The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-09-04

4hlSS LlLAAAN Aim LINE 10 W ShSNA
the Misses McKay's school at Newburgh,
N. w beginning with the fall term.
Miss DAISY TIFFANY, who has been
a guest of Miss Melissa Morse the past
two weeks, returns to her home in Wa
terburyI Conn, this week. 70 er..,-
HENRY w. PUTNAM is layinga marble.
walk in front of his late purchase, the
Graves, Root & Company property on
West Main street, and is also raising the
same up to grade. ~ mod !d4eu
THE Rev. w. B. Walker, H, G. Lind
loft and Others attended ~ the Knights
Templats' festivities at Saratoga, N, ".
this week, described in another column
to-day by,a correspondent u .alu aln
The Graded schools begin next Mon
day. There will be some changes in the
teachers, but the opening of the French
school will probably obviate the neces-
sity of reopening the overflow room of
last term. ..-s.
THE concrete Tor ''made" stone), steps
in front Of the building occupied by DR..
j. T. Shurtleff, and Messrs. Miller &
Williams are great improvement. The
only drawback seems to be the difference
in height. of the upper step with the
postoffice building t..; g,
GEN. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, U. S.
v, writes us, among other comments:
'Your celebration was the grandest and
most perfect ever attended from 4th of
July, 81 i'll Washington, to Philadel-
phia and New York centennials. May
you all live long to enjoy your noble
work" sa.4 .- tr" ..f1
REFERRING to street improvements,
why not do away with the old appear
ance Of the streets by placing new steps,
etc., ona line with each otherP Asnow
being constructed will the new steps and
walks have any better appearance than
the old9 Just look at Main street as far
as done and answer the question.
ROBERT FLYNN, at work for j. H. Lor-
ing & Company, left a span of horses
unhitched at the depot the other day.
The team started and in Flynn's endeav-
or to stop them he was seriously ill.,
jured, but was about again the next day.
1t was narrow escape from what might
have become a serious piece of careless
ness.
THERE is considerable good horse
tl,a fn1lDwiYcr rryh;oh ,l;v,
from Kansas exchange: ga real estate
agent at Topeka sued for commission on
sale he brought about The jury were
evidently men that understood business,
as they brought in verdict against him
ON the ground that as he had no advertise
ment in any paper and had no printed
letter-heads, cards, ETC., he was not a
real estate agent" ...... '..
ONE of the St. Adams Chevaliers
stopped with H.. A. Taylor during the
celebration. He lost his pocketbook,
and search for it proved fruitless.
After Canton Franklin had returned
home, and week afterwards, the purse
was found in chair on Mr. Taylors
veranda, contents intact. Gen. Howard,
also. lost his money, and it was found
safely reposing in the bed where he
threw his clothes as he hastily changed
his citizens dress, the 10Th, just in time
to take his place in the grand procession.
N. NJ. PUFFER is at loss to ascertain
who has one of his saddles and equip
ments borrowed from Boston, and also
his own saddle loaned to some one on
of getting mounted the names of the
borrowers were not taken. The Vol.
XIII. OF Proceedings, S. G. L. of Odd
Fellows, belonging to II. L. Stillson, and
left on the camp grounds, has not yet
been discovered. If any one knows
where these articles are they will confer a
great favor by communicating to either
of the persons named.
THE French parochial school opened
last Tuesday with 70 scholars. We are
told that no pupils over twelve years of
age are enrolled, and that both French
and English will be taught. The teach
ing of the French is largely for the con-
venience of families. With only English
understood by the children of French
parents, they are unable to read letters,
etc., in which their fathers and mothers
are interested, and to remedy this is
largely the object of this school Eng
lish WILDE the leading language taught.
The teacher is Miss Kate McGrath. All
children above II years will be sent to
the public schools. ".~
LAST Saturday F. H. Cook, formerly
of this town and readily recOllected by
many of. our older inhabitants, died at
his home in Plymouth, aged 70 years,
seven days. He was for time medi-
cal student in the Office of the late Sjlas
Wilcox, NJ. D., but did not enter the pro-
fessioh. He was the eldest brother Of
j. I. 9. Cook for many years editor and
publisher of the BANNER OF the de-
ceased, his, brother's paper, the Journal
of Mikord, Mass, says Deceased was
born jim Springfield. Mass. He was a
man Of ardent temperament. generous
impulses and unquestioned. honesty Of
conviction. Away back in, those earlier
days when to be an anti-slavery man, in
a political sense, was to be not only in an
insignificant minority, but also to be
scoffed at and Fidiculed for opinions
sake, ,he was.an ardent aBolitionist. His
symphthies always went out to the poor
and oppressed ofevery cline and nation,