The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-08
BENNINGTON BANNER.
BENNINGTON:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1892.


printed at this Office.
FRANK KNAPP is quite i'll, having been
taken worse Monday.
MRS. C.. b. RIDDLE has been i'll for two
weeks with la Grippe, but is better.
Mrs. F. C. WHITE goes next week to
visit friends in Eastern Massachusetts,.
A. G. LAMARRE is contemplating a
trip to the Bermudas and Cuba for his
health.
JERRY FINN, sick for several weeks
With pneumonia following an attack OF
Ia Grippe Is improving.
THE new G. A. r. post, Sixth Corps,
No. 1l2, meets in Odd Fellows hall this
evening to complete its organization.
E. S. RIDDELL and wife, of Clean, N.
Y, are visiting at l.. ID. Hamlen's. Mrs.
Riddell is Mr.. Hamlen's only sister and
this is her first visit in fifteen years.
THE illness of Mrs. II. S. Norton has
kept her daughter away from the duties
as teacher i'll the Graded Schools this
week. Miss Emma Norton has acted rs
substitute teacher of Miss Clara Norton's
room.
THE limit having been reached the
Bennington branch of the Merchants
Retail Commercial Agency will be organ
lied next Tuesday evening. In another
item we have spoken at length of this
agency.
The operetta in preparation by Miriam
Lodge, under the direction of Mrs. j. b.
Parmenter, will be given i'll February.
Weekly rehearsals and the large number
OF young people enlisted will make this
tie event of the winter.
THE installation of officers of tbs
Eastern Star Chapter will be held next
Wednesday evening. We notice by the
Manchester Journal that preparations
have already commenced for the meeting
of the Grand Chapter in Manchester
Centre next June.
The Odd Fellows hold district meet
ing here next Tuesday evening, and the
local Lodge is to exemplity the Initia.
tory degree before the Grand Master, j.
". GOOdell. and other Grand Officers.
All members of the Order resident here
will be made welcome and are cordially
invited.
THE Stark hose company have elected
these officers, the annual meeting being
held last Tuesday evening: f. M.
Thomas, president; A. W. Brajsted,
vice president; Fred o. Graves, treas
urer; Geo. II. Burch, secretary; Fred G.
VanVleck, foreman; Harry b. Hutchins,
Inst assistant foreman; Geo. Matthews,
second assistant foreman.
AN Odd Fellows paper says: THEY
are building railroad in the Holy Land,
and in future when man goes down
from Jerusalem to Jericho he will fall
among Pullman palace Car porters." 1t
is not so apparent that he will fall into
much better hands than his illustrions
prototype, if dollars and cents are the
standard of measurement.
THE Tiffany hose company, Tuesday
evening, elected these officers: w. S.
Pike, president, Geo. A. Jepson, vice
proeidont; DeIuio ThuInpsUu, second
vice president; NJ. B. Burnham, foreman;
Lyman NJ. Burch, first assistant fore
man; H. w. Starbird, second assistant
foreman; VIM. Lundergan, secretary;
W. j. Meacham, treasurer; lsacc Mathers,
steward.
THE II. w. Putnam hose company, No.
:, at their annual meeting Jan. 4th,
elected the following officers to serve for
the ensuing year: A. j. Griffin, presi-
dent; Joseph Mulligan, vice president;
IL. j. Guiltinan, foreman; William Fin
Ian, first assistant foreman; Thomas
Murphy, second assistant foreman;
Frank z. Nolan, secretary; John +.
Murphy, treasurer.
The installations of officers of the Re-
bekah and Stark Lodge, l. o. o. F.. were
held this week, the former Monday and
the latter Wednesday evening. Chas.
H. Potter was elected secretary of Stark
Lodge to I'LL vacancy caused by the
resignation of NJ. E. Watson. The fol-
lowing were elected re resentatives to
Grand Lodge: DR.. II. j. Potter, Jr.,
Fred. L. HoughtOn. The new board of
trustees are: Gen. Il. Dakin, Johl ii.
Ayres and Chas. H. Potter.
BIsHoP DEGoEsBRIAND of Burlington
has announced several new appointments |
among the priests in the diocese of Bur
ington. Rev. d. Coffey is transferred to |
White River Junction, to take the place |
of Rev. j. b. Whitaker, who goes to |
WinOoski. Rev. j. Brown takes Rev. |
Father CUffey'S place at st. Peters, Rut- |
laid, Rev. Henry Lane is transferred |
from Middlebury to POultney, CastletOn
and Middletown, and Rev. }. Gelot and
Rev. j. NJ. Gelot take his place at Mid |
dlebury and Bristol. Rev. Thomas
DOnahue goes from the cathedral at
Burlington to the churches at Water
bury, Mortified and Moretown, and
Rev j. Boyle will fill his place. Rev.
Joseph Brelevet is assigned to Barre.
Dir. T. S. HosKINs in last weeks
Wdtchman, reviews his long service on
Chat paper and gives at its close a note
that is of interest in connection with our
modern way Of teaching. He says: Our
'better-half," who has been looking
over our manuscript, says: "They never
will believe you, when you say you don't
remember when you learned to read"
Nevertheless, it is so: and the explana-
ton given of the phenomenon by our
mother (who is still alive and smart in
her eIghty-sixthyear), is that we were very
early given copy of that wonderful
book, Mother GOOse's Melodies, every
one of which melodies was soon learned
by heart, from hearing them read. The
pictures located the verses, and the
words were learned by their places and
in the lines, before any of the
etters were known by their names. Ii
his is the right explanation, then the
word method" of teaching is not 80
10 Y, after all.
AMONG the church events of the sea-
on none have been more marked or
than several connected with
he First Baptist church in this village.
The church decided to take Maj. Valen-
ines advice as stated in his paper pub
isbed in the BANNEB), and held no
I,urch foir rrhay diJ bn-ayar o,u ,