The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-09-04
BENNINGTON BANNER.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1891.


QUITE number of our people visited
the fair in Cambridge this week.
MRS. A. S. NJ. CHISHOLM and son have
been in North Adams, Mass, few days
JUDGE DARLING has been on the sick
list for few days, but is around again.
Mrs. JAMES HABBERLRY has gone to
Delhi, N. Y, to visit for a couple of
weeks.
MISS ELIZABETH ABBOTT enters ST.
Agnes school at Albany, N. Y, with the
opening of the fall term.
Miss CARRIE CARRIE CARPENTER has
gone to Wilbraham Academy to enter at
the beginning of the autumn term.
MRS. Ida L. SNYDER and Miss Harriet
E. Rundell, who have been visiting Miss
Lille /. Ford for a time, have returned
to their homes in Troy.
THE evening service Sundays in st.
Peter church will be held at o'clock,
hereafter During the past two months
it has been held at 1880 p. m. o.
THE Citizens Band have been engaged
to play at the Battenkill Valley fair at
Manchester Centre next week. This is
their second years engagement.
Mrs. H. NJ. FUTILE and daughter,
Miss Luella futile, accompanied by
Mrs. Geo. W. Keeseman, attended the
Cambridge Valley fair this week. n
THE new signs on the Nichols block,
were painted by Merritt E. Peck, who
will locate here if business offers. These
signs are very artistic in appearance.
CHAs. Haywood of South Gardner,
Mass. comes to Bennington this week to
Join his wife at Mrs. H. E. BradfOrd's.
They will return to their home soon.
Hon. THos. WHITE has been confined
to his house for short time, but is able
TO be out again. he intends to take a
trip to Massachusetts for short visit.
Mrs. SAMUEL JEwETT is soon to go to
New Haven, Conn, for the winter Miss
Bertha Jewett enters boarding school,
and their pleasant home on South street
will be closed.
THE condition of Lawrence Mitter
gives his friends considerable solicitude
these days. When he is himself he is
an honest and handwriting mechanic,
but has been unable to work for some
time.
MRS. LAURA TAYLOR and family re-
Gently spent a fortnight in Bennington,
ra+,,rniDu boD,o II, +ba oor l1y mont of +bo
week. Mrs. Taylor was quite sick dur
ing her stay there and was unable to re-
turn to Manchester as soon as expected.
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WITH the taking down of the stands,
erected to view the procession, the marks
of the late centennial celebration are
fast disappearing. A general clearing
up of rubbish has also ensued. The
food saved some work in this direction
while it made labor in others.
THE hearing in the Monument
Chancery suit will be continued
until after the adjournment of
the Washington county court at Mont
pelier Ex-Gov Dillingham; being en-
gagged there, the adjourned hearing will
not come on again next week, as stated
some time since.
DIR. B. G. JENNEY and wife are sadly
afflicted in the death of their little
daughter, Este, who died Sunday after
noon after an illness dating from eleven
o'clock of the morning of the day before.
The disease was cholera infantum. The
funeral was held on Thursday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. The child would have
been nine months old had she lived I'M
til next Monday.
THE officers of the Central Vermont
road say that the passenger traffic on the
road was never so heavy as it has been
this summer on all the divisions. The
traffic over the central division is said to
be as heavy as over the Rutland division;
tbs also understood that the vestibule
trains between New York and Montreal
by way of Rutland, which were put on
for the summer, will be made perman-
ent. This is good news for this part of
the State.
LAST week the Granville Sentinel cele-
brated its seventeeth birthday by getting
out an edition on red paper. The SEN
tinel has been of late very enterprising,
newsy and good paper, but its last issue
was luridly intellectual and read all the
way through" This is from the Troy
Budget. In copying it we take occasion
to thank, our wide-awake contemporary
for its pleasant word, for the BANNER,
and to congratulate it upon its success
a success well deserved. '' goa
Mr.. AND MRS. FRED o. GRAVES
threw wide open the doors of their ele-
giant home Wednesday evening last the
occasion being afeception givenin homer
of Mrs. Eugene L. Graves of Cleveland,
Ohio. Over hundred guests assembled
and the reception was a pronounced
social success, The refreshments were
served by Sinsabaugh, whose name alone
is a guarantee of their excellence. Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene L. Graves leave for
their home in the West next week.
THE Lebanon Springs railroad has so
far recovered from the effects of the
flood Of last week, that from Berlin to
Chatham trains are running regularly,
and from Bennington down towards Der.
lin to point about two miles. Some
days this week the gap of eight miles
was covered by transfer stages. 1t is
expected that train servide will be. re-
sumed next week the entire length of