The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-21


reach this village Wednesday.
VIM. SHIELDS of Troy is charging his
summer cottage at Furnace Grove"
WIN. MORGAN is building a double
house on Grove street near County
street.
Mrs. FRANK LAsHER has been quite
seriously ill at her home in this village.
She is better.
If Harris sale, noted in another col
umn, does not move goods what Wilt
Read what he says.
If our people wish to see millinery,
call at Fanny McLeod's after reading her
notice il nother place.
DIR. H. G. DAY has been appointed
town superintendent of schools by the
board of school directors.
DAVID CARPENTER and Daniel Nc
Eowen are out again after being well
housed during the past winter.
CHAs. II. POTTER makes his bow to
GUS readers this week, and in the next
issue will make further announcement.
JOHN Wool GRIswoLD was in Ben
nington Centre this week to take look
at his house and barns that are being
painted.
G.. B. SHELLEY, the veteran clothier of
Free Library building, is out with a
change in his advertisement to-day.
Read it.
The subject next Sunday evening in
the Second Congregational church is:
'Hlndrances of the profession OF faith
in Christ.
VIM. H. BERRY of Bennington Centre,
is having the "Walloonsac HOTEL
painted and repaired with the prospect
of having an increased number of sum-
mer boarders this season.
Mrs. r. o. GOLDSMITH gave card par
ties this week Tuesday and Wednesday.
On the first evening she received her
young friends and on Wednesday the
married people. Both evenings were
enjoyable affairs.
OUR readers will please take notice
that the listers, on and after April 25,
will meet daily at the town clerks Office
to receive all lists, and also for eXamina-
ton of lists. They urge delinquents to
forward such lists as required by law.
E. S. CHANDLER has his annual
announce ment of field and garden
seeds in another column. We are under
obligations to Mr.. Chandler for the court
esy of the loan of the artillery roll,
mentioned in Mr.. Story's obituary to-
day.
HENRY SHELDON died in Denver,
Colo, April 18th. He went there to live
four years ago last November and en-
loved excellent health up to about II
years ago when la Grippe Frustrated
him, and from this he never recovered.
Mr.. Sheldon had may friends here.
THE Rev. F. F. Lewis, superintendent
of Sunday school and Endoavor work
in Vermont, has spent the week in Ben
nington looking into the out districts.
His words have produced marked i'm
preston, and tits probable that the mat
ter of home departments in various
schools will soon be agitated.
THE town of Castleton has offered a
reward of 81, 900 and the insurance CON-
panies 81, 900 moro, for the apprehen-
sion of the party who caused the incen-
diary fire in that village recently. This
reward should bear fruit, and one would
suppose that the Bennington offer ought
to ferret out the ''fire bug"
To correct a Misrepresentation, the
Rector of st. Peters states that the mis-
hap referred to in the last BANNER was
due to a weak wheel giving out suddenly
as the carriage stood in front of the Par
ish Hall. The occupants deliberately
stepped out, the "good horse" Standing
quietly all tho time. In the statistics of
the Parish for five years, SIT, 1069o is
the gross amount contributed
CANTON BENNINGTON, No. 4, P. NJ,
elected the following officers Tuesday
auapinn. Erngf o.nfain. no.i1 II
Moore, lieutenant; A. u. Cutler, ensign;
II. e.. Lindloff, accountant; II. f. Wat
son. clerk. The Canton voted to attend the
field day and parade at Burlington, May
10, in connection with the meeting OF
the Grand Bodies of Odd Fellowship,
and to wear uniforms at the 26th of April
celebration of the Order next week.
J. ED WALRRIDGE, Bennington's fur
niture dealer, has acceded to the popu-
lar demand, and will open = furniture
exchange, - in the Godfrey store. So
many people wish at times to Oh
good suite for --snHe Q
something better and
their hext door fieighb6r may he able to
afford such suit exchanged Nhen he
could not purchase new goods, that il
seems to us Mr.. Walbridge'r new dear'
will take immensely" In connection
with this exchange will be first class
household furnishings store, where
stoves, tin ware, etc., may be purchased
for cash or on the installment plan at
prices way down." See what ED
says in another column.
THE National Guard of Vermont has
been anticipating a grand time at the
Worlds Fair in connection with the mil
itary encampment which it is supposed
wonld be held, but they are doomed tc
disappointment. 1t seems that there
were numerous obstacles in the way OF
holding military encampment in con
nection with the Columbian Exposition
One of these was the inability to secure
favorable rates from the railroads, In
the next place Congress failed to ap
propriate the necessary money so thai
the United States troops could not bt
present in any number in a body. Fl
nally Secretary Chamberlain of the com
mittee on the Worlds Fair encampmen
announced that complication had ariseT
regarding the possession of the proper
ty on which it was intended to hold the
encampnent of troops. In accordance
with their announcements Gov. Fulle
has given orders to prepare plans for thu
annual encampment in this state. Gen
Gilmore was in Rutland yesterday t
see what could be done to hold the mus
ter there.
THE North Adams, Mass, Transcript
comes out in a new and handsome dress
and in the same breath announces
Sunday edition. It's readers may be as