The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-10-16

| Temple, is very Ill With fever.
JOHN TEMPLE now employed at Fort
Plains, N. Y, is expected to spend Sun
day with his family here.
PROF. HENRY D. WILD of Williams
College, will address the Y. NJ. G. A.
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
SEVERAL different parties have lately
been in town for the purpose of visiting
the battle monument This week party
of four from Trenton, N. j., came here
for that purpose,
NJ. B. MORGAN is the new chorister of
the Methodist church, the place that
Prof. Goldsmith has held for the year
past. The latter is the tenor singer of
st. Peters quartette.
BILLY Cox and paddy" Whitney, the
song and dance artists, left town last
week for Connecticut where they will
fill an engagement with travelling
patent medicine company.
THE brick work on the new mill of
the Lasher Knitting Company, was COM
menced Thursday. 1t is the intention to
have this industry in its new quarters
and all running by January next.
THE Scott family have chair that has
been an heirloom for many years, hav-
ing been owned by them since 1875, and
how much longer is not known. This
chair was photographed recently.
DAVID CARPENTER, agent for DR.. C.
G. R. Jennings, lis putting the side walk
up to grade in front of the Doctors fine
homestead on Main street. The place
will make q nice home for some one and
is for sale.
LOUIS A. GRAVES and wife arrived in
town last week. Mrs. Graves is the
daughter of DR.. Cyrus A. Alden of New
York city, and an accomplished lady
who will be welcome addition to Ben
nington society.
J. b. MCNAMARA AND Son of North
Bennington, have removed their grow
ing business to the NJ. c. Healy building
near the depot. Their trade is con-
stantly increasing and they let people
| KNOW III through our Columns.
THE Democratic tin-plate liars are
pretty effectually squelched in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer, which illustrates a con-
Germ, under the heading: "Tin-plate is
made at our doors" The cuts show the
various processes employed with the
workmen at their labor.
o.
arrived in Scotland about three weeks
ago, the voyage over being pleasant. A
letter received this week conveys the
gratifying intelligence that Mrs. Shurt-
leffs health has greatly improved.
IT seems to us that the blouse"
quarry south of this village affords an
opportunity for capital to develope into
great industry in the furnishing of
building stone. The fact that the stone
can be easily carved should make Il
valuable over other quarries that are not
thus susceptible.
The Second Congregational church
people have graded up in front of their
house of worship on Main street. have
sodded the borders and seeded the plots
to make a handsome lawn next summer
as heretofore. This was made a work
of necessity because of the street i'm
proTements.
Col. OLIN SCOTT is still on the sick
list but is better. He was able to at
tend the funeral of his nephew, Frank
II. Scott, last week, but the exertion
was almost too much for him to endure.
Meantime his business is rushing"
orders pouring in, He is giving personal
direction TO his manufacturing, however,
with the assistance of a secretary.
DAVID BUSHNELL. has lost black
mare, either strayed or stolen from the
Green Mountain stock farm. The de-
scription is: -Four years old, slim-neck,
rather low headed, weight eight hun
dred and fifty pounds. One gambrel
joint some larger than the other" Any
one giving information of her where
abouts will be literally rewarded. She
was missed on the night of the It'll,
inst.
ALBERT PARSONS has been in town
this week giving the finishing touches to
the monument. He returned to Lowell,
Mass, few days since. The bronze
doors have been reshipped to the manu-
facturers on account of defect found
in them. These will be returned perfect
and replaced Architect Rim is deter
mined that the structure shall be as near
perfect as possible before he releases
the cOntractors-all of which is COM
mendable.
WARNER RICE has presented the BAN
NER with specimens of apples grown on
his farm in Bennington this year which
are the finest we have yet seen. They
would take the first premium, in our
opinion, at any fair. The varieties were:
500 ounce" kings Thompson" "Bald-
win" and "Greening," five samples. In
connection with them were "choice pie
pumpkins" new variety. Mr.. Rice
ranks among our best farmers.
IN attendance upon the annual meet
ing of the A. B. C. F. NJ. at Pittsfeld,
Mass, this week were Rev. Messrs.
Severance and Seymour of this place, &C
cOmpanied by their wives OF the others
who also attended we note Misses Anna
c. and Sophia L. Park, Mesdames Lor-