The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-05-13

out with an announcement this week for
oil stoves. Reod what he has to say.
A LECTURE to men will be delivered
in the Methodist Episcopal church, by
the pastor, on Sunday evening. The
subject is one in which every person has
an interest. Ladies are invited as well
as men. Bring your boys with you.
JOHN DAVIS went fishing in the south
stream, May 18th. In his catch was
trout 17s inches long, weighing q
pounds, and he landed it with 5 ounce
rod. This story is ''fishy'' but is
vouched for as true. Who comes next?
WE are told that Memorial Day prep
arations are going forward. The Rev.
Thomas Munro of Pownal, will deliver
the grafton, and the usual programme
will be carried out. In our North Ben
nington items, that villages part is
spoken of today.
SEVERAL members of the Patriarchs
Militant, staff officers, etc., will go to
Rutland tomorrow afternoon to install
the officers of Canton Rutland in the
evening. The same corps of officials
will install the officers-elect of Canton
Bennington May 23d.
EIGHTEEN young ladies are preparing
a very fine military display for the ap-
preaching entertainment to be given by
the Odd Fellows. 1t was intended to
fix the date for May oath, but as Library
hall is engaged for that evening another
will have to be chosen. The spectacular
effect will be very fine judged by the
promise of the preparatory stages.
A BETHEL, Vermont, item says: "The
soliciting committee for funds to build
the Congregational church is meeting
with very gratifying success. The men,
bers of the congregation have subscribed
very literally, and in addition to this
there have been many outside who have
given literally. Senator Proctor has
sent a check for 800; A. B. Chandler of
Brooklyn, 500; Miss Park of Benning-
ton, $25, and Gov. Page S25."
ALBERT WooDwoRTH, a former resi-
dent of Bennington, has been here this
week looking the old place over. He
left town in 1866 and has not been back
before. While here he belonged to the
band of that period and was identified,
so we are told, with the musicians from
here in the End Vermont regiment. Mr..
Woodwork lives in Buffalo, N. Y, and
is an engineer on one of the boats run
ming on the Great Lakes. He probably,
like others, found many changes.
The Troy Press perpetrates this item:
Sunday is great day for the people to
visit the cave at the foot of Mt Anthony
near Bennington. There were no less
than twenty-five people who visited it
Sunday. One party of men took Ian
terms, rubber boots and coats with them
and went considerable ways into the
bowels of the mountain" Why take
Sunday? 1t seems to us that weekday
is far more civilized, to say nothing of
the Sabbath.
THE Rev. Thaddeus A. Snively ten
dered Sunday his resignation as rector
of st. Johns church, Troy, N. Y, and
he intends sailing with his family about
the middle of June for Europe, where he
will spend year in study. Mr.. Snively
stated Tuesday morning that the chief
reason for his resignation was his desire
to 60 abroad for study. He will remain
in Paris for awhile, and in the Autumn
he will go to either Oxford or Germany
10 pursue his studies. His last Sunday
in Troy will be Trinity Sunday, June -,
and the last sermon he will preach here
will be the baccalaureate to the gradual
ing class of the Rensselaer, Polytechnic
Institute on the evening of that Sunday.
Mr.. Snively's summer residence is at
Bennington Centre.
ONE of our most respected citizens
was 50 years old the other day: From
boyhood almost, there has existed close
friendship between our townsman and
the venerable Merritt Clark of Poultney.
The latter gentleman, now well into his
ninetieth year of age, has recently taken
to writing poetry. Forty years ago, when
the written first knew Mr.. Clark, there
was not the faintest suspicion that he
had any poetical talent, but now in re-
tirement and age, after his long and
well-known busy life, he writes to amuse
himself, and we have before alluded to
him in literary connection. On the
SOth birthday of his Bennington friend,
Mr. Clark sent the following:
We note, old Friend, your natal day,
When eighty years have passed away.
retrospect reveals scarce one
Whose early life with yours begun.
And yet upon your snow-cad brow,
Seldom appears wrinkle now.
We greet you. Nestor, old and sage,
With strength superior to your age,
And while adTift times tickle tide
May life, we pray. 80 hap'ly glide
That you may have at setting sun,
"a consciousness of duty DONE"
THE Wall Street Journal of New York
publishes an interview with Gen. Nc
Cullough, from which we take an ex-
tract, as follows: "Gen. J. G.. McCul-
Tough of the Erie railroad, says that
President King is back at his desk as
strong as ever. He was taken i'll in Feb
ruary and went to California for rest and
recreation, and returned last Saturday