Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-10-25

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THE annual convention of State Sun
day schools was held in st, Johnsbury
this week. No delegates attended from
here.
WORK was resumed this morning on
the front of the new Richie building af-
ter an enforced idleness of couple of
weeks.
THE pupils of Prof. Riley's dancing
class will give chrysanthemum party in
Odd Fellows Hall, Tuesday evening No
vember 5th.
QUITE a number from HooSick Falls
were present to witness Salvini's produc-
ton of 1.-THE Three Guardsmen," Wed
nesday evening.
THE usual Sunday afternoon services
at the Y. NJ. G. A. rooms will be omitted
next Sunday, owing to the mems meet
ing in the Opera House.
THE football game scheduled for to-
morrow, between the Burr & Burton
Seminary team of Manchester and the
Bennington team, has been cancelled.
DISPATCHES from Washington an
nOunce that an original pension has been
granted stephen Senior of Bennington"
No such party seems to be known here
The F. NJ. T. A. B Society is making
arrangements for a minstrel entertain
ment, under the direction of Jas. H.
Whitney, to be held in the Opera House
in November.
ENGINEER SMITH, of Troy, commenced
this morning to survey the streets for
the Bennington Electric Railway. He
will work from the Guide Board to the
State line, over the village streets and to
the monument.
| DRYsDALE has double column ad.
vertisement of bargains in, this issue.
There are prices quoted on big stocks
of gloves, linens. wooden blankets, lace
curtains, dress goods, ETC., that will de
light every lady. 1t Won't hurt you to
read the ad.; it may do you lots of good.
SALvINI captivated every one who wit
messed his work in the Opera House We'd
nesday evening. He fulfilled every prom
Use that had been made regarding his
abilities as an actor, and the same can be
said of his support, and of the beauty of
costumes and scenery. So thoroughly
did Salvini transform himself into
D'Artaguan and so well was he support
ed, that the audience had but to imagine
little to almost believe that it was gazing
up IN actual scenes of Cardinal Richelieu
time.
Mr.. GEL, the evangelist, has for some
time been planning and studying for a
tour of the world, upon which he expects
to start in May and which will probably
extend year and half He will be ac-
companied by Prof. j. NJ. Layman, a
well known scientist in Pennsylvania,
who will assist him IN the researches and
who will do the shorthand and photo.
graphic work. The results of the trav.
els will be given to the people through a
series of fifty letters which Mr. Cell will
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later, in a volume which he will publish.
The plans, with the endless study and
care which Mr.. &c is now devoting to
the subject and will devote till the task
is completed, and his ability as writer
aud the energy he displays in every I'M
dertaking, promise results that will be of
deep interest and value. His writings
will possess an especial value from the
fact that, in search of the beautiful, the
curious. the strange and of adventure,
they will avoid the beaten paths OF trav
elers, visiting instead, those out of the way
sections with which people are unfamil-
lar, to describe the habits. customs, re.
ligious practices and beliefs OF the in
habitants, their homes. surroundings,
legends, etc. Into the frozen North
they will penetrate. They will then travel
across Russia into Siberia through Jap
an, the Holy Land, the scenes of the Ar.
menian troubles, the Barbary States in
Africa, the Great Desert, and other por.
tiors of the East, and probably Madagas.
car and South Africa.
MRS. JAMES II. MOTION, niece of
Mrs. j. II. Loring, is expected here
Monday, remaining until Wednesday,
en- route for her home in Chicago. Prof.
and MIS-. Norton went abroad early in
the summer, but Mr.. Norton returned
some time since to resume his duties in
the Lake View high school, Chicago. at
the opening of the fall term. Mrs. Nor
ton, having made an extended stay in
Paris, will arrive in New York Sunday,
where she will be met by some Benning-
ton relatives who will accompany her
here. OF the work of Mr.. Norton, who
is we'll known here, the Chicago Evening
Post of the It'll, says:
OF all the schools in Chicago none
stands higher in the estimation of the
educational authorities and the people
generally than the Lake View high.
Ever since he became its principal
four years ago. it has been the ruling de-
sire of James H. Norton to raise the
standard of the institution, and that he
has admirably succeeded every good cit
izen of Lake View will cOnceGe. The
territory which supplies the Lake New
high school with pupils includes some
of the finest residence districts in Chi
cago, where the people keep jealous
match nynr tho caro Of ob;ldrar