The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-03

Carlotta, from Minneapolis, are visiting
in Bennington.
MISS SARAH HARRINGTON gave party
last Friday to about eighty guests. 1t
was quite nice affair.
THE State auditor was in town yester-
day and settled the accounts OF the
County and Municipal Courts.
MRS. WILLIAM RooT entertained the
LADIES' Afternoon Card Club Tuesday,
and served delightful Colonial tea.
THE Bennington postoffice has been
officially notified of the Presidential
order placing the Office within the classi-
fed Civil Service system. The Board OF
Examiners Will be appointed by the
Civil Service Board.
The regular meeting of the Fortnight
ly Club will be held Saturday afternoon.
Feb. 18th. Readings will be given from
"The Merchant of Venice" The COM
mittee on programme consists of Mrs. A.
B. Valentine. Mrs. j. S.. Holden and Mrs.
Lyman Rogers.
E.E. HART & COMPANY have placed
in their store cashiers desk and rail-
way cash service, In regular city style.
This firm believes in the use of printer s
ink as our readers know, and their trade
is assuming greatly increased proper
tions.
THE Rev. VIM. Bogert Walker, next
week, attends District Masonic meet
ing the Sth and 9th. at Brandon and Mid
dlebury respectively, and assists in organ
izing Clerical Union at Fergennes next
Thursday. He is the Celebrant at the
service in the morning.
hoe kl,o
ce sus of the Graded School district and
it is found that there have been sixty
tree deaths and seventy-two births, so
that the ratio seems to have been turned
over several preceding years, and we gain
in the native population.
LIST of letters advertised in the Post
Office at bennington for the week ending
Jan. 28th, 1893: G.. A. Hall, John L.
Kurdy, Harry w. Semratt. These letters
will be sent to the Dead Letter Office
Feb. 11th, 1893, if not delivered before.
In calling please say advertised" giving
date of list.
OK Monday the Graded School flag was
placed at half mast during the hours ex-
Secretary Blaines funeral was in pro-
gress, and dozen of our stores and
places of business were closed from II
W . " ClOOh-bliO IOuAo vi bnO OU6CQultS.
If this was true of other places, no one
shown his memory as Blaine.
THE new mill in extension of the old
Booth mill building, is to be covered
with American tin and Willoughby is to
put it on. This is the first large roof to
be covered with this material In town, so
we are told, although others-notably
Valentine-have used this tin before and
it satisfactorily demonstrates that the
American people are making tin.
THE Congregational Club held its reg
ular monthly meeting with Judge AL
fred Robinson, last Friday evening, Pres.
ident Severance in the chair. The themes
for discussion we're: Bennington, -
Vermont" and the NATION" The
discussion on Bennington was led by
George II. Burch, and ON Vermont by
DR.. Lyman Rogers. Hon. Thomas White
was to have spoken on the Nation, but
i'll health prevented his attendance. AT.
ter the formal opening, discussion fol
lowed engaged in by the Revs. Seymour
Severance and Peck, Messrs. Valentine
Dewey, Holden, Hall, Harwood and
others. Any one of the themes was toe
large for one evening, but under the cir.
cumstances the discussion was very in
teresting and profitable. DIR. Rogers
surprised his friends by his erudition
and his profound reverence for the edrll
clergymen of Vermont, Mrs, Robinson
furnished a fine collation..
THE color Of the special delivery stamp
has been changed Hereafter it will be a
light grange instead of blue as it has
been. There is to be no change in the
design. The change was made necessary
on account of the similarity in color
shape and size of the blue special delivery
stamp to the Columbian one cent stamp
The postal employees are required to place
letters with special delivery stamps or
the top OF letter packages so that they
can be handled at once after received
They are also required to postmark each
letter so stamped Since the new series
appeared January LIST it has been neces.
sary to pay very cloce attention to dis
tinguish the special delivery and the one
cent stamps from each other One post
master in the country walked mile ont
OF tine coolest mornings in January Il
deliver patent medicine circular OF
which was Columbian one cent stamp
the first he had seen.
THE Rochester, N. Y. Democrat am
Chronicle of January 23d, speaks of tn,
death, of native of Bennington, in thes,
wOrdsS aurora Cady died at his hom
in Ogden last Thursday 1t the age 8
eighty-fOur y ars. Mr.. Cady was borl
in Bennington. VT, in 1908, where b.
lived until 1927, when he came to Mon
roe county, passing the first five years il
the town OfHenrietta. In 1882 he set
tied in Ogden upon the farm where h
since lived. He united with the Ogdel
Centre Presbyterian church in 1896, AM
was the last survivor of thirty four piu
neers in that society. In politics he wa
first Wing and then Republican. II
was an ardent supporter of Old Tippeca
noe in 1910, and though aged and infirm
exercised his right of franchise for til
last time for Benjamin Harrison last fall
Mr.. Cady was twice married and wa
the father of nine children. A wife an
four children survive him. The funers
will take place at the homestead. thre
miles southeast Of Spencerpoit, this al
terroOn at O'Clock, the Rev. j. ii. Wi
liams officiatingn His last visit to Bei
nington was in October, 1896. aad wa
the subject of notice in these column