The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-29

L, II. L lINAM has T6buIuCu 1lOll lilo
summer outing at the seashore.
MANY strangers are to be seen daily
riding over the Bennington hills.
Hon. H. G.. RooT and wife were at the
Raponda, Wilmington, over Sunday.
Mr.. AND Mrs. w. c. HITCHCOCK are
at Block Island for couple of weeks.
HARRY STEVENS, the world-renowned
checker expert is visiting in Benning-
| ton,
Mrs. FANNY MCLEOD has word OF in
terest to our lady readers in another
column.
DR.. SILAs R. WILCOX is making prep
arations TO build two tenement houses
on Dewey street.
MRS. MARY HUNTER and daughter of
Newburgh, n. Y, are visiting Hon. and
Mrs. H. G. Root.
Mr.. CHISHOLM of Boston, Mass, was
a guest of his son, DIR. A. S. M. Chisholm
one day this week.
Mrs. NJ. G. REMINGTON fell out of a
hammock last Sunday and sustained a
sprained shoulder.
WIN. A. Roof of New York was in
town over Sunday. His wife and daugh-
ter are passing the summer here.
Miss LIZZIE HoLLIsTER and sister,
Maggie, of Cohoes, N. Y, are visiting
Mr., and Mrs. j. L. Finn of this village
Mrs. S. S. PRATT has returned to her
home on South street. DR.. F. S. Pratt
and family will make their home with
Mrs Pratt.
Mrs. J. B. TIRBITTs, Mrs. Yale and
the Misses Brigham have recently ar
rived from Europe and are at their sum-
mer home in Bennington Centre.
LESTER H. NICHOLS is passing his va
cation in Colchester. He is at a cousin S
on farm, and his health is improved.
Mr.. Nichols will go up next week for
vacation.
Mrs. H. S. BROWN and daughter have
gone to the seashore at New London,
Conn, for the summer. After a little
while Mr.. Brown will follow them. He
intends to visit other places also.
B.F. ROBERTS picked mess of to-
matoes. grown in the open air, July 18th.
We have been expecting "Uncle Fred
Hancock to show up, but thus far he is
silent and Mr.. Roberts gets the start of
him.
Mrs. MARY GIBSON is the Bennington
county agent for a remedy (Microbe Kill
ler), which she advertises elsewhere to-
day. We hear of several people who
have been helped by the use of these
remedies.
THE convocation of the Eastern Star
Chapter will be held next Tuesday even
ing, at the usual hour. This meeting is
held Tuesday because of the circus
Wednesday and, as there is work" a
full attendance is requested.
THE Denver party of Knights Tenn
plars start next Thursday, August 4th,
and return the 18th. The rates have re-
Gently come down from sixty odd dollars
to about 500. A good many can go at
the latter figure for railroad fare.
GEORGE w. Morse gave a cobweb
party to 25 of his young friends last
Wednesday evening in honor of his three
cousins, Rilla and Maud Roberts of Ton
AMANDA, n. Y, and Willie Risdon of Mt
Tabor. All present pronounced it a
very enjoyable time.
WHILE digging in an old pitway
around his fathers mill at WOodford the
other day Bert Gleason found snow
eight inches deep. There is place be-
meath nIaluuUJn locks in Tile Dell Hol-
low mountains" where snow and ice can
be found the year round.
THE Rev. VIM. B. Walker officiated at
Camp Comfort last Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock. He will go up and hold SER
vices there next Sunday, probably at a
later hour-five o'clock. He had an au-
dlence of nearly one hundred, and the
responses to the service were hearty.
The BANNERS railroad directory on
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mer arrangement of trains. We have
tons of trains in and out of Bennington,
so that people may know the destination
time as well as that of departure.
THE BANNER Bindery is once more in
running order, and work left with us,
whether of blank books or other bind
ing, will be promptly COTTON out. Har-
ry S. Holt is at the head of this depart
ment, lately from the West, and is an ex-
perienced workman. Send in your Or
ders now.
ONE of the best improvements to
West Main street is being made by Judge
E. L. Sibley and DR.. S. r. Wilcox, in
the laying of very large tile in the
South ditch from Harrison avenue to
Dewey street, which when covered and
graded will present street frontage
like that in front of ]. S, Holden's resi-
dence.
THE Rebekahs of Bennington hold a
picnic in the Soldiers Home Grove Sat
urday of this week. Odd Fellows and
their families are invited. Tea will be
served from to $50 D. m. 1t is an in
formal family affair and all will be made
welcome who are connected with the
order, or who are guests of its members.
IT is only a question of time when
letters about the fine scenery of the
"Hills of Bennington" will be written
and printed in the New York society
Journals just the same as the berkshire
Hills" are at the present time. For
some reason the fashionables have not
as yet found out where the hills are that
Ethan Allen used to ride over and call
the scenery grand.
THE Electric Light and Power Com
pany of this town has issued a finely
printed monograph, entitled: Electric
Lighting from Financial Standpoint"
which they have distributed to the tax
payers with the compliments of the
Company. The comparisons of prices
paid in various New England cities and
large towns, on page u, will be of inter
est to many of our people.
THE Fitchburg railroad run another
Sunday excursion to Saratoga, the 31st.
This time the destination is Saratoga
Lake. The special train leaves North
Adams at 6.15; Pownal, 6.3S; North
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