The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-03-06
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


TEACHERS wilt please note the date
OF examinations as announced in anotl
err column by Supervisor Howe.
/ SCHwARz's reduction sale makes bus
r ness bIOmIng at his shop. See adver
) tisement in another place to day.
4 GEORGE DAVIS has bought the Emel
} sOn Wilcox Homestead on GaRe-st an
J takes possession the 28lh of thus month
THE regular convOcaiion Of Mt. Ar
thony Chapter No. /. o. E s., will
held next Wednesday evening, Marc
] 18th.
MISS FIDELIA FUTILE returned HON
} from Chicago last Friday. Her man.
friends here will bp glad TO greet he
after an absence of several months.
ROBERT DRYsDALE has returned from
ransackIng the markets and the first in
voice of goods have arrived Look GU
for bargains in the new and staple goods
Miss A. NJ GRIFFITH the milliner, ant
her trimmer have gone 10 New York "a
day for stay of two weeks, to look Vi
the latest styles in millinery and fame.
. goods.
A MISSIONARY concert will be givel
by the Sunday school of The Baptis
Church next Sunday evening. TIL,
music is under the direction of Mrs. Par
menter.
This Is the month in which to procur,
dug licenses of your town clerk. al 81
each. If not attended to in March IN,
Tee is 80. IN April, with penalties follow
ing for neglect later. Attend to thI
matter now.
The BANNER biDdery has turned GU
WE elegant r-ts Of books thi week, one
for E. Tiffany & Son and one for the
Bennington K ittlDg Company. We
contiderIly refer all Iuqurers to our pa
rons II references are desired.
THE school committee of Bennington
rOuu y In search of teachers for spring
terms of schools will do well to CORE
-pond with Supervisor E w. Howe,
North Bennington, as he has many ap-
plicanra for situations.
ST PETERS CHURCH on Wednesday
evenings GuiIng Ltnt he rec ur lectures
IN Church HistO y. o. FRIDAY even
rngs The addTessr are on tine Passion"
thu Polyhy mnIs QuHrret'e rendering Sc
lrctions from SiaIner's 'Cruclfx on" On
Sunday next the sermon a. EvensUnR
will b. ON The Christian in his Hume. "
The Masonic District meeting will be
held at Arlington, Thursday, the 90 h.,
inst, beginning al 2 O'clock, p. m. Man
chester brethren rxempnty the first de-
gree and those Ot North Bennington the
second in the afternoon. In the even
ing the Arlington craftsmen work the
hlTd degree. The Grand Master. Grand
Lecturer and o,her grand officers will
he presrn'; and hali.tare will be- given
ny the & R Railway.
The elegant rasy chair tn be disposed
If 10y lot by the Father Matthew T. A B.
SncieIy. the evening of the nth, st.
Pdtrlck's Day, is on exhihltIun at the
furniture emporium OF j. Ed. Walbrihge
& Co. 49, the "bnys" canvass for the
sale of tickets, purchase one aud thus
tsslst one Of the very best societies in
this village.
FROM the White Zine Cone, paper
published at GunDIsUu, CDlj., as well AZ
advicrs from the family we learn that
Feb 9Th. MIR David g. Cole. son Of
Felix G Cole, was married to Miss
Mabel A. Davenport in the parlors of
LeVeia Hotel of Gunnison. The happy
couple proceeded to the dwelling Df Mr..
Coles father, a prosperous ranchman
living near Sargeants, and further fes
INVITES were had. Mr.. Cole and wife
will live in Minneapolis, MINI, where
both of the high contracting parties
have resided for some time past. Many
iIirnd- of the Gle family here will tx
T. nd cOngrarul liuus.
INTELLIGENCE haa been received of the
death, February 10 h, of Mrs. G-orge
W. Abbott at Barnet, VT. The deceased
was native Of Brnni'g'nn, vi, where
-hs was born March 8, 1900 She was
the mother of ten children, one Of whom
George Ahho twas the publisher Of
he Troy Wing or the children only
three survive, They are Amos F Abbott
If West Point, Wis Henry d. Abbott
OF the Tro, Press business flee, and
Mrs. II. F. Berry of Barnet, Vt. The
deceased was rare type of Christian
wumanhnOd. She had hepn widow
since 1858 Troy Press, Saturday.
To correct mrsapprehensIon preva-
lent in some quarters that the Chri,tian
Endeavor Societies are not a. cl Isely re-
lated to the local church as a society
that exists simply in one denomination
tulkub NiF VI vi NuF " ilttu on
cipiy OF Christian EndeavOr desire tn
have it published bI oadcast that it Ia enc
OF the fundamental principles of the
movement that no Christian Endeavor
Society owes allegiance 10 any other or
gan'zition except its own local church.
M t xts are levied and no au hOrlty j.
-xercised by the Uri ed society, which
KIT simply to glYe information -Bos
ton Journal.
1HE el ctIun of officers of the Ben
n'ng ~ R f. ro' place Monday night.
NJ jnr R } G fly presiding Lirut
j mts E Weld was elected Captain.
Srcond L ruIenant Henry D. Fillmore
VAS prnmuted to Fusr Lieutenant, and
First Sergeant, E. T GriswoId was
elected 10 S-cUnr LirurenHnt. receiving
rWenty five vn'es against nineteen votes
fm o in W. D'vs. II is Whispered
,bput thai the r f. purpose 10 become
the best company IN the regiment. They
are we on the road already and other
will need tn look well to their laurels
nr they will get left"
A YANKEE girl down South" writes
very entertaining letter to frle nds
here. She is in one of the districts TO
"hch Congressional nomenclature pre-
fixes the euphonious adjective "bIsck,"
md shS says: The population are
early all dark compl, xiuned, varying
in color from early twilight To three
shades blsckpr than stove p, l,-h. We
nave a few dark and red haired, I'M
blrachtd Americans and you have no
idea how queer they look" The letter
contains hint for Vermont maple sugar
producers as 10 possible market. In
me Of the cities she saw. as she says
'somt thing lab. lied. Vermont Maple
sugar which would have drawn tears
from Miss Liberty on Brdloe'4 Island
1t was Ms black rs your hai'-the Whole
rhr worst looking stuff ever saw The
naples in our STATE would all shed their
caves at the In,ut il they could zee it"
In another column we copy the item
ma. the city OF Frau kfort, KY has pro
bibitPd the sale If cigarettes Referring
- this Is summary OF the fleets Of to-
hacco on young boys, which we copy
from an exchange and commend it IN
hur readers. "A committee of educa-
ORE, including the professors in Ann
Arbor the Normal scbOul-, Alma Col
| ge. the U iversi'y OF Michigan and the
uilldale College, gave evidence before
M Michigan Legislature on the effect
It tobacco on the youth Of that State.
superintendent Howell OF the L4nsiug
-chool-, recently sent out circulars to
he doctors on this subject, and has re-
ceIved two hundred replies. In every
reply one or more cases are cited OF boys
be ing dwarfed made insane, killed or
rendered incspab Of speech. The col
eye professors testified that otherwise
nright students were made dull and stu
pid by the use Of the cigarett-. and that
in many rasses the power nf hearing had
been seriously affected. They also said