Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-07-30
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
North Bennington.

Capt. George Thatcher and wife and
niece, Miss Rose Blair of Louisiana,
with Mr.. and Mrs. II. T. Cushman and
Col. and Mrs. E. D. Bennett, visited
Camp Comfort yesterday, patrouizing as
a great convenience and pleasure the
electric cars.
Mrs. James yelling and Mrs. Col. J..
II. Walbridge in one carriage, and Mrs.
j. G. HOughtOn, Mrs. Kelsey of Troy,
n. Y, and Mrs. Hiland Hall and son in
another, visited the Summit house,
WoodfOrd, Saturday, for trout dinner
and the pleasant mountain drive. The
severe rain in the afternoon took some
what from the pleasure of the drives but
was welcomed as a great blessing to the
thirsty earth.
Mrs. G. j. Mckay, who has been visit
ing friends in Cleveland, o., and Geneva,
n. Y, has returned for the summer.
Samuel Wright, son of G. S. Wright of
Troy, N. H., is at his sisters, Mrs. NJ. Il.
Holt, for few days.
Mrs. Geo. Lyman of Bennington Cen
tire, is spending few days with Mrs.
Isaac Jennings. She, with others, is en-
joying the drives upon the brake, drawn
by four steeds of the Fairview stables.
Mrs. j. G. Mccullough is recovering
from an attack of sciatlca, under treat
ment by physician from Burlington.
Mrs. j. l.. Winnie, whose ninety eighth
birthday occurred on Saturday, the 9th
inst, was the recipient of many cOngrat-
ulations and gemembrances. She is in
good health, being kindly cared for by
her grand niece, Miss Harriet Walbridge,
and receives the calls of her friends with
the dignity and geniality, her wont
half century since, entering at once into
conversation both entertaining and
agreeable. She is a year younger than
Mrs. e. Hyde Grinnell of Colchester, re-
Gently spoken of in the BANNER, who
has resided most of her life in Georgia,
Vt, and is an old acquaintance of hers,
they being children together.
Mrs. Kelsey of Troy, N. Y, is visiting
Mrs. j. G. Houghton.
Miss Grace L. Newton is on her vaca-
ton from the business college in Troy.
Miss Hicks, with a younger sister of
North Adams, Mass, granddanghters of
the late Lemuel Fuller, are visiting Mr..
and Mrs. A. f. Demo at Bennington
Falls.
DR., Kenyon, who is preparing for the
ministry as profession, has supplied
the pull of the Baptist church in the
absence of the Rev. r. b. TOzer, very &C
ceptably.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roster, who are still on
their visit to New Haven, Conn.,, New
York and other places, we learn, are hav.
ing grand time, but best of all. her
voice, which had left her so she could
converse only in whisper for a long
time, has come again with her renewed
strength and vigor.
A young horse owned by Ernest Mort
house, with which he was coming from
Bennington Friday night, in company
with James Valley, became frightened
and manageable and both were thrown
out and the wagon badly broken. Mr..
Valley was bruised but no bones were
broken.
Mrs. S. S. Wright of Plainville, Ohio,
widow of the late l.. A. Knight, who
taught school in the Old Academy, is
visiting in town and vicinity. Her eld-
est son, Arthur, is physician in Madi-
sonville, near Cincinotti, Ohio, but a few
miles from Plainvile.
Ernest Partridge left Friday for Man
chester, to assist Mr.. Hume in his relig-
ious work there, which we learn has
been quite fruitful. He will follow in
such labor during the summer.
George Houghton and wife, with DR..
F. S. Pratt and friends of Bennington,
have been visiting, by carriage drive,
Lake Raponda and other local places of
interest in Wilmington.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. j. Morgan recently
enjoyed a trip to Saratoga, with ride to
the lake on the electric road and din
ner at the Moon Hotel, so widely known
for originating the celebrated Saratoga
potato chips.
Miss Smith of Troy, N. Y, and her
niece, Miss Grace Evans, are visiting
Mrs. E. NJ. Henry at Riverside.
A ride to Lake Lauderdale is contem-
plated by twenty-five or thirty of our
young people in the near future