The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-02-13
MRS. MATTE GARDNER is visiting

MRS. MATTE GARDNER Is visiting
fr ends in POwnal Genre.
The Sons of Veterans held an erjnya-
BILE campfire at their hall last evening.
MRS. Col. BENNETT eptertains the
musical socIely next Monday afternoon
and evening.
WELLS VALENTINE ia one Of the last
to succumb to Ia Grippe. We are glad
to hear of his improvement.
DRYsDALE's reduction sale beats any
thing he has yet inaugurated In this
line See the four page circulars.
MISSES MARY RAwsuN and Carrie l.
Warren, who have been attending the
Boston Conservatory Of music, returned
home this week.
Miss HATTIE E. RUNDELL Of Troy,
N. Y who has been stopping few
days with her friend Miss Lille Ford,
has returned home.
MRS LYMAN FRADENBURG died Sun
day morning at about o'clock from
heart failure. She had an attack OF la
Grippe which ran into typhoid fever
Mr. CHARLES II. DEWEY and family,
will move the first of April and make
their home for time with Mrs. Dewey 8
mother, Mrs. Fl. E. Bradford.
MRS WILLIAM MOORE is SLOWLY i'm
proving after relapse Of Ia Grippe,
which was severe attack of bronchris.
and we hope she will soon be out again.
READ he annual statement in another
column of the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Of which the Hon. John v.
Carney is the agent for Southern Yer
mont.
The authorities and town officers are
hard at work on the town reports which
will be printed this month. The delay
in settling with the collectors prevents
our publishing the Auditors summary
this week.
THERE is ice eight inches in thickness
on tie Soldiers Home reservoir and
from 3 to Z inches on Benton pond. A
weeks cold weather would produce al
abundant ice crop. ..=
THE Rev. Mr.. Creegan, Secretary Of
the New England Board of Foreign Mis-
SONS, delivered an address at the Second
Congregational Church Sunday evening
and it WAS we received.
CHAs Fl DAVIS and wife were both
Frustrated with Influenza a few days
days ago, and a search for help revealed
the fact that there is great deal OF
sickness yet lingering IN our village
Both are better.
THE last entertainment IN the Metho-
dist course occurs next Wednesday
evening, Feb ~ h. A very fine pro
gramme is in process of arrangement,
but we are unable to give details aG the
time Of our going to press.
SHERIFF PIKE went to Windsor and
brought Byron U. Roberts here for ap-
pearance before the Supreme Court
Tuesday. His care was CONTINUED to the
General Term in October, and Roberts
ill be taken back to Windsor to-day.
WIN. E HAWKS and Maj. A. B. Valen
tine started for the West last Saturday.
they go first to Colorado, and will take
a run down into New Mexico before
they return. These gentlemen have ex-
tensive business interests also IN the
Northwest.
A NOVEL entertainment in the form Of
a Rainbow Tea" will be gwen at the
Baptist chapel, Tuesday evening, the
18th, under the auspices OF the Young
Ladies' Mission Band. II has been some
time since this society have given pub
lie sociable, and this one promises a
grand occasion.
ELEVEN young ladies have formed a
E Luncheon Cub" to meet once in two
weeks at 2 o'clock. p. m each lady FUR
nishing one course of the dainty menu
they propose to have. All food is to be
prepared by the fair hands Of the mem
bers. The hostess has the privilege OF
inviting one que / so there will only be
twelve at the lunch.
THE work on the inside OF the new
church Of st. Francis de Sales goes for
ward this winter as anticipated and in
the early spring the masonry will again
rise. probably to completion this year.
II has been noticed lately that this
church edIfice stands in such petition
from the corners" in this village that
the Battle Monument forms tower to II
in the back ground. When the church
spire is finished that will be on one side
of the building and the monument will
apparently be the higher tower OF the
other corner of the front facing east.
MISS MARY HOWE appeared before
BraIIl- boro audience Tuesday evening.
The fact that it was her fret appearance
and at her home as well, since her return
from studying in Paris, brought out q
large audience. The press report says !:
Naturally there was no little interest
in her second debut. The audience was
made up of prominent people from all
parts of the county and STATE, there be-
ing a number from Springfield and 9th
or Western Massachusetts towns. Miss
Howe was in fine voice and her execu-
ton was remarkably pleasing. She was
repeatedly encored Her voice shows
the effect of careful training under Mar
chesi, and there has been much improve
ment since her appearance at the Wor-
cester festival, two years ago. She will
sing in the several Massachusetts, cities
during the spring and fall, and Is al
ready engaged for festivals at Spring
fiAld and Worcester. She was assisted
Monday night by the Beethoven Club OF
Boston and bv her brother, who accom-
panied her tn Paris"