The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-09-22
Miss CYNTHIA GARDNER has returned
to her school at Elizabeth, N. j.

to her school at Elizabeth, N. j.
JOHN PURCELL, accompanied by his
wife and two children. returned this
week from visit to Northern New
York.
JUDGE HUGH HENRY, president of the
Vermont Soldiers Home, has been con-
fined to his house, in Chester, with a
disease of the eye.
EDWARD GUNsHANNoN, who some
time since lost leg on the railroad, is
out of doors this week for the first time
since the accident.
Mrs. JOHN H. POTTER of Ballston
Spa, N. Y, has returned to her home
after two weeks visit with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. F. Plank.
ROBERT SQUIRE does not return to
Vermont Academy at Saxton's River
this year. He has a position III the
Jewelry establishment of Squire and
RawsOn.
DIR. II. S. BRENNAN, a graduate of the
University of Vermont, was here last
week with view of locating in our
growing village. We have not yet heard
of his decision.
Mr.. H. W. PUTNAM is laying a blue
stone walk and cuTbing in front of his
residence on North street, and II. G..
Root i laying one of marble in front of
his residence on South street.
AMONG this weeks registry at the Yer
mont State building, Chicago. we note:
Geo. A. Bruce, w. Fl. Whipple, South
SALISBURY; Bertha NJ. Pratt, Dorset; F.
W. Fuller and wife, SALISBURY.
INTELLIGENCE reached Bennington re-
Gently that Hon, J. w. Wakefield, presi-
dent of the Bennington electric light and
power company, is i'll of typhoid pnenu-
monia at his home in Bath, Me.
INVITATIONS. have been received by
friends here to the marriage of Anna L.,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Chester
Wright of Hoosick Falls, and Harry E.
Grover, formerly of this village, which
will take place tomorrow.
JOHN NASH has been appointed ltruant
officer by the school directors and Sc
lectmen of the town. His services have
already been required several times.
Officer Nash is a thorough going officer
and our young lads better attend school
or he will be after them with a good
probability of the truants being caught.
A PETITION has been circulated to OBJ
tain the legal number of names to call a
special town-meeting to replenish the
highway fund. There is no money in
the treasury to the credit of the fund,
though number of orders have been
drawn against it. Considerable neces-
sary work remains to be done on the
roads, and provision must also be made
for breaking out the town highways next
winter.
GEO. A. WATTLEs and J. Oliver Burt
have exchanged places. The papers
were passed Wednesday, and the fami-
Hes will move about Oct. 1st. Mr.. Wat
ties's residence on Main street is the At
water homestead, which with its Corin-
THAN pillar front has been a marked fig
ure of the street for years. The Burt
house is on Union street and is the
dwelling erected by r. NJ. Kennedy three
years ago. Both are fine properties.
THE Waterbury, Conn, American, has
an item about clergyman, that is of III
terest here because of the fact that he
came very near being called to the pas
tOrate of the Second Congregational
church few years ago. 1t says: The
Rev. W. II. BrOadhead, Congregations
al minister and ex-secretary of the board
of charities and pardons, Denver, Col,
cannot be found. An in yestigating
committee says there are several pages
torn from his records"
EDITOR WALKER spent $500, 900 on the
Cosmopolitan before he earned penny.
The losing point was passed last Novem-
Der, and since that time the magazine
has yielded a profit of S54, 900. Mr. Walk
CT two months ago cut the price of the
Cosmopolitan in half, selling it at a re-
tail for 12t cents. In order to have it
reach the public at this price it is neces-
sary to furnish it to the news company
at seven cents copy. In June the cir
culation was about 100000. This month
Isl, 900 copies were printed, and there is
a guara nteed circulation Of 100000 for
December.