The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-07-14


MRS. j. E. SEARLEs and daughter of
Providence, r. l., are visiting Mrs. j N.
Burt.
MISS KATE STAFFORD of Philadelphia
is the guest of the Misses Ada and Clara
Norton.
THE condition of Attorney Jas. B.
Meacham, ill for long time, does not
improve.
j. II. TooMEY has entered upon his
duties as dyer for the Johnstown, n. Y,
Knitting company.
Mrs. j. B. PARMENTER and sister Mrs.
Allie Monroe, have returned from two
months sojourn down east"
STATE AUDITOR F. D. HALE of Lunen-
burg was here Wednesday auditing the
accounts of State and County officers.
JOHN SEYMOUR is home from the
Willston Preparatory school of East
hampton, Mass, for the summer vaca-
ton.
TWENTY Young people from here drove
to Hoosick Falls Tuesday evening.
While on their way there they visited
the landslide.
ELI TIFFANY sails from New York
Saturday on the Cunard steamer Aurania
for trip to England. He will be absent
several months.
MRS. JENNIE WHITNEY, who came
here last Monday with the remains of her
father, III. K. Clark, has many friends in
town who would be glad to greet her.
She stopped at Mrs. Winslow's.
FROST has worked up an immense fish
trade in town, and yet there is room for
few more patrons to be supplied. Try
his fresh Holsters and other delicacles.
THE double tenement that Alanson
| Wilcox is building on Hall street. is up
and will soon be covered. The dwelling
will be finished into two convenient
| flats.
THE fifteenth annual festival of parish
choirs of the Vermont Church Choir
guild will be held at St. Peters church
in this village Wednesday and Thursday,
October IS and 10, next. S. B. Whitney
of Boston will be the conductor.
SINCE the Bennington County Savings
bank was organized, in 1877, there have
been 1914 depositors recorded on its
books. On July LIST there were 1,7S1
names recorded, with total deposits of
SAIL, 200. The institution has been very
successful from its start
For few Sunday mornings the pastor
of the Second Congregational Church is
preaching on subjects Immediately re-
lating to the National welfare. Last
Sunday morning his theme was 1.-The
Bible and the country" The next sub
Ject will be: THE Sabbath National
necessity"
QUITE number of our people will go
up to st. Adams next week, as guests of
tie Bennington Fire Department. They
go up Wednesday. Since the last an
nual convention of the State Firemen's
association the following companies
have Joined it: Yosemite Engine COM
pany of Chester Depot. Frontier and
Deluge Hose companies of Richford,
Torrent Engine company No. 2 of North
field, Chief Engineer o d. Clark of the
Montpelier fire department has also be-
come member.
1T is stated in our exchanges that "at
the recent commencement of Yale col
lege the degree of doctor of divinity was
conferred upon Rev. Hiram Bingham,
who has relatives living here. His
father was the first missionary from this
country to the Sandwich Islands, and he
himself has been a missionary several
years. Mr. Bingham has just finished
the translation of the Bible into the
language of the Marquesas islands, a
work on which he was engaged ovel
thirty years. The first number was
printed by the American Bible Society q
few weeks ago"
For the first time in five years, says a
local correspondent, the county Jail is
without an inmate, the last one, Erskine
Cole, having been released. Cole came
home from Mechanicville, N. Y, about
five weeks ago in an intoxicated condi
ton, was arrested. tried and fined. He
disclosed on parties in INTERCHANGEABLE
stating that he brought the liquor home
with him. The court would not accept
this plea, and he was remanded to Jail tC
refresh his memory. This he did not dc
and last week S. NJ. Sibley, president Of
the Bennington County National bank
paid the fire for his intoxication, the
mans original disclosure was accepted
and he was allowed TO go free.
THERE are two places in Washington
where the type writer is not used. One
is the room of the Senate department
where the off cial correspondence with
other nations is carried on and the Othei
is Senator Morrilfs house and committed
room. No2e of the diplomatic CORE
spondence of the State department is al
lowed to be type written, but each lettel
is penned by hand. Senator Morrill, ha!
the same idea and will allow his private
secretary to write no letter on a typ
writer. so that whenever one of the sena
| tors Vermont constituents writes tx
him he receives hand written letter il
reply, while from other senators thei
constituents usually receive type writer
, communications.
WE acknowledge a pleasant cali yes
terday morning, from Arthur W. Mil
bury, Secretary of the Industrial Christian
Alliance of New York, who is stopped owe
/ while on his return from the Christian
= Endeavor Convention at Montreal. Mr.
, Milbury is emphatic in his censure of tn,
sensational reports sent from the Domin
ion city tn the New York papers, anC
, denies the riots alleged to have takel
, place. There was very little foundation
! for the stories of trouble and none were
: more active to avoid even the semblanc,
of inhospitality than the Montreal au
thorities. The Christian EndeavoI
themselves are outspoken of the kinC
: treatment extended to them, for the gooC
, words of the Roman Catholic clergy ant
courtesy of the municipal authorities
Mr. Milbury is well-knOwn here and hi
statement will have weight with on
! people.
, THE prospects of large and goo'
= school at Manchester, are very bright
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