The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-04-08

MRS. FRED BowLEs is visiting rela-
tives and friends at Chatham, N. Y.
JUSTIN KELLOGG and Howard Shields
of Troy, passed the Sabbath in Benning-
ton Centre.
Mrs. A. j. COOPER has been spending
a few days at her parents home in
Northern New York.
MRS. GEO. NJ. MARSH is seriously i'll
with la Grippe. She has been confined
to her bed nearly week.
THE WalloOmsac hotel will be opened
for summer boarders about the 10th of
May, they have already some applica-
tions.
JAMES C. COLGATE is in town, also,
Samuel B. Sanford and William Shields,
to look over their summer homes we pre-
sumo.
AYREs, the tailor, comes to the front
this week with "spring hats" etc. He
has large line of cloths for the spring
trade also.
Miss NJ. II. SIBLEY's opening of milli-
merry goods is to continue tonight and
tomorrow as announced in her adver-
Using space to-day.
THE store of D. S. Packard having
been enlarged to include all the interior
of the building, Mrs. Oatman is erecting
an addition to the east for storage and
stock room.
W. A. AUSTIN yesterday morning
found a yolkless egg among those he
had for breakfast, and is preserving the
same as a curiosity. This is the first one
of the kind the writer has ever seen.
JOHN Wool GRIswoLD is in town this
week looking over his farm. He has
planted Norway Naples" along his
south farm frontage. This is shade
tree that we have never seen before in
this section.
BYa notice elsewhere it will be seen
that the V. l. S. hold an adjourned meet
ing next Monday afternoon. Let there
be full attendance as important bust
ness is to be transacted and matters of
interest discussed.
CHILDs & POWERS agents for the New
York Life Insurance Company have just
paid 50 900 on the life of the late L. NJ.
Manley of Manchester The annual
statement of this company appears in
another place.
THE late Mrs. DR.. Pratt was interested
in and member of several local societies
and clubs, among which we name: 1.-THE
Kings Daughters" and the "Round
Table Club In social circles she will
be sadly missed.
Miss NELLIE HURLBURT, who spent
the winter with her sister at Butte City,
Montana, has returned to her home in
this village. Miss Hurlburt was delayed
by the long wash-out a. Williston, North
Dakota, and other places.
MRS. FANNY MCLEOD announces in
another place the arrival of her stock Of
millinery, Just in time for Easter. Mrs
Mcleod is competent milliner, has
nice, fresh stock and will be glad to see
her friends, and, no doubt, will receive
her share of the trade.
The Stage says that Whiting Allen
and P. S. Mattox will attend to the adj
vance newspaper work of the Forepaugh
show this season, while George o. Starr
will look after the press boys back with
the show. Forepaugh is dated in Ben
nington for August, about the Sd as now
stated.
The first service in the new church,
nearly finished by the st. Francis de
Sales parish will be High Mass Easter
morning, april 17th), at $50. The pas
tor will ask of his people on that oc-
casion a THANK Offering" because Of
the progress made in this great work Of
building. There will, no doubt, be a
very large congregation present, and a
very generous Offering.
NEXT week will be Holy Week. Ser
vices will be held at st. Peters church
Us follows: Every morning, except Good
Friday, 10 a. M, Holy Communion with
Meditation ION Maundy Thursday, SER
NOM; every evening, except Tuesday,
415 p. M, and Easter Even, p. m, 7.30
4. ~ Nv.1 ATnA,
ga. m. Litany. Pro-Anaphore and SER
mon. 1890 a. M; Three Hours Passion
service, with addresses on the "Words
from the Cross" II to 3 p. M; Evensong
and Sermon 7.30 p, m.
OUR inside pages to-day will bear a
careful perusal. In the first place several
wide-awake advertisers tell you of bar
gains TO be had at their places of bust
ness. On page 8 will be found the county
items we mentioned last week as arTiv-
ing too late for that issue; Corporal
Sheldon writes of the Worlds Fair from
the Garden City" and Col Proctor s
idea of army reorganization is reviewed.
Page is notable in its publication of the
able utterances of President Harri-
son, while the other pages TEEN with
choice miscellany.
THE BANNER stationery store has re-
ceived for sale number of handsomely
illustrated and bound, Immortal
Hopes" compiled by Mrs. Mary CHS
holm Foster, with an introduction by
the Rev. Jas. NJ. Buckley, d. D. The
work is brought out in Lothrop's best
style, and our readers will have no diff
Guilty in recognizing in the name of the
fair authoress, The accomplished wife of
the Rev. VIM. w. Foster, Jr., known to a
large circle of friends here. The work
is destined to have large sale, for the
retail price is but so cents 1t is one of
the finest Easter books published this
year.
AN exchange says every line in a
newspaper costs something. If it is for
the benefit of an individual it should be
paid for. If the grocer war asked to con-
tribute groceries to one abundantly able
to pay for them he would refuse. The
proprietor of newspaper must pay for
the free advertising if his beneficiary
does not, and yet it is one of the hardest
things to be learned by man that news
paper has space in its columns to rent,
and must rent to live. TO give away or
rent for anything less than living rates
would be as certainly fatal as for land.
lord to furnish rent free.
THE Fitchburg railroad again leads in
furnishing additional accommodations to
the travelling public. Recognizing the
necessity of providing sleeping cars fol-
persons holding secend-class tickets it
has inaugurated Pullman tourist sleep.