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

the firstpage to-day.
AYREs, the tailor, sells the BANNER
hat. Look his stock over.
READ the auction notice of d. A. Dean
of Pownal in another column.
MRS. r. ]. CoFFEY is absent on visit
to friends in the eastern part of Yer
mont.
Miss KATHARINE BINGHAM of Somer-
vile, Mass, is visiting Miss Alice Mabel
Norton.
Miss AUDRIA BOWEN is to pass two
weeks of the summer vacation with
friends in Whitehall, N. Y.
JAS. A. n. WILLIAMS goes this week
to visit his old home in Pennsylvania.
He will be absent several weeks.
MRS. AMELIA STEWART and daughter
Eunice of lion, N. Y, are guests of their
relative, Mrs. S. S. Pratt on South street.
AN advance of twenty cents a ton, in
the price of chestnut and stove coal, was
made July l, and a still further advance
in price is expected.
DIR. A. u. CUTLER and wife passed the
Fourth with Thos. S. Hoyt in Troy, n.
Y. 1t was a sort of family reunion. DR..
and Mrs. Pike also went down.
MRS. JOHN G. CLARK, who has been
seriously ill for several weeks, was taken
away for treatment this week. Her
friends hope for the best for her under
special treatment.
THE interior of the Graded school
building is to be greatly improved. and
the painters and cleaners are already at
work upon the job. The school year be-
gins the first Monday in September.
O ,,,1
gave an entertainment on the church
lawn the evening of the Fourth. Ice
cream and refreshments were served, and
there was a large attendance. Result $50,
THE removal of Mrs. Wilcox, (nee
Hutchins from town causes vacancy in
the officers of Mt. Anthony Chapter, Or
der Eastern Star. Mrs. J. II. Norton has
been appointed to fill the unexpired
term.
OVER 81, 100 in fines was imposed by
the Municipal court last week upon diff
ferent persons charged with the illegal
sale of liquor and keeping it with intent
to sell. More arrests and convictions are
expected.
SEVERAL car loads of people from
Bennington attended the Fourth of July
celebration in Troy. They report the
finest order of exercises they ever saw in
the Trojan city. Another party went tC
Rutland to the races.
THE Sunday school of the Second Con
gregational church will have an excur
sion to Lake George by way of Rutland
Wednesday, July 20. The train will
leave here at a. m. The fare for the
round trip is S1.4o. Two hours will bt
spent Oh the lake.
On our inside pages to-day will bC
found several timely articles. One o.
these is ''ATorals and Good Roads," ;
timely discussion of that subject. Tit
full text of President Cleveland's call TO
an extra session of Congress will also b,
found in another place.
AT the morning service of the SeconC
Congregational church Sunday morning
four persons Joined the church. Two 0
them were baptized. Clement II. Con
and E D. Bennett, who had recently BEEF
elected deacons, were ordained, and as
sisted in the communion exercises tina
followed the regular morning exercises
MISS Lillian WRIGHT, having com
pleted the canvass of Bennington, ha
gone to Rutland to write up the biog
raphies for the "Men of Vermont" til
forthcoming work of which we spoke re
Gently. Mr.. Huse, state librarian, an
his publishers are doing nice thing. i
this enterprise, for the state.
If anyone had doubts as to the benef
cent result of the payment of pensions t
Union veterans, they would have bee
dispelled upon sight of the company as
sembled at Judge Whites ''pensio
day" the Fourth. 1t is great objec
lesson, this assembly of pensioners
when they all congregate, the vetera
and the widows of veterans.
THE Prof Norton, who read the Dec
laration of Independence at the World
Fair Tuesday, is the gentleman VIII
visits our town occasionally with hi
wife, daughter Laura) of John \
Hills of Ravenswood, Ill. Prof NortO
is fine scholar, and his rendering c
the famous document was excellent o
this occasion.
ALL the barns and Outbuildings on tn
stock farm Grasslands, located in Sand
Hill, n. Y, and the property of Georg
Conklin, were burned Monday night, t
gether with the contents. The fire
supposed to have taken from telephon
wire. Sixteen horses were hurneC
among them the stallion Onset, value
at $4,000. The total loss is valued g
10000, and but small insurance.
A FAMILY reunion was recently held i
Hoosick Falls, N. Y, at the residence {
Charles Tuttle, it being the hundredt
birthday of Mrs. Boynton, mother
Mrs. futile. Among those present wei
Mrs. NJ. FELTON, of Dunkirk, N. Y, Mr.
L. Corkins of Port Allegheny, Penn
and Mrs. L. MOsher of Chillicothe, Obi,
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. William A. Felto
of Troy, N. Y. Mrs. John II. Kelso is
granddaughter of Mrs. Boynton.
THE Rev. b. Fay Mills, who once Il
bored in Bennington, and who has r
Gently attracted great attention by h
evangelical work in San Francisco an
elsewhere, is comparatively yon1
man, and lives, when at home, in PAY
tucket, r. /. He is without mears hin
self, but is extremely successful in raj
ing money for the religious work
which he is engaged. The County Pc
says: "Mr. Mills was formerly pastor
the Reformed church at Greenwich"
THE new ''POwnal road" that leaC
from the old to the new "Hoadley mill
is completed. OF this highway 2G0 roc
are in this town and 100 rods is
Pownal. The veteran road bHilde
John H. Baban, had the job for BENIN
ton, and it is a good specimen of tho
ough road building The contract pri,
was 5000, and the money was we'll la
out. While we are not personally co