The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-07

MISS KTTTIE TooHEY of Cohoes is be-
ing entertained by Mrs. Frank Edgertion
of Park street.
WIN. H. BRADFORD has been sick all
the week, confined to his house with
rheumatism.
MR.. APPLEBY has arrived in town to
suPerintend the farm of Jas. G. Colgate
of Bennington Center.
THE BANNER block is up, covered, and
the windows are in place. Two weeks
more and we shall be back home again.
Miss ALICE POTTER of Pownal, is Wis
iting relatives in town-Mrs. G. A.
Hawks, Joseph Bingham's family and
others.
MRS. DR. w. E. PUTNAM entertained
Miss Helen Wallace of HoOsick Falls, N.
Y, and Miss STEAMBOAT OF Youngstown,
Ohio, Tuesday.
OVER $50 pension vouchers were duly
certified to and forwarded from this vii
lage to the pension agency at Concord,
n. H., Tuesday.
LOUIS GRAVES has purchased fine
building lot on Elm street, from III. G..
Root. This lot adjoins the premises of
George f. Graves.
MISS ATwATER is making quite extern
Charles II. Potter opposite Library hall
This is needed improvement.
WE understand that the Elm Tree
House is to be opened shortly, and
friends of Mr.. Healy here have expressed
the wish that he move back and open the
house himself.
GEO. H. MOORE is having his farm
house moved on to the old foundations
6 l. l. ,n1 frixr
ing an unobstructed road from the newly
laid out "Weeks tract" through to South
street.
A. p CHILDs, treasurer of the Denison
Cotton Manufacturing Company, has is
sued circular prospectus of that corpO-
ration in its reorganized form. The at
tempt to put the Denison property in
the hands of q receiver proved futile.
THE Red Men have put up awnings In
front of their rooms in the Opera House
block, and the blue stone walks in front
will go down as soon as the frost is out
of the ground. The ground floor occu-
pants haye had their awnings in place
for some time.
THE Philharmonic of this village are
arranging for the production of the
| Chimes of Normandy early in May.
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Troy have been engaged to take the lead
ing parts and weekly rehearsals are the
order of the day.
THE Troy annual conference of the
Methodist Church will open at Albany
next Wednesday, April 18th, Bishop
Joyce presiding. Examinations of can
didates for the ministry will be held the
day before. The work of the conference
| lNnh ha of htr
April 18th.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the postoffice at Bennington for the
week ending April LIST, 1893: John Aims
worth, w. c. Rice, j. p. Rockwell, Hon.
c. NJ. Winslow, Miss Marcia Campbell,
Mrs. c. irish, Miss Laura Hawks, Miss
Florence Myers. These letters will be
sent to the dead letter Office April 18th,
1893, if not delivered before. In calling
please say advertised" giving date OF
list
THE Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
has established an agency in our village,
appointing E. A. Booth as agent. For a
number of years they have had no gent
here, this town being covered by Col. j.
H. Walbridge of North Bennington.
They were chartered sixty five years ago
and have assets in our State of nearly
four millions of dollars. The present
management is placing it in the front
ranks of reliable companies, and is doing
an immense business.
UNUSUAL preparations were made this
year for the observance of Easter Day in
the different churches OF the village, and
at all the services there were large con
gregations. The churches were hand
somely decorated with plants, flowers,
ferns, etc. The sermons in the morning
were with special reference to the day
and the music was exceptionally good
By request the Baptist choir will repeat
their Easter music next Sunday, trans
posing the services to accom- modate
those who can attend only in the evening
The negotiations between S. NJ. Sibley
and the Savings bank for the corner LOT,
North and Main streets, are progressing
favorably. The papers are not yet con
cluded but this affords the savings bank
an opportunity to acquire desirable site
for its proposed home building, and we
hope it may secure the property. If so
the bank will erect good, substantial
building, an ornament TO the place, and
fine investment. The stories sent out
to our exchanges OF palatial affair are
not founded on facts. Whenever the
bank builds it will BIO on conservative
lines and with an eye to its value purely
as an investment. Building operations
are a matter of future determination in
any event
On Tuesday, at Brattleboro, Chas. II.
Mason attended hearing in railroad
case in which he is plaintiffs attorney
The ease Is that of Savage & Danforth
VS.. VIM. Foster, Jr., one of the series OF
litigations involving the Lebanon Springs
railroad The case was tried in the
United States District Court at Burling.
ton in February. 1892. From there il
it went to the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit
where the writ of error was dismissed
and now comes back as stated. The
original claim was for nearly $4,000
With costs the judgment has grown te
nearly $4,000. At the conclusion of the
hearing Judge Wheeler directed an exc
cution to issue. This has been a closely
contested case as will be seen and the
winning of it is quite feather in Judge
Mason's cap.
THE Ensor Institute moved into iti
new quarters this week, the property OF
Main street lately owned by DR.. Jen
nings and now by A. X Richie. Thl
elegant lawns are to be laid out into Gro
quet grounds, Tennis court, ETC., anC
the final touches to the repairs on tn,
house are being completed this week
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