Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-09-14

THE annual parade and inspection OF
the fire department tomorrow.
DAISY MORSE, a graduate of the Grad
ed school, is teaching in Woodford.
JAMES BAssETT has returned from his
visit to his daughter in Brooklyn, N T.
HART has a big sale" at the Mill
Store. Read his announcement to-day
QUITE a frost is reported in some sec
tions, Wednesday night, but compare
lively little damage is reported
Mr.. AND MRS. L. G. EAsToN are alb
sent this week visiting friends in Jack
sonville, Putney and other places.
MAJ. A. B. VALENTINE is attending
the National Encampment, G. A R., be-
ing held in Pittsburg, Pa, this week.
THE last day to pay taxes and save the
four per cent. is the Goth, inst. Don't
wait until the last day and then forget
it.
GEO. H. SHURTLEFF and wife and
Chas. H. Dewey and wife are spending
the week at the Summit house in Wood
ford.
C. D. GIBSON began this week the
building of another story upon his main
street store, of which the second story is
his own dwelling. The new part is for
his son and family to live in.
The centennial celebration of the Or
ganization of Trinity church parish, Rut,
land, will be held September 25th,. and
Goth. Bishop Hall will speak. 1t is eX,
pected that number of clergymen will
attend from all parts OF the State.
STREET rumors are that the hotel
keepers are considering the plan of clos
ing their houses if the present liquor
crusade is continued much longer. One
thing is certain that for week past Pro-
hibition has prohibited very successful
ly.-Troy Press.
WEDNESDAY evening reception was
given Mr.. and Mrs. William E. Watson,
who have Just returned from their we'd
ding trip, at the home of Mrs. Chas. Sib-
lev, mother of the bride, on Depot street.
The house was brilliantly illuminated
and quite a large number of friends
called and congratulated the happy
courle. The City band came down from
Manchester to be present on the occa-
sion. Refreshments were served.
WALBRIDGE the leading furniture man
in Vermont is making considerable adj
ditions in his furniture store on Main
street. They are rot all completed as
vet, but when they are it will give him
much more room and more convenient
for the transaction of his rapidly In
creasing business. He says that house
furnishings etc., have got to hum this
fail and he is going to furnish the ma
terial for the humming. Look at the
BANNER next week and see.
DIR. PRESCOTT and wife, who have
passed the latter part of the summer
here, will return to their home in Haver-
hill. Mass, the last of next week. DR..
PRESCOTT is an oculist of many years ex-
perience and has been in the habit of
spending his summers at Brattleboro.
Some one told him that our town was
good place and this year he came as
an experiment. He is so we'll pleased
that he may come here again. Mean
time he has permanently relieved many
cases of defective vision, and is an ocu-
list of established reputation.
WE are told by those in a position to
be well informed, that Dorsets represen-
tation this year by a Democrat is an in
cident that might just as well have been
avoided as not. If men who profess 10y
atty to the Republican party would only
act it out, the town of Dorset, or any
other town in like circumstances would
not be thus represented. OF the Popu-
lists nothing better can be expected; but
some men in the Republican party pro-
TESS better things then to knife their or
ganization. Clevelandism will prove a
curative no doubt.
For some time Swindlers representing
themselves as agents of Bradstreets'
Commercial Agency have been going
about tho county and by the use of bo-
gus letter heads and contracts have man.
aged to obtain money from number of
people. One of this class, who gave the
name of Harry Sanford, has been oper-
ating in the vicinity of Castleton, in this
county, where he was quite successful.
Sanford is described as about fifty
years of age, FIVE feet nine inches in
height, dark complexion, black curly
hair slightly tinged with gray. He
claims to be member of the G. A. R.,
l. o. o. F., Masons and sther secret So
cieties. Other names given by the swim
oilers are Brown, More and Winold.-
Troy Telegram.
THE Vermont Ensor Institute for the
cure of the liquor, morphine and tobacco
habits is doing a fair business, though
the hard times make it difficult for the
most of the class of patients who seek
admission to raise the SIS necessary to
take the treatment. Since the institute
was opened year ago last March 275
persons have been treated, more than
eighty per cent. of whom have abandoned
liquor. The patients were from Yer
mont, Massachusetts and New York.
DR.. Wilcox is the physician in charge
and David Z. Moore the manager. The
Bennington Institute has branches in
Barre and Windsor, in Milford and
Springfield, Mass, and in Amsterdam
ard Lansingburgh, N. Y. The Spring
field and Lansingburgh branches are do
ing good business.
WORDS of kindly greeting are always
cheering, and especially are they such
when the expression comes from all
friends and long time patrons. We are
sure that Mr.. Jas. e. Damon of San
Francisco, will excuse us if we quote a
paragraph in recent personal letter to
the editor. He says: Enclosed please
find money order, in payment of what
must be about my 50th years subscrip-
ton to the BANNER, nearly forty. three
years of which time has been spent in
this State. doubt if you have many
subscribers who have taken the paper
continuously for that length of time.
like the change from the weekly to the
semi weekly, and though am interested
principally in the local news, l am pleased
with the stand the paper has always
taken on the leading political questions
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