The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-17


another column.
AYERS, the tailor, is out to-day with an
announcement of spring hats, etc, See
advertisement in another column. He
does as he agrees.
d. DESMOND and wife, of Saratoga, N.
Y, were here this week, called to town by
the death of Mr.. Desmond's niece, Miss
Helen o. Rogers.
the Fortnightly will meet tomorrow
afternoon at 8 O'Clock. The exercises
will be under the direction of the COM
mittee on education, Mrs. Hitchcock
chairman.
GEO. WICKHAM on Monday received a
telegram that his father was sick, and
before he could leave another despatch
came that Mr.. Wickham, senior, was
dead.
MISS ANNA D. ROGERS was summoned
home from New Haven, Conn.,, where
she was teaching, on account of the crit
ical illness of her sister. She reached
home last Saturday, and will not return.
THE insurance on the Sibley building
has been adjusted, the VT Mutual pay
ing S1,100 Mr.. Sibley's future plans
are not yet definitely settled, but one of
two things will result: he will sell the
corner lot, or erect thereon a good build
ing.
UNDER the head of Fire and Water"
Geo. f. Heath is selling off his stock of
goods damaged be the late fire. His sale
began Wednesday and will continue one
week at the Putnam building, one door
east of the express Office, West Main
street.
SPRING has come! A flock of blue
birds was seen Wednesday morning by
one of our compositors. This harbinger
of spring was delayed one day too long
and the birds arrived in the midst of
this weeks cold wave. However, they
courageously kept their heads and fight
towards the north.
WIN. H. WATSON, for years bookkeep-
er for the North POwnal Manufacturing
company, and well known here, now of
North Adams, Mass, has leased Kemps
Hotel, on the hill east of that village.
and will establish a Kelly cure. This
will be the second establishment of the
kind in that State.
Two fine lots have been sold this week
by Norton and Nevis, near the Aldine
mills. This locality is among the most
desirable in town, and the outlook in this
the southwestern part of the village, for
the coming season, is fully up to our re-
cent predictions of a building boom for
1898 in town.
THE Troy Times of Tuesday says:
"Walter H. Berry, proprietor of the Wal
loomsac Hotel of Bennington Centre is
calling on friends in this city. Mr.. Berry
is formerly of Lansingburgh, and was for
many years one of the best known young
locomotive engineers in the State. In
his Vermont home Mr.. Berry is thriv-
ing"
On account of the Easter services
which will be held in the Methodist
Episcopal church or Easter Sunday, the
Sacramento service which would fall on
that day will be held next Sunday, 10Th
inst. The Presiding Elder will be
present Love feast at $50 a. m.
Preaching at 1890 followed by the
sacrament of the Lords Supper.
JAMES HABBERLEY went down to
Albany, n. Y, Tuesday, to attend the
Twelfth Annual Banquet of the Alumni
of the Albany College of Pharmacy.
The philharmonic -quartetto, of Cohoes,
of which he is member. furnished the yo-
cal music, and gave an elaborate pro
gramme of selections. This is the fourth
engagement of tho Philharmonics to
these annual dinners at the Delevan. and
they were repeatedly encored. The AL
bany papers speak highly of this quar-
tette and their praise is well deserved.
Mr. Harry Sweet (Of the Philharmonics),
is in town today.
FROM Rutland, also (see notice of the
county conventiOn), comes the
news: "a serious defect has been dis |
covered in the new Vermont school law |
about to go into operation. 1t is crude |
in its provisions, owing to failure to |
pass an act governing the distribution of |
the public money. At meeting of pub |
lie school officials yesterday to consider |
the subject Judge Hoyt S. Wheeler of the |
United States Court advised delay in the |
of the money until the law !
was better understood. The Governor
may be compelled to call special SEES
sion of the Legislature or the public
schools of the State may be forced to sus-
pend for two years"
A WRITER in the March Atlantic gives
ibis as the origin of the slang word ''soc-
iOllager," which was current some time
lgo. ''Socdollager" was the uneducated
mans transposition of "doxologer."
which was the familiar New England
of "doxolOgy." This was the
Puritan term for the verse of ascription
lsed at the COZ c'usiOn of every HYMN.
ike the "GlOria," at the end of chant,
ID psalm. On doctrinal grounds it was
proper for the whole congregation to
DIN i'll the singing, so that it became a
triumphant winding up of the whole act
# worship. Thus it happened that ''soc-
lollager" became the term for ANYTHING
which left nothing to follow; a decisive,
overwhelming finish, to which no reply
vas possible.
THE Navy Department has received a
ablegram announcing the arrival of the
Newark and Bennington with the Col
INDUS caravals, Pinta and Nina, at st.
Thomas The Newark and Bennington
will remain at St Thomas long enough
o coal, and will then proceed to Havana,
where they will turn the caravals over to
he Cuban authorities and sail for Hamp-
on Roads, to take part in the naval re-
Jew. The Pinta and Nina will remain
1 Havana until the arrival of the third
araycl the Santa Maria Columbus
Iagship), which is on her way in Span
sh warship. On the arrival of the Santa
Iaria the whole fleet will proceed to
Norfolk under convoy Of the Spanish
Our readers will note that
Bennington" is linked now, as of old,
nth most great and important under
akings.
TUESDAY morning it was noised
round that Bennington had been the
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