The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-12-02

AFTER tonight the stores OF this VIII
lage will remain open each week day
night until after the Holidays.
IT will be to your interest to look over
WillOughby's advertisement before pur-
chasing your Christmas presents.
j. S. LINDLEY has received from the
Phoenix Insurance company 81 $50 for
loss on the old Stark House by fire last
week.
G. L. HUDSON, and his son Harry, have
returned from their visit to Rutland and
PittsfOrd, where they left Mrs. Hudson
and Bessie to spend few weeks.
THE st. Francis de Sales church fair
begins the Sth and closes the 18th, omit
ting the 10th night, because of the
Opera House opening. The fair is to be
held in Library Hall.
THE Y. p. S. c. E. of the Second Con
gregatiOnal church announce musical
and literary entertainment in their par
lors next Monday evening, Dec. 9Th.
Among the attractions will be the Poly
hyniaia iTG-.ttctttc and Miss Price Of Troy.
THERE are twenty-oue members of the
Bennington county bar. OF this NUM-
Der nine are located in Bennington. Sly
in Manchester and two each in Pownal,
Arlington and ReadsborO, len. Geo. -,
Hartman is the eldest member, both in
years and in service, at the bar.
WE note that our old friend A. w.
Warren of Grand Forks, North Dakota.
is president of the Merchants National
bank of that place. ID. II. Warren is as
sstant cashier. We are glad to note
this evidence of prosperity and hope to
see our friends east again next season.
Miss HAVEN, the assistant High
school teacher met with mishap about
two weeks ago whereby she has been
unable to walk, and consequently con
fined to her room. She has kept her
class along, however, they reciting in
her room. She hopes to be out again as
usual in few days.
INFORMATION has been received here
of the death in New York, Friday, Nov
ember Odd, of quick consumption, of
Eugene Linde, for some tins in the en-
plOy of II. w. Putnam. He left here for
New York with Mr.. Putnam only a few
weeks ago in usual health. Linde has
Salem.
THE Rifles will give their annual New
Years ball in Library Hall, on Friday
evening, December 30th. 1t will be the
finest hop yet given and will be preced-
ed by prize drill in the new tactics, by
squads in command of sergeants. The
"boys" ask liberal support because
the proceeds are to be appropriated to-
wards fitting up their new armory in the
Opera House block.
THE Sixth Corps Post, G. A. R. elected
officers last evening" as follows: John
w. Williams, commander; Alba Buss,
senior vice -cOmman Ter; Thos. A. Hutch
ms, junior ice-cOmmander; b. G.. Bar
Der, surgeon; c. d. Gibson, quartermas-
ter; j. A. n. Williams, ofiicer-of- the
day; NJ. b. Potter. officer of the guard .
The installation will take place The first
regular meeting in January.
OUR Troy exchanges last week had
this item: sc. Whitney Tillinghast,
Joseph II. Harrington, Arvin w. Har-
rington. Jr., Calvin S. McChesney,
George II. French, Norman b. Sqnires,
George Harrison and Frank w. Ed
munds will leave tonight for a coon
hunt at Morrisville." This week they
are telling of some deer heads brought
in by portion of this party from some
place north of Troy.
IEht IL tlu llCul Alltl was IllSltlu OF IL
would have appeared last week: "ATr.
Dewey of Bennington made his second
speech of the session Mr. Dewey
is down in the biographies as q farmer,
or we would naturally size him up as a
lawyer He is elOqucnce and earnestneSs
itself" Mr.. Dewey materially assisted
the passage of the Worlds Far bill, the
amended school law, etc, making a
good record.
GOVERNOR FULLER and staff in full
uniform will be present at the opening
of the new Putnam Opera House De-
cember 10th. 1t was deemed proper
that the Chief Executive of the State
should dedicate in a five minute address
the finest Opera House in Vermont,
previous to raising the curtain on the
great Shakspearean tragedy "Macbeth.n
The outlook for one of the largest au-
dienCes that ever gathered in Benning.
ton is ilattering.
The Troy Press of last evening has
this to say of the show that is to appear
in Library Hall, next Tuesday: Com
mencing tonight Little Nuggett'' will
be the attraction at the Griswold Opera
House during the remainder of the week
Herbert Cawthon, an Irish comedian OF
merit, is the chief member of the com
pany, which it is promised will in no
measure fall below the standard required
for perfect presentation of the play.
Little Nuggett' has pleased Troy audi
ences in the past and will do so again.
The dialogue is relieved by a number of
songs, dances, saXophone aud cOncertina
duets.
WALTER F. GREENE of the art pre- ser
vative, and possibly known to some of
our readers who are printers, "whose
elbows were made to crook easily by try
ing to set type" called at that Office,
says the Troy Press of Tuesday, ''after
a protracted tour through the south and
west, covering 1900 TO 1900 miles.
Walt complains that the trip was at
tended with many discomforts. The
freight trains were cold, many saloons
insisted upon prepayment, counting
railway ties became tiresome, the sOles
of his shoes were not wear-prOOf and IL
was often long time between drinks.
1t was difficult to get sufficient employ
ment to keep liquid1ted at places of
business where no states were kept to
record promises. He was in San Anto-
Mo, Texas, where a fever epidemic pre-
vailed, when stricken with that home
sick feeling which caused him to walk
this way where hypercritical brakemen
refused to identify him as freight. He
is now en- route to Saratoga, where we adj
wise him to try Levengston's bath eXter-
nally and Kissingen water internally,
and then look into n mirror instead of
the bottom of tumblcr if he would wit
ness transformed typographist."
INVITATIONS have been issued for the