The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-10-02
BENNINGTON BANNER.
BENNINGTON:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891.
READ what G. B. Sibley has to say in

Mrs. A. B. GARDNER gave card
party Thursday evening.
A. P. CmLDs and family, are attend
ing the Brattleboro fair this week.
F. H. SCOTT is quite seriously i'll at
his home on Pleasant street.
NOTE Miss Sibley's fall opening of
millinery next week in another column.
Miss MARY WEsTFALL and her friend
Miss Lena Davis, are visiting at H. L.
Hover's.
Mrs. EDWARD S., PARMENTER is still
alive, but very ill with liberation of the
stomach.
Miss AGNES CARR of Hoosick Falls,
n. Y, is visiting friends at the Centen-
NAL House.
MISS ISABELLE. GOLDSMITH recently
returned from a two weeks visit in
Troy, n. Y.
JAMES H. LEvERICH arrived in Ben
nington last week from Central America,
rid San Francisco.
WILLIAM TooMEY and D. \. Ward,
Jr., have moved into their new homes
built on Grand View Terrace.
THE new mill of The Lasher Knitting
Company will be ready to start up as
soon as mid-winter if all plans do not
fail.
julius P. NORTON, son of Luman p.
Norton, has gone to sea, shipping so
that he will probably sail around the
world
THOMAS MoRRIssEY was brought
home from North Adams, Mass, last
Wednesday. His condition does not
seem to improve.
MISS MCDoNOUGH has returned to her
home in Western New York. Mrs. VIM.
Matthews went there with her and will
remain for visit.
CHAs. BARNES received telegram
this week of the death of his sisters
husband in New York city. Mrs.
Barnes was down there not having yet
returned.
Mr.. AND Mrs. WILLIAM NEELAN of
Onslow, Iowa, are visiting at William
Austin's. Mrs. Neelan is sister of Mrs.
Austin and it is twenty-five years since
she has been east.
THOMAS MURPHY returned last Satur-
day from his vacation in Amsterdam
and Cohoes, N. Y. He will work for the
present for James H. Whitney running
one of his delivery wagons.
THE DIN Reunion badge this year is a
black silk ribbon lettered with gold as
follows: colin family reunion, NGichi-
gan, Ohio, New York-Vermont." Each
year they have something new for
badge. ..-..--..... .-...
WE are told that Capt. R. O. Gore has
purchased the Marshall chair factory
lot'' on the Stamford mountain. This
lot takes about two-thirds or three
quarters of Lake Hancock and all of the
Wallen pond
THE Messrs. Tiffany are thoroughly
overhauling and repairing their water
power which is supplied from the Nor
gan spring. Their iron trunk is some
thing new for this section, wood having
been the universal material heretofore
used in trunking streams.
OUR North Adams exchanges of last
week, have these items: 'Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Bowen of Bennington have been
visiting j. Z. Bowen in the Blackinton
block this Week.-Mrs. Laura Har-
WaSk of Bennington. VT, has been
hho II, fhn &c
Miss Minnie Niles"
THE second excursion to New York
city, via Fitchburg railroad, occurs
Tuesday, October 18th, and the fare is
the popular price: 1925 from Pownal
stations; $500 from the Hoosicks and
Walloomsac. Tickets good only on
train arriving in Troy at 6.5j p. m, and
limited to return on or before the 18th.
A HORSE taken from Hoosick, n. Y,
was driven into town by some parties
who ran into the Loring bridge, broke
the carriage and the horse ran away.
The men disappeared. This was in the
early evening and at about midnight
couple of men arrived in pursuit We
did not learn their Names
JOHN S. HOLDEN & COMPANY are i'm
proving the low water to repair their
dam which was damaged by last springs
high water and was not helped by the
late August freshet. The structure is
OF. stone and is thoroughly relaid. The
Mage, meantime, have drawn out
about $500 worth of gravel from the mill
pond bed.
THE Father Matthew T. A. b. society
will renew their pledges at Vespers
Sunday afternoon, These pledges are
renewed as near the birthday anniver-
.ary of the Apostle to Ireland Father
Matthew, as is practicable. They ask
all young men to join them and to fall in
and go to the church Sunday when the
society 60 up in body.
SOME of our local readers win regret
10 hear that Clerk Bowers of the Albany.
\. Y, penitentiary has met with
serious assault, while in the discharge
Of his duty, the Geographic report of
which says: Frank Wallace, 2j, colored,
serving long term in Albany peniten-
tiary, made a desperate assault upon
Clerk Bowers. Wallace had been re-
ported for misconduct, and Supelinten-
dent Mcintyre and Clerk Bowers went
into the shoe shop, where he works, to
see him As they aDDrOacbpd the npuro