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

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Mrs. D. Il. SMITH and daughter are
visiting in Rutland.
Miss CYNTHIA GARDNER returns to
her school in Elisabeth, N. j.
MRS. A. B. GARDNER has returned
home after several weeks absence.
E. B. NILES has gone on a vacation
and will be absent two or three weeks.
MAsTTR LoRING BINGHAM enters a
military school in Manlius, N. Y, next
week.
MISS NELLIE BRIGGS of Brandon is
passing a few weeks with Mrs. A. G.
Halsey.
MRS. A. E. DoNNELLY is in New Y ork
city this week and next to purchase her
fall stock of Millinery goods.
MRS. G. w. STEARNs returned to her
home in Brooklyn this week accompanied
by her niece, Miss Addie Sibley.
DIR. B. G. JENNEY, accompanied by
his wife and children, goes to Northern
New York next Monday, to be absent a
week or ten days.
WEDNESDAY September 2Sth, is the
last day to pay taxes to the treasurer
and obtain rebate of 4 per cent. "a
word to the WISE" etc.
THE new st. Francis de Sales church
will be consecrated Columbus Day,
October 21st. The details of the event
will be announced in due time.
THE Rev. Chas. E. Provost writes us
from Brandon, that he is pleasantly sit
uated in his new charge. We are glad to
know of the deserved promotion of this
faithful pastor.
E.B. PATTERSON, accompanied by his
mother and two children, G. L. Hudson,
Harry Hudson, Mr.. and Mrs. G. f.
Burt, spent Sunday at the Summit
House, Woodford.
MRS. E. d. BENNETT gave card party
of eleven tables, in honor of her two
sons, Edward and Charles, last Wednes-
day evening. E. G. Bennett returns to
Norwich University next week.
MISS H. j. MORGAN returned home
Monday evening, after an absence of five
weeks at the seashore. She has notice
in another column. Miss Paxton of
Nutley, n. j., came with her and will
assist her in her millinery business.
AT the evening service in the Second
Congregational church Sunday the Rev.
Chas. R. Seymour, took as his subject
''Music," selecting his text from 1.
Chronicles, xv., 16. He gave an interest
ing sketch of the origin of sacred music
and its improvements during different
periods of church history.
MISS JENNIE GRAVES, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Graves of Cleve-
land, o., who are passing few weeks
here, joined her parents Friday evening
Miss Graves has been passing several
months in Europe and returned on the
City of New York, which was
quarantined several days in New York
harbor.
THE board of Selectmen have con-
tracted for an iron bridge to replace the
wooden one that spans Roaring Branch,
near the furnace in the east part of the
town. 1t will cost 1880, not including
the masonry. The old bridge, which
was built about % years ago, is the
longest in town, being 1873 feet in length.
The new one will be only 80 feet long,
as the river bed can easily be narrowed
to that width.
THE following lnttnrS remained nm
called for in the postoffice at Benning-
ton, Vt, for the week ending Sept sd:
John Gleason, Richard Preston, Mrs.
William Baine, Mrs. Jane Kelly, Mrs.
"oAbOl 4us CCOOb h1lS. OOllu MISS
Maud Barry, Miss Amy B. Mathers.
These letters will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office Sept 18th, if not called for
before. In calling please say "Adver-
tised," giving date of list.
IT is said that Mr. Henry W. Putnam
has proposed to put town clock in the
steeple of the court house if the authori-
ties will place it in proper shape for
such an addition. While we are about
it the suggestion that the electric light
company illuminate the dial like unto
that of Rutland is in order, and is COM
mended to the consideration of those in
terested. By all means let us have the
clock and its face illuminated as well.
THE Reformer'S call upon the authori-
ties to take care of doc" Miller reminds
us of its frantic appeal few years ago
to have the street gamips' tear down
the vines from the Methodist and Second
Congregational churches. The boys
promptly did as ordered, but we imagine
the authorities will need something
more than newspaper item to induce
them to commit to an insane asylum,
notwithstanding the Reformer's alleged
power to convene the village trustees at
will.
THE following are the. letters remain
ing uncalled for in the postoffice at Ben
nington, Vt, for the week ending Sept.
10th: J. V. Connors, Richard Dubois,
Chas. ]. Greene, George Griffith, John
Hartley, ~, Sam Sibley, Frank H.
Stems, W. II. Van Wrinkle, Mrs. Mamie
Nepe, Amy Commings. These letters
will be sent to the Dead Letter Office
Sept. oath if not delivered before. In
calling please say ADVERTISED giving
date of list.
The need of a police patrol of this
village is quite apparent. Sometime the
necessity will unpleasantly appear. Only
the other day little boy of seven years
was sent to Upham's market with 30
cents to purchase something for the
table. The lad did his errand and re-
ceived his change, when right in front
of the. market a larger boy forcibly
robbed the child of his money. No
officer was near and no one happened to
know this incipient highwayman, and so
nothing was done.
The Cleveland letters range in i'm
portance from an acknowledgement of
clOver-leaf badge to reply to an in
vitation to attend Democratic barbecue.
1t is almost pathetic to observe how the
Democratic candidate finds in every
trivial note which reaches him an omen
of success, and how he exaggerates the
significance of the most inconsequential
letters from unknown correspondents.
We have expected to see one addressed
to a Bennington child the son or
daughter of an admiTer here, but there