The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-21
BENNINGTON BANNER.
BENNINGTON:
FRIDAY, AUGUST 81, 1891.


in town as fully $4,000.
IT required 2OOO yards of bunting to
decorate the monument.
THE Vermont department of the G.
A. R. was represented in the parade by
300 men.
MISSES ELLA and Minnie Collins of
Wiliamstown are guests of Mrs. Eli
Tiffany for few days.
OUR band made an appearance during
the parade which nobody need be
ashamed of. In both music and appear
ance they were not far behind the best
of them.
SQUIRE & RAwsoN report that they
have sold about 80 dozen of the Monu-
ment Souvenir Spoons, amounting to
nearly thousand dollars in value. This
shows that the souvenir was fully APP
preciated.
THE Rev. E. G. Reed of Somerville,
New Jersey, formerly pastor of the Sec
ond Congregational Church of this place,
will preach in his old pulpit next Sunday
morning. The Rev. Mr.. Seymour will
speak in the evening.
WE give an excellent likeness of our
popular townsman, Col. L. F. Abbott, of
the Governors staff. We were unable
to obtain his photograph taken in uni
form, and are ready and willing to be
forgiven for illustrating him without his
knowledge or consent. ..y ..... ..,.. $50,
AMONG the centennial souvenirs of the
week is an illustrated catalogue of E. E.
Child's business college of Springfield,
Mass. 1t is an elegantly printed and
illustrated picture of that school, one of
the best in the country. 1t is advertised
in another column. ,s ,'
EXPLANATIONS for the granting Of GER
tifcates to teachers will be held as fol-
lows: West Rupert, August oath and
25th; Peru, Aug. 9th and 2Sth Hart
MELVILLE, Aug. 31st and Sept. 1st Ben
nington Sept End and Sd. Town Super
intendents should notify their teachers.
In connection with the address of Noah
Smith, at the first anniversary of the bat
tie of Bennington, given elsewhere in this
issue, with the poem also delivered on
that occasion, it may be said that Steph-
en- Jacob was born in Sheffield, Mass,
Dec. 7, 1755. Noah Smith was born in
Sufield. Conn.,, January 81, 1856, and
died in Dec. 1872
AMONG our centennial visitors are Mr..
and Mrs. Augustus Walbridge, Miss
Marion G. Walbridge and maid, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clarence Creighton of Brooklyn,
n. Y. They are guests of Mr. Barker F.
Vail of the west part of the town. Mr..
Walbridge is lineal descendant of Gen.
Ebenezer Walbridge.
THE water which was used at Camp
Vermont was brought from the Green
Mountains (where it abounds in all its
purity, in the village mains, and contain
ed nothing that would seriously affect
anybody - Notwithstanding statements
sent out by certain of the correspondents
of city papers.
SECRETARY FOSTER was to have been
entertained by his cousin, Mrs. Geo. w.
Robinson. Her daughter, Miss Jennie
Robinson, received from Secretary Fos-
ter, Wednesday, the following telegram:
81 very much regret my inability to be
at Bennington to-day, as 1 anticipated
am the only cabinet officer in Wash
ington; the rest are all out of the CITY,"
IT is pretty evident that most of the
people who came to Bennington the past
week had their own ideas in regard to
seeing the parade, and preferred to pick
their own standing ground from which
to look on. The stands which had been
erected at frequent intervals along the
line of march were not literally patron
ized-in fact not half the seats on many
of them were occupied.
CANTON VINToN of Bennington had
the honor of entertaining Gen. Under
wood during the centennial. Capt.
John Dillon and the chevaliers were en-
thusiastic in caring for the welfare of the
distinguished guests, as well as those
from the Vermont department. Col
and Mrs. Puffer say that they are under
great obligations to the fraternity for
courtesies received. The Odd Fellows
branch of the centennial was grand
success. ... .,
MAJ. Fl. A. LON GLEY of Northampton,
Mass, was one of our visitors this week
and was entertained at the Walloomsac
house. He attended school at Center
Bennington in 1882 when the Ben
nington seminary was taught by Prof
Jas. H. Ballard, who is recollected by
many of our citizens. Maj. Longley has
not been here before during the sixty in
tervening years. He has been often APP
pointed to Office and held that of sheriff
from 1855. thirty-nine years.
THE Vermont Association of Lowell,
Mass, was represented by Secretary E.
G. Baker. In company with the Boston
Association the Lowell Association dates
back to 1854, at which time a grand
assembly was held at which Vermont's
then famous poet, John G. SAKE, being
unable to attend sent his sentiment
which read as follows: ''Vermont is
famous for four great staples-strong
men, handsome women, maple sugar and
fast horses. The first for strength, the
last so feet, the second and third exceed
ingly sweet, and all hard to beat"
THE task of carrying over 10000 peo-
pie to and from Bennington during the