The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-10

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COMMENCEMENT week at Middlebury
begins June 26th. The great day is
Wednesday, the 10Th.
THE Rev. Chas. r. Seymour returned
last week from his two weeks vacation,
ana occupied his pulpit as usual last
Sunday.
THE sixteenth commencement of Yer
mont Academy, is to occur June 18th
23d, inst. The Mendelssohn quartette
of Boston furnish the music.
THE Lansingburgh, N. Y, correspond
ent of a Troy exchange says: ''Mrs.
Samuel Powell of Third avenue is visit
ing her parents at Bennington, Vt"
THE walls of the chapel of the Second
Congregational Church are to be re-
touched and refnished, adding to the
attractions of that edifice. The work
men have already begun work upon it.
THE Republicans of Bennington are
requested to meet in caucus at the
Village Rooms, Park Block, Saturday
afternoon of this week 18th, inst, at 4
o'clock, to elect eight delegates and their
alternates, to the State Convention to be
held in Burlington, the 22nd, inst.
THE June inspection of the Benning-
ton Rifles took place yesterday. The
Board consisted of Col Estey, Gen.
Gilmore and Lieut.. Atkinson. The
Rifles turned out nearly 40 men and
made good appearance.
AT the Grand Chapter, o. E. S., held
in Manchester, Wednesday, several
people from Island Pond, Lyndonville
and other places formed parties and
came to Bennington to visit the monu-
ment and the Soldiers Home. Two
such parties we know, of six and nine
people, and there may have been others.
THROUGH the courtesy of the scribe
we have received a fine report of the Ben
nington County Conference of Congre-
gational Churches, held in East Arlinton
Tuesday aud Wednesday, June It'll, and
9Th. We are obliged either to defer or
cut it down this week on account of the
Graded School programmes, and prefer
to defer in the interest of the people who
will desire a complete report. 1t will
appear in full next week. There was
large attendance.
The Executive Board!of the Soldiers
Home, of which Hon. Hugh Henry of
Chester is Chairman, met yesterday to
finish the plans, etc., for the completion
of the chapel at the Soldiers Home. We
learn that some $1,000, has been sub
scribed and is in hand, besides, there is
probably another 800 en- route. To do
the subject justice some more money is
needed, and no doubt it will be forth
coming.
THE John A. Robinson & Company of
Troy has just been incorporated with
the New York Secretary of State to buy
and sell at wholesale and retail drugs,
medicines, chemicals, and property
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druggists. Capital, $1,000, divided into
Robinson, five shares; Philip A. Calder,
five shares; Charles F. Palk, fifty shares
George Sagendorf, 345 shares, and
William D. Bunney, five shares, all of
Troy. Another stakeholder is NJ. G.
Robinson of Bennington Centre, ninety
shares. The Company's store will be in
Troy.
DIR. w. G. HoLLIsTER, a well known
physician of this village, died quite sud-
denly at his residence on Union street
Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock. He
was on the streets early and visited
several patients, the last call being made
about o'clock. He returned home and
laid down on his bed. In few moments
q boarder in the room next to him heard
a strange noise, and calling the doctors
wife, they entered the room. He was
just dying when they reached him. He
had often said that when he died he
should go quick, and expressed desire
to have a pOSt-mOrtem examination
made after his death, which will probably
be done. He was 81 years of age, and an
unusually intelligent and well informed
man. He leaves widow and two chill
dren. The body was taken to Half Moon,
Saratoga County, N. Y, for burial
yesterday. Dr. HOLSTERS mother came
here at once on hearing of her sons
sudden death.
CHILDREN's DAY will be observed
next Sunday at the Methodist Episcopal
church in an appropriate manner. The
display of birds and flowers is expected
TO be unusually fine A beautiful service
by the children, which will take the
place of the usual evening meeting, is
called, "The Gospel of the Birds" The
first birds gospel to the world was
carried by timid dove, when DER the
floods reciding tide an olive leaf she
safely bore. News that the waters rose
no more. In addition to the usual dis
play of flowers, live and mounted birds
will be used in decorating, and the
theme, in music and Rotations will be
will be an arrangement of the FESTIVAL
TIE Deum," by Dudley Buck. Interest
in the exercises may be heightened by
administering the ordinance of baptism,
and the reception of some as pro-
bationers in the church. Certainly there
can be no fact in connection with the
observance of Childrens Day more
beautifully significant than this, and we
would by word, call special thought to
it, seeing that sometimes, in the multi
plicity of cares, there is danger of over
looking the highest and most imperative
duty of the church, namely, the leading
of her children to Christ. A silver col
lection will be taken, to aid in the edu-
cation of young men and women for the
ministry, and other forms of
religious work. Consider the Lilies !
will be sung as an offertory solo.
THE Village improvement Society is
DESTROYS of having the work which has
been done this season in the park and
cemetery inspected by all who favor i'm
prOvements. Notice the well kept APP
pearance of the park, the addition of
nearly one hundred evergreen trees, the
rustic seat and flowers near the entrance
to the cemetery, the beautiful lots of Mr..
III. W. Putnam, and Mr.. Eli Tiffany.
Any one going to Mr.. Putnam's fountain
for water are requested not to approach
it across his lawn, but by the paths
made for that purpose, and leading to 1t.
The conditions of the driveways, and
numerous minor points are worthy of