The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-10-02

the guest of Mrs. H. N. Williams.
SQUIRE & RAwsoN have an advertise
ment in another column, that will inter
est our readers.
THE Graded Schools, by rooms, were
photographed by an out-of-town photo
grapher this week.
Miss ESTHER PORTER has returned
from her vacation, and is at her old
place in I. E. Gibson's.
WIN. MOORE returned home this week
after two weeks visit to his former
place of residence in the State of New
York.
LAWRENCE MIrTER has been taken to
Brattleboro for treatment. His wife
went over with him, but will return
here.
THE Rev. G.. H. Smith of Bridgewater,
Conn, a class-mate of the Rev. Mr..
Walker, gave the rector Of st. Peter $
church, a call on Monday.
MRS. JOHN CHRYsTAL and daughter
Anna, returned home Tuesday after a
two weeks sojourn at New York city
and Providence and other places of in
terest. Mrs. Chrystal being much i'm
proved in health.
THE regular Sunday evening service at
the Second Congregational church next
Sunday night will give way to tenn
perance meeting in the Chapel, under
the auspices of the Sunday School. The
meeting will begin at Z o'clock.
THERE is no need to go ont of town to
buy dry goods, and for proof read
Nicholas advertisement in another
column. This house invites BANNER
readers to call and see them. If you do
so you will not trade elsewhere.
GRAND REPRESENTATIVE PUFFER of
the Odd Fellows, reached home Wednes-
day, having been last week in attend
ance upon the Sovereign Grand Lodge
in st. Louis, Mo- The next session is to
be held in Portland, Oregon, in Septem-
Der, 1892.
AT the meeting of the Rifles Monday
evening, it was determined to build or
procure new armory, and committee
for that purpose was appointed consist
ing of Lieutenants Davis and Griswold
and First Sergeant Burnham. We think
that better quarters for Co. K. can be
and ought to be obtained.
NEXT week through train service will
be resumed over the Lebanon Springs
railroad, and the time card will be for
the present, similar to the summer ar
rangement which was broken up by the
freshet of Aug. 9th. For the amount of
damage done we think the breaks have
been quite expedetiously repaired.
THE butternut crop is bounteous in
these parts this year. 1t is nothing un-
common for parties to go out of the vii
lage few hours and return with eight
or ten bushels of nuts. When hunters
fail to sight squirrels they, have, been
known to come into town bending under
the weight of game-butternuts afore-
said
THE Herald is authority for saying
that "Gov. Page said that he should
soon appoint an inspector of finance, as
it was not an Office he could leave vacant
long. Who the lucky man was or
whether he had really settled on any one
yet the Governor would not say" The
place is the one made vacant by the
death of Editor Greene of the Wood
stock STANDARD.
LIST of letters, advertised at the Ben
nington, Vt, postoffice, for the week
ending Sept. 18th, 1891: r. NJ. A. Bell,
Mr.. H. B. Evans, Mr.. Geo. Hawkins,
Mr.. Howard II. Joslyn, Mr.. Horatio
LOOMS, John Mason, Esq, Oscar"
Mr.. T. E. Parker, Star Rubber Co., Mrs.
Lucy w. Ashley, Miss Ethel Belts, Mrs.
Emily Bently, Miss Mary Burke, Mrs.
Warren Burrows, Mrs. S. Coke, Mrs. A.
S. Crane, Miss j. II. Edgerton, Miss
Hattie Gilman, Mrs. Nina Morse, Mrs.
C. A. Potter, Miss Satie Vergest.
THE fall change of time, on the B. & r.
and Fitchburg railways, appears in an
other column. As stated last week the
are slight except that of the
vestibule train South and ReU train
leaving here at 5.55 a. M, to connect
north with the Central Vermont at Rut-
land, enabling people south of Rutland
to get to Montpelier and the east side of
the State from the day trains. This is
certainly most accommodating addi-
ton. By it a person can leave here in
the morning and transact business in
Burlington, St. Adams and Montpelier
and return the same day.
THE executive committee of the State
Centennial Commission, consisting of
the Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of State, State Treasurer and
Speaker of the House, met at the Bard
well House, Rutland Wednesday even
ing with the Executive Committee OF the
Citizens of Fifty of Bennington to audit
the bills incurred by this local commit
tee for the State. The local committee
was represented by II. T. Cushman, Jr,
Hon. j. V. Carney, E. l.. Bates and l.
Z. Gibson of Bennington. Secretary of
State Brownell was the only member of
the executive committee of the Centen-
NAL Commission absent.
IN municipal court this week, after
102 days of refusal to disclose, Owen
MacGuire disclosed on the COOLER
and O'Donnel. He was fined s. and
costs, in all some s7j, and in default of