The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-12-23

days.
snts in Worthwhile, N. Y, during the
Holidays.
DIR, w. E. PUTNAM of Peelkskill, NY,
formerly of Hoosick, N. T., was in town
yesterday.
Jos. SCHwARz has very fine line of
Christmas slippers and other goods for
the Holidays.
MRS. E. L. VALENTINE spent portion
Of last week with relatives and friends
in Cohoes, N, Y.
THE quilt made by 100 ladies for the
Soldiers Home, spoken of last week, ar
rived Monday.
JUDGE DARLING and wife are rejoicing
ever the advent of daughter, born Sun
day morning, the 18th.
Bishop Bissell has continued to fail
aad now lies in very low condition. He
il at his home in Burlington.
MoHEGAN TRIBE, l. o. p, will soon
msve into their new and handsome
rooms, nearly finished, in the Putnam
block,
The Butterfly Tombola" by the
ladies of st. Peters parish Tuesday even
ing was success, and the supper was
finely served.
TURKEYS for Christmas are scarce
here, and the local dealers are ordering
frem the northern part of the State to
supply the demand.
Mrs. CHAs. ADAMS father and mother,
Mr.. and Mrs. Aatteson, are visiting in
town. 1t has been n number of years
since they visited here before.
THE annual elections of Stark Lodge
and Manser Encampment will be held
asxt week. the camp Monday and the
lodge ON Wednesday evenings.
MRS. GIBNEY has been awarded pen
sion of eight dollars month and $l75
back pay. The minor children are also
allowed a pension of two dollars per
month.
THE school house in the Guide Board
district was filed Monday evening by an
audience which thoroughly enjoyed the
entertainment given by the scholars of
the school
ACCORDING to the calendar these are
tho shortest days of the year. If time is
rsckoned, however, by the amount Of
work performed, the present week would
count for the longest in he twelve
months.
Jos. L. GILMORE and wife and another
lady, narrowly escaped serious injury,
while driving near the Soldiers Home
Saturday evening. Result, an out-of-
town wagon wrecked and no one hurt by
the collision.
TUE 18th meeting of the Western Ma
Asaic Union will be held in Orwell, Janu-
s1J IIIiI. Auo ouuIVso uIn no by INC
Rev. Thos. Bell of Middlebury, followed
by grand march, and banquet. The
local member of the committee is H. S.
Bingham.
THE Soldiers Home chapel will be
used the first time for religious services
aext Sunday afternoon. The meeting
will be conducted by the Young Mems
Christian Association. A mH,ical en-
tertalnment is in preparation to be given
in the chapel soon.
THE ladies OF the Second Congrega-
donal church suitably observed Fore
fathers Day." by festival in their par
lors Wednesday evening. The usual
hospitality was generously dispensed,
and the attendance was good, but the
preparations made were not on the grand
scale Of other years. The receipts made
the affair success III.
NOBLE PHILLIPS, aged eighty one
Jears, lifelong and wealthy resident
II HoOsick, N. Y, and well known here,
died Wednesday at 10 a. M, after a two
weeks illness, Of apOpleXy. He was a
general agent of the Walter A. Wood
Moving and Reapng Machine company
from its infancy. For twenty-five years
he was President of the Phillipsburgh
Land company of Cumberland comfy,
Tennessee. He leaves five daughters, all
of whom are married.
WE note in list of nearly column of
suspensions of papers, published in the
D.fn hot oil g
the Democratic persuasion. This may
have been accidental but as the range of
che list is from nearly every State in the
Onion it suggests that the Democratic
party having elected its President there
Is no more demand for their press other
than few favored On7s. On the other
hand Republicans are starting new paper
enterprises because that party is the
party of intelligence and education. 1t
was ever thus.
THE HoOsick Falls, N. Y, correspond
Snt of the Sunday Budget says: Miss
-Alice'T. Wood of Akron, Ohio. who has
been the guest of Miss Helen Wallace
for several weeks, leaves for home this
week.-Daniel Allen, one of the Oldest
residents of Bennington, has been here
on visit to his daughter, Mrs. George
Colegrove and returned home on Satur-
day.-Captain David II. Redmond of
Michigan, who was called home on ac-
count of the death of his sister, is spend
ing few weeks at pc residence of his
parents.
The Rev. j. Wright of Montpelier,
is travelling in Germany, and he writes To
the Waterman an entertaining letter, un.
der date of Nov. 10Th, on Railway Trav-
cling in Germany" which we copy in
another column. This letter is timely
rs illustrative of the railroad regulations
that will be in vogue in the United States
when the 'paternar' Government shall
have taken the task to run the railroads
here according to the demands of the
Federation of Labor, also noted else.
where to-day. How do our readers like
this feature of proposed aping of for
Sign governments?
In biographical sketches of the n. G..
", the Free Press has this to say of the
zeappointed Brigade Provost Marshal
"MalOr COffey Is well known to Vermont
soldiers as the popular Superintendent
of the Soldiers Home at Bennington.
he enlisted in 1861 as private in Com
Pany F, First Regiment, Vermont Vol
anteers, for three months, and again for
three years as sergeant, Company d,
Fourth Vermont Volunteers, and was in
all the battles of the "Old Vermont Bri-
Rade," except when absent wounded, un.
al mustered out September Both, 1864.
No received a medal of honor from Con