The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-25

MISS JESSIE NJ. DAVIS of Rutland is
visiting here.
THE Bennington Knitting Company,
whose mills are shut down for a month,
expect to start up again September 18th.
THE route taken by Judge Darling,
and his law student, G. p. Niles, to the
Worlds fair, is by way of the Great
Lakes. They will be absent about three
weeks.
THE delegates from st. Peters church
to the Special Diocesan convention, to be
held in Burlington next week are: l..
P. Norton, J. T. Shurtleff, L. f. Abbott,
H o. Harwood.
| Miss AMELIA Roof of the Western
Union Office, with her mother and sister,
will occupy one of the tenements in the
house now being built by Mrs. Henrietta
B. Adams on Silver street.
THE Rutland Herald of yesterday,
says: "The boy choir at Trinity church
rehearsed, for the first time last night,
the music to be sung at the choir festi-
val at Bennington October Is and 49,"
Mrs. JONATHAN Poor and Miss Kate
Poor, who heen visiting Mrs. b. F. Poor
for the past week, left to-day for Albany
where they will make a short visit be-
fore returning to their home in Andover,
Mass.
| Miss LILLIAN VALENTINE entertained
a number of her friends at a dancing
party Friday evening. Dancing was in
dulged in on the spacious verandah,
which was enclosed with canvas. Music
was furnished by Prof Goldsmith.
HENRY w. PUTNAM, ESQ.,, is making
extensive improvements along the street
front of his residence. The fence has
been raised up, to allow the sidewalk to
be placed ION grade" and when the
whole is completed a permanent better
ment will result.
For two successive Sunday evenings
the pastor of the Second Congregational
church will describe what he saw on two
Sundays at Chicago. In other words, he
investigated the religious life and work
of that city, and will give the results of
his Investigations. Our readers will
want to hear this.
AT the afternoon service Sunday in St.
Francis de Sales church the rules and
regulations OF the Sacred Heart Society
were read to the members especially as
sembled for that purpose. The Sacred
Hearts, were distributed to those en-
titled to these badges of membership by
Father Barron.
THE Rev. Edward E. r )gers of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, visited his uncle, DR.. Lyman
Rogers, Monday of this week. He re-
turned Tuesday morning Mr.. Rogers's
wife, as our readers will recall, is a
!, daughter of Rev. DR.. G.. B. Hubert. for
/, some time pastor of the Second Congre-
/, gational church. Dr. Hubert is now To-
Gated in fiourishing village near Zanes-
vile,
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Two quarts or more of dead-ripe straw
berries, picked in damp, grassy ravine,
protected by deep fringe of shade,
high up on Bald mountain, were shown
: on the streets of Bennington Monday.
The delightful combination of juice,
pulp and flavor was quite as perfect as
: though the scarlet berries had grown in
Z sunny fields among June daisies.
: The Putnam House has had very
: prosperous summer season. In addition
to the summer boarders, summer travel
etc., about a dozen families regularly
y take table board. The Sunday dinners
Il always popular, have been more so this
J. year. An elegant bill of fare is daily
S printed at the BANNER Office for this
! popular house.
THE Elm Tree house is to be called
the American House hereafter, and the
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n ated with him as manager, his son ID. A
: Healy. They run free buss to trains
I and start off with favorable prospects
L The Hotel Fitchburg at Hoosick Falls
g N. Y, was favorite stopping place fo
commercial men, and no doubt they vii
y bring share OF. that trade here.
II In reply to an inquiry from Milford
st Mass, where DR.. Goldthwait il
Q laboring in the interest of the Enso
e Cure, and from whence DR.. Wilcox.re
q turned last week, we would say that no
} thing so effective in the cause of temper
ance has ever visited Bennington, Nor
= than score of recently confirmed ire
e briates are walking our streets "clothet
l. and in their right mind" as the result o
/, the establishment of the Ensor institute
e in Bennington.
e SOME miscreant smashed box, No. "a
B. corner of Adams and North streets, yes
terday morning at o'clock, and rIIng
r, fire alarm The electric lights had jus
y been tnrned out, it was raining at tb
ID time and clark was no name for it.
< The Department quickly responded ant
d were dismissed when the cause becam
g, known. The necessity for police pa
If troll looms up more and more as on
a. readers will see. Why not burn tn
street lights all night if we cannot hav
IT other protection?
a CANTON BENNINGTON will participat
-, in the field day at Hoosick Falls, N. Y
q under the auspices of Levi Worde
y camp, uniformed rank of the Knights G
,; Pythias. The Canton together wit
n Stark Lodge, /. o. o. F., have also II
= ceived an invitation to visit Middleton
~ ough lodge, near Boston, and with it Ell
" Joy trip to the seashore. This invite
% ton they felt obliged to decline on az
% % count OF several going to the World
~ Fair next month. At Hoosick Falls tn
~ ~ Cantons of Albany, Troy, North Adams
as we'll as Bennington will parade in tn
morning and enjoy clam bake at nool
70 E. A. BooTH, Bennington's eficier
~ Town Clerk, is engaged upon the gener'
IS index ordered at the last annual Marc
q, meeting. He has the work well in han'
gh but it will take year or m re to con
W plete the task. When done the labor {
by search for land titles, marriages, birth
lc- ETC., will be reduced to minimum
ty The record will be indexed from IL
re earliest records, and the scheme is
of patented plan that tells enough OF IL
I'D subject so that the searcher can dete
le- mine whether it is necessary to turn
lis the record or not. These immenI
he books, with printed headings, appear
wv be the best scheme yet devised, and a.
I'm in use in most of the counties in Ne