The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-12-25
BENNINGTON BANNER.
BENNINGTON:
FRIDAY. DECEMBER %, 1891.

]. L. FINN has been ill for several
days.
LoRiNG BINGHAM is home for the
the Christmas vacation.
MISS CYNTHIA GARDNER is home
from her school in New Jersey.
DR.. H. S. GooDALL of New York city
is making brief visit to Bennington.
THE Norwich cadets returned home
this week for the holiday vacation of two
weeks.
THE annual election of Stark Lodge of
Odd Fellows occurs Wednesday evening,
the 30th.
Miss MATTE CARNEY has gone to her
home in West Rutland to pass Christmas
with her folks.
THE Misses Holden give Christmas
reception thislevening. 1t is to be bril-
liant affair.
Miss ANNIE FENDER and Miss Saide
Carney are spending the holidays with
friends in New York.
Mrs DICKINSON, the aged mother of
Mrs. Lucius Buss, is very sick, having
had two shocks lately.
MISSES MARY SHURTLEFF and Lizzie
Abbott are home from st. Agnes school
in Albany for the holidays
TIE Hon. II. G. Root and wife started
Tuesday for San Diego, California, where
they will pass the winter.
MISS ANNA ROGERS is home for
Christmas. Miss Rogers graduates in
few weeks from the college at Oswego.
The Red Men hold their annual cleo
ton this evening. The chiefs will be
raised up' at the regular time in Janu-
airy.
OUR advertisers report good Christ
mas trade this year. The stocks have
been abundant and the purchasers nu-
merous.
WE regret to hear of the severe illness
of Mrs. f. M. Tiffany; also that of Mrs.
Eli j. Tiffany. Both were better at last
accounts.
In our special business locals this week
land from time to time), |. e. Gibson
announces groceries, etc. This is good
place to trade.
LUTHAR r. GRAVES continues to i'm
prove, and is so be walks abous a little.
BE has not, however, been down to the
bank as yet.
COUNTY court took a recess from yes
terday noon until next Monday. 1t has
couple of long divorce cases on trial
and TO be heard.
DIARIES for 1902 are just received at
the BANNER stationery store. We have an
elegant stock in both the cheap and ex-
pensive bindings.
MISS JULIA A. WELLINGTON of the
BANNER compositors, passes the holidays
with her mother in Ohio, whom she has
not seen for several years.
NEXT Friday (Jan .1st) will be the Fes-
tival of the Circumcision of our Lord.
There will be services at St. Peters
church at 10 a. m. and 4 p. m.
Mrs. EX-Gov. STEPHEN E. PINGREE,
who is known to several of our people,
has returned from quite an extended
European trip. She landed in New York
yesterday.
THE railroad fare (round trip between
Troy and Bennington has been reduced
to S1.09 for the holiday trade. This is
because of the enterprise of the Troy
merchants.
TIE cantata that the young people of
the Baptist church have been preparing
will be given Tuesday evening, the goth \
inst, in the church. A small admittance
will be charged.
GEO. w. KEEsEMAN, the foreman of
the BANNER, was taken suddenly i'll
Wednesday, and has been confined to his
house since. We charge it up to la
G4i 3pe. He is better.
A. C. SWEET has gone to Richmond
and other parts of Virginia, prospecting
for place to locate. He has been for
five years in the employ of the late firm
of G. c. Thompson Co.
The st. Peters Sunday school festival
this year will be held as follows: The
service next Sunday, and the Christmas
distribution on Monday evening, Holy
Innocents' Day, as usual.
AMONG those i'll with la Grippe we note
Col. Colburn of the B. & r. railway. By
the way, there seems to be several cases
of this disease in this vicinity. Wehope
it will not prove epidemic
THE "half-tone" engravings of the bat
tie monument Suitable for framing),
sold at the BANNER stationery store, are
among the flnet of holiday gifts, espe-
cially to friends out of town.
d. M. HARRIS has recently lost his
Knights Templar watch charm-sup-
posed to have been dropped between his
store and house. The finder will be suit
ably rewarded by returning the same.
THE ladies of the Second Congrega-
tional church held very successful fair
on Monday and Tuesday of this week.
The ladies at the head of the committees
were Mesdames H. S. Bingham and E.
d. Bennett.
In our report of the organization of
the Y. w. G. T. u. last week, our types
made us give Hart" for 'Heaxt." The
president of that fourishing society is
Miss Carrie Heaxt, daughter of the pas
tor of the Methodist church.
The Senate Tuesday confirmed Yer
mont postmasters as follows: G. b. |
Blake of SwantOn, G. F. Earle of Morris |
vile, j. T. Flint of Derby Line, T. O. |
Gale of Newport, E. E. Pierce of Bran |
don and c. A. Pierce of Bennington.
WORD came Wednesday to her son
here, John II. Ayres, that Mrs. Jos. |
Ayres had fallen and broken hip. Mrs. |
Ayres is passing the winter with her |
daughter, Mrs. StrattOn of Hebron, Ill. |
No further particulars are known here.
The opportunity to obtain Grants |
Memoirs in connection with the BANNER |
and the Cosmopolitan (see another col |
umn), for 80 cents and postage will con- |
tinue only for short time. Send in |
your subscriptions. The whole expense |
is $5.48.
LETTERS from the north to-day speak |
of the fine week of sleighing that has |
been enjoyed in Northern Vermont, |
while the weather here has been as warm |
as autumn and rainy a good share of the |
time. We are booked for agreen Christ |
mas, evidently. '' Rns
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