Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-05-28

day.
THE Rev. S. Mclaughlin will conduct
the services at the Soldiers Home Chap
Ell, Sunday next, at $3.50 p. m.
VIM. r. MORGAN is having an addition
built to his house on Gage street, now
occupied by E. E. Long. Contractor
Edgar Boyd is doing the work.
PERSONS passing by the lower grove at
the Soldiers Home this morning, were
much pleased to see Majors Valentine
and Coffey riding the bicycle.
THE project of renewing the old bicy-
Gle club or organizing new one is being
agitated among some of the wheelmen.
1t is estimated that there are some two
hundred wheels in the village and vicin-
ity.
GEO. BURGESS, the assistant in Geo.
F. Heath's store, is in attendance as a
juror at the United States Court now in
session at Windsor. His name was sup
piled from Lyndonville where he used to
reside.
SEYMOUR VAN SANTvooRD has the al
terations and improvements on his sum-
mer home at Furnace Grove about COM
pleted. He has just set up two short
pillars of marble that were taken from
the old court house in Troy, N. Y, and
brought here to be placed on his spa
cious grounds.
THE residence of Harry G. Shields at
the Centre, has been so completely al
tered since it came into his possession
that one would hardly recognize it now.
Standing as it does, almost at the head
of the street leading up from the village,
with it's broad grounds and abundance
of shade, it is fit place for one to So
journ through the summer.
BENNINGTON has probably the oldest
woman bicyclist in Vermont. She is
more than sixty years old, and it is said,
practices almost daily ON the wheel in
the back yard at her home on Gage
street. She has not appeared on the
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natives one of these days by dashing
through the principal thoroughfares on
on her bicycle.-Troy Times.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the post-ofice at Bennington, for the
week ending May 9th, 1895: Mrs. May
Burroughs, Mrs. Amelia Green, Mrs. Syl-
vester Green, Mrs. Frances Harlong, Mrs.
Addie Knapp, Mrs. Thomas Lee, Miss
Lucy Much, Thomas Williams, NJ. M.
Odds. These letters will be sent to the
Dead Letter Office June 18th, if not de-
liyered before. In calling for above,
please say "advertised," giving date of
list.
BISHOP MICHAUD assisted in laying
the corner stone of the new st. Johns
bury hospital Sunday. The new hospi-
tai is being built by Father Boissonnault
of the st. Johnsbury parish. 1t will be
on slightly location, directly opposite
the Catholic church, will be of brick,
three stories high and will cost over $40,
900. An addition of the same size will
be built later if necessary. The hospital
will be open to people of all denomina-
tions. 1t will be open next fall. Short
ly after Bishop Michaud's arrival Satur-
day evening, reception was given him
by the Catholics of st. Johnsbury. At
early mass Sunday morning over 90 chill
dren took their first communion. At
High Mass the bishop spoke of his re-
cent visit to the Holy Land. At o'clock
1900 people assembled to witness the ex-
ercises of blessing the corner stone of the
new hospital. Music was furnished by
the children of the convent and choir of
the city attended as organizations. The
opening address was in French and was
delivered by Rev. Father Beaubian of
Notre Dame cathedral of Montreal.
Bishop Michaud followed, congratulating
the people of st. Johnsbury upon the
prospects of their possessing such a fine
hospital. The exercises closed with the
blessing of the corner stone by the bish.
op, after which gifts to the hospital were
received. After this ceremony the bish-
op gave the papal benediction in the
church.
THE following "Reminiscences of the Re-
bellion has some local interest, as there
are several Bennington veterans who
served in the brigade with Col. Dudley,
and can appreciate the latter part: Ser
geant John Emerson of West Springfield
was the only commissioned officer in the
Battle of of Cedar Creek who escaped
without being shot. His haversack was
shot off and on this account he was
obliged to lose his days rations. He re-
lates the following anecdotes: "It was a
dark, cold, windy night about the first
of December, 1864, within few days
march of Winchester at what was then
known as Camp Russell. Colonel Nathan
A. NJ. Dudley of the 3Oth Mass, had
started out alone to inspect the picket
lines. Soon he heard the cry of halt!
halt! halt! The Colonel became enraged
and yelled out: Here what kind of a
way is that to halt man. He said to
the picket, You take my horse and ride
off short distance and I'll show you