The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-11
CLURRING RATES.
FoR additional locals see second page.

to Block Island, to remain few weeks.
THERE is proposal on foot to have
tennis tournament here the last of Au-
gust
Miss JENNIE VALENTINE is passing
the week at the Oriental Hotel, Coney
Island.
CHAs. j. HALL of Springfield, Mass,
is visiting Edward j. Hall for couple
of weeks.
HUGH MCGUIRE went up to the work
house Monday for the third offense of
intoXication.
MRS. EMMA TRoNLY of Troy. N. Y,
is visiting her niece Mrs. E. b. Griswold
of this village.
JOSEPH AYREs has entered Shurtleff's
drug store to become a druggist. This
is good position.
MRS. II. W. MI RsH entertained the
ladies of Custer w. r. c. Wednesday
afternoon and at tea.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOSIAH DENcH of
Bridgeport, Conn, are guests of their
cousin, Mr.. j. II. Kelso
Hon. C. A. HEATING of Texas, and
family arc to pass the balance of the
month at Camp Comfort. They arrived
yesterday morning.
J. ELMER AYREs is in New York tax
ing lessons in cutting and thus finishing
his trade of tailor. Mr.. Ayres will make
an expert workman.
MRS. MARIE LAMARRE, the aged
mother of Messrs. Leon and Alex. La
MARIE, is again seriously i'll. Her dis
ease is of a dropsical nature and she suf-
fers greatly.
II. W. PUTNAM is building new bulk
head on School street. This is the water
power that runs his extensive North
street works, the water being trunked
down from this bulk head.
Mr.. THOMAS Brown, nephew of Mrs.
Chas. Cooper, who had been visiting this
country, taking in the Worlds Fair and
other places of interest, returned to his
home in Scotland two weeks ago. He is
a subscriber to the BANNER.
THE two famous white horses, to be
used on the stage of the New Opera
house, August 18th, in the ''Police Pa
troll" are the same animals that drew
the patrol wagon in the Chicago Anar-
chists' riots.
ALEXANDER SEMPLE and wife, who
have been visiting the family of Chas.
Cooper, returned to their home in Nor
walk, Conn, last week. Mr.. Semple has
taken the charge of a wooden mill in that
place. He was formerly of the Broad
Brook Company.
LETTERS advertised in the Postoffice at
Bennington ending August 3: John
Rockwell, Ed. Lewis, Mrs. Chester
Boyce, Mrs. c.. S. Hathaway, Miss Lena
r. Shaw. These letters will be sent to
the Dead Letter Office Aug. 10Th, 1893 if
not delivered before. In calling please
say advertised" giving date of list.
REFERRING to the Fred Solomon Opera
company, and notice we gave them
last week, we are told that they are to
appear one night in the New Opera
house, and that Manager Tiffany made
the arrangements while in New York
some time since. This is a fine stroke
of enterprise. This is one of the com
panies that do not appear in the smaller
towns ordinarily.
IT has been years since our people
were obliged to take in washings at
night because of theft by tramps and I'M
employed men wandering about. Last
Monday was rainy and clothes were left
on lines over night. Tuesday morning
found a number robbed. On Gage street
alone we are told Is mems shirts were
stolen. This kind of garments were the
articles taken. Our town appears o'be
full of strangers in pursuit of work.
THE State meeting of Choir guilds, to
be held in Bennington in October, is al
ready attracting attention, and our peo-
pie may be assured of having very fine
order of church music. The attendance
of two or more vested boy chOirs will
call attention to the festival, it being the
first time that such organizations have
ever appeared here. S. b. Whitney of
Boston, the leader, has a world wide
reputation and will be at his best The
rector of ST. Peters church is president
of the affair
THE National convention of Rebekah
Lodges, !. o. o. F., meets at Chicago
September Goth, in connection with Odd
Fellows week at the Worlds Fair. The
Sovereign Grand Lodge is to meet for its
annual session of one week. beginning
the 10Th and then adjourns for the mem
bers to participate in the parade of Sep
TENDER 25th, and to attend the exercises
of the week. The delegates to the D. of
r. convention from Vermont are: Mrs
II. L. Stillson and Mrs. N. NJ. Puffer of
Bennington, Mrs. J. w. Goodell of Bur
lington, and Mrs. L. L. Boyce of Barre.
OUR Troy exchanges of Tuesday have
this item: MRS. Emily Hurd, arrested
in Albany last week for shoplifting in
the store of Myers &c Co., to-day pleaded
guilty to petit larcency in the Albany
court of sessions and was fined $50 or six
months in the penitentiary. Her son
paid the fine. The woman was then i'm
mediately rearrested by Special Officer
Mead and brought to this city. She will
be prosecuted under warrant sworn
ont by E. Z. Tower & Co., also accusing
her of petit larcency. Mrs. Hurd is ac.
cused of shoplifting at the stores of the
A. NJ. Church Company and S. b. Thing
d Co."
IN connection with the new appointees
on the pension examing board, noted in
another item, this information comes
from Washington: "Officials of the pen
sion bureau are busily engaged in the
appointment Of boards of examining sur
geons for various points throughout the
country. There are now about 1900 of
these boards and three members usually
constitute one. In addition to these are
300 single surgeons and 1876 specialists.
Democrats who seek the places are
naturally given preference by the admin
istration to Republicans, while young
men are more favorably looked upon for
appointment than the older ones" Yer
mont gets fifteen of these appointments.
Aside from the Bennington county ap.
pOintees, we note that our friend DR.. j.
II. Jones Of Bradford is in the list OF
names.