The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-09
THE BENNINGTON. BANNER FRIDAY JUNE 9, 1898


THE City band gave its first open-air
concert on the EnsOr Institute grounds
Wednesday evening.
Mrs. FLETCHER DICKERsoN and Miss
Kate Snyder go to Chicago very soon to
visit the Worlds fair.
BY mutual agreement the services of
Sunday night in the various churches
will begin at seven o'clock.
LEFT in the money order room of the
postoffice, lady's parasol. 1t was
found there several days ago.
GoLDsMITH's orchestra has been en-
gagged by the High school of Chester to
give concert and assist in the closing
exercises, June %.
Mr.. AND MRS. SHERMAN OF Lowell,
Mass, come to Bennington soon and
will stop with Mrs. William Bates. Mrs.
Sherman is a sister of the late Mrs. Taft.
THE Rev. Mr.. Severance, of the first
Congregational church, Bennington Cen
tire, will conduct the services at the
Soldiers Home Chapel, next Sunday, at
2.45 p. m.
w. ID. NEWTON has begun erecting a
new house on Union street between the
Cobblestone house and the residence of
]. 7. Shurtleif. r. j. Crawford has the
contract.
THE following will graduate at the
Bennington High school, June %: Chas.
Farnham, Leland Fillmore, Jessie p.
Smith, Flora L. Ball, Mary Temple,
Josie E. Moore, Marion Clark, Hattie
Wilcox. Miss Ball has been chosen val
edictorian.
Two fine thoroughbred yearling colts
were sent to the Hilltop Farm this week
that would please most any one to look
at. This is different type of a horse
than any raised in this section of the
country, they being very fine in all Of
their make up.
LAST week, DR.. F. S. Pratt presented
the First Baptist Church Sunday-school
with one hundred volumes of choice
books, as a memorial of his wife. This
idea of memorial library is an excellent
one, and the good it does is in harmony
with the earthly life of Mrs. Pratt, now
at rest in Paradise.
AT North Adams, Wednesday, a pleas
ant wedding occurred, the parties of
whom are known in town. The Rev. A
E. Hall of Williamstown united in mar
riage Mr.. Edward E. Hawks and Miss
Dora Maude Brooks. at the home of Mrs.
Jane Eliza Joy. The Transcript speaks
very highly of the high contracting
parties and says: "Mr. and Mrs. Hawks
begin their married life under happy
and promising auspices, and it is the
hope of all who know them that they
may live long and prosper"
THE 9Sth annual meeting of the Gen
eral Convention of Congregational Mir
listers and Churches will be held with
Bethany church, Montpelier, June 10, IA,
and 10. The order of exercises the first
day will be as follows: Tuesday-Af-
ternoon session, beginning at 2 o'clock,
to organization, reports of Fairbanks
Boards, of committee on Sunday schools,
reports of delegates to other bodies, and
representatives from other bodies, and
other proper business. Evening-At
$50, social hour; 7.30, annual sermon by
Rev. Chas. r. Seymour, followed by
Communion. The Bennington and Rut-
land, and other railroads, will carry for
fare one way.
MRS. GEORGE VAN SANTvOoRD and
daughter Margaret, mother and sister of
Seymour Van Santvoord of Troy, N. Y,
who have been abroad two years, were
among those who engaged passage for
America ON the North German Lloyd
steamship, Kaiser wilhelm ii, which is
reported to have sunk at Genoa Satur-
day. The vessel was to sail from Genoa
Monday. The cabin pass engers will be
transferred to the Spree, which is due to
sail from Southampton Tuesday. The
accident, which occurred while repair
ing one of the centrifugal pumps, proved
to be very serious and will entail heavy
loss to the owners or underwriters.
AT the Second Congregational church
all the services of next Sunday will be
devoted to the children, and will be of a
patriotic character. In the morning the
baptism of children and presentation of
Bibles to baptized children who have ar
rived at the age of seven years will take
place. In the evening the Sunday
school will give a concert, entitled, "Our
Country" in the audience room under
the direction of Superintendent S. b.
Hawks and his assistants. The exer-
cises will consist of readings, Rotations,
addresses and music, both vocal and in
strumental. Special attention will be
given to music for both services and the
floral decorations will be unusual.
TIE death of Judge Robinson takes
away from us the correspondent who
kept up the summer mention" of our
columns. In his absence we pick up the
best we can find, and this time in the
columns of the Troy Times, as follows !:
Summer life at Bennington Centre is
awakening into full activity The Troy
colony, which is always welcome, is be-
ginning to come in twos and threes. c..
w. Tillingham, 2nd., of the firm of j..
NJ. Warren & Co., has pleasant suite of
rooms in the fine residence of j. V. D..
S. Merrill, and George B. Wellington and
John A. Robinson are already at home
at the Centre. From the broad verandas
of his summer home Samuel B. Sanford
has been looking down upon the fair and
fruitful valley of the WallOomsac for a
week or more. Monday or Tuesday
q. E. Patterson, ex-speaker of the legis-
lature, Harry Shields of the Troy gas
company, Justin Kellogg and E. A. King
will come to stay for the season."
Miss Lillian Wight, associate edi-
tor of "Men of Vermont" is in town and
will remain at the Putnam House and in
the County fora short time. She is to
prepare the Bennington county sketches
for the work, and see, generally, that
our town and county has its proper rep
resentation in this important volume.
That our readers may see at a glance
what the plan of this publication is, we
copy paragraph from the prospectus
as follows: "a Biographical history of
Vermont from the beginning, and a
series of Biographical sketches of the
most striking personalities of the Com
mOnwealth of to-day, both at home and