The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-02-24


For other local and vicinity items see
second page.
CHARLES WENTWORTH of Winooski is
visiting friends in town.
MRS WILLIS PHILLIPS is visiting this
week at her home in Burlington.
MRS. S. H. HELLYER of Palmer, Mass,
is the guest of Mrs. w. G. Hitchcock.
THE Kings Daughters meet with Miss
Jennie Valentine Friday, March 3rd. 1t
is Ihe annual meeting.
THE Rutland Herald of Monday says:
"Mrs. j. r. Leonard and daughter of
Bennington are visiting friends in town."
COLLINS NJ. GRAVES is home for a
while. from Brown University, having
been obliged to discontinue his studies
Oh account of i'll health.
A. G. SWEET, the South street meat
man, put in two Chicago dressed beeves
just before the blizzard Wednesday.
One weighed 500 pounds and the other
720 pounds.
b. f. WoOD has been home from st.
Louis for week. He is to return the
last of this week to be absent while
longer He has been very successful i'll
the job just completed in Missouri.
THE report of the County Auditor is
published in another column o.dav. 1t
will be seen that the orders outstanding,
exclusive of interest, amount to $3.50, IA,
and that the expenses, yearly, are about
$1,000
AT the State Street NJ. E. church, Troy.
Sunday evening Miss Minnie b. Price
and w. j. Reckerd sang as an offertOry
duet, "rhe Lord is My Light" by Dud-
ley Buck. Miss Price has recently been
ynted member of the Troy Choral
Union.
THE latest and prettiest song now be-
ing sung on the stage, is entitled The
Indian Summer Time" 1t is by the
popular author. Will L. Thompson, OF
East Liverpool, Ohio. The price IS
forty cents. Send the author half price,
and you will receive copy.
A LARGE party went down to Hoosick
Falls, N. Y, Tuesday night and took
supper with D. j. Pratt, the genial land
lord of the Commercial House. The
sleighing was excellent when they went
down. but the coming home was not SO
pleasant owing to the storm.
1HE following letters were advertised
in Post Office at Bennington for the
week ending Feb. 18th, 1893: Mr.. Fem
ing, Mrs. VIM. Jones. These letters will
be sent to the Dead Letter Office March
4th, 'S3., if not delivered before. In call
ing, please say advertised giving date
of list. -
IN the haste last week of going to
press we Omitted to call attention to the
advertisement in another cOloumn of
4 Are pefssonaly aed Qua mt
ed with the firm and know something of
the business offered for sale. and, there
fore, can recommend the opening to an
enterprising business man.
THE officers of the Good Templars for
this quarter are: VIM. A. Austin. G. T.;
Miss Nellie Moore, Y. t.; VIM. E. Frost,
S.. Mrs. Frank Merton, A. S /; Albert S
Peak, F. S.. Miss Eliza A. Puffer, T.; L.
r. Goss, Chap, Edward A. Freeman. NJ.
Miss Gertie COLLISION, A. NJ; Miss Laura
Stupplebean, g.; B. F. Smith, Sentinel
This Lodge is prosperous and has an
average attendance of about 60.
THE Forest and Stream Club of Will
mingtOn, in which number of Benning
tonlans are interested, is to surmount its
billiard room and bowling alley now
building with dormitOry l20 feet long
and twenty-six feet wide. The present
club house will also be remodelled and
the grounds improved. Two New York
business men of large Importance have
recently been taken into the club.
WAsHINGTo BIRTHDAY was OBJ
served last Wednesday as legal holiday
for the first time in Vermont, under the
law of 1892, designating the first day of
January, the fourth day of July, the
THU tieth day of May, the twenty fifth
day of December, the twenty-secOnd day
of February, and any day appointed by
the Governor of this State. or by the
President Of the United States. The
banks and post Office observed the date
we heard of no one else here.
1--WE notice." says the Cdledonidn.
shut, invariably, after such calamities
in connection with public institutions as
that terrible affair at the Dover. IN. H.
insane asylum, Legislative or official in
quiry is demanded Possibly If inquiry
of this sort we're more often instituted
before disaster occurs, the fearful record
Of life sacrificed might be shortened.
Shutting the stable door after the horse
has disappeared is good enough as far as
it goes; but it does not save the horse"
THE courses of lectures, addresses, and
meditatlons at st. Peters church. during
Lent, will be as fO lows: Every morn
ing, Goods Love-" Goods Patience"
Goods Judgment" Goods WILL" "The
Passion; Monday and Saturday after
moons, "Sins Daily Committed; Tues
day afternoons, ''SermoD Stories to Chll-
dren'; Thursday afternoons, "The
Prayer Book; Wednesday evenings,
'Self-Discipline" Friday evenings, "Re-
pentence'; Sunday mornings, "The
Gig stian Warrior; Even song, lob
stacles TO Spiritual Development"
Miss JESSIE MAY II. MILLER has been
engaged TO fiji the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Miss Florence Cooke at
the EmaTuel Baptist church, Albany.
Miss Miller will begin her duties March /.
Miss Miller is well known here. her last
appearance In Bennington having been in
the MusKeteers presented by the Alban-
JAMS, and in the Chimes of Normandy
and other local affairs. She also took q
prominent part in concert given in Co
hoes last Tue sday evening by @ Phil
harmonic society. She was walmly en-
cOred.
IN the Capitalization shops at AL
banv, N. T., large force of men are at
work putting in running order the old
engine Johnny Bulr' to send to the
Worlds Fair. The engine was brought
from England and was the first used in
the United States, being run also on the
first railroad, that between Albany and
Schenectady. 1t has been stored a way
in the Grand Central deDOt at New York