The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-17
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Notes Of the Coming Pageant and
military week.

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'. Notes Of the Coming Pageant an
military Week.
3 Killington Commandery, Knight
le Templars Of Rutland, has chartered
:, drawing-rOOm car for their use to Al
= tend tho Bennington celebration o
d August 10.
J, Mount Calvary Commandery, Knight
r Templars Of Brandon and Middlebur
n expect 10 attend the Bennington Cen
tennial mounted. The Odd Fellows
u Lodge expect to go in a body TO attenl
It the same celebration. - 1iddlebuT
J, Register.
y Invitations have been received invit
: ing the various CantOns Of this distric
!. to, participate in the exercises AZ tin
dedication OF the Bennington MOnu
= mont in August next, which, by all nc
I counts, will be one Of the biggest day
that Vermont has ever had.-SWndGl
Budget.
; A large delegation of Knights Tenn
plars, Odd Fellows, Patriarchs Militant
) knights Of Pythias and other secret so
cieties have accepted invitations, as have
,, also many Grand Army posts. The
Patriarchs Militant will be in command
! Of Lieut.. Gen. Underwood, the head Of
the Order.
Hon. Redfield Proctor, Secretary OF
War, and family, will occupy their sum-
mer residence at Marblehead this week.
! Secretary Proctor returns to Proctor,
Vt, in August, TO entertain President
Harrison and members of his Cabinet,
who will he his guests for short time
after the dedication of the Bennington
Battle Monument.-BOstOn Journal
Work on the new hospital at the sol
diers' home is being pushed rapidly for
ward. Q frame is up and boarded
and the roof is being put on. Major
Cohey expects to have the building fin
ished so as to be used for sleeping quar-
tiers for guests at the celebration In Au-
gust.
Mt. Zion Commandery, Knights Tenn
plars, has been invited to attend the
Bennington celebration in a body, and
the Recorder has been instructed to cor
respond with the members relative
thereto. So far as heard from nearly all
have signified their intention Of being
present, and 1t is probable that they will
be represented with full ranks.-Argus.
Canton Montpelier held regular
monthly meeting, last Friday night, and
a special meeting Monday evening. A
Thursday evening. when all will be given
a free ride to Barre. The order goes to
Barre to exchange civilities with the
Canton there, and also make some pre-
limiary arrangements for representation
at the Bennington celebration.
The Rutland Herald has information
that Major Cushing's battery of light ar
| tillery of Newport, X. l., has accepted
a inv 30. kn III
come by train to BrattlebOrO, where they
will join Fuller's battery and company /
and will start from there on August ~
and will march over the mountains to
Bennington, arriving there on August
II, staying one night on the road.
The Bennington Rifles expect Capt.
Eddy of the sd Separate Company Of
HOOsick Falls, N. Y, to meet with them
on Saturday evening to make arrange
ments to drill Co. X for the August cele-
bration. 1t is possible he may be en-
ployed by Canton Remington also. It
Is safe to say that II Capt. Eddy drills
the Rifles for few weeks, other COM
panies will need TO look well to their
laurels at the muster.
The department commander, Col. N.
NJ. Puffer, has invited two regiments of
the Massachusetts, Patriarchs Militant,
Colonies W. A. Ralph and Geo. r. Ran
del, the latter commander of the Sd regi- |
ment OF the Western Massachusetts |
troops; the Second New Hampshire, Col. |
Q. A. Scott, commander; and Gen. |
WOOdward's division of New York. Gen. |
Woodward lives in Albany and no doubt |
the CantOns near us will respond and be |
present. These are the Chevaliers of |
Albany, Rensselaer, and Saratoga cOun- |
ties.
Parties having rooms to let or desir- |
ing to secure bOarders during the COM |
ing Centennial celebration, should CON-
municate Immediately with the enter |
tainment committee who are Harry T. |
Cushman, I'd, Hon. Alfred Robinson, |
DR.. l.. S. Rogers, G. yelling Thatcher, |
DR.. A. S. NJ. Chisholm, Geo. A. Robin |
son, Henry d. Fillmore, G. d. Gibson, |
DR.. e. d. Daley, DIR. F. s. Pratt and |
Fred l.. Bowen. Lists opened for book |
ing rooms may be found at G. d. Glib |
sons drug store, Col. Olin SCOTS Office |
and Sheldon and Cnshman's law Office. |
The Kingsley Guard will have an out |
door drill this evening at 7.30 o'clock,
says the Herald of Wednesday. Friday
evenings the new men in the company |
are drilled. The boys will go into camp
at Bennington in just a month, and after
this week drills will be more frequent. |
There will at least 20 men who will have
their first experience this year at mus
ter. Philip Kemp will do the cooking
at the camp, and Maj. COffey of Ben
nington will furnish the walters. Nearly
all the supplies for the camp will be sent
from Rutland.
The Old Guard, under Major George
w. McLane, the Newport cadets, Bur
lington cadets, Tibbets Veteran Corps,
Troy Citizens Corps, Burleigh Corps Of
Whitehall, AmOskeag Veterans of Man.
chester, N. H., and $50 officers and men
from the National Guard of New Hamp-
shire, the governor and staff and legisla-
tive committee of about 70 from Massa-
chusetts, the Vermont association and
Vermont Veteran association of Boston
have all accepted invitations. The Put
nam Phalanx of Hartford, Conn.,, and
the Armstrong Veterans from Manches-
ter, N. H., will appear In Continental
uniforms.
The Committee on Decorations have
closed the contract with Mr.. A. G..
Ia Lime of Worcester, Mass, as official
decorator for the week of Aug. 10th.
Our informant last week as TO Col. Beals
being the man was mistaken. No doubt
other decorators may do work here, but
the one appointed by the committee is
Mr.. Ia Lime. He has animmense amount
Of material and exhibits by far the best
Layout" for such a service. His goods
are new, are Of first-class material and
spark alighting upon the display from
any cause is not likely to lead to con-
tiagratiOn. Moreover, Mr.. Ia Lime will
have extra pieces Of uniforms, flags, ETC.,
for emergencies. Private house owners
should consult at once with Will G. Bull,
chairman, so that they may not be disap-
pointed in the preference for decora-
tons.
Pursuant TO an order issued by X. K.
Kittredge Haskins, grand commander,
the past grand commanders, eminent
commanders and other prominent Tenn
plars in this jurisdiction met at Burling-
ton Friday evening and arranged many L
Of the details for attending the celebra-
ton at Bennington in August. The Cen
trail Vermont railroad company was rep
resented by its general passenger agent,
s. w. Cummings, who was prepared 70
give rates, itinerary, ETC., which were
entirely satisfactory 10 all The meeting
was well attended and most enthusiastic.
Il Is safe TO say that the Knights Tenn
plar Of Vermont will make an appearance
at the coming celebration second 10 no
organization that shall join In the par
ade.
The Boston Daily Herald Of Saturday
the following: president Har-
rison has formally accepted the invita-
ton to attend the Vermont State centen-
NAL celebration, 10 be held here on Aug
ust 10, and as now planned will spend