The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-09-16

MISS ALICE GIBSON. eQUeTb 1eHlple
Grove Seminary, Saratoga Springs, N.
Y, next week.
Miss SUSIE Q. POTTER entered Troy
Conference Academy at the opening of
the year this month.
Miss ROSE Roche is visiting her sister
at the Academy of st. Louis de Gonzagve
in Montreal, Canada.
MRS. RACHEL CoMAR last week re-
turned from two months visit at her
sisters in Needham, Mass.
MRS. LYMAN BURCH has arrived home,
and, we are glad to say, is cured of her
distressing condition of last winter and
spring.
Mr.. AND Mrs. LYONS of Cohoes, N.
Mas. Chas. Sibald and Mr.. and Mrs.
Toomey in Bennington.
Miss ETHEL CHILDs leaves next week
to enter Hopkins Hall school in Bur
lington. Miss Lucy Childs goes to Troy
to the Willard Seminary.
MEssRs. HOLDEN, LEONARD & Co., are
having their Mill street tenement houses
painted in different colors, which will
greatly improve that avenue.
f. S. CHANDLER of Bennington Centre
has been to considerable expense to
make things convenient to deal in
seasoned lumber of all kinds.
ONE of our manufacturers said recent
ly that he had doubled his business the
past year and that he would double it
again if Harrison should be reelected.
MRS. c. B. WALL and her daughter
Carrie, have gone to Rochester, N. Y,
for a visit. Before they return Mrs.
Wall expects to visit her mother who
lives near Niagara Falls.
G. G. THOMPSON has purchased the
meat market of N. F. Smith and took
possession Monday morning, He will
manufacture his celebrated Chatham
sausage during the season.
FRANK PIAGET of Paterson, N. j., re-
turned home this week after short visit
to his aunts, Mrs. DR.. Streeter and Miss
Woodward, of this village. They all
visited relatives in Pawlet last week.
PROF. CHAs. G. BRILL of the Norwich
University, was in town Saturday. He
was on his way to Central New York,
where he will visit short time before
the opening of the school year at North
field.
A NONRESIDENT was searching for a
dwelling this week to locate and give
his children the benefit of the Graded
school. In this connection we would
say to outsiders who have the means to
enjoy life and take things a little
leisurely come in and locate; for where
can you find nicer village, with better
churches, schools, library, opera house,
and many other advantages to numerous
to mention?
MISS LIZZIE GRAHAM was knocked
down yesterday forenoon by a bicycle on
North Broadway. The boy who was
riding the bicycle came up suddenly be-
hind her with his machine and as he at
tempted to pass on the left side she
stepped in front of the bicycle. Miss
Graham complained of being severely
injured in the back. She resides in Ben
nington and is visiting friends here
Rutland Herald, Sept. 10th.
THE old and reliable firm of G.. V. S.
Quackenbusb and Company have sent us
'copy" for change in their advertise
ment today, but it came too late for
this week. When in Troy next week,
our readers should not fail to remember
the corner of Broadway and Third
streets. This firm display a grand
variety of dress goods that they bought
outright or imported directly and that
cannot be duplicated elsewhere.
A p. CH1LDs has presented the Free
Library with Is copies of 1.-THE Little
Giant Cyclopedia," as birthday
memorial to his daughter, Miss Ethel.
This small octave volume, issued by the
Woolhall Publishing Company, is well
printed, neatly bound, agreeable to the
hand, and is literally packed with use
full information. An alphabetical index
at the end caps the climax so that the
book, containing a million figures and
facts, is appropriately described as a
Treasury of Ready Reference"
THE Fitchburg railroad run an ex-
curslon to New York, Tuesday, Sept.
9th, the rate of fare, round trip, from
Pownal, North Pownal, Petersburgh
Junction and Hoosick being S225; from
Hoosick Falls and Walloomsac, $500.
The train is the 5 p. m. out of North
Adams and the 5 o'clock out of Benning-
ton. Tickets good to go only ON train
No. Z of the Fitchburg railroad of Sept.
9th, and will be valid for return passage
on any boat of the Citizens Line, to and
including Monday, October Sd, or on
any train on the Fitchburg railroad to
Ill.
1892, but will be refused if presented
after these dates. For further particu-
lars see small bills.
THERE were some seven hundred
people from Bennington who attended
the Cambridge fair last week, four
hundred of whom went by rail. The
next two fairs that will call our folks out
of town are the Haosac Valley at North
Adams next week, and the Battenkill
Valley, two weeks later, at Manchester.
For the first beginning next Tuesday
continuing three days., the railroads
have arranged special trains and reduced
fare. The same liberal rates will apply
to the Manchester exhibition. The
Lebanon Springs and Fitchburg rail
roads run trains from Bennington and
other stations. The fare from here, in
Guiding admission, is $1.45 the round
trip; Hoosick Fails, $1.OO; Hoosick,
5000; North Pownal, S0.65, and Pownal,
5000. Trains leave Bennington at 1925
a. m. returning leave North Adams p.
m. Sept. goth. On the Dist and 22nd.
leave North Adoms on special train at 9
p. m. Trains will arrive and depart from
fair grounds at North Adams. For
special trains on the Fitchburg see the
posters.
WE are in receipt of bill announcing
that the DIN family excursion from the
West to Bennington this year will leave
Allegan, Mich, Oct 4th, and run through
in sections. This is the seventh annual
excursion of this noted family. and we
note that the issue of tickets is to Kent,
Obi0. Ruffalo on1 RipoI,orotor N "