis the cleanest paper
we know of, one needn't be ashamed to
allow his family of boys and girls to
read it. BY the way, the Banner has
now taken on the quarto form, and
needs but to be cut and pasted to make
it the best in the State" We assure our
brother quill-driver that the trimming
and some other mechanical defects will
be overcome in due time, and that we
heartily agree with him in the remark
with which he closes his article, good
newspapers" like the Enterprise for in
stance, "are good for schools as well as
for the home"
Two weeks since, we spoke of the
iconoelastic spirit of the age, in connec-
ton with Folk Lore" by the Hon. Geo.
W. Hartman, and expressed the hope
that moderns would leave us the Fourth
of July. Vain hope! The natal day Of
the Republic is yet untouched, but the
Battle of Bennington, according to Locke
in Saturdays Troy Times, is myth.