Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-06-08

d., is guest OF Mrs. BuWaru NORTON on
Pleasant street.
THE first entry for the hose races
here next month was received this morn
ing from the Howard Hose Company of
Burlington.
A. P. CHILDs was made one of the ex-
ecutive Committee of the Vermont As
sociation meeting of Life Underwriters
at Burlington, yesterday.
The depot at Rayville, N. Y, on the
Lebanon Springs railroad, together with
its contents. was totally destroyed by
fire Monday evening last.
JOHN EVANS furnishes the New York
| Sunday papers. Read his announce
ment under the head of Business
Locals" in another column.
Oh DARLING, and E. S. Harris have
been in Castleton most of the time at
tending the investigation of the recent
Ellis Park Hotel fire in that town.
AT the regular meeting of the F. M. T.
A. B., to be held next Sunday afternoon,
a ticket for officers to be elected for the
ensuing year will be placed in nomina-
| ton.
II. G. CAswELL, Herbert A. Hemen
way and Charles Mathers have been Sc
lected to represent Co. K, National
Guard, in the State target contest at
Fort Ethan Allen the 2lst, inst.
A SUBSCRIPTION paper was circulated
through the village Wednesday, and a
sum was raised sufficient to make good
to the teachers the amount they lost by
the defalcation of Janitor Newton John
son. Each of the trustees gave So.
THE work of cutting down the hill
| leading to Grand View terrace is being
rapidly accomplished under the direction
of the contractor, Joseph Watson. When
completed the grade will be comparative
ly easy and the street much improved.
The Boston Sunday Journal, Globe and
Herald arrive here at $50 a. m. and are
distributed Immediately after. They
have come regular all winter, and are not
a temporary thing The Herald's report
of the Saturday ball game in Hartford,
Ct, will be very explicit Look out for
it. D. G. Burt will attend to your wants.
JOHN NASH returned from Albany this
morning where he had been looking for
Johnson, the absconding janitor of the
| Graded schools. Nash got hold of
several clues, found out where johnson
had bought a macintosh, where he had
passed two nights since he went away,
and other facts. The police in Albany
and Troy are looking for him, and there
! is no DOUBT but that he will be arrested
soon.
p. J. MCDUFEFE, the bicycle rider of
Maiden, we'll known all over the country
as racer, and will be remembered as
one of the riders in the bicycle tournament
at North Bennington year ago, was in
jured last Saturday afternoon in the race
at Jamaica Plain, and is very low. 1t is
thought that he cannot live over day or
two Beside having his collar bone bro
ken and receiving internal injuries, it is
| found that his skull is fractured.
The officers of st. Mary's guild, elected
last week, are: President, Mrs. Abbott;
first e-president, Mrs. J. II. Norton;
second vice-president, Mrs. G. G. Kim
ball; treasurer, Mrs. Chas. Burt; secre-
tary, Mrs. Chas. Barnes. The executive
committee is constituted as follows:
Mrs. j. X. Miller, Mrs. H. w. Martin,
Mrs L. P. Norton, Mrs. Geo. F. Graves.
This guild is to hold strawberry social
at the residence of Mrs. Barnes, June
14th, particulars of which will be given
in another place to-day.
THE republican caucus to choose dele
was held in the village trustee rooms last
evening, and was quite fully attended.
G. H. Darling was elected chairman, and
Geo. r. Matthews secretary. The dele
gates chosen to the State convention
were, G. H. Darling, E. W. Bradford, f.
NJ. Tiffany, II. NJ. Harris, G. n. Powers,
Harry 7. Cushman, F. NJ Crawford. To
the District convention, H. G. Root, A.
B. Valentine, Geo. w. Hartman, l. E.
Gibson, L. F. Abbott, E. d. yelling, w.
E. Hawks. The delegates were instruct
ed to choose their own alternates.
THE members of the class of '94 in the
Bennington High School are Jessie Ed
ward Barney, Charles Henry Bennett,
Annie Eliza Dakin, Anna Robertson
Hathaway, Daisy Luella Morse, Laura
Park Stafford, Flora Louise Valentine,
Caroline Augusta Wood. Miss Stafford
is the valedictorian and Miss Morse takes
the salutatory honor. The work done by
several members of the class is largely in
excess of the work required to secure
diploma from the Regents of the New
York State University. The graduating
exercises will occur Thursday evening,
June 81. Commencement week, as usu-
al, will be largely occupied with rhetori-
cal exercises in the various departments
of the school. All programmes will be
published at an early day.
The Rutland Herald of Thursday. in
its report of the State elocution contest
held in that city the evening before,
says: "The programme was interspersed
with vocal and instrumental music.
The bass solo of G. II. Bennett of Ben
nington was especially we'll received"
Mr. Bennett was the only one who was
obliged to respond to an encore. His
first selection was entitled: Forest
Song" Kreutzer. In response to the en-
core he sang, my Little Woman" The
accompaniment were by Mrs. George
W. Keeseman of>this village. Mrs. J.
Ed. Merrill and E. G. Benuett were also
among those who attended the contest.
There were II contestants for the prize,
among them being Miss Flora E. Ball,
one of the teachers in the Graded school,
and Herbert A. Hemmenway, a pupil in
the High school. The recitation of Miss
Ball was heartily received and quite
number of those present thought that
she should have been given the honor
able mention that was awarded There
were also two contestants from the Burr
and Burton Seminary at Manchester.
THE Cambridge, England, Chronicle
of May 25th, has the notice of wedding
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