Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-09-27


stantially bound, send them to the BAN
NER Bindery.
Mr.. AND Mrs. N. E. TURGEoN of Buff
falo,N N. Y, are visiting at G. NJ. Rowell's.
Mr.. Turgeon is manager of the Buffalo
branch of The Pope Manufacturing Com
pany.
REGULAR communication of Mt. An
thony Chapter, No. l., Order Eastern
Star, occurs next Wednesday evening,
October End, at Masonic Hall, A full at
tendance is especially desired.
AT the Methodist church next Sunday
evening, Chas. H. Bennett will sing
"Who Treads the Path of Duty" from
The Magic Flute, by Mozart, and Miss
Grace Roberts and E. c. Bennett will
sing, the first time in Bennington, the
duet, "Love Divine, Ali Love Excelling,"
by Stainer.
THE community will be pleased to
learn that the florists business, so
successfully conducted for a number of
years under the name of L. NJ. Holton,
will be continued in the same
place by Lewis c. Eolton, the surviving
partner. Some additions ard improve
ments will be made as soon as possible.
FRED TIFT, assistant secretary of the
Y. NJ. c. A., left this morning for Brown
University. He has had an offer from the
University football team of position on
the team, but is undecided whether or
not to accept. His place at the Y. M. G..
A. rooms is at present filled by Clyde
Morse.
CHARLES II. BENNETT leaves for Bos-
ton the first of next week, where he will
devote the coming winter to the study
of music-the voice, under Charles r..
Adams, harmony and composition under
George W. Chadwick, and piano under
accompanied by George Donnelly, who
will resume his musical studies, violin,
under Mr.. Mollenhauer.
LAST Wednesday, Shepard T. Fonda
was united in marriage with Miss Flora
E. Brimmer, of Hoosick, N. Y, at the
residence of the brides parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Addison A. Brimmer, Rev. NJ. l..
Severance performing the ceremony,
The wedding was quiet, but relatives
and immediate friends being present
Mr.. and Mrs. Fonda will reside with MI
Fonda's mother on Silver street. Mrs.
Fonda was at one time an attendant at
the Graded schools in this village.
FULL Vespers and Benediction will
be sung at st. Francis de Sales church
Sunday afternoon, September goth, at 4
o'clock. The choir under the direction
of Charles H. Bennett, with Miss A. E
Clark organist, will render the following
programme:
Domino ad advutandum .. ...,........ Chant
Celebrant and Choir.
Chant, Dixit Dominus. FUNDAMENTALLY Psalm 40
Conhte6or Ilbi'' '.....,,..'''..'P Psalm ~
BeatuS Nir .....................Psa Psalm lI3
Laudate Pueri. ...... Psalm ll3
Laudate DOmnum. ......Psalm III
Save Regina. ...............k reatzer
Quartette and Chorus.
Responses.
Solo, Miss Sullivan and Chorus
Cor Jesu :..'''''...''''''''.' 'Eregorlan
Ave Maria E. G. Bennett .'''''''''''''IO''i
Tantum Ergo....... Werner
Responses,
Laudate Dominum. .....................P Psalm III
THE following ex-members of the State
Legislature, who were residents of the
town at the time of their election, are
now living, most of whom will attend
the coming decennial reunion of former
members to be held in Montpelier, Oct.
End and Sd. Senators: H. G. Root,
1S66-67; A. 3. Valentine, 1882;
John V. Carney, 1884; A. b. Val
entine, 1886; L. F. Abbott, 1890; I. E..
Gibson, 1894. Representatives Henry
j. Potter, 1872; L. P. Norton, 1874 Milo
c. Huling, 1876; L. F. Abbott, 1880; A.
P. Childs, 1882; John R. Pilling, 1884;
j. T. Shurtleff, 1886; c. E. yelling, 1888;
R. M. HOughton, 1890; A. J. Dewey,
1892; II. S. Bingham, 1894. All of the
above are residing here except John r.
Pilling who resides in Cohoes.
If the principle of patronizing home
merchants was as we'll observed by all
Benningtonians as it is by some, who be-
lieve that all money possible should be
invested at home for the benefit of the
towns people and the building up of the
place, the town would be able to support
business houses in sufficient number,
and of sufficient magnitude to amply
supply more than all the ordinary wants
and make the town the business centre
of the surrounding country. AS it is,
our merchants are seriously handicapped
by the money carried out of town by
those who never can find anything good
enough at home. The principal way in
which the larger portion of the inhabi-
tants can contribute to the welfare and
prosperity of the town is to patronize
home institutions, to save for home use
these sums now bestowed upon the city,
to stand by the home merchants, who
contribute to the support of the town
and of every worthy local undertaking,
and to help them in giving the town
what it needs in merchantile establish
ments to secure the home and surround
ing country trade. In keeping within
her borders the thousands now annually
flowing outward for tho nppaGoitiac al