Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-10-08

H. A. TAYLOR is having a bay window
put in the west side of his residence on
Main street.
JOHN H. WARREN is improving and
Monday was able 10 sit upa few mo-
ments in bed.
Miss WILMA SULLIVAN of Albany, N.
Y, has been the guest of Miss E. Jose
phine Moore, of Pleasant street.
JUDGE JOHN V. CARNEY will attend a
meeting of the probate judges of the
State, which is to be held in Montpelier,
tomorrow.
Mrs. SAMUEL JEwETT and son Sam
uel, visited in Readsboro, last week.
They were accompanied home by Miss
Bertha Bradley, who will visit few
weeks here.
JOHN ToMAJER has moved his shoe
shop from the rooms under Watson's
photo gallery, to the rooms in the Hawks
building on North street, recently va.
Gated by the Italian fruit dealers.
RUSSELL, the seven or eight year old
son of W. r. Hyde, has been seriously
i'll for several days with Inflammation of
the brain. This morning his condition
is somewhat imp owed.
Mr.. AND Mrs. OLIVER X. WYMAN will
celebrate the 5Oth anniversary of their
wedding, at their home on Putnam street
next Tuesday evening. The couple were
married in Salisbury, in 1915.
A CHIMNEY on the residence of Pat
rick Kelley, on Lincoln street, was
burned out this morning, at about 1O:45,
but no damage was done. The fire alarm
was sounded, bringing out the Hooks,
the Putnams, and the Starks.
TWELVE comrades of Custer Post ac.
cepted an invitation from Comrade and
Mrs. Friender and partOOk of clam
Ghowder in their new dining rooms on
Main street Saturday eveL ing, after the
regular meeting of the Post
THE Duke of Marlborough passed
through North Bennington at an early
hour Saturday morning. He was with
Vanderbilt party enroute to Shelburn
Farms, where he is to be the guest of
VIM. Seward Webb.
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THE National Council of the Congrega-
tional churches of the United States will
be held at Syracuse, N. Y, Oct. 9-l4th.
Among the Vermont members of the
council are Hon. II. G. Root and Rev.
Chas. r. Seymour of this village. Mr..
| Seymour is in attendance.
AT the meeting of the j. j. Gray En-
glue Company, of Cambridge, Friday
night, it was voted to attend the tourna-
ment of the New England Firemen's
union to be held in Boston, Oct 10th. A
special effort will be made to send a
sTrong company with the old engine.
JOHANNA DUNN, IA years of age,
daughter of Patrick and Margaret Dunn,
of Gage street, died the 9Th, inst, of
neuralgia of the heart. Her funeral was
attended from st. Francis de Sales
church yesterday morning, Rev. A. j.
Barron officiating. Among those present
was an uncle, John Dunn, of Troy. The
burial was in the cemetery at the Cen
| tire.
THE Troy Times says, concerning
gentleman who has many friends in this
village: zone OF the best preserved men
IN the city in body, mind and spirit, is
Norman B. Squires. Mr.. Squires's erect
form and vigorous movements are not
the tokens of age, and it is hard to real
ize that September 9th his golden we'd
ding was quietly ceebrated-so quietly
and modcstly that it is almost an offense
to make the observance public. Mr..
Squires was married to Miss Phoebe
Hall at Jay. Essex county, Sept. oath,
1915. At the family dinner which
marked the semi.centeInial one of the
remembrances was gold headed cane
with the simple inscription Fifty Fears
Married May these useful and happy
years of MIR. and Mrs. Squires be in
creased by many more, for such lives ale
public as well as family blessings"
THE Greensboro (Ky.) Daily Messenger
of a recent date, contains quite a long
account of the death in that place of a
well known gambler and sporting man
in Kentucky. There will be some local
interest attached to it from the fact that
in his dying moments he sent for priest.
the Rev. Bernard Cunningham, we |
known to our people, who mipistered to
HIM spiritually before death and after
ward officiated at the funeral ceremonies.
The Messenger says: Lem Clayton was
one of the hest known sporting men in