The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-11-20

Z. ID. GIBSON has been in New York
this week, purchasing an entire new line
of Christmas goods.
READ the new advertisements in to-
days paper. There are too many of
them to enter into detail.
JOHN LONERdAN, SR., left to-day for a
visit to his brother in Connecticut whom
he has not seen in over thirty years.
The Hon. Il. G.. Root and Maj. A. B.
Valentine were present at the banquet in
Boston, this week. given in honor of
Maj. Mckinley.
A. p. CHILDs has been elected treas
urer of the Dennison Cotton Manufactur-
ing Company. This is of interest to
Northern stockholders.
TWENTY ONE Vermont banks had &C
counts with the great Maverick National
Bank of Boston when it failed, and will
suffer more or less loss.
THE Tenesseean Jubilee singers have
found Vermont hard place, and in their
effort to skip hotel bill, the manager,
Frank Miller, is stopping with the sheriff
in st. Johnsbury.
Now is the time to place your holiday
advertising. Don't wait until the week
before Christmas, because the greater
time. Don't rest until you have written
good advertisement.
THE death of Mrs Stearns Rice, last
Monday, was quite sudden, she having
been as well as usual although some
what out of health up to the evening be-
fore. The funeral was held from the
house Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
LAST week we spoke of the severe ill
nt NJ q nj
child of Prof. Chas. S. Davis. Measles
followed the condition of Group we men
toned, and the case has been very severe,
but the little girl is now better and con-
valescing.
COMPANY B, of the Good Templars,
entertained Company A, who had won
the quarterly victory on the "credit sys-
tem," last Friday evening, taking them
to supper at the Methodist church par
lors. Thus endeth the second contest in
our local lodge.
THE Middleboro NeWS of yesterday
says: Bloomington is a wool town, wool
growing and wool manufacturing, and
there are twenty-three Odd Fellows in
Middleboro this week who will vOuch
for the statement that her Odd Fellows
are, too, all wool, and yard wide.'"
THE organ for the st. Francis de Sales
new church has arrived, and will soon be
set up-the builders coming on to do the
work. The fair, spoken of last week,
will probably open with an organ con-
cert about Dec. 10th. The staging will
be down next week, and the BANNER
will contain description in detail of the
elaborate interior of the church.
COUNTY court opens the December
term Tuesday, Dec list. The docket
is a long one, comprising $40 cases, of
which twenty-nine are State. This is
very long list of state cases. From talk
with attorneys, the term promises to be
a short one, unless the causes remanded
from the Supreme court general term,
take the time, as is possible.
CHAS. c.. THOMPSON has sold his inter-
est in the Corner meat market to W.
II. Blanchard of Pownal. The new ar
rangement went into effect this week.
Mr.. Thompson has been in the meat
business here for years, and has taken
leading position in the market traffic of
the town. His old customers will regret
to have him go out of this market. Mr..
Blanchard was for years the bridge
builder of the Troy & Boston railroad
and in that capacity is known to some of
our people. OF late he has not worked
at his trade and now locates i'll town as
above. Mr.. Blanchard will be welcomed
to business circles here.
APROPos to the clubbing scheme of
the Republican State Committee to com
pei Vermont publishers to reduce %
cents from schedule price in order to
dlLOlC of the A. cent rates formerly given
for city weeIlies, the Bellows Falls Times
remarks, after copying the CHpPer to
which we refer in another place: I'VE
have yet to note any of the leading State
newspapers which have agreed to CO.
operate with the State Committee, and
with all publishers united as they seem
to be, the scheme cannot but fail to have
any visible esuts. The State Commit
tee will suffer loss of public respect,
which is the sole effect probable
MANY of our people will be sorry to
hear of the sudden death of Mrs. John
A. Griswod of Troy, n. Y, which oc-
Cured just after noon of Wednesday.
Mrs. Griswold's name before marriage
was Elizabeth Hart She was the
daughter of Richard p. Hart of that city,
and she was mar led to John A. Girls
void September 14th, 1913. Mrs Girls
void was born in Troy siXty-nine years
ago. She has always resided in this
city, where she has been prominently
identified with many charitable institu-
tions. A brother Richard p. Hart, re-
sides in New York. Sisters of the de-
ceased are Mrs. Susan II. Shields of
Washington and Mrs. Caroline II.
Shields, Mrs Samuel NJ. Vail and Miss
Sarah w. Hart of Troy. Mrs. Griswold
is survived by five children: Chester
Griswold of New York city, Mrs. Ed
ward NJ. Green, John Wool GriswOld
and Frank B. Griswold of Troy, Mrs.
Joseph w. Burden of Lenox and Mrs. H.
Walter Webb of New York. Her hus-
band died October 3lst, 1872. Mrs. Girls
void was graduate of the Troy Fe-
male Seminary, of which her father was
one of the first trustees. Mr.. GriswOld
will be recalled in connection with the
Monitor and for various other enter
prises of which he was che chief mover.
Mrs. Griswold was one of the best known
and most highly-esteemed ladies in Troy.