Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-06-29

ical condition.
Mrs. e. P. WARNER of Arlington, is
visiting friends in town.
DIR. F. S. PRATT attended the Williams
college commencement this week.
P. G. BOND of Dandy, has been here
this week on a short business trip.
S. II. lockwood and wife started yes
terday for two weeks drive over the
mountain.
THE Y. M. G. A. are putting down an
elegant carpet. 1t is presented to the
Association.
Mrs. GEO. A. WooD and daughters are
at their summer cottage at WoOdford for
the summer.
WE hear that G. c. Merchant is in
quite poor health, and has recently had
an acute attack.
Il. S. BINGHAM returned, Saturday,
from business trip, down East ex-
tending to Maine.
MISS CYNTHIA GARDNER entertained
fourteen of her friends, at the Putnam,
one evening this week.
HENRY A. HARTMAN, county clerk of
Rutland, attended the Williams college
commencement this week.
INFORMATION has been received of the
severe illness, in Dorset, of Mrs. Charles
Ross, who is a sister of F. A. Greenslet
of this village.
CHAs. KRoNING of this village, has
been engaged to lay pipe, and do the
caulking on the pipes that are to be put
in, in the new water system now being
laid in Manchester.
THE recent civil service order of the
Democratic National administration, did
not seem to affect the official character
of the State convention at Burlington.
yesterday. The Office holders were out
in force.
The bay mare, Alicia, owned by Geo.
F. Leonard and entered in the $50 class
races that are to come off in Rutland
next week, went lame Monday. AS a
consequence he has been obliged to with
draw her from the race.
THE Revs. M. L. Severance, Chas. R.
Seymour, A. Macgeorge, Messrs. Fl. G.
Root, Harrison l. Norton, and others,
attended the meeting of the Bennington
County Sunday school convention in
Dorset, Tuesday.
DR.. II. j. POTTER JR., has just pur-
chased from parties in White Creek, N.
Y. a pair of year old geldings that he
intends using for driving purposes. They
are half brothers, weigh $50 lbs each,
good drivers and with a little care and
attention will make first-class team.
DIFFERENT residents of the village
have subscribed each 81, enough to pur-
chase the arms and accoutrements that
have been used by the Bennington cadets
since organization. The boys are
expressing themselves as much pleased
over the fact that they are not now us
ing borrowed guns.
July list is the date on which our Of
fer of the SENu-WEEKLY BANNER three
months for ten cents closes. Upwards of
six hundred have availed themselves of
this offer and become subscribers. We
would be glad to add another hundred
names to our list before the offer closes.
Hurry up
r. o. GOLDSMITH, leader of the City
band, is making arrangements for a
grand concert to be given by the several
bands that are to be here during the fire.
mans tournament, the sameto be under
one leader for the time being. Should
he succeed, there would be combina-
ton of about $50 instruments at the
least.
A SUBSCRIPTION paper has recently
been circulated among the business men
of the village for the purpose of raising
funds enough to buy uniforms for Eagle
Hose Company, No. 4. The response
has been quite generous and funds
enough have been promised to warrant
the ordering of the same. tits proposed
to have it consist of red shirt with belt,
black pants with red stripe, and fatigue
cap.
PAUL AND WALTER HARTMAN, sons of
Henry A. Hartman of Rutland, have been
visiting their grandparents, Hon. and
Mrs. Geo. W. Hartman. The young men
came down on their wheels, leaving
home early in the morning, and arriving
here in the afternoon of the same day.
They stopped at Manchester Centre for
dinner. They left on their return home
Wednesday, going by the way of Cam
making short stops in both places.
SUNDAY, last, twenty-five of the men,
bers of Company K, Vermont National
y Guard, took four horse team, and a
1.-TWO horse, three seated carriage, and
early in the day started for North
Adams, Mass, to make a social visit to
the Richmond battery of that city. The
boys arrived there in good season and
the battery, where they were most hos
pitably welcomed and entertained. They
returned home in the evening satisfied
that the 'Richmonds' know how to en-
terrain.
In some parts of the county the Col
umbian stamps are said to be thing of
the past. The only defense we have ever
seen of that issue is in the Burlington
News of yesterday, which says: 1.-THE
Columbian stamps, now that they have
gone, are held by some to have been su-
perior to the ordinary stamp. In arts
tic quality they certainly were beautiful
stamps, and the talk about the extraor-
binary size came from the perversity of
human nature rather than any real OBJ.
lection to them. No country ever issued
so handsome series of stamgs as the
Columbian and they will be long held in
esteem by collectors. So far as their
size was concerned they were as easily
clicked" by the ordinary tongue as the
smaller size, and few people use envel-
opes that would not accommodate them.
Their continued use would have been
satisfactory to majority of the people,"