The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-07-21
CLUBBING RATES.
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Corps w. r. c., will be held Wednesday
July 20.
w. C. BULL and family have been Wis
iting Mr.. Bulls mother residing in Wal
lingford.
Miss BERTHA JEwETT has gone to
Spring Lake Beach, n. j., to visit one OF
her school friends.
THE latest arrival at the Soldiers
Home is Joe Bean, who entered the in
stitution Sunday.
Miss CARRIE SMITH of Boston, for
merly of Bennington, is visiting relatives |
and friends in town.
Miss ROBERTS and Miss Klein of |
Brooklyn are spending few days here, |
being guests at the Putnam.
Mrs. SAMUEL JEwETT, Mrs. Col. |
Abbott and daughter, Lizzie, were reg
istered at the Vermont building on the
Worlds fair grounds this week.
THE Bennington Rifles are having fire.
quent drills, preparatory to the annual
muster of the Vermont National Guard,
which is to be held at Rutland in Au'
gust.
Mrs. W. E. PUTNAM started for Chi
cage Wednesday. While away she will
visit Putnam, Ontario, Canada, DR.. Put
nam's native village, and Hamilton,
Ontario.
MRS. DIR. BENNETT leaves this week
for visit to the Worlds fair. She will
be accompanied by her brother, Mar
shall Fillmore, who starts for his home
in California.
IN attendance upon the funeral of
James b. Meacham. yesterday, from out
of town were Mrs. VIM. G. Riddle of
Buffalo, and Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Daven-
port of Troy, N. Y.
THE Bennington and Rutland railway
is putting in side track from the main
line to the ground on which the annual
muster of the Vermont National Guar
will be held at Rutland next month.
L. A. GRAVES has his lot, on the corner
of Hall and Elm streets, in condition to
build thereon, and will erect a handsome
residence. Himself and brother Fred,
will have frontage on Elm street of an
entire block.
THE hearing in the Chancery suit of
the Security Company of Hartford VS.. the
Battle Monument Association, Chas. NJ.
and H. /. Bliss, has been continued this
week here before Ex-Gov. Dillingham;,
special master
THE contractors are pushing the
sewers, almost night and day. We note
that along River street the Elm Tree
House and stables were connected as the
work passed by. This is an excellent
idea and others should follow suit
ROBERT SoCIA, for several years con-
nected with the National Express Office
here, is now running as messenger be-
tween Troy and Rutland. Charles Ear
ing, another former employe of the same
&c hntW
and Rouses Point.
BUILDING has already commenced on
Grand View extension south, the new
street noted two weeks since as laid out
from Silver to South streets. l. Z. Glib
son and Grant Harbour have begun to
erect dwellings, and four other houses
will soon be commenced.
]. HERMAN MORGAN. salesman with
Durham, Buckley G. Company of New
York, is in town for a week. Mrs. Nor
gan is at her old home about sixty miles
out of New York, and will not come up
to Bennington this year. Mr.. Morgan is
in the white goods department of that
large concern He is looking finely and
his friends here are glad to see him.
Do not forget the Lake George excur-
sion next Wednesday. Ample accom-
modations have been secured, a fast
train assured, and an excursion from off
the r. & w. Branch of the Delaware d
Hudson road last week report one of the
very finest trips ever taken by the peo-
pie of that vicinity. 1t will be none the
less pleasant from this place as those
who go will testify when they return
home.
Eli. WADE, wife and daughter, of
Northampton, Mass, have been visiting
G. A. Pierce and family this week. Mr..
Wade is at the head of a large publish
ing house, and won wide fame few
years since by the printing Of 'Pictur-
esque Hampshire" one of the very
finest works of the kind extant. His
paper, The Journal, is one of the enter
prising weeklies of the Connecticut
River Valley.
THE Rev. VIM. B. Walker and wife
celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary
of their marriage on Saturday. There
were many presents of silver and cut
glass. An anniversary dinner was served
Aside from the family there were pres
ent Mr.. and Mrs. Charles l.. Walker and
the Misses Walker of Brooklyn. Mr.
Walker celebrated the 25th anniversary
of his entering the ministry few weeks
ago, five years of which have been passed
as rectorsof st. Peters church in this
village.
IT is now certain that the hearing il
the Monument suit will not be completed
this week, and as Gov. Dillingham; is
obliged to be in Bellows Falls next weel
recess will be taken tomorrow unit
week after next, when it is hoped the
testimony will be continued until thu
hearing is completed There have beef
on the stand this week President Day OF
the Security company, and the Hon. II
G. Root, with Mr.. Bliss for little tim,
at the beginning Tuesday. The hear
ing was adjourned yesterday during thu
funeral of Jas. B. Meacham.
THE Cascade mills at Cohoes, oper
ated by Geo. II. Mcdowell & Co., will
shut down Saturday, July 20. The Cas-
cadc mills are among the largest kni
goods manufactures in the Spindle city
Mr.. Mcdowell said this morning: "Yol
may state that we shall not start up afte
vacation week, but will remain shu
down for month at least, possIbl
longer You had better call It an in
definite period. The cause of the sus
pension of work is the depressed condi
ton of trade" 1t is understood tina
Messrs. Mcdowell & Co., have had
large number of orders on hand an
that they have received notice fror
their selling agents West to postpon
shipments for a time. The orders ar
al. b,,A oh