The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-02-09

| qullO III, ItC6HblJs 10 SOhONh"O oObOOA'
LYNN P. ARMSTRONG addressed the
afternoon meeting at the Y. M. @. A.
rooms Sunday.
CoAsTING parties are numerous now
that the snow has come, and Silver street
is almost wholly given up to that pas,
time
MONDAY the thermometer in various
places recorded 7 degrees below zero,
and Tuesday 10 below was reported.
This was followed by our usual warm
SPELL"
A sNow-woMAN, CARRIED in fashionable
robes and carrying mutf, has been an
| object of interest on Pratt street, during
the week past. 1t is the work of Dan
ISL boy.
The Stark Hose Company announce a
clam chowder social, at the rooms on
Pleasant street, Saturday evening, the
18th. Usual prices and everybody in
vited.
A COMPETITIVE examination for the
! grades of clerk and carrier in the CLASH
| fed postal service will be held at the
| Postoffice in this village tomorrow at 8
o'clock a. m.
THE next regular cOnVocatIon of Tenn
pie Chapter, +. A. NJ, will be held in
Masonic Hall, next Monday evening.
There will be work in the degrees, and
the members are requested to take due
notice.
AT the Burlington district preachers
meeting, which will be held February
Goth and 9th in Poultney, the Rev. A..
D.. Heaxt of Bennington, will read a
paper on: 1.-The Religious instruction of
| Children"
THE officers of the F. NJ. Tiffany hose
company will give reception and sup
| per to the guests of the company and
ladies February 18th, it being the open.
ing of their new quarters on Stafford
street.
TIE Bennington Rifles vacated their
old Armory on Park street, Saturday.
Their new quarters in the Putnam Block
will be completed this week. They have
four elegant rooms, for officers quarters,
assembly and reading rooms.
WE are requested by the Good Temp.
lars to say, that the question of member
main of the Lodge, determined by Sc
one for public debate in newspaper col
umns.
MAJ. A. b. VALENTINE started for his
Southern trip Monday. He will go as
far as New Orleans and be absent several
weeks. Mrs. Valentine accompanies
him, his daughter, Miss j. A. Valentine,
going as far as New York City with
them.
THE latest records made among the
members of the gymnasium of the Y M.
C. A. are: Frank Battles and Carter At
kins, on high kick, 7 TT. 10 in; George
JepsOn, on vaultlng, fit. 4 in; Frank
Battles, running high jump, fit. 7 in.
broad jump, s fit. 10 in.
OLIN SCOTT has recently shipped to
Mexico complete set of machinery for
a wood pulp mill, and has received in.
quiries from persons in Japan, Northern
Italy and France calling for estimates for
furnishing mills to be erected in those
countries.
REPRESENTATIVE POWERS has pre-
scented petition to Congress from the
Vermont Grand Lodge of Good Tenn
plars praying for National commission
of inquiry into the liquor traffic, also
remonstrances from the Vermont Bee
keepers association against any reduc-
ton of the duty on honey.
The Tiffany Hose company took pos
session of its new quarters Saturday.
The hall has been newly furnished with
black walnut and red and green lounges
and chairs, marble top tables and lace
curtains at the windows. The carpet is
Brussels in light colors and on it are sew
eral skins of different animals, finely
mounted. Handsome pictures adorn the
walls with various tiremanlc insignia.
THE revival wave which has been
started in the Baptist church by the Rev.
Alexander Macgeorge, shows no signs of
ebbing Accessions to the church have
been made during two Sundays and more
are to follow. Mr. Macgeorge is vigor-
Gus thinker and able to give his thought
strong expression. Live questions are
selected and presented with simplicity
and force. His utterances are listened
to by people without regard to denomi-
nation. We understand that Mr.. Mac
george will accept the call recently ex-
tended, and will move his family to the
parsonage here. The house has been
prepared for his reception.
A WILD deer that inhabits the wooded
regions about this village, has been seen
village limits. If food becomes a little
too scarce on the foothills of the noun
tains, he comes down in some cases into
the barnyards of farmers and stealthily
picks up what scattering hay he can find,
He was seen browsing Friday on birch
twigs in Clark's woods, short distance
from the village and past which much
travelled highway runs. The animal is
in good condition, full of life and sus-
picious of danger. The ease and grace
with which he jumps fence or other
obstruction makes all the feats of the
circus ring seem tame. The man who
should use powder and ball on the ami
NAL would not only be liable to fine of
5000 but would meet public execration.
THE trustees of the Bennington Coun-
ty Savings Bank contemplate the erect
ion, this spring, of handsome bank
building, on the vacant lot owned by the
bank at the corner of Main and North
streets. The plans of the trustees are
not fully matured, but the structure will
probably be of blue limestone from the
quarry which furnished the stone for the
new Roman Catholic church, and three
stories high. Provision will be made for
a considerable number of safe-deposit
boxes in the basement. The cost of the
structure, exclusive of the vaults, may
not exceed $4,000. The bank will prob
ably be built after the plans and specifi-
cations drawn by J. Phi. Rim, the archi-
tect of The battle monument and which
have been seen by a number OF our peo-