Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-05-15

BURLINGTON is planning mlShCy
Fourth of July celebration.
MRS. MANsUR, one of our oldest
women, is confined to her house by ill
ness.
HORACE WooDMAN is grading and ter
racing the grounds around his new house
on Grand View.
READ Miss Morgan's millinery an
nouncement in the Business Local.
column of this paper.
g. E. TowNE and wife of Brandon,
visited their daughter, Mrs. Horace
Woodman, over Sunday.
TEE Junior Y. P. S. G. E. of the Sec
end congregational church will have a
picnic at Lawrence's Falls, Saturday.
MISS ALICE GIBSON was home over
Sunday from Temple Grove Seminary,
Saratoga, N. Y, where she is at school.
~. ED. WALBRIDGE has leased
couple of lots just in front of his resi-
dence on Grand View Terrace for farm
purposes.
HARRY SHIELDS of Troy, N. Y, has
purchased the Gardner cottage at Ben
ningJon Centre, and takes immediate
possession.
DONG business without advertising is
like pulling against the tide; you may
make progress, but it will make you
sweat to do so.
QUITE heavy frost is reported in sew
eral localities near by, Monday night,
and it is feared much damage has been
done to the fruit crop.
OLIN SCOTT is now making at his
foundry 200 iron markers to be used in
marking the graves of veteran soldiers
that are buried in the cemeteries here.
THERE recently has been found in the
town of Wilmington, a valuable ore bed.
Examination shows traces of gold, sill
yer, copper and other precious metals.
II. A. TAYLOR leaves, Thursday for
Wyoming, Ontario, whore he is engaged
for three months or more by a company
who are putting in system of water
works in that town.
MRS. N. N. PUFFER, Mrs. N. W. Stew
art and Mrs. ii. L. Stillson are in atten-
dance upon the National convention of
the Daughters of Rebekah that is being
held in Albany, N. Y, this week, to-day
and tomorrow.
SUNDAY was Whitsunday, or the Feast
Of the Pentecost. Special services were
held in St. Peters and st. Francis de
Sales churches. Next Sunday, being
Trinity, special musical services will be
arranged for both churches.
RAILROAD officials report traffic of all
kinds improving, especially passenger,
the latter owing to the fact that tourists
and summer guests are already coming
into the State. Several summer houses
are already open for the season.
TIE Graded schools will close the
22nd of June. The senior class is COM
posed as follows: Charles Fl. Bennett,
Jesse Barney, Misses Annie Dakin, Anna
Hathaway, Daisy Morse, Laura Stafford,
Flora Valentine and Carrie Wood.
THE annual meeting OF the Troy Con-
ference Historical Society was held in
the Fifth avenue Methodist church,
Troy, Monday. The Rev. DR.. Bostwick
HaWley was elected president, and the
Rov. DR.. II. G. Farrar, corresponding
secretary. &.
TIE listers have not yet completed
their labors, but have gone far enough
TO warrant the statement, that while
there has been comparatively no in
crease in the grand list of the town, out
Gde of the village, that will show a gain
ID about $50, 900 in real estate over the
former year.
THE Rome IN. ~, Bicycle Club an
Rounce meet in that city Memorial
Day. The contests will take place in
Riverside Park. Twelve races are
planned, and prizes varying in value
from S. to $3.50 are announced. Elmer
Ayres of this village will probably COM
pete in several of the races.
MISS BALL, one of the teachers in the
Graded schools, while riding on a BIZ
cycle Thursday evening, was run into by
team and thrown to the ground. She
received some severe injuries but no
bones were broken. She was az her
school Friday morning, but was COM
PEELED to give it up in the afternoon.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the postoffice at Bennington, for the
week ending May 18th, 1894: Otis Healy,
Herbert F. Rogers, Elijah Williams,
lizzie Meyers, Mrs. e. D. Root and Mrs
u. ]. Wolf. These letters will be sent
to the Dead Letter Office May oath, 1894,
if not delivered before. In calling for
above, please say advertised" giving
date of list.
THE Free Press of Monday had the
following: 1.-THE Right ReY. John S.
Michaud, coadjutor bishop, made the
annual bishops visitation to St.
Stephens parish, Winooski, yesterday.
The congregation met the bishop at the
parsonage, and during mass he delivered
a strong sermon to them. This vista
ton was particularly interesting as the
bishop was formerly the parish priest of
St Stephens of that place."
EDWARD G. BRUCE. former resident
of Bennington, died at the residence of
ID. B. Haynes on Union street, yester-
day morning. He had been visiting
there several weeks. He was 40 years of
age and his death was caused by heart
failure. He had resided in Newport
News, Va, for several years, and was
past chancellor of Warwick Lodge, X. of
P. of that place. He was the last of his
family, his wife and four children hav-
ing died before him. His funeral,
which will be private, will be held Wed.
nesday morning at 10 o'clock.
The Troy Press of Saturday said
''The remains of Edward Sessions were
brought to Waterford yesterday after
noon, from Bennington, VT, where he
died in the morning. The deceased was
born in Troy, fifty-fve years ago, and
was of most genial temperament. He
was we'll known as one of the best
butchers in this section, and had at diff
ferent times conducted business on his
own account. BE viii be buried to-mor
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