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

Grant Brownson is getting his home
ready for the masons.
The snow has nearly disappeared.
The muddy season will soon be upon us.
The "Workers" will meet with Mrs.
j. Fredenburgh this week.
Mr.. Mayors of Albany is doing the
plastering in Mrs. Mirfeld's house.
Mrs. Jane Smith spent Sunday with
friends in town.
Miss Julia Mattison spent two or three
days at home last week.
There are good many about the vii
lase sick with influenza.
The Rev. Z. Rogers administered the
| rite OF baptism to SIX persons last Sum
day morning.
Sylvester Hawkins has purchased the
! James Elwell house of Mrs. G.. S. Matti-
son, the late owner
The warm days and cool nights of late
until to-day has made the sugar makers
think about tapping their trees.
Philo Avery and wife of Esperance, n.
Y, were guests at the parsonage over
Sunday. He is brother of Mrs. Rogers.
Wednesday afternoon a furious gale is
| increasing cold, with some snow falling.
Hamilton Berry and John McClune re-
turned again this week to work on Mrs.
Miriield's house. Mr.. Shanks the painter
is here also.
Miss Mary Mattison has so far recover
| ed from her injury that she spent last
Sunday with her friends Miss Lottie
Mattison and Miss Clara Emerton.
Presiding Elder Webster will be pres
ent at the last Quarterly Conference
which will be held at the North charge
Monday evening next.
On Friday evening of next week the
workers will give maple sugar party
at Mrs. Albert Percy's. An entertain
ment of some kind will be furnished to
make the evening pass away pleasantly,
Later.-The snow seems not to have
lett us yet. 1t is falling fast this morn
ing wednesday,. Every tree and shrub
is loaded, making the most beautiful
winter scene yet this season.
Mrs. G.. S. Matrison visited Mrs. B. G..
Surdam last Thursday, in company with
Mrs. Yelling Thatcher of Bennington.
All enjoyed the presence of Mrs. Ade-
laide Fiske who had just returned from
utl lCCGub WISH III NEW L DIX.
The Eagle Square Manufacturing COM
pany are making preparations fer still
more extensive repairs on Seymour Van
| SantvoOrd's summer residence IN Ben
nington, than they did last season. Bus
mess seems to be looking up again as the
| spring opens.
Arthur LeMay has been offered a good
| position by Col. lie Grand G.. Tibbits of
Hoosick, N. Y, and went there last Sat
u day to try the business. He will be
much missed as workman here, for
there are very few men who are more
faithful to their employers interests.
The friends of DR.. Lyman Rogers were
painfully shocked on Monday morning
to hear of the death of Miss Helen o.
Rogers, his eldest daughter. The family
have the sincere sympathy of many
friends here who have in the past been
so pleasantly associated with them.
Some of the boys were going to give
IT, ho0l teachers parting salute last
| Friday, as the school closed then. They
fired off small cannon evidently of
home manufacture), the consequences
were too serious for the injured boys to
indulge again in like sport. Two or
three of them got their faces badly filled
with powder.
The funeral of Hicks Fish was attend
ed from the home of his aunt, Mrs. Bet
sey Duncan, on Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock. The remains were brought from
Hugh Dunlap's where he died, after a
brief illness. His sons, who are both in
| the Rutland Herald office, were in at
tendance. The Rev. L. Rogers officiated.
! The nterment was in the cemetery here.
Every one interested in the sducatiC n
of their children are looking earnestly
forward to the proceedings of the new
School directors, to see what action will
be taken to improve on the school sys-
tenn. 1t is too bad, with the number of
scholars in this village that so little at
tentiOn has been given to the kind of
teaching we have from those who could
be hired for the least money. Persons
who desire advancement are compelled
to send to North Bennington or else
where, thus taking the money from our
own town to fill the treasures of others.