The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-06-26

If THOMAS ENRIGHT of Briggsvllle, Mass
spent few days in town last week.
:. SAMUEL B. SANFORD, Esq, is at h
home in Bennington Centre for the sun
mer.
~ Mrs. DIR. ROGERS and daughter Lauri
7 went to Saratoga, N. Y, Saturday Tor
v short visit.
MARTIN Cone is moving the Bennins
5 ton Center cemetery and otherwise beaI
D. tifying the grounds.
Mrs. MALCOLM MIDDLETON of New
port, r. l.. is visiting her parents MI
and Mrs. Lyman HARDWOOD.
i DEWEY DUNHAM is in charge of i'm
. provements going on at the Fillmore
farm barns of James G. Colgate.
>, o. w. HAYWOOD, now of Troy, N. Y.
e has been visiting his parents here few
days this week, taking short vacation
LAWYER JUSTIN KELLOGG of Troy, N
' Y, is expected with his family at hi
Bennington Centre summer residence
the coming week.
DRINK ice water sparingly, if at all
and save yourself from dyspepsia, which
makes life burden. A sip quenche'
thirst as well as a gulp.
ATTENDING the State Encampment, S.
o. " at st. Johnsbury this week are
Col. E. T. Griswold of that order, Fred
Ferguson, Andrew Maurer and Henry
Dietel.
MAI. A. b. VALENTINE reads a paper
this evening before the Congregational
Club, on business methods in church
matters. He will have something inter-
esting to say.
THERE will be a special cantonment
of Canton Bennington, No. 4, next Tues
day evening, for the purposes of muster
and installation. A good attendance is
requested.
LAST year at Boston, during the G. A.
r. National Encampment, the study was
how chedpy people could be entertained.
This should be the rule for Bennington
to emulate i'll August.
If all village property owners would
NOW their street fronts at this time and
then again about August first, it would
improve the looks wonderfully. We sug-
gest this for this year in particular.
A NUMBER of our young people attend
ed party in Peterburgh, N. Y, Wednes-
day evening at the residence of Edward
Green, Miss Hannah Green received the
guests and entertained them very hand
somely.
TEMPLE CHAPTER No. s, r. A. NJ, is
to confer two degrees next Monday
evening, including the Royal Arch. The
cOnvOcation will open at o'clock, sharp. |
All members of these degrees will be |
cordially welcomed at Masonic Hall on
that occasion.
Miss Oracle GREENsLET takes the
place of Miss Jennie AmidOn in Hud- |
sons during the latter's illness. Miss
Amidon went to see her sister, who was
ill, at her uncle's, was herself taken sick,
and now the mother has gone down to
care for her two daughters.
The Polyhymnia Quartettc give a re-
ception and social to one hundred invited
guests, at the Putnam next Monday
evening. In the musical programme
they will be assisted by the Philharmonic
Society of Cohoes, NY, and Miss Jessie
May Miller of Troy.
LIST of letters advertised at the Ben
nington. Vt, postOifice, for the week
ending June Goth, 1891: Mr.. Arthur Aus
tin, Miss Sarah II. Russell, Mr.. E. Bouth,
Miss Laura A. Smith, Mr. Dudley Curtis,
William Remond, j. II. Wilson.
THOMAS HALLoRAN, the mounted pos
tai rier, has procured n U. S Mail
pony cart that is at once ornamental and
handy. 1t is after the pattern used in
Chicago and has box for parcels. With
this Mr.. Halloran seems to be fitted for
almost any kind of postal service re-
luired of him.
WE are told that the Selcctmen are
taking measures tic properly police the
town in August. There is no occasion
to call a special town meeting to do so;
the board have ample powers. Our
query two weeks since was based upon
what one of the board said, but evidently
he had not looked the matter up.
On Monday next the Electric Light
Company connect to their new wheels
the enlarged system of incandescent
lights. This increases the capacity of
the plant from six hundred to fifteen
lights. Several improvements
have been inaugurated and the whole
will render better service in the future
than even the excellent service of the
past.
FRAER's signboard has caught the in
fiction of village improvements ON West
Main street. The old landscape with
portrait of Mr.. Frcar has been repainted
ready for the new design. The landscape,
ETC., now covered was much admired
some years ago when first painted-no
doubt the new one will be in keeping
with its new surroundings. Mr.. Frear
has Il new advertisement in to-day's
issue.
THE fireman are going to Rutland in
full ranks July 4th. The Tiffanys will
for the prize offered by a Rut-
land business house, to be awarded to
the company making the disappearance
in the parade. This prize may be seen
IN the window of Squire d RawsOn's
iewelry store. Bennington will. also,
furnish running team. We think we
are sure of at least two prizes.
TIE Selectmen have received from the
State Board of Health the regulations
by that body These are in
neat pamphlet form and will be distribu-
ted among our people. The regulations
we're published by the BANNER some
time ago, and are too voluminOus to re-
peat this week. We suggest that those
Of our readers who receive these pam
phlets preserve them for reference, as the
sanitary directions are valuable and
should be obeyed.
WORK on East Main street will com {
mence at once, the street commissioner
having leveled up to grade preparatory
10 laying the cutters and curbs. Mean
time by the time July It'll arrives the
owners, save two or three on
West Main street, will have graded up
heir sidewalks. Discussion of public
matters in special village meetings cost ,
100 much, and we need the money thus
wasted TO lay out on our streets because
IF the centennial. Why not call mass
would amount to as much
md be less expensive?
THE Rev. Fred Widmer died yesterday
at the home of his daughter in Salem, n.
Y. The particulars of his life and the
,auses which led up to this sad event
we're given by us two weeks since. He ]
was of Swiss parentage and was born in ,
Troy, n. Y, Jan. q, 1885. He was the
of ten children and the only
Dne born in America. His father was a
soldier of Napoleon. Mr.. Widmer was
always doing some favor to assist his
fellows, and many, like the writer, who
have received such from his hands, will
regret this termination of q useful life.
A widow survives him, who was Miss
Anna Eliza Cults of Orwell, daughter,
the wife of Rev. Walter S. Eaton of Sa-
lem, and son, Walter J. Widmer, who
is student at Poultney Academy. One
sister and two brothers are living
A VERY pretty wedding took place on
We'd esday afternoon at All Saints
Church, Hoosick, N. Y. The bride was
Miss Mary Annette, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Zebra Quackenbush, and the groom
Mr.. Eugene Emile McCandliss. The
chancel was tastefully decorated with
evergreens and flowers. The altar was
vested in superb white hangings, the re-
table was n mass of red and white roses