The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-15

See prospectus on another page to-day.
THE young people have a hop at the
Putnam tonight.
Miss NETTIE NJ. PIERCE is spending
the week among relatives in Manchester.
Miss RUTH A. SQUIRE gave party al
her elegant new home Wednesday even
ing.
MRS. A. HARTLEY and child are visit
ing Mrs. Hartley parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Albee Buss.
Mrs. B. c. JENNEY gave luncheon
party, Wednesday, in honor of her sis
ter Miss Edith Dewey.
PROF. HARVEY D. WILLIAMS, now of
Ithaca, n. Y, formerly of Bennington is
stopping at the Putnam house.
Mrs. H. L. HOVER is absent visiting
in Schodac and Albany, N. Y. She will
remain away two weeks longer.
MRS. GEORGE F. GRAVES, Mrs. Chas.
H Dewey and Miss Cora Whitney are
passing few days in Woodford city.
DR.. DERBY, at the Putnam house, has
a word to say in another place to-day,
that may interest some of our readers.
BESIDES those named last week, Miss
Esther Porter attended the international
Y. P. S. c. E. in New York last week.
Miss FANNY ToMLIsoN is home for
the summer vacation. She is spoken of
as very fine teacher by several of our
exchanges.
DR. LOUIS E. NILES of Springfield,
Ohio, and his sister, Miss Grace Niles,
of Williamstown, Mass, have been visit
ing Rev. and Mrs. Walker this week.
To the Denver delegation of Knights
Templars from Bennington, published
last week, should be added J. E. Wal
bridge. Col. Olin Scott has been invited
to join the party.
IT has been decided that the trustees
lay the cutters and walks on North
street according to the village survey,
and work has begun on it getting ready
to push things right along to early COM
petion. This is right.
THE Rev. q. Marten, of Bennington,
was elected Vice-President for Vermont
of the International Society of Christian
Endeavor, by the great convention in
New York city. Mr.. Martin will be
home to occupy his pulpit as usual next
Sunday, the 18th, inst.
The Summer Home Company has
just received a new open observation car,
which arrived Saturday evening. 1t will
be used to bring passengers down to
Bennington from Camp Comfort. This
summer resort is very popular this
season, as it deserves to be, and is full
OF boarders.
THE RefOrmer'S usual accuracy is
shown in its gratuitous notice last week
that the price of the BANNER had been
reduced to 81. per year. This is not
true. Since the change in publication
day of this paper our contemporary
waning local columns have kept pace
with its declining career.
The Vermont Press excursion took
place last week. The Brethren were
banquetted in St. Johnsbury and toast
ed in other places. They assembled
Mt. Washington and bathed at the sea-
shore. This year the long train of poll
ticians were represented by letters of re-
greet largely; in former years these have
been in attendance.
IT gives us much pleasure to say that
our offer of the New York Weekly Tri-
bune and the BANNER both one year, for
only S1.50 is meeting with undated and
increasing success. Every mail brings
us new subscribers, and many old ones
are taking advantage of the offer, and
are paying up arrears and sending the
Tribune to date from expiration of their
present subscription.
WHILE Maj. Valentine and his son
were absent in the Adirondacks, as
stated in another item, they met with
the loss of one of the fine span they
drove away. The Dewey mare was taken
sick one evening with something resem-
bling apoplexy and died about midnight.
They. had driven but short distance
during the day and nothing unusual
about her had been observed. This span
is the one that took first premium at the
Battenkill Valley fair for the best pair
of carriage horses, and the two were
valued at $1,000.
A BENNINGTON girl in the West util-
ICES her knowledge of science and the
nomenclature thereof. When she writes
to her lover she does not close with a
conventional phrase, as "Yours always"
or Your own" heavily underscored.
She puts the words Psittdculd S,Uind-
erenidnd before her name. At least, so
we are informed by st. Louis editor,
who reveals his omniscience in one of
those delightful Question and Answer"
columns. He kindly explains the phrase
as follows: ''The scientific Latin name
of Swindhern's love bird, species of
parrots remarkable for their attachment
to each other" The Eastern girl in the
West-bless her-is nothing if not prac-
tical.
CHAs. NJ. BLIss's name is among the
list of Vermont pensioners this week,
being restored to the rolls, from which
he was dropped some years ago. The
Herald of yesterday says: Lieut.. Bliss
was one of the first men in Vermont to
enlist after the Presidents call in 1861
for three years troops (Benedict's
Vermont in the Civil War; gives him
credit for being the first man to enlist
under the three yeals' calD. He enlist
cd in Company A, in May 1861, and in
August was commissioned Second Lieu
tenant and assigned to Company B,
which was raised in this town. He COM
manded the Company during the seven
days fight in 1862, and remained with it
until his health gave away, and he was
obliged to resign his commission. Since
the war Mr.. Bliss has lived in Benning-
ton"