The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-02-28

Miss ISABELLA GOLDSMITH has gone to
New York City, to be absent a couple of
weeks.
DANIEL MCEowN has shown us an old
book from which we intend to make
some extracts.
Miss DORA DENcH of Manchester, has
been visiting in town for a week. She
returned to-day.
FRANK P. GAINES, late of North Pow
nal, now Of Pontiac, Mich, is east tor
few days on business.
HUBERT Downs presided at the Bap-
fist organ Sunday during the indisposi-
of Mrs. j. B. Parmenter.
THE subject OF the discourse at the
Second Congregational Church on next
Sunday evening will be, "Noah."
SEVERAL articles are crowded out this
week among which is the obituary of
Mrs. Sarah Walbrdge. This will appear
next week.
The temperance meeting of the Bar
fist, Congregational and Methodist peo-
pie last Tuesday evening, was an &C.
cation of interest. 1t was held in the
Baptist Church,
THE regular bi monthly Sacramento
services will he held in the Methodist
Church on Sunday next, March g..
Love Feast at 80 a. 10. The Lords
Supper at 1890.
The Rev. Mr.. Widmer will give his
lecture on the Great Ice Age, and Sur
face Geology" in the Methodist Church
on Monday evening, March 4 h. The
admission at the door will be dime.
The proc' Ia for the mu ic fund. Let
the house be filled.
HARRY B. HUTCHINs, who came east
on visit few weeks since, has. we are
told, concluded to remain permanently,
a situation with the Valentine Knitting
Company having offered. We are glad
OF this, and hope there may be openings
for business provided for many other
Benningionians now IN the west.
]. T. SAWYER and wife of Portland,
Me-, are to reside in Bennington, and
will have rooms. at the Putnam. Mr..
Sawyer is manager of the Electric Light
plant in HoOsiek Falls and interested in
that here. Mrs. Sawyer ia Brooklyn
lady who will be cordially welcomed by
Bennington society ,'.
THE Salisbury Letters" now running
in the BANNER and specially prepared
for Its columns, are beginning to attract
the attention tn ir merits deserve. The
topics for March are "At the Island of
Malta which will appear March 7th,
'In the Land of Egypt" "By The waters
Of Suez, and Down by the Red Sea =
The April announcement will go even
farther east. Those whose subscriptions
expire about these days should renew so
as not to lose this series of letters from
the Orient.
THE Rev. Fred Widmer visited his
daughter in Beckett, Mass, last week.
While absent Mrs Widmer was taken
seriously i'll, but is better now. Mrs.
Fanny Eaton had just closed term of
teaching the Beckett high school, a place
she filled because of the vacancy there
caused by sickness Mrs. Eaton it " i'll
be remembered, was a teacher of excel
lent reputation before her marriage to
the Rev. Mr.. Eaton last summer, and
we expected she would acceptably fl
The vacancy in the town where she now
resides as she has.
THE Rutland Herald is printing the
opinions of the farmers of Vermont, on
the cider question. These interviews
make 'mighrv interesting reading, ;" and
of them the Herald editorIally saws: L.
became evident some months ago that
the cider clause adopted by the last
Legislature had set the farmers thinking,
and that their opinions of this act were
by no means favorable but that they
would go so far in adverse criticism Of
the whole prohibiiory law and in advo-
cacy of change in the established
policy Of the State in regard to The liq-
uor. traffic, as The Addison County
farmers do in the interviews printed This
morning, will surprise everybody not less
han it does the Herald" There is no
''star chamber" methods about this. the
name goes with the opinions expresst d.