The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-08-12
PERSONALS

+. l.. BLAKE and wife return home
this week.
Miss EDITH STEWART is visiting her
sister in Jersey City.
MRS. FLORA LUTHER and children of
Boston, are stopping in town.
Mrs. G. w. STEARNs of Brooklyn, N.
Y, is visiting relatives in Bennington.
Miss JESSIE TEMPLE has gone to
Nutley, N. j., to visit Mrs. John R.
Pilling.
Mrs. N. NJ. PUFFER has returned
home, and her husband will follow in a
few days.
Miss JOSIE BRENNAN and Lille Gull
tinan are passing their vacation at Saven
Rock, Conn.
Miss ALICE OBCUTT of Mechanicville,
n. Y, is passing a few weeks with
friends here.
W. G. BULL has recently given the
Soldiers Home newspaper rack for the
reading room.
Mrs. NJ. W. STEWART returned last
week from visit to her daughter in
Jersey City, N. j.
JANE ANN and George Temple have
gone to Fort Plain, n. y, to visit their
father and brother.
Mrs. DAVIS of Syracuse, N. Y, is
visiting at her mothers, Mrs. John
Kehoe, on Pleasant street.
CLARENCE SBLEY of New York is
passing his summer vacation with his
parents at Bennington Center,
Mr.. AND Mrs. w. D. NEWTON, and
Mrs. Abbie Walton have just returned
from trip to the seashore in Maine.
CHAs. WILLIAMS has been around on
crutches several days because of nail
driven into his right foot. He is getting
well.
Mrs. EUGENE GRAVES of Cleveland,
Ohio, arrives in town this week, and
will be entertained by Mrs. H. S. Bing
ham.
LETTER CARRIER Halloran is enjoying
his annual leave of absence. His place
is taken by Substitute Carrier d. p. Hurl-
burt.
LIEUT.. E. T. GRIswoLD of the Ben
nington Rifles, has been appointed Adju-
tant of one of the three battalons of the
National Guard of Vermont.
Mrs. THOMAS KENNEDY of Jersey
City, formerly Miss Grace Condor of
Bennington, is stopping with her child
at DR.. s. b. Pixies during this month.
Miss KATIE HEALY, sales lady for
Stearns Brothers, New York City, is
spending her vacation at the home of
her parents in the west part of the town.
Mrs. PROF. DAVIS and daughter Zilla,
are expected home in few days. They
have been visiting friends in Utica, N.
Y, and have been absent more than a
month.
MR.. AND Mrs. j. A. SIPPERLY of
Hoosick Falls, n. Y, will make their
home in Bennington for the present.
Mr.. Sipperly is engaged in business in
Albany.
CAPT. e. CARPENTER and wife of New
York, passed Sunday in town. They are
travelling through the State in their own
conveyance, and left for Rutland on the
way to Burlington.
SARAH JONES, widow of Tenas Jones
a pensioner of the war of 1912, has been
granted a pension of S12 per month, and
back pay since his death in April 1901.
Mrs. Jones resided in Bennington Cen
tire for many years and is now living in
East Nassau, n. Y.
Mrs. VAN Hook of the Presbyterian
lhloolOl db ldOllL, CIbld, WIN IldS DGtu
visiting with the family of John p. Har-
wood, is now in attendance at the con-
vention of Christian Workers at North
field, after which she will return to Ben
nington for few days.
MRS. GEO. w. KEEsEMAN and Miss
Luella futile are spending a couple of
weeks at Boston an Nantasket Beach.
Miss Frances E. Stillson will be organist
at the Second Congregational church
while Mrs. Keeseman is away, and Alex.
j. Cooper will play the Methodist organ
for Miss futile.
JUDGE THOMAS WHITE and daughter
Julia, returned Saturday from a two
weeks visit to friends in Massachusetts.
When he went away the Judge expected
to visit his boyhood's home white
HilD, in Windham county, this State,
but he deferred it for a carriage drive
there at some future time, starting from
Bennington.
FRED MCEowEN returned home Friday
after an absence of nearly two years.
During that time he has been with
Trenor L. Park, who, in his steam yacht
Sultana, has been making an extended
foreign trip. The party visited Egypt
and other parts of Africa, and nearly all
the large ports in Europe, both on this
Continent and in England Mr.. Nc
Eowen reports very enjoyable trip.
PRoF. CLEMENT c. GAINES, president
of the Eastman College, Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, who has friends stopping at Camp
Comfort, was here over Sunday. Prof
Gaines visited the Monument and passed
Sunday in the woods at Camp Comfort
BE expressed himself highly pleased
with Bennington, and remarked the
busy appearance Of our streets; he called
on the BANNER and said he should come
again. Prof. Gaines is one Of the solid
men of the "City of Schools and the
great institution of which he is the
head, is one of its most prosperous in
stitutions.