The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-11-27
BENNINGTON BANNER.
BENNINGTON:
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER q, 1891.
COUNTY Court opens next Tuesday

In the u. A. IL. DOdleS.
]. Ed. MERRILL was home and ate a
Thanksgiving dinner yesterday.
CLARK RICE has been quite i'll for
three or four weeks, but we are told he
is better.
FREDERICK b. JENNINGS entertained
a large party of relatives on Thanks,
giving day,
Mr.. AND Mrs. WILLIAM HALL of
Troy, N. Y, were guests of A. p. Childs
Thanksgiving.
Mr.. AND MRS. C. f. VAN VLEGK are
rejoicing in the advent of daughter
born the 2Sd inst.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOHN H. KELso visited
Mr.. 1. Henry Bench in Manchester
Centre, Nov. Goth.
THE Rev. John w. Bennett and family
of Troy passed Thanksgiving with Supt.
2. D. Bennett in this village.
THE Tiffany Hose ball Thanksgiving
Eve was very successful affair, the
amount realized being about $50.
MRS. A. b. GARDNER is in New York
city this week, and will visit her daugh-
ter Cynthia in New Jersey before her re-
turn.
J. S. LINDLEY is soon to build dwell
ing house on Depot street for Mrs.
Charles Sibley, just north of her resi-
deuce.
ST. KATHERINE's guild gave nice
supper and sold lot of excellent home
made candy Wednesday evening, at Par
ish hall
FRED WILDER, only son of Mrs. Dr.
Chisholm, seriously Ill with the measles
Tor three weeks past, is now beginning
TO convalesce.
Mrs. J. p. BLACKMER of Manchester
Depot, visited the W. R. g, last Tuesday.
The official inspection was made and a
Uound of festivities enjoyed.
AMONG those who visited Springfield,
Mass, to witness the football game be-
tween Harvard and Yale Saturday was
Edward j. Hail of this village.
SOME one entered the cellar of the
house occupied by Miss Lille l. Ford,
last evening, and stole four-gallon jar
ID butter. The entrance was effected
through an outside door.
ID. G.. BURT, wife and two sons, passed
Thanksgiving with Chas. T. Burt of this
village. Mr.. Burt returned to Castleton
to-day, but Mrs. Burt and the children
will remai:, until Monday.
THE New York Life Insurance Com
pany have recently paid $4,000 on the
life of the late D. p Gates; a, 900 to Mrs
f. Ii, Scott, and the proofs Of the death
of the late Elijah D. Fillmore are being
preprepared, also in the same company.
BELLE CRAWFORD is Frustrated with
scarlet fever. She is having it in a mild
form, and from the nature of the expos
ure it is not expected that the disease
was communicated to her playmates in
the Graded schools. We think from
what her physician says that it is not
probable there is cause for alarm.
THE Rev. A. d. HeaXt. the excellent
pastor of the Methodist church in this
Village, has issaed a neat card giving the
services of that society, and at its close
the following cordial invitation: per
sons not connected with, nor attendants
1T, other churches are cordially invited,
and will be heartily welcomed to any or
I'll our services"
w. H. BLANCHARD of POwnal, who
succeeds Chas. c. Thompson in the mar
ket of G. c. Thompson d Company, ex-
poets to move his family here and become
a permanent member of our community.
GIr. Thompson says that he shall first
settle up his business, and probably then
will purchase farm and return to his
former home, at Chatham, n Y,
THE State Y. NJ. c. A. at Rutland, last
week, elected the following officers:
President, j. j. Estey of Brattleboro;
Vice Presidents, n. E. Chamberlain of
Burlington, Harrison 1. Norton of Ben
nington, G. +. North of Rutland; Secre-
tary, r. L. Lewis of the University of
Vermont; Executive Committee, Col.
Franklin Fairbanks of st. Johnsbury,
G. F. North of Rutland, Col. Z. d. Ben
nett of Bennington and Col. F. S. Stran-
ahan of st. JOhnSbury.
THERE will be a district chapter meet
ing at Masonic Hall, Rutland, on Monday,
December 7, at l 80 o'clock in the after
noon. Davenport Chapter will entertain
the visiting Masons. Round trip tickets
for fare one way will be sold on the rail
roads. The Bardwell House will be the
headquarters of the visitors. Temple
chapter of this village is to go up and
work the M. E.. Degree. The r.. A.
will be exemplified by a staff made up of
che p. NJ. E.. H.. p. of the district.
The Methodist ladies are not to hold a
fair this year, but are expecting to give
N its place an entertainment. The date
Of the latter is to be about Dec. 18th.
Those who recall the admirable paper of
Maj. Valentine before the Congregation
al dub and the position on this subject
taken by him and by the Banner, will
look with interest to note the result to
this society of this movement of the
Methodist people in harmony with the
recommendations of new era in which
the church fair shall be eliminated.
THE SILVER wedding" of Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. w. Stewart, last Friday evening was
largely attended by the local Odd Eel
lows and their families, as well as by sew.
Gral not members of that order. An ele.