The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
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FRANK PURDY OF lTOyS 10 NAoA"h6
friends in town this week.
Miss BERTHA GRIswoLD goes to Wey-
bridge this week for visit,
MR.. JOHN SoMKRs of Manchester, N.
H.. is visiting friends here.
PROF. W. S. Ross of Burlington is the
guest of Rev. W. B. Walker.
NE. GREENsLET is home from Bos-
ton, OH his summer vacation.
THE erection of four new dwelling
houses was begun here last week.
HIRAM H. ALLEN has received notice
that his pension has been suspended.
Mrs. MICHAEL CARROLL of Pittsfeld,
Mass. is making short stay II town.
Miss NELLIE GRANGER of Pittsfeld,
Mass, is visiting with relatives in town.
JAMES BRENNAN of New Haven,
Conn, is visiting his parents on Spring
street.
MISS FANNIE BRANDON of Hoosick
Falls. n, Y, is the guest of Miss Lizzie
McDermott
C. J. WHEELER and family of Sche'
nectady, n. Y, are visiting friends IL
town.
MRS. H. W. HANsMAN and daughter
of Troy, n. Y, are visiting with Mrs
Hansman's mother at the Centennia
House.
DIR. A. q. CUTLER and wife, Thomas
S. Hoyt and wife of Troy left this morn
inc for weeks carriage drive across
the mountains.
Miss NELLIE, daughter of City Sup't
C. ]. Toomey of Troy, N. Y, is visiting
at the Centennial House.
FIT. BRENNAN, dry goods cler k will
A. Drysdale & Son, is spending his va
cation in the Adirondacks.
SECRETARY HoYT of the Y. M. G. A.
returned last week from trip to hi
home in Southwestern New York, wher'
he has been for about a month.
THERE is to be special convocatiol
of Temple Chapter, No. 8, X. A. M,
next Monday evening, August 21st, at
o'clock. sharp, for the purpose
work"
CAPTAIN E. T. WOODWARD, U. S. N.
has recently been retired on account
continued i'll health. His promotion t
the captaincy came just before his re
tirement.
MEETING of the Bennington Societ
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal
will be held at the Congregational chap
ell. on Wednesday, August %, at 7,30 7
M, sharp. All interested in this societ
and its objects are cordially invited to al
tend, w. G. RICHARDSON, secretary.
THOSE who are suggesting that Amer
lean mills are shutting down for politics
effect should seize the opportunity t
lump in and make money manHfacturin
American goods on the proposed BIRTHS
free trade plan. Our manufacturers wi
gladly give them an opportunity to TT
it.
In attendance upon the annual NEE
ing of the Sons of the American Revolt
ton at Rutland, Wednesday evening
from Bennington. were the following
Mai. A. B. Valentine, Capt H. d. Fill
more. Hon. H. G. Root, Col. DIN Scot
William E. Hawks, Col. and Mrs. &c
ward L. Bates, H. L. Stillson, Maj. R.
Coffey. DR.. F. S. Pratt, and Col. l..
Abbott.
Mrs. E. ]. Phelps arrived in Burlinl
ton on the early train Wednesday NOR
ing and has opened her residence O
South Willard street. Mr.. Phelps can
to North Bennington on later train an
is the guest of Gen. Mccullough, and
expected in Burlington the last of tn
week, but it is possible he will b
Obliged to return to New York befol
coming home.-Free Press.
AMONG those who have been at I'll
Rutland muster this week, from Be
nington, we note Maj. and Mrs. Coffe
Col. and Mrs Edward L. Bates, Col. an
Mrs. E. D. Bennett. The Rifles turnt
out forty-eight men. Major r. j. Co
fey, provost marshal; Maj. G. W. Eval
of the Second battalion; Provost Sc
geant R. S. Buss and Color Sergeant
G. Bennett accompanied the command.
EASTERN fish liars are completely p
out of countenance by story which
Mr.. Talbot of Tacoma, State of Washin
ton, tells-that the miners about La
Chelan, in the same State, catch all q
trout they wish with their shovels, al
''that he saw one man with one pus
scoop up four fish, not one of viii
weighed less than a pound" VIII
would the immortal George say If
knew that such story as this came fro
the State named after him?
IT is related of one of your well knoV
business men, something of practiC
Joker, by the way, that he received
out of town check last week, and fall
to get it cashed because of the scarci
of the currency hereabouts, conceiv
= the brilliant idea of buying a hat
. Coles. This he did ordering over
check in payment Mr.. Cole took I
check and promptly made change by g
ing his check for the balance. I
laugh is rather ON the one who has
to sell.
PROF. J. II. CANFIELD of Linco
Nebraska, sends us the following lite
THE first midsummer meeting and P
mic of the Sons land Daughters), of Y
mont, will be held in Assembly Pavili
State fair grounds, at 1890 p. M, sha
Thursday, September 14th. Hon. Jt
M. Thurston will preside. There will
after-dinner speaking and good 500
time. Everybody bring lunch bask'
The ladies will prepare the tables
113O a. m. See that all VermOnters
notified"
APARTY of seventeen, employees
Johnso1's gingham mill, left Nc
Adams, Mass, at one O'Clock Tues
afternoon and came to Bennington
foot arriving at 9 o'clock. They C;
by way of the Stanford mountain, Il
log the Tunnel City via Brooklyn st
from Johnson's mill. They renal
in town over the sixteenth, and atten
the attractions, returning Thursday
Pownal. TIE walking is good on
way back, but the spokesman Of the
ty thinks the path over the noun
must be in about the same CONDITION