The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-10-27

been the guest of Mrs. W. @. Hitchcock.
E. A. BoorH returned from the Worlds
fair last week. Thomas Butler went at
the same time.
THE Whist club held its first meeting
of the season with Miss Susie Rogers,
Tuesday evening.
THE engagement of Secretary c. j.
Hoyt of the Y. NJ. C. A., and Miss Bur
rows of the Bennington High school, is
announced.
Miss FANNIE REED of Castleton, has
card in another place. She comes high
ly recommended, and our readers will
please take notice.
THE standing committee of the diocese
of Albany, signed Saturday the testi-
monials of Rev. A. @. A. Hall, D. D.,
bishop-elect of Vermont.
WARREN HASTINGS and Perez Har-
wood, started this week for the Worlds
fair Mr.. HARDWOOD goes from there to
California to spend the winter as stated
in another item.
WIN. MARsDEN has a notice, in another
column, that may be of interest to some
of our readers. He is reliable man and
there seems to be a field here for the
business he adYertlses.
THE repairs on Cromack's barn, pre-
paratory to the fitting up of n. f. Smith S
meat market on the corner, have com
menced. When completed it will be
something of an Improvement.
Mrs. DAVIS and daughter Leo, of
Jamestown, n. Y, who spent part OF
the summer with Mrs. Davis's mother,
Mrs. Sarah j. Potter, have returned and
will reside in Bennington during the
winter.
JOSEPH b. DALEY, brother of DR.. EN-
NETT B. Daley has come to Bennington
and taken position with Booth ~ Har-
ris life and fire insurance agents. Mr..
Daley is gentlemen of fine address and
we are glad to have him locate among
us.
JAS. X. BATCHELDER, VIM. B. Shell
don, Judge Darling and Chas. II. Mason
were absent part of the week in attend
ance upon the General Term of the Su-
preme Court at Montpelier. They are
also members of the Bar Association
that met at the same time.
WE are in receipt, from William Ware
& Company, publishers, of a copy of
Robert ThOmas's Old Farmers Altman
ack, for 1894, the one hundred and sec
ond year of publication. This old and
welcome annual to many homes is for
sale at the BANNER Stationery store.
WILLIAM MULHoLLAND died at the
Soldiers Home, of cancer, October 20.
He enlisted in company G., I'd Vermont
Regiment, December 2S, 1868. He was
admitted to the Home May %, last, from
Fairfield. The burial was in the st.
Francis de Sales church cemetery here.
THIS evening Bennington Lodge of
Good Templars celebrates its 18th ami
versarv. 1t was organized Oct. 22nd,
| 1868. and its continued existence foI
| TWENTY-FIVE years is something remark
| able in organizations of his kind. There
will be nice programme, and an histor.
ical paper for the Good of the Order" u
ALBERT S. HATHAWAY, who was mar
ried last week to Miss Clara Bottum
| lately a teacher in our Graded schools,
was formerly of this village, and is
pleasantly remembered here. He was
connected with the Sunday school of the
Second Congregational church and Other
societies. He has lived at North Ben
nington for several years, and will con
tinue to reside there.
| 1HE DGuDlllEJOu obhOOl NhNaNb'
are doing nicely with their tri-weekly
drills. By the way the boys take hole
of this matter, the question of nice uni
form, arms, and an accomplished mill
tary company are only a question Of
time. We suggest that a movement
! among our citizens to procure the arm;
for the use of the High school cadets
would be the proper thing to consider.
THE Boston Sunday journal has beer
a success from the start october LIST, anc
it has come to stay. Its advertising pat
ronage and its large circulation demon
strate that it gratilies wide and arden
public desire. 1t has all the essentia
news without sensational stimulants anC
poison, while its editorial page sparklei
with fearless and vigorous discussions
1t is Republican in conviction and pur
pose and it has the courage of its con
victions.
THE entertainment by the ladies of thu
| First Baptist church, reference to which
was made in a recent issue of the BAN
NER, will be given Friday evening Nov
Sd, at Free Library Hall A hot supper
consisting of chicken pie and all Othe
good things, will be served from O'Clock
As to its excellence, it is enough t.
say, that this supper is to be given b.
these ladies. The young people will en-
terrain the audiance with Aunt Dinah'
Husking Bee, her first appearance il
Bennington, TO commence at s o'clock
A choice selection of useful articles viii
be on sale.
II our people think that three or fou
cases of typhoid fever and five or six o
diphtheria. is considerable sickness 70
our village in two months, what woul,
be the opinion if the North Adams situa
ton was repeated here. The Sunda.
Transcript saws: Though 1t is state,
authoritively that there are fewer case
of fever in town this year at the presen
time than there has been in previou
years, the remarkable fact that DR.. Mig
nault has twenty-four cases of typhoi
fever to which he is attending remains
Sixteen of these cases are on Unio'
street. The doctor had, the past month
twenty-three cases there"
WE note that the sewers are nearl
completed. We are told that gang O
men will winter here for the purpose G
connecting dwellings and buildings wit
the system. 1t seems a pity that cor
nections could not have been made a
the work progressed and so be ready t
use the sewers when they shall be accept
ed by the Trustees. As it is now, wiz
ter coming on. the work will be mostl
/, deferred until next season, and tha
means our streets dug up again mex
vear-an expensive job, and a nuisanC
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