The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-28


during Centennial week.
Mr.. WIN. L. HALL and wife return to
their home in Troy this week.
Miss JESSIE p. SMITH is visiting
friends in North Adams, Mass.
MRS. WEsTGATE and child of Dakota
are visiting at Mrs. Charles S. Colvin's.
BUTTERFLY Shippers are among the
new attractions in church town parties.
MISS ESTER PORTER goes to Western
New York this week on her annual vaca-
ton.
Mrs. FRED DAVIS of Syracuse, n. Y,
is visiting her mother, Mrs. John II.
Kehoe.
DANIEL WALKER of Illinois, has been
visiting his brother, Capt. Albert Walker,
of this village.
Mis-. ELMER STRATToN of Hebron, ILL.,,
is visiting her brother, John H. Ayres.
She will remain week longer.
THE front of Miller e. Williams's store
is being improved by the building of new
cement steps and approach to the cellar
way.
THE Pleasant Valley school house is
undergoing repairs, and when completed
will contain modern school furniture,
seats, etc.
JEROME E. STEWART and wife, and
daughter Frances, are in Bennington Wis
iting friends for the next three weeks
Troy Budget.
Mrs. FITCH CLARK of Minneapolis,
MIMI, is visiting friends in the East.
She spent Sunday with Miss Edna Clark
of this village. r.Ea
MAJ. r. j. CoFFEY went to Montpelier
Monday and was present at the opening
of the Legislature. He returned home
yesterday evening.
MRS. JOHN r. PILLING, after weeks
visit to friends in Bennington, returned
home Wednesday. Mr.. Pilling and John
came mp to the celebration.
MISSES LOUISA AND FANNIE GUY of
Sandy Hill, n. Y, who have been
spending the past week with D. w. Hall
of this village, have returned home.
j. N. LEvAssEUR sold four New Home
sewing machines this week, and to ladies
who know what a good machine is. One
of those was Miss Marion II. Sibley.
IN the hurry of last week we omitted
to mention pleasant reception given by
JllC hlbSOo IldN No Oh Illlldl ONCDlIlS,
August 14th. A large company were
handsomely entertained
COLLINS GRAVES, oldest son of VIM.
R. Graves, goes to Browns University,
Providence, r. l., next week. Russell,
the younger son, enters the school at
SaXtons River next week.
WIN. B. ARNOLD furnished milk for
one thousand men during celebration
week, and the horse that Gen. Dalton
rode i'll the procession was his. 1t was
one of the best mounts in the line.
The picture of the "Old First Church,
in last weeks BANNER is an ideal cut,
no actual illustration of the first meeting
house, built in 1853, having ever been in
existence. 1t stood to the west of the
present edifice.
Col. OLIN SCOTT and wife gave an
elegant reception at their home Saturday
evening, August 22d, in honor of their
guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Clark of
Boston, Mass; Mrs. George Albro of
Syracuse, n. Y, and Mr.. Frank House
of Coburg, Canada.
WE are told that the anonymous letter
fiend in again operating about town.
Several Of our people have received such
missives. A good detective placed upon
the track of the writer's will serve to
bring them to justice and it should be
done. The writer of scurrillous anony-
nous letters is beneath contempt.
GEORGE S. FISK, son of the Rev. P. B.
Fisk of Morrisville, who has been en-
ployed in this Office for three months
past, returned home to-day, his engage
ment having been completed Mr.. Fisk
is looking for permanent position on
the staff of some good paper and has had
experience i'll the editorial
line.
THE Hoosick Valley Negs of last Sat
urday has this item: THE Rev. W. w.
Foster, Jr., will preach in the Methodist
church tomorrow morning and evening.
The evening subject will be: Three
things at the Bennington Centennial
which were a credit to Vermont, and one
thing which was a disgrace" If we
escaped with but one criticism it is more
than the average of goodness the world
over.
THE Italians who were injured last
week while blasting on the Terrace, are
somewhat better. TONY is able to get
around with shade over his eyes and
the work. Peter the one
who was injured quite seriously, having
a broken arm and lot of powderin his
face and eyes, has been taken to the poor
house where he will be better cared for
than in his room. 1t was a narrow
escape for their lives and they will be
more cautious another time. .'i
p. In addition to what is quoted In an
other place we give the following ex-
preston of friend who was here and
who wrote: 'sBennington's great day
has come and gone, and its memoty will
long remain as green in the minds of the
native Vermonter as are the hills that
surround the pretty place. All theiprep-
aration and arranging for the great event
was not in vain, for the crowd that
swarmed to Bennington Wednesday, the
day of all days, was far greater than the
most sanguine expected. So well were
the arrangements perfected that the ex-
tensive programme was carried out with
out hitch, and the whole thing passed off
very smoothly indeed. 1t was truly
great week for Bennington and Vermont,
and the people of that village and State
may well feel proud of their efforts"
THE San Francisco papers of last week
give illustrations of our great day, as we
note by marked copies of the Chronicle
and the Examiner received, They illus
trate the cold Bennington on the Hilr'
as seen from the capstone photographed
by Watson and the only negative in ex-
istence), Geo. w. Robinson's residence,
views of the monument, Catamount TaY-
ern, etc. The Examiner aecomplishes
the prodigious feat of epitomizing Mr..
Phelps's speech into twenty lines. The
Chronicle speaks editOrially of the Occa-
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