The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-12-15

JOSIAH BURcH has been seriously i'll
for couple of weeks, but is better.
THE BANNER acknowledges an invi
tation to be present at the 18th annual
banquet of the Commercial Travellers
Association, at the Van Ness House
Burlington, Friday evening, the 10Th,
inst We note that P. c. Dodge of the
Independent is secretary, twill be. a
| fine occasion.
THE 77th issue of Walton's Vermont
Directory has reached our table. A gen
eral summary of its contents is given in
another part of this issue, and the book
itself is worth many times its price for
reference during the year. The BANNER
stationery store will have a stock of this
publication as soon as anyone has them
for sale. On sale to-day.
HENRY KETCHUM of Bennington Gen.
tire, shows us a copper coin of the year
1877. 1t was found near the Old Cata-
mount Tavern, some time since, and is
a fine specimen of the early ''one cent?
coins of the United States. In the place
where our present money is dated are
the words: Mind your own business"
and in the circle, divided by the "efful.
gent sum-" is the inscription "Fugio,
AiOts III 10 a ldulOl MIOdbu,
supporting an inscription, but the let
tiers we cannot decipher. The diverse
in link chain for the outer circle; an
inner circle on which appears Omitted
States, 'and the Genital inscription is:
'We are one" completes the penny.
This is one of the very best specimens of
our country's early coin that we have
ever seen, and Mr.. Ketchum values it
highly. The reader will note that even
then it was the United States ''is'' not
"are," Nation with big N, not con-
federacy, and we have this coin in evil
dence.
The Record published at Smiths
Falls, Ontario, has column obituary of
Mrs. G. b. Frost, who is we'll known here
formerly Miss Emily Harwood), from
which we make few extracts: mo
announcement of a death has ever APP
peared in these columns that has caused
greater or more general sorrow than the
one now being penned, telling of the
demise of Mrs. G. B. Frost on Sunday
last at Brockville. A little over year
ago Mrs. Frost was stricken with what
has proved her fatal illness, and for the
greater part OF that time she has battled
bravely, but battled in vain to overcome
it. In the early months of 1893 she went
to New York, where an operation was
performed by one of the besj surgeons on
the continent, and soon thereafter re-
turned to home and friends, full of hope
that the disease had been eradicated
Slowly she came back to her former self
and gladly her friends noted each days
improvement during the beautiful sum
mer days. But, alas, the disease was
only checked, not removed, and in the
opening weeks it again made itself APP
parent. Each
day she grew a little weaker, a
little less able to maintain the conflict,
and to the credit of her noble Christian
spirit, less anxious to maintain it when
she recognized that God had ordered it
otherwise. She was born among the
green hills of Vermont, and at the time
of her death was as years of age. For
fifteen years she has been the devoted
happy wife and helpmeet of him who
now mOurns for her. and it might be said
that for the same length of time she has
been the friend of everybody about her.
Freely it had been given unto her of this
worlds goods and freely she gave again.
Quietly and unostentatiously she did her
and seemed as If never quite
so happy as when doing something for
somebody else. She took an active part
in church work, in the missionary cause
as well as in the w. G. T. u, and all
these deserving interests were frequent
beneficiaries of her bounty. But it was
in her home, her beautiful home, that
she had to be seen to be fully appreciat-
ed. Here she was at her best, and
whether it was relieving distress, listen.
ing to grievances or entertaining friends
she was always the same kindly, thought
full. sympathetic gentlewOman."