The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23


in town to-day.
| LoRING BINGHAM is at home from
school, as is also Arthur Carpenter.
MRS. LUTHER H. HoLToN of Battle
Creek, Mich, is visiting her sister, Mrs.
David Carpenter.
Miss LILLIAN BOYD has been visiting
her father and mother in Bennington for
the past two weeks.
"KEEP Clean" or what know about
baths. See Thompson's advertisement,
Putnam House block.
L. NJ. HoLToN & COMPANY, or our first
page, have an announcement to-day,
that will att act notice.
READ what DR.. J. T. Shurtleff says in
another column, about the Household
disinfectant" 1t is good article.
THE election of Rev. DR.. Hart of Hart
ford, Conn, successor to Bishop Bissell,
is satisfactory to Episcopal people gem
orally.
BISHOP MICHAUD was in town
Wednesday and yesterday went to Troy,
N. Y, where he will be present at the
ordinations to be held in that city.
SCHwARz takes occasion to-day to
remark on his fashionable boots and
shoes. Read what he says about the cid
stand, opposite the First Baptist church.
THE annual reception by the graduates
of the Graded schools, will be given this
evening in Library Hall. is expected
to be one of the best, held annually
since the first class graduated in 1875.
AT the Diocesan Convention of the
Episcopal church in Burlington, Wednes-
day, Hon. L. P. Norton was reelected
an auditor of the Trust funds of the do
cese. He has held the position many
years.
LANDLORD FARNHAM, of the Ameri-
can House, Saratoga, N. Y, accom-
panied by his wife, was present at the
Graded school exercises last evening,
where their son had so prominent a part.
Young Farnham will enter Brown Uni
versity.
81 AM going this year to the Benning-
ton Hills" is heard quite often this year
when city people ask their friends as to
their choice for the summer outing. In
deed, Bennington Hills are fast becom-
ing as noted as the Berkshire Hills of
Massachusetts.
IT is shame that the cross walks on
Main street and on the corners are al
lowed to become nuisance every time
it rains, when little labor would obviate
the use of rubber boots, in wading
through the mud. Why is not the mat
ter attended to?
j. ELMER AYREs, at Albany, n. Y,
Wednesday, won the gold medal in the
boys bicycle race. 1t was on the Ridge
way track, and the occasion was the
Albany bicycle meet of 1893. Ayres won
the first prize-one- third mile; time
"a 2-5, on Lynhurst wheel, one profess
! sional, at least, expressing astonish-
ment that young Ayres could do so well
without special training. The medal is
elegantly engraved.
FROM the BANNER job Office this week
there has been issueda handsome cata-
logue, for the First Baptist church Sun
day school, of the "Willie lockwood, and
Martha lockwood Pratt Memorial Ii
brary." Our readers will recall that the
"Willie lockwood Memorial was given
! the school several years ago. Recently
Dr. Pratt has added to it goOdly num-
Der of choice volumes, hence the latter
: part of the name.
MRS. j. ]. BROWN of Shelburne Falls,
Mass, and Mrs. Whitaker of Springfield
in that state, were guests of Miriam Re.
bekah Lodge of this village. Monday
evening. The Lodge exemplified the
"Beautified work" and congratulations
. followed. In connection with the Con-
necticut River Valley Relief Association
the Rebekahs have inaugurated system
of death benefits for women that is quite
popular with the 1. o. o. F.
A VALUED friend of the BANNER al
Bennington Centre, writes: "a rose
bush bearing roses that change from
pale salmon to white was brought from
the yard OF the late James Hubbell, ESQ.,,
about eighty years since by Miss A. s.
Selden, and placed in the yard of the
late Richard Carpenter. 1t renews its
growth and is beautiful each season. A
fit emblem of the ever blooming flowers
: of the home above"
= LAST week, while the City Band was
, playing in front of Mr.. H. w. Putnams S,
lady counted 1900 people pass her
house on North street, in few moments
, less than two hours. In another loca
! ton en- the same street lady began to
, count the people as they passed, in some
fifty minutes the number had reached
, 100, when the grand breakup made
+. further counting impossible. This is an
! index of how people here turn out ts
+ band concerts.
J LAST evening the village board Of
I trustees at Hoosick Falls voted fran
chise to the Hoosick railway company to
construct an electric railway through
t Elm, Third, River, Church, Willard
Main, Classic, Abbott, Parsons avenue
: and High streets to the corporate line
r The company is incorporated, the CAPT
, tai stock being $50, 900, divided into 39(
!. shares. The directors are Watson M
/ Holmes, Sylvanus D. Locke, Joseph
S Buckley, Timothy Hector, Charles b
Q Story and Levi E. Worden, of this vii
lage; Frank L. Stevens of North Hoo
? sick and Galen C. Moses and Fritz II
T Twitchell of Bath, Me. The>town board
a has also granted the company fran
;, chise to construct an electric surface
: railway through the town from the vii
/ lage line to the New York and Vermont
, state-line.-Troy Daily Times, June 10
/ This is the road that has been suggested
should run to Bennington. Gentlemen
i, now is the time to bid for its construc
,, ton into Bennington.
In supplement to-day we give the
T portrait of DR.. Ensor, accompanied by ;
e brief biographical sketch. We learI
y that the required $4,000 of the capita
D stock of the proposed New England En-
3 sor Remedy Company having been paiC
: in, the company was permanently or
: ganized Monday evening with the fol
+. lowing officers President, Hon. John V