The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-10-09

village.
YESTERDAY, in New York city, Louis
A. Graves of Bennington was married to
Miss Maude Alden of that city.
JOHN S. LYMAN is attending the U. S.
Court at Rutland, this week, as foreman
of the Grand Jury of the term.
THE Forty-hours DevotiOns begin in st.
Francis de Sales church Monday morn
ing at o'clock the Rev. ]. S. Michaud
will be assisted by several priests.
DIR. S. r. WILCOX recently sold one of
his West Main street dwellings-the one
adjoining Judge E. Livingston Sibley's
lots advertised on seventh page to-day.
THE petition of Chas. Cooper to put a
bridge over the street at his upper mill,
connecting the two buildings In the man
ner of the Benton paper mills is still UNI
settled. The village trustees granted
the petition. This was vetoed by Presi-
dent Daley. Another nesting was held
resulting in postponement of further &C
ton until next Monday evening.
THE BANNER congratulates the Boston
Journal on its recent change of form.
The Journal is one of the stanchest
champions of Republicanism and protec-
ton in New England. 1t is clean, high
minded, trustworth family newspaper,
representative of all that is best in Amer
lean journalism. 1t deserves its pros
perity, and, in its new and more cOnven-
lent form, should increase its already
large circulation.
THE reception given by Col. and Mrs.
Scott to the DIN family last Friday even
ing was brilliant affair. The spacious
mansion was thrown open and the even
ing was very enjoyable as predicted.
The visitors from the west say that the
banquet in the church parlors and this
elegant reception were entirely out of
the usual line of their annual gatherings.
We would state that this is the ordinary
way Bennington people entertain. Come
again next year.
ANOTHER item copied from the North
Adams, Mass, Transcript, gives an ink
ling of joyous event that occurred here
Monday. 1t was the marriage of Mr..
Harry Putnam Hermance and Miss Sybil
EloiSe Edison neice of Mrs. Edward
Norton of this village. The ceremony
was pronounced by the Rev. Il. Marten
at the residence of Mrs. Norton at three
o'clock. Miss Hermance was the brides
maid and Mr.. Volk the groomsman.
The company was a very pleasant one
and Mrs. Norton and her son Edward
did the honors in right royal manner.
The reception by Mr.. and Mrs Robert
G.. Hermance, parents of the groom, is
to be held at the family residence in
Pittsfeld, Mass, Oct. 18th, from to 10
p. IN. Congratulations.
VERMONT has just dedicated fine
monument at Bennington, commemora-
tive of the revolutionary battle which
was fought several miles from where the
shaft stands, on the New York side of
the line. The battle it appears, belongs
to New York, but Vermont secures the
monument. No matter. BGttera mOnu-
ment in an adjoining State than nc
monument at all. But what New York
would like now is monument overlook
ing the sites OF the Battle OF Valcour III
l77G, and the Battle Of Piattsburgh in
1Sl4-thc first and the last naval battles
between this and the mother country
-PidttSJWgh Republican, Exactly. New
York would do well to stop trying tc
reverse the facts of history and build the
Valcour monument. We would 20 W
Tor DOWN, and help to both lay the cor
ner-stone and dedicate the structure.
LAST week we briefly stated that the
lands about Lake Hancock had been pur'
chased A local historian takes occasion
to recall some history in connection
Herewith that we copy into our columns
as follows: "The most important sales
of forest lands that has been made fol
some time in the vicinity of Bennington
is the purchase of 1900 acres in the towns
of Stamford and WoOdford. The lands
the title of which was vested i'll Milo
Pierce of SALISBURY, have been bought
by Henry w. Putnam in the interest o.
the Bennington Water Company. The
purchase includes the northern portion
of Lake Hancock, better known az
Sucker pond, in the town of Stamford
and the whole of Marshall pond in Wood
ford. Lake Hancock has long been a
popular resort with pleasure parties
from bennington and other places. l
lies well up toward the top Of one of thu
commanding ranges of the Green Noun
tains, nearly $500 feet above sea level
| Not far from the lake and on the road t.
+ Bennington, known as the elbow, is tn,
famous cold spring. If thermomete
be plunged into this wcll-known spring
in midsummer the mercury quickly sink
to 30o-the lowest temperature of an,
| stream that trickles naturally from tn,
rocks of Vermont. Long before thu
| days of railroads the stages in travelling
over the turnpike between Bennington
and Brattleboro always hailed at thi
spring. The water is 50 cold that it vii
search out a defective tooth as unerring
| " as a dentists mallCt. Eventually
summer resort may be established Of
this tract of land but meanwhile tn
waters of the region will be used to sup
plement the water supply Of Benning
ton"
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