Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-08-13

Miss EMMA CARTWRIGHT OF Troy, is
visiting the family of w. E. Green for
two weeks.
Mr.. AND Mrs. EDWARD 3. HULING
have returned from a visit to friends in
Newport, Block Island and in New York
City.
Miss ANNIE SoNIERs, clerk in Hudson's
confectionery store, was taken sick last
week and is now OF her home in South
Salisbury.
Mr.. AND Mrs. E. B. HARRINGTON and
their son of Worcester, Mass, are visit
ing Col and Mrs. L. F. Abbott. Mrs
Harrington is a sister of Mrs Abbott
MRS. ROBERT COLLINS, of st. Edwards
Neb., is visiting friends in town. She
was Miss Mary Plumb before marriage
and is a sister of r. S. Plumb, of this vii
lage.
THE projectors of the Dorset Mountain
Marble Company of Vermont are in Sara
toga. The company was recently organ
lied with capital of S15O,0OO. W. j.
Gray of Philadelphia is president Of the
new company.
LIST of letters remaining uncalleG for
in the Post Office at Bennington, for the
week ending Aug. 18th, 1895: Edward
Caswcll, G. II. Richmond j. p. Lise-
more, A, c. Slocum, Miss Katie Kelly,
Julia Riley. These letters will be sent
to the Dead Letter Office Aug. Goth, if
not delivered before. In calling for
above, please say "advertised," giving
date of list.
OUT of door entertainments of all kinds
are very popular this year and where the
sport is first class crowds are in attend
ance. The North Bennington Driving
Club have twenty horses entered for
three races, Friday, Aug. 10th, and the
bicycle races are more then filled bringing
together the very best men in this State
and Western part of Massachusetts. 1t
is expected that there will be something
like two hundred people on bicycles on
the track at one time.
JAMES CoNGDoN and Patrick Kearns Of
Mil street, met each other early Sunday
morning and in a few moments both
were engaged, as one of the inhabitants
of that street said, in chewing each other
up. Officer John Nash was called and
arrested Congdon, but Kearns managed
to get away and skipped to North Adams
Monday before the Municipal court Cong
don pleaded guilty to disturbing the
peace. etc., and fines and costs for the
same were SI6.11.
THOSE who know, say that the foun-
dation to the Richie block, on Main
street, is one of the best pieces of stone
work in town. 1t is seven and one-half
feet high, two feet wide and if extended
in straight line would reach $50 feet
1t contains 700 perch of stone all of which
were taken from the cellarln addition to
which 600 loads of stone were drawn
away. 1t was built under the direction
of II. G. Young, and six masons and five
other men were engaged upon it 30 days.
GEORGE MARSH of this village has in
his possession quite an old and valuable
rehc, book called the Patriots Monitor
for New Hampshire, a book of an eX-
tremely patriotic nature. 1t is designed
to impress upon the mind of the youth
and to perpetuate the first principles of
the revolution and specially adapted for
use in schools. 1t was compiled by Ig-
natus Thompson and published in Ran
dolph. VT, in 1919, by Sirreno Wright.
The book is 64X4 inches in size, contains
2O4 pages and has acOver of thin wood
covered with green paper. The table of
contents contains 81 different articles,
the Declaration of Independence, the
notification of Washington's appoint
ment to, and his acceptance of the COM
mand of the army; his address to and
his resignation from this army; the Con-
toms inaugural address, his acceptance
of the command of the army under Pres
ident Adams, the Grafton of Gen. Lee
and the sermon of Rev. Dr. Wharton on
the death of Washington, Mrs. Wash
ington's letter, the inaugural speech Of
Thomas jefferson, of James Madison
and of John Quincy Adams. There is
also a chapter on religious liberation, on
Love of God, and historical sketch
from the time of Abraham to the Revo-
luton, with much other historical and
interesting matter.
WHILE the Vermont committee of
women, appointed to arrange for the ex-
hibit at the coming Atlanta exposition,
are quite enthusiastic and are devoting
all their energies to making it a success,
they are not receiving a very cordial sup
port from the people. OF the counCy
secretaries not one has yet made favor
able report to the secretary of the COM
mittec, and only one town in the State,
Manchester, has reported any action be-
ing taken towards sending any exhibit.
The secretary of the committee has writ
ten in connection with the matter over
200 letters. The general manager of the
woman's department writes to her, Mrs.
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