The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-26


ton next Wednesday evening.
MRS. GEORGE H. BURcH has been i'll
for several weeks, but is improving.
FRED SHANDoRFF of Pitts6eld, Mass,
is visiting friends in town for few days.
HARRY SUNMERGILL of Brooklyn,
n. Y, is visiting his uncle, j. Fl. Ayres.
Miss BLANCHE SIBLEY and niece Min
ME, returned Monday from Block Island.
THE Misses Peurtell of North Adams,
Mass are visiting at j. E. Hurley's on
South street.
EUGENE A. WATTLEs has been in New
York city and the adjoining seashore re-
sorts for a week.
Miss NELLIE GODFREY has gone to
the Adirondacks for few weeks on ac-
count of ill health.
JAMES f. Cone is spending his vaca-
ton among relations and friends in the
vicinity of Boston, Mass.
Miss LIZZIE O'BRIEN and niece, May
Sibbald, are visiting Miss OBrien's
sister in Tuckerton, N. j.
The Field day of Custer Post has been
adjourned until September 10th. 1t was
to have been held next week.
THE Rev. A. D. Heaxt has been absent
this week, conducting the Burlington
District Camp Meeting at New Haven.
S. b. SANFORD of Bennington Centre
is improving his home by the purchase
and removal of a small tenement house
on the premises adjoining.
= THE demand for Equinox water is
gaining fast. The sales far exceed the
most sanguine expectations. The future
drink of Americans will be American
waters.
NEXT Sunday the Fitchburg railroad
will run another excursion to Troy, N.
Y, with a sail down the Hudson, the
time and rates being the same as former
ly during the season.
Mr.. AND Mrs. EDWARD II. MOORE,
who have made their home with G. A.
Wattles for the past three years, will
keep house in the second story of Nate
F. Smiths residence on Union street.
JUDGE E. L. SHELLEY has moved his
shops from his home lot, and joined
them on to the creamery buildings-and
when completed will have nice manu-
featuring establishment well fitted for
his business.
If you want to test the purchasing ca
pacity of % cents, just examine the
price list published to-day by ]. E. La
pointe, the River street merchant. All
goods first-class. Give him a call, and
take advantage of this great Reduction
Sale.
A SPECIAL village meeting is to be
held September 9Th, at l o'clock, p. m.
The call appears in another column, and
will command attention. We think that
I, al I ,,.l Ian
adopted. We need sewerage, more vii
lage improvements and lights.
FIGURES never lie, and facts backed by
figures are invincible. Just mark the
figures which Frear displays in his price
list, and that will account for the fact
of such rush of customers as he is
having has seldom been seen in Troy
n. Y.
The Denver pilgrims to the Knights
Templar cOnclave returned Saturday and
Tuesday. They were all very much
pleased with their trip. J. Ed. Wal
bridge visited his sister, who with her
husband is at Georgetown, Col. Deacon
Murphy visited friends in Illinois on his
way home.
THE Lebanon Springs Camp meeting
closes next week. 1t has been largely at
tended during the entire time, and the
railroad Accommodations, to which we re-
ferred in our last issue, have tended to
increase the attendance as well as the
convenience of the people. The presid-
ing elders, Rev. DR.. Hughes of the Troy
District and the Rev. DR.. Eaton of the
Albany District have been on hand and
personally directed the exercises.
THE National Guard is encamped this
week at Montpelier. The camp is
named after our popular governor, and
the great day of the week is to-day.
Camp is broken tomorrow morning.
The Bennington rifles went up last Mon
day, and we note are making good
record. Among the ladies from Ben
nington. we note: Mrs. r. j. Coffey and
Miss Coffey, Mrs. Major Evans and Mrs.
Colonel Bennett.
LAST week the BANNER had a few
lines about an affray that happened on
the road between here and North Ben
nington whereby some stabbing was
done. Monday Clarence Chandler was ar
raigned before Justice Guiltinan and
bound up in the sum of $2500, to await the
action of the grand jury. The charge is
assault with intent to kill" and the
respondent is out on bail. The injured
parties are Morris Fitzgerald and Law
renee Doyle, both of North Bennington.
The Bennington and Rutland railroad
will run special trains to the Horse
Breeders Meeting at Rutland, next week
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
leaving Bennington at 40; North Ben
nington, 1925; South SALISBURY, 100;
SALISBURY, 745; Arlington, 1855; Sun
derland, SOB; Manchester, $40 a. M, ar
irving in Rutland at $50 o'clock. Re-
turning the special trains will leave Rut-
land each day at $50 p. m, and run to
destination. These arrangements will
enable many of our readers to attend.
THE new opera house has been leased
for five years, when completed, by Messrs.
Frank NJ. Tiffany and p. G. Bond. They
expect to open the same about the Holt
days. These gentlemen will give high
class of entertainments. Only first-class
Companies will show in the Opera house,
and the rates will be placed at popular
prices. We have no doubt of the sue
cess of the proposed new Opera house
management The enterprising gentle
men named are ample guaranty of first
class shows and good accommodations,
as well as diversified array of talent
that will please all our people.
CARE women learning to hate men?''
is the latest foolish question now being
discussed in certain literary circles. In
reply, however, the veteran observer
would probably say that such hostility is
not yet making such progress as to make
itself visible to the naked eye. Several
hundred men and women parade every