Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-09-06

Mr.. AND Mrs. F. B. CARVER of West
Main street have another daughter.
Mrs. ALEX. j. COOPER is spending
this week with her parents in Worthwhile,
NY.
JOSEPH A. POWERS of Lansingburg,
N. Y, has been visiting Maj. A. B. Val
entine this week.
THE Misses Annie Morrissey, Nellie
and Lizzie Mcmahon have been visiting
the Misses Mehan in Greylock. Mass.
Miss CARRIE SNOW of Wilmington,
who has been visiting her niece, Mrs. L..
L. Stevens, returned home Thursday.
JOHN DoLAN, who has recently moved
here from Rutland, is occupying one of
VIM. E. Hawks tenements on Union
street.
THE ladies of st. Peters church gave
tea party that was we'll attended, in the
hall of Sixth Corps Post, Thursday, from
to Up. m.
MISS KATE LOCKWOOD, who was re-
Gently appointed one of the teachers In
the new Graded School in Springfield,
this State, left Saturday, TO assume her
duties.
LETTER CARRIER HAYNES is to pass
his annual vacation, this year, in the
South. He left yesterday with the G. A.
r. delegation for Louisville, Ky. Rob
ert Squire is covering his route.
THE Woman's Auxiliary to the Young
Mems Christian Association will hold its
quarterly meeting at the Y. NJ. c. A.
rooms on Thursday, Sept. 18th, at ,
o'clock =. m. A full attendance is re-
quested.
VERMONT horses always come to the
front when shown in other States. G..
Z. Leonard took three to the Cambridge
Fair this week, and brought home three
prizes, two first and one second. Large
fields of we'll bred horses were shown in
each class.
Mrs. E. n. X. MEARs, Miss Nan c.
Hamlin of Albany. y. Y, and Miss Bes-
sic Tiffany, who is attending school at
the Round Lake Academy, were the
guests of Mrs. Chas. Cooper last week.
DR.. Mears and Mr.. Waldo Sanford OF
Albany, spent Sunday with them.
GEO. ALDRICH has in his possession a
relic that he values quite highly. 1t is a
silver pin made in the form of an Irish
harp, with fancy work above. 1t was
picked up by his great grandfather or
the battlefield of Lexington, few hours
after the battle in April, 1775, and has
been in the family ever since.
THOSE who watched had good op
portunity to observe a total eclipse Of
the moon Tuesday night. The sky was
perfectly clear during the entire eclipse
The moon entered penumbra at II o'clock
The total eclipse began at 1921 o'clock
and the moon emerged from the earth's
shadow at 2.54 O. clock Wednesday morn
ing.
THE fruit season is now well advanced
Yellow peaches, the most desirable foi
preserving, are scarce and high, but
there is good supply of the red variety
This week will probably be the last OF
really good peaches. Grapes and pears
are fine, abundant and cheap. There is
no change in the variety of vegetables of
fered for sale, and there is an abundance
of everything in this line. Bass, span
ish mackerel, blue fish and salmon are
the choicest fishes in the market and are
in the greatest demand.
CLAY CLEMENT and an excellent com
pany Tuesday evening, presented the
comedy THE New Do ninion," at the
Opera House. They were greeted with
small audience, but one that was deep,
ly pleased with the evenings entertain
ment. The comedy itself, the love
story of young German with an ex
tremely poor command of English, is an
excellent one, and with Mr.. Clement and
his support, deserves handsome recogni
ton. AS Baron Won Hohenstautfen, Mr.
Clement was fine, depicting the German
with a naturalness seldom exceeded
May Buckley Clayton, as Flora May
Randolph, Virginia flower, was fully
equal to the part allotted her, and made
friends at once. She portrayed the char
acter naturally and gracefully.
ACCORDING to observations at the AL
bany signal station, the weather for Au
gust was normal neither in temperature
nor rainfall. The highest temperature
was ninety-two degrees August 18th
and the lowest forty-eight degrees, Aug
22nd. The rainfall was 3.14 inches. The
rainfall was 73O inches below the nor
NAL for the period between January Is
and August 31st. The temperature il
14.2 degrees below the normal for the
same period. There were six clear day!
sixteen partly cloudy and nine cloudy
days. The humidity for the month wa!
72.4 per cent and the wind velocity equa
to 4,SGj miles, the highest wind being
August 18th, when twenty-eight milei
an hour were registered. The prevailing
wind was from the south.
AT the grounds of the Southern Yer