The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-03

war, and he gave in clear manner the
requisites necessary to secure the perman-
ence of our free institutions. At the
close of the address, which was given
ertenlpOre, Mr.. Barber recited, from
school-day memory, a patriotic poem
appropriate to the day.
NOTES,
Mrs. Anna Barney Phillips of Schen-
ectady, N. Y, is visiting at D. G. Bar
ney's.
The regular meeting of Post Dudley
tomorrow evening, will also be the date
of the annual inspection by Hon. d. K.
Simonds of Manchester, Deputy Inspec-
tor.
A Fireplace is being built in the par
Tor at the Arlington House, thereby in
surfing the comfort of guests on cool,
damp days during the summer.
An old-time brick fire place, with an
elaborate mantel and the veritable Dutch
settle of ''ye olden times" has been
built quite recently in the parlor of D.
G. Barney.
Mrs. Matte Barney (nee Prindle), wife
of DR.. Reuben Barney of Chilicothe, Mis-.
souri,, was in town last week, the guest
of d. G. Barney at the Barney home
stead. Mrs. Barney was summoned to
Boston, Mass, by the sickness and death
of the wife of her brother, Lieut.. Frank
Prindle, U. S. N.
four regular correspondent has sent
Memorial Day services; we are unable,
on account of the crowded condition of
our columns this week, to publish.
North Pownal.
S. L. Smith is having the Masonic
Hall reprinted.
Mrs. Sarah Thompson died suddenly
at the residence of her son, Leander
Thompson of Pownal Centre, Friday
night, in her 74th year. She was quite
smart until few days before her death.
Mrs. Thompson was the esteemed
mother of Byrou A. Thompson of this
place and E. M. Thompson of Chicago,
Ill.
Our regular correspondent writes:
Our public were sadly surprised last
Friday night by the sudden death of
Mrs. Barber Thompson, an estimable
lady. 1t was at evening when at home
with her family that she complained of
distress in the region of her heart. She
was assisted to lounge near by, but
had hardly reclined before death had in
tervened, and thus the body was de-
prived of its spiritual tenant, for she
had gone hence forever. Her funeral
was observed at the home Tuesday at
o'clock. She survived her husband by
about eighteen years. He died in the
summer of 1874. His memory is still
fresh in the minds of those who knew
him; because besides his many political
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helpful in all his intercourse with his
neighbors that the vacancy caused by
his death has never been filled, and he is
missed from his accustomed place to-
day by every one who was won't to meet
with him in the public assembly, or
sat his table in his home. No less was
his wife, the subject of this notice,
woman whose presence was likewise
everywhere felt in the neighborhood
where she lived. She was only selfish in
the proper sense; for, like her husband,
she enjoyed her blessings most when
shal ed with those she loved. There was
in her nature aspontenaity Of sympathy
which made her to anticipate the needs
of the unfortunate; so that her hand
was helping the afflicted and her voice
cheering the disconsolate before she
heard even their cry of distress. In her
fathers family she was the youngest of
eleven children, and her death occurred
the last of them all. She was seventy
four years of age, and what is curious or
remarkable, every one of her brothers
and sisters were over seventy when they
died.
Yale Yale Mother and friends; may
our joy when again we meet be equal to
our sadness now at parting.