The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-08


visiting in Pittsfeld, Mass.
HENRY DEITEL has returned home
after years absence in Germany.
MRS. A. L. PHILLIPS of Racine, Wis,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. S. Pratt.
MISS ANNA VAN VLECK from Water
ford, N. Y, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. G.
Fred Van Week.
MRS. G. nj. LAMBERT, accompanied by
her son Ernest, goes next week to visit
a month near New London, Conn.
MRS. PHOEBE D. JONES of Red Rock,
n Y, has been spending a few days
with her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Howes.
THOSE who are building, and they are
many in town now, are referred to the
advertisement of s. L. Jewett in another
place to-day.
NOTE the changes in the R. R. time
TALES in another column, corrected to
dae. From the North we give the time
in another local item.
MIR. ii. W. PUTNAM, in person, is look
ing after the laying of the foundations
of The Opera House block to see that
the! are substantially built
LITTLE COLE BURT, youngest son of
OlivF Burt, critically i'll with scarlet
| fever has improved during the past two
days,and hopes ale now entertained of
his recovery.
PFCF. II. W. Downs has gone to
Bosom to attend the National Music
College, a Summer school for teachers.
He axes the course there to perfect him
selfin teaching music.
TIE Bennington County National
Bank declared its usual three per cent
semiannual dividend July LIST and
carrid handsome sum to surplus.
Thisbank is one of our most prosperous
and conservative financial institutions.
Til Bennington County Savings Bank
declaed two per cent semi-annual div
idend July LIST, free of taxation. We are
glad 10 know that the numbers of
depostbrs are steadily increasing and
! that tie deposits have increased largely
in thepast six months.
DUNG the Summer arrangements of
trains closed mail for New York will
be nlde up at noon Sundays and sent
over TIE L. S. r. r. The pouch will be
closed at II noon, and letters intended
for tbs mail should be placed in the
postofffe as no collection from the boxes
will be made.
VILL4GE improvements are the order
now. Asphalt walks are going in in all
directions and the street commissioner
has BEGUN the extension east on Main
street, O the cutters and grade of that
thorouglfare. This year the grade and
cutters viii be put in on North street to
Gage, probably.
THE Summer schedule of trains makes
rn,T,.a1 oh -,
In anothjr place the Fitchburg time
card will De found corrected carefully to
date. The morning train to Troy goes
trains in aud out of Bennington south
the readeris referred to said time table.
On the B. snd R. going north trains now
leave at !2:40, 6:15, and a. M, 2:10,
5:37 and 0:10 p. m. From the north
trains arrive at 80 and $50 a. M, ITO,
400 and 526 p. m. These trains as well
as those from Troy way are in the in
terest of improved service.
A CORRESPONDENT writes: Small
boys who were celebrating on our streets
the night before the glorious Fourth
were very title in their aims. Even
small people might do a nobler deed
than to throw eggs at the risk of break
ing windows, while the peace loving
~ f6f tie noisy yet ever ap
propriate joyfulness of our Nations
jubilee. Ringing door bells and remov-
ing gates and the like, does not require
wit or originality. Patriotism and fool
ish mischief are quite antagonistic.
One is sublime and far reaching, the
other humiliating and annoying. Let us
cherish the one and avoid the other if
we would respect ourselves.
Mr., CHARLES NJ. BLISS has returned
from the Yale Commencement of last
week, where he attended his class re-
union, forty years after his graduation.
He reports about twenty-five members
present out of fifty-nine living up to
commencement week. The class gradu-
ated ninety-five members in 1852. OF
the Skull and Bones Society to which
Mr.. Bliss belonged, consisting of fifteen
members of the Senior Class, thirteen
were living and eight were present. Of
the editorial board of the Yale Literary
Magazine, the oldest college magazine in
this country, all five were living, Mr..
Bliss one of them. At the Alumni meet
ing the day previous to commencement,
his classmate, Hon. VIM. W. Grape of
Massachusetts presided, and the class
was represented in the speeches by VIM.
Preston Johnson, president of Tubane
University, New Orleans. Col. johnson
was son of Albert Sidney johnson, was
with his father when he was killed at
Shiloh and was then transferred to the
staff of jefferson Davis, and served ON it
through the war, was captured with the
rebel chieftain and was pail bearer at
his funeral He was one of the closest
PERSONAL friends of the confederate lead
er and imbibed his sentiments most
thoroughly. At the same time he was
the first Yale Southern rebel to return
to the college after the war was over and
avOw his adhesion to the restored Union.
At the commencement dinner Senator
Stewart of Nevada had been chosen to
represent the class, and he had intended
to be present, but he could not come for
his silver bill claimed his attention, as it
will the attention of President Harrison
if it ever reaches him. Not the least in
teresting incident of the class meeting,
Mr.. Bliss says, was the presentation to
the class of son of a classmate, Chris
topher Dicran Seropzan of Constantine
Pile, Turkey. Father and mother are
both dead and the son has come to this
country to complete his education at
Yale. To his father is due the success
of the class of 1852 in securing for each
member of the class likenesses of all
the others. This custom now so COM
mon in all colleges and schools, was first
brought forth by this Yale class. Serop.
IAN wished to carry back to his native
land the faces of all his classmates, and
he did. Photography was then I'M