The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-07-14


JAMES DoNNELLY has gone to Boston
on vacation.
RAYMOND ARMSTRONG, who has been
i'll, is better.
Miss CORA ARMSTRONG is home from
Boston, for the summer.
Mrs. INEz RIPLEY is home from Hi
nois, where she spent'the winter with
her sister.
Miss BLANCHE MoLDs, daughter of
Nelson Molds, is visiting relatives in
town.
Miss MARY NORTON is still at the
Worlds fair and will be absent some
time yet.
Mrs. EDWARD NORTON and daughter
Emma have gone to Provincetown X.
l., to be absent several weeks.
SERG.-MAJ. WELD of the First Begi-
ment, National Guard of Vermont has
been in town for few days past
Miss DAISY RITCHIE and brother, Mac,
are at Pttsield, Mass, and will visit
there during the summer vacation.
Miss ETHEL M. STEVENS, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, is visiting for couple Of months
with her grand parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jas. Bassett.
THE regular monthly meeting of Can
ton Bennington, |. o. o. F., is to be held
next Tuesday evening. The Command
ant asks that there be agood attendance.
OUR types last week made us omit the
name of Miss L. S. Burrows, preceptress
of the High school, thus making Miss
Haven, one of the assistants, to have
that position.
AMONG the plans recently drawn by
Architect Bull, is one for Col. E. l..
Bates. 1t contemplates a tower front
and other improvements to his already
fine residence.
REPORTS from Amsterdam n. Y, st.
Adams and Barre, show that the Ensor
Company is in flourishing condition in
those places, with an excellent outlook
for future success.
IRENE HYDE, the little daughter of W.
r. Hyde, has been seriously ill with
kidney trouble, since she had the scarlet
fever in the spring. She is now slowly
improving under the care of Dr. Putnam
Miss JULIA WELLINGTON of Erie,
Penn, is visiting friends in town. Since
going West she has become an expert
bicyclist, aid rode over from North Ben
nington, this week to make call at our
office.
THE Green Mountain Route-the B.
and r. time card-in another column is
printed to accede to local demand that
a better travellers guide" be given in
the BANNER. 1t will appear regularly
hereafter.
A NEW weather-vane has been pro-
cured and will soon be placed on the
Graded school building, to restore the
one that was blown off during the Shirk-
shire of April 21st. 1t will be an i'm
provement over the former one.
EDWARD E. Lone has been home for a
few days this week. He goes to rejoin
the Lotus Club of Boston, that has en-.
gagements to sing at all the Chautauqua
gatherings this month and next. He
will return here about September 1st
THE Granite Works of the Nessrs.
Estabrook, are to be moved from Depot
to Main street, opposite the First Nation
al bank. The new building is nearly
completed and the granite polisher IN
place. The old shops will be closed,
and all business done in the new loca.
ton, which will be model shop.
THE N. Y. Commercial Advertiser has
this personal item, under late date
sc. b. Sears, the popular and efficient
is once more on guard, having returned
from trip to the Green Mountains
The Dry Goods Reporter, also, noted
Mr.. Sears late visit to Bennington, and
commented on his trout catch' of POI
'speckled beauties"
The copy for Walbridge's new "ad.''
got sidetracked somewhere last week
but his goods came right along and
there has been no cessation or delay in
delivery. Our readers will do well tC
call at his Furniture Exchange" anG
see for themselves what bargains are
offered. The three-storv warehouse
corner of Main and Willow streets il
filled from cellar to garrett
THE season at Camp Comfort ha,
opened auspiciously. We are told thai
there are ninety guests already, the Rev
DR.. Hall of Brooklyn being one of them
A cottage has been put up especially fol
the Tiffanys of New York, and Others
will be built. Evidently the reorganiza
ton of the company into the Greer
Mountain Club, is in time, destined t
work for the advantage of this region al
a summer resort.
WE hope the report is true that Well
Valentine will soon begin the erection o
a dwelling on Hillside avenue, in tn,
grove back of the "Gilson house." Thi
location, as we said at the time thi
property was purchased, is capable o
being made one of the very finest sites il
town. The rough surface, the rock,
dell and wooded knoll would be worth
fortune in some localities. 1t is alto
gether picturesque and right in the hear
of the village, so to speak.
THE first of the week. Newton John
son, ianitor of the Graded school build
ing, accompanied by his father-in-law
Mr.. Elwell, went up the East mountain
fishing. When near the Marshall mill
at Lake Hancock, they sighted a larg
doe. The deer gave them one look an,
almost one bound placed it at a safe dis
lance and into the forest. By the tracks
thereabouts, they concluded that Their
were at least one other old and severa
smaller ones roaming in that vicinity
OK Tuesday of this week Mr.. Eugen
W. Farnham, son of j. g. Farnham 0
this village, was married to one of tn
fair daughters, of Cohoes, N. Y, Mis-
Grace Shepard. The pastor of the Firs
Baptist church of that city pronounce
the ceremony, and the happy coupl
came to Bennington in the evening trai
for few days. Besides his father, Nj
Farnham has a sister here, Mrs. job
Burgess, and other relatives. After
short visit Mr.. and Mrs. Farnham wi
pass the balance of their trip of tw