The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22

sion of IS per month.
OLIN W. HARDWOOD of Troy, n. Y, is
home for brief vacation.
MRS. ALLIE MONROE and daughter
have returned from Boston.
P. S. MATTOX, press agent of the 4-paw
show, was in town on Wednesday.
CHARLES HUTcHINs of Burlington,
Iowa, is visiting his childhood's home.
JUDGE ALFRED ROBINSON expects to
be out of town next week the 9th and
2Sth.
MRS. H. L.. STILLsoN is visiting her
sister in Weston, and will be absent two
weeks.
MRS. E. II. MCINTYRE and daughter
Leila are visiting friends in White Plains,
NY.
MRS. RACHEL CoMAR has gone to
Needham, Mass, to visit couple of
months.
Mrs. NJ. W. STEWART is visiting her
daughter, Mrs Otto r. Bennett in Jer-
sey city.
MRS. W. c. BULL and daughter are alb
sent on visit to friends in New York
and Brooklyn.
Miss LAURA CALLAHAN of Mechanic
vile, N. Y, has been visiting Miss Susie
Potter for two weeks.
c. C. THURsToN and Myron Clark of
Brooklyn, N. Y, have been stopping at
the Putnam house for few days.
H. W. STARBIRD has just returned
from Peaks Island, Me-, where he has
been spending his two weeks vacation.
THE names of visitors will be gladly
published if furnished by those whose
guests they are. 1t is impossible for the
local scribe to discover them all.
4PAw ADVERTISING CAR, No. 3, in
charge of Agent w. NJ. Dale, with bill
ing force of eighteen men, was in Ben
nington on Wednesday and Thursday.
A PARTY of four, Geo. II. Shurtleff,
r. S. Drysdale, Chas. H. Dewey and
Chas. Barnes, are camping for week
above Woodford City on the mountains.
JUDGE WHITE and daughter Julia
started to-day for three weeks visit to
central and western Massachusetts,, and
on their return they will visit the old
White farm in Windham county. The
locality is called White Hill.
Mr.. A. W. MILLBURY of New York
city is expected to be here over Sunday,
and it is hoped he will give an account
of his work with the Christian Alliance
at the First Baptist church. He will be
the guest of Mr.. E. L. Nichols.
Mrs. R. L. STEEN, former we'll
known resident of Bennington, but who
has been living with her children in the
West, is in Bennington for the summer,
making her home with Miss Julia
Bingham ON North street.
Miss MAGGIE GAVIN, daughter of
James Gavin, died Tuesday evening
after a lingering illness. She was a
young lady much beloved, and the circle
of her influence for good grew with her
years. The funeral was held to-day.
She was twe1ty-three years of age.
IT is announced that the annual mus
ter of the State militia will be held at
Montpelier August 23d to 9th. This
muster will be sort of preparatory to the
trip to the Worlds Fair at Chicago in
1893, and it is designed to make the drills
and exercises incident to camp life very
thorough and exhaustive.
THE friends of Mrs. Lyman Burch will
be glad to hear of her probable recovery.
She is now improving rapidly. Mrs.
Burch went some time ago to st. Luke's
Hospital, New York city, to be treated
for misplaced arm that was fractured
last fall, the expenses being borne by the
Kings Daughters. She has the advan-
tage of the cot in that hospital endowed
by Miss Hattie L. Sibley of this village.
R. P. BATES and family, of Chicago,
arrived here last evening. Mrs. Bates
and children will remain for visit but
Mr.. Bates returns at once to look after
the judgeship we spoke of last week.
Later he will stop a while here. We
hope Mr.. Bates may be successful. 1t is
a Democratic district anyway and Mr..
Bates naturally ought to be Republi-
can, SO that there is no one in Chicago
we would rather see elected than he.
TIE commencement number of The
Reueille, the Norwich University
monthly, has come to our table. Its con-
tents are nicely gotten up, and the report
of the commencement exercises is writ
ten in a very pleasant manner. Evil
IDENTIFY this state institution, of which
Vermont may well feel proud, is on the
upward grade both as to members and
influence. G. W. Pierce, class of 1872, as
editor-in-chief is succeeded next year by
Z. W. Gaynor of the class of '93. The
outgoing board has produced a very
readable college monthly during the past
year.
IT seems as if absolute reliance could
be placed upon the announcements made
by the Adam Forepaugh shows. Ex-
travagant as they might seem, reports
are received through newspaper ex-
changes that the shows really are all
they are advertised. The spectacle,
The Fall of Nineveh, is pronounced the
most gorgeous display of spectacular
splendors ever seen in this country,
while all the old features of circus,
menagerie, museum and hippodrome
have been enlarged and improved until
the shows are by far the best as well as
the largest ever seen on this continent.
Mr.. JAMES P. SHELLEY, a lifelong and
highly-respected resident of Bennington
died last Friday after a brief illness.
The funeral took place at his late resi-
dence on Main street on Sunday after
noon. Rev. A. d. Heaxt, pastor of the
Methodist Church, of which the de-
ceased was a member, officiated, assisted
by Rev. Mr.. Conover, who spoke of his
pleasant acquaintance with Mr. Sibley
for forty years. The deceased had a
large circle of friends, many of whom
bear testimony to the uprightness of his
character and life, and gratefully re-
member his many acts of kindness and
sympathy to them in time of sickness
and bereavement. The very large num-
Der in attendance at his funeral attested
the esteem in which he was held by all
classes of our citizens. His bereaved
family have the sincere sympathy of