The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-10
THE BENNINGTON BANNER FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1888

CAPT. AND MRS. II. D. FILLMORE gave
card party Tuesday evening to about
thirty of their friends. 1t was fine at
fair
MRS. HENRIETTA ADAMS will erect
double two-story dwelling this year on
the street running south from Silver and
south of Hillside.
VIM. E. HAWKS, Esq, is home again
after a protracted visit to the southwest,
where he is interested in large electric
plant lately put in.
STARK LODGE of Odd Fellows worked
the Second degree last Wednesday even
ing. Under NJ. E. Watson, N. G., this
lodge is prosperous.
GEO. DEWEY is at home taking vaca-
ton from business. His health gave out
and couple of weeks ago he returned
home from New York.
MRS. E. p. Brown of Shelburne Falls,
Mass, has been visiting the family of
Lyman Evans and other friends in Ben
nington. She returned Wednesday.
E. H. MCINTYRE has moved to the
east store in the new Putnam block. He
has elegant quarters, and, like the Others
who have occupied these handsome
stores, enjoys fine trade.
THE Council of r. and S. NJ, Benning-
ton, No. 8, will hold special assembly
at Masonic Hall next Monday evening,
for work. There are several candidates
to receive the degrees.
THE members of the o. E. S. may be
glad to know that last month Past Grand
Patron Curran, assisted by Rob Morris
Chapter of Montpelier, instituted Ruth
Chapter, No. 33, at Barre.
j. ED. WALBRIDGE has already begun
the extensive building operations out
lined in our boom article of Jan. 9th,
1893. 1t takes something besides "cold
weather" to stop ED" when once his
mind is made up.
Miss HELEN ROGERS of the Benning-
ton High school is critically i'll with
pneumonia. She was taken two weeks
ago with "la Grippe" cold, but she
kept around until the close of last week.
She is no better this evening.
On assuming command of the Vermont
Division S. o. ", Geo. o. Webster, COM
mand9r issues General Orders, No. l.,
and has favored us with copy. We find
81 camps in the state of which six are
yet under suspension-none of those in
this part of Vermont Apparently the
order is in fourishing condition.
THE business Office of the BANNER for
the present is in the third story of the
First National Bank building. Call and
see us. This issue appears in its full
form, printed on our own type and
presses. The sheet shows traces of the
late fire, as our readers will readily see,
but we shall improve in style when our
type thaws out.
THE various ward caucuses this even
ing completes the nominations for vii
lage trustees as follows: Ward 1, John
S. Holden; ward 2, Frank Sullivan;
ward 3, Joseph Watson; ward 4, Col.
DIN Scott; ward 5, C. B. WALL ward 8,
C. g. Kimball; ward I, E. w. Bradford.
The nominees in wards l, 8 and are the
present trustees of their several wards.
FRANK WEAVER has already had sew
eral applications to ''survey lumber and
shingles" by those contemplating build
ing operations the coming summer, and
his reply fully bears out the BANNER's
recent commentator of him for the of
| fee of surveyor of lumber and inspector
of shingles. Inspector Weaver will
never pass sap shingles and manufac-
turers may as well take notice now as
later.
THE Free Press has sensible editorial,
which we print in another column, tax
ing our incendiary fire as text. An in
vestigation was begun this week, con-
Quoted by the States Attorney before
the Municipal Court, which was adj.
journed until tomorrow. Let the in
quest be thorough, and no stone be left
unturned to bring the guilty to punish
ment.
LANDLORD COLLINS of the Putna N
House has begun to prepare for the sum-
mer trade. Several additional rooms
will be furnished, and new furniture pro
vided for those now in use. This house
has had an exceptionally prosperous
winter. The table boarders were never
so many nor the tables better set. His
first class cook will remain permanently.
THIS evenings Troy papers have this
item: "COl. NJ. S. Colburn of Manches-
ter, VT, was in this city yesterday on
his way to New York to join Gen. j. G..
Mccullough, president of the Benning-
ton & Rutland railway, on an extended
western and southern trip. Gen. McCul-
Tough will take his family, and they will
leaYe Jersey City Friday night in his pri-
vate car. They will go first to CinSin-
natl, then to New Orleans and west
through New Mexico, Texas and Califor-
mia, returning home in about two
months"
THE press dispatches of to-day state
that the Rev. DR.. Charles s. Robinson,
the noted hymnologist, has accepted the
the call Of the New York Presbyterian
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