The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-05
CLUBBING RATES.
SEE page 2 for additional 'locals. 4"


Boston, is visiting at his home in Ben
nngton.
MR. AND MRS. WALTER COLLINS are
BSjoicing over the advent of daughter
in their home.
LUMAN S. NORTON, lately in the Naval
Department at Washington arrived in
Bennington Monday.
QUITE a rood sized addition is now in
process of erection to the rear of the
Cottage hotel in this village.
Mr.. AND MRS. C. F. ORvIs of Man.
chester, have been visiting Captain and
Hector Walkers family this week.
The first strawberries of the season
appeared in our markets last week. This
week they are freely peddled about
toWn.
SOME thirty guests attended the gath
Odng of the Whist clubs at Col. E. ID.
s8joyable occasion.
THEo A. CARPENTER of South Shafts
bary, contractor and builder of the Eagle
Square Manufacturing company, has
moved to Bennington.
FRANK, the seven-year-old son of
Oliver Burt, fell from horse yesterday
md was hurt upon his head, striking a
round stone. The lad is doing WELL
THE Rev. E. Conover went to Schen-
srtady, N. Y, on Saturday afternoon
Ast and by previous invitation preached
il the Old First Baptist church on Sun
day.
z. NJ. FUTILE, street commissioner, is
making great improvements on the south
Eart of Division street. When complet-
Cd that thoroughfale will be one of the
pNst in the state.
MRS. EDWARD w. BRADFORD was sum
mDned to Berlin, N. Y, Tuesday, by the
news of the severe illness of her aunt,
Miss Marion Hull, q life long and re-
sPected resident of Berlin.
FIRST SERGEANT BURNHAM of the Ben
nington rifles is drilling q squad of six
teen young ladies, who will appear in a
wand and fan drill at the coming enter
tsinment to be given in the Opera house
FIR the benefit of the Y. M. c. A.
HERE are some items from the North
Adams Transcript: M. L. Kenney spent
Ast week with friends in Bennington.
The Misses Hatton, Miss Sarah
ROwes, and Mrs. John Bowes spent Sun
day with friends in Bennington.
Miller spent Sunday as the guest of his
brother at Bennington.
We hear that Gen. J. C. Underwood
ct Chicago, is prominently mentioned
fer the position of Assistant Secretary
Of War, under the Cleveland Administra-
taon.-Bundle of Sticks, Columbus,
Chic. Gen Underwood became known
to our people through the Centennial of
Of 1891. He is an Ex-Governor of Ken
tGcky.
LUMAN S. NORTON, who has for sew
oral years, been in the employment oflthe
government as a nautical expert of the
photographed bureau, has resigned and
viii be associated with his father in the
Mle.insurance business in Bennington.
Their new Office will be in the Opera
kouse block.
The Green Mountain club, which OPP
crates Camp Comfort, a popular summer
resort near Bennington, bought Monday
500 to 700 acres of forest land contigu-
0as to the already large preserves of the
company. The purchase includes por-
ton of the Harbour property, and a
number of dwellings are located there
on.
The coming season promises to be a
busy one with the freight department of
the B. & r. railway. One item alone is
that of 20 car loads of charcoal monthly
from S. L. Griffith of Dandy. This will
cause daily production of some 1900 to
400 bushels and is an evidence of
Ele activities in the Western Vermont
valley. Mr.. Griffith's cOntractruns for
year, is with the Washburn & Moen wire
company and calls for 100000 bushels of
charcoal.
THE Vermont Ensor Institute for the
care of the morphine and liquor habit is
doing such good work in Bennington
that prominent citizens and temperance
advocates assist the establishment
There are eighteen patients under treat
ment and a number of places are repre-
sented- Troy, Wilmington, Pownal and
others. Among the number are two
ladies' under treatment for the morphine
habit All who have been discharged as
Oured-and some well known drunkards
are among the number-state that there
il not the least desire for stimulants.
The Institute, which is retired and com
mOdious, is nicely furnished.
We are in receipt of pamphlet, illus
trated, containing an account of the ded
ieation of the 'Mary Hitchcock Memoir
ial Hospital" at Hanover, N. H., which
was opened May 3. The tablet inscrip-
ton is as follows: "In blessed memory
of Mary Maynard Hitchcock, in loving
thought of her tender aud unfailing
sympathy and help for the afflicted and
poor, and in the spirit of her life this
hospital is erected in the year of the
Great Physician, eighteen hundred and
ninety, by her husband, Hiram Hitch
COCK This hospitals connection with
Dartmouth college and the medical
school connected Herewith renders the
gift very appropriate. 1t is the carrying
out of very nice idea.
SOME Of our people will be interested
in the following item from the Troy
Press: Surrogate Lansing decided a
novel question Of law in case that came
before him to-day. Dean r. Armstrong
of Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada, petit
toned for judicial settlement of the
estate of Jonathan p. Armstrong of
HOosick Falls. The petitioner was one
Of the next of kin of the deceased. He
asked that Edward S. Richardson, adj
Ministrator of the estate, be compelled
- render an accounting. In his answer
ne administrator alleged that he was
appointed seven years ago, and that un-
der the law the heirs and persons inter-
0nted having failed to apply for AN ac-
sOunting within that time he could not
b compelled to account now. He held
TAT the account should have been
g0uQht within six years The gnrrOnate