Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-08-20

A. B. VALENTINE passed Sunday in
Wilmington.
Miss ANNA ARCHER of Rutland, is Wis
iting friends here.
THE condition of Mrs. L. S. Frost was
little improved this morning.
Miss BESSIE HUDSON left Monday for
weeks visit with friends in Troy, n. Y.
SEYMOUR VAN SANTvooRD is in the
Hudson Bay territory, hunting and fish
ing.
GEO. B. WELLINGTON is in Chicago on
business trip. He is expected home
to-day.
Miss MAGGIE CONE left to-day for a
two weeks visit to relatives in Troy,
NY.
Miss KrrTIE FLANNERY of Rutland, is
spending two weeks with friends in the
village.
Miss ANNA SoMERs, who has been
quite i'll, is at her post in Hudson's
rooms again.
THE Young Woman's Club will have
an important business meeting, Wednes
day August DIST, at eight o'clock.
CHAs. DALEY of w. G. Taylor's dry
goods store, North Adams, Mass, is
passing a part of his vacation with
friends here.
C. A. NbDGO, general Western passen-
ger agent of the Fitchburg Railroad, was
in the village to-day. visiting friends,
who are always pleased to see him.
THE Misses Jessie Loomis, Belle Craw-
ford, Jennie Patterson and Mable Hur-
ley are spending a two weeks vacation
in New York City and Asbury Park.
CARROLL PARTRIDGE, assistant in
Hudson's ice cream parlOrs, while work
ing with the ice cream freezer, Monday,
had finger caught in the cogs, making
a painful injury.
WILLIAM WATSON was before the Mu-
nicipal Court Monday, to answer to the
charge of being intoxicated and creating
a disturbance at the Green Mountain
Casino on the evening of July DIST. Wat
son pleaded guilty. The costs and fines
amounted to S1311. There were two
other charges against him but these
were not pressed. Watson disclosed on
Patrick Lyons, bartender for James
Leahy. The expense to Lyons was S3S.
j. T. SHURTLEFF, H. L. Stillson, S. B.
Hawks, NJ. L. Chandler, E. B. Niles, and
DR.. J. b. Woodruff of North Benning-
ton, will make the Bennington delega-
ton from Taft Commandery to the an
nual conclave of the Knights Templar to
be held in Boston next week. The
above named gentlemen will leave here
Monday. The Manchester members Of
Taft Commandery who attend will 81
with KillingtOn Commandery of Rut-
land, and those from HOosick Falls and
the Pownals, with Apollo Commandery
Of Troy.
UPON a strip of land which she has
donated for the purpose, near the west
end of the Ben Venue property, on the
road leading to Pleasant Valley, Mrs. j.
c. Colgate will erect chapel, reading
room, kitchen, etc. The grounds will be
handsomely fitted up and will contain a
lawn tennis court, etc. A bell will be
placed in the chapel belfry. Ground will
be broken this week, and when the en-
terprise is completed it will supply a
long felt want in its vicinity. Mrs. Col
gate will support the chapel, and upon
its completion, services will be held
there each Sunday.
THE eleventh annual meeting of the
Vermont Association of Road and Trot-
ting Horse Breeders, which will begin
next week at Rutland, August 9th, 2Sth,
Goth and 30th, promises to eclipse, not
only all previous efforts of th, success
full organization, but to put similar meet
ings in other States to the blush. The
stakes are liberal, the entries enormous
and many of the most famous flyers in
New York, New England and Pennsyl-
vania will contest for the $4,000 offered
III III UlO ULll JCGl CNCulb. lllG
new track at Rutland is to-day one of
the finest and fastest regulation half
mile tracks in New England.
OLIN SCOTT returned Saturday from
Grand Rapids, Wis, where he closed
contract with pulp grinding company
for eight New England pulp grinders,
with capacity of forty tons per day,
the fifth pulp mill he has fitted up on the
Wisconsin river. He also has contract
for four grinders for a mill on the Chat
eguay river in New York State, where
the fall of water is 95 per cent. Last
week there were shipped from his works
to Ashland, Wis, two grinders, and
Monday there went to Glen Miller, On.
tario, Canada, one of the largest pulp
grinders made at his works. He has re-
Gently shipped to the Winnepausakee
Paper Company, Franklin, N. H., a new
and improved grinder, the first of the
kind ever made.
THE Bicycle Club will hold a bicycle
lantern parade through the streets of the
village next Saturday evening, forming
on School street and starting at eiUht