Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-05-11
MRS. G. W. EVANS has new piano.
II r SNTTTtI was in North Adams SAT


FIR. SMITH was in North Adams, Sat.
urday.
MRS. C. B. ROUSE of Plainsville, Pa,
is visiting in town.
MAJ. FROST distributed to-day his sec.
nnd, invoice of fresh mackerel. They
were fine.
E. I. GRIswoID inspected George T.
-Childs Camp, sons of veterans, at st.
Adams, Wednesday evening.
MISS ANNIE JONES of West Troy, N.
Y, has been visiting Miss Powell, at st.
Peters rectory, this week.
MISS GRACE BATCHELDER of Airing
ton, is the guest of Miss Susie Elmore of
North Adams, Mass.
E. B. HoLLISTER, for years resident
of Manchester, now of Philadelphia, is
making two weeks visit. He was in
town the first of the week.
GEO. Fl. BURcH and N. M. Puffer have
returned from Boston, where they went
the first of the week to attend the SUI
preme Lodge, n. E. o. P.
IT is settled, so we are told, that the
new iron cross for the spire of st. Peter
church will be gilded, and that it will be
placed in position shortly.
JUDGE WHITE,has improved so much
IN the last week that he now walks over
to Main street and back, daily. He will
soon be about again and able to attend
to business, as usual.
w. S. HARDWOOD, who has represented
W. & ]. Sloan's wholesale upholstery
department at Detroit Mich, for the
past year, was instructed, on the 4th inst,
10 take charge of their Chicago Office.
TEE Rev. Frank Russell, d. D.,
brother-ln-law of Ex-Governor Alger of
Detroit, Mich, will be installed over the
port, Conn, May 18th, inst.
SIX recruits were mustered into CON-
pany K, Vermont National Guard, Mon
day evening. Thus far, there has been
no official action taken in regard to
marching across the mountain to attend
the animal muster at Brattleboro.
THE Graded School Cadets have been
invited by the Memorial committee to
participate in the Memorial Day parade.
Although not fully uniformed it is prob
able that they will, and if they do they
will not make poor showing.
The Father Matthew T. A. B. Society,
are already making preparations for
their annual picnic which will be OBJ
served August 10th, as usual. The com
mittee are already in correspondence
with some well known attractions.
MRS. WIN. PEART and sister are i'm
proving their property on Branch street.
Among the changes now in progress is
the rebuilding of the old house, and
making it into two. We are told that
other improvements are also cOntem.
plated.
THE SEAn-WEEKLY BANNER for three
months for ten cents, 26 issues, is a
grand opportunity. This offer holds
good only until June 18th, so send in
your subscriptions at once. A semi
weekly three months for dime.
THE Rev. Thos. Rogers, late of South
SALISBURY now of Vergennes, has re.
signed the position of representative OF
Stark Lodge, No. 8, l. o. 0. F., to the
Grand Lodge of the State, which meets
at Newport next week, and John E,
Walsh has been appointed as his alter
nate.
GEORGE KEHoE went to Bennington
on Tuesday to enter the Soldiers Home
He was member of the Grand Army
Post at Barre and latterly has been cared
for by the Grand Army boys. He was g
stone cutter by trade and has worked for
various firms in town. His health is
very poor.-ArguS and Patriot.
MILDRED, youngest and only daughter
of f. A. Greenslet, died Wednesday
morning, and was buried this afternoon
it being her birthday, and she would
have been two years old. She was a
bright child, and her death, following SC
closely upon that of the elder sister
Grace, is crushing blow to the parents
and other members of the'family.
IT is said that the locusts are hatch
ing out by the millions in the West and
Northwest, which are liable to devoul
every green thing this summer, and send
wheat up from seventy cents to two dol.
lars bushel. A specimen exhibited in
Montreal the other day, was about two
inches long and looked hungry.
ONE of the handsomest pieces of gran
lite that has ever been seen in town, ar
rived here Saturday consigned to the Els
tabroOk Granite Company. 1t was taker
from one of the Barre quarries, weighs
81 tons and Clipped off as straight al
if it had been cut with a saw
1t is intended to be used as a die in {
monument to be erected on the Bates lot
in the village cemetery.
THE Forest and Stream Club at Will
mingtOn, organized in 1892, has pub
lished a nicely printed pamphlet, will
illustrations, setting forth the advan
tages of the Green Mountains as sum
mer resort, and the 'slope of the Hay
stack in particular. The Bennington
members are: A. P. Childs, Ii. M. Har
ris,H.S S. Bingham, 1. E. Gibson, Franz
Tiffany and DR.. Chisholm.
CAMP COMFORT, the popular summer
resort, has been rented another season Il
E. o. Joslyn of Morrisville, who will
open the place to the public about JUNE
goth. Mr.. Joslyn is an experienced
caterer and has run the camp for severa
seasons. A force of thirty servants hai
been engaged. 1t is said the outlook fol
the usual number of summer boarderi
from New York and Brooklyn is good.
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