The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-01-19

oeen visiting mere GhlS week.
Miss CARRIE SMITH of Boston is here
this week called home by tho death of
Mrs. f. W. Smith.
THE Centennial House is offered to
rent, in another column and is desira-
BILE piece of property.
MIRIAM REBEKAH LODGE hold soci-
able next Wednesday afternoon in Odd
Fellows Hall. The Brothers are invited
to tea at from to 7 o'clock.
MANsER ENCAMP MENT of Odd Fellows
will hold an election and installation OF
officers next, Monday evening. The Q.
P. wishes full attendance.
FROM this date the clubbing rate of
this paper with the Troy Weekly Times
will be $3.50, or, in other words, the
Times will be 81. in addition to our
terms.
JOHN G. CLARK has received word
| from the BrattlebOro hetreat of the crit
cal condition of his wife. This will be
sad news to a large circle of friends, and
Mr.. Clark will receive sincere sympathy.
Tue funeral of Mrs. Frank W. Smith
was attended Wednesday, the Revs. q.
X. Seymour and A, D. Heaxt, officiating.
| There was a large attendance. The
bearers were: Messrs. G. A. Perry, j.
W. Kemp, Fred Kimball and J. A. N.
Williams.
| WARREN HASTINGS has been appoint
ed station agent of the Bennington and
Rutland railway at South SALISBURY,
vice his father recently deceased. Mr..
Hastings was for several months private
secretary to Col. E. d. Bennett, superin-
tendent of the road
OvERsEER of the Poor, MORSE, reports
unusual applications for relief this win
ter, but that most of them are for wood.
| Monday he had five new applications for
wood alone. At the present time there
are only eight inmates at the town farm,
the balance being helped at their homes.
If our subscribers wish to avail them
selves of our low clubbing rates they
must order now. The month of January
is all there is any certainty of as to time,
although we hope to continue some of
| the rates q short time later. The club
rates apply to all advance paying pa
irons, new or old.
J.'E. AYREs has completed the census
of deaths and births in this village dur
| ing 1898. He finds that there were 81
births-41 males and 40 females; 81
deaths-20 females and % males. The
diseases were not classified, but the
larger number of deaths were from con-
sumption.
THE following lodges compose this
Masonic district: Adoniram of Manches-
ter, Red Mountain of Arlington, Tucker
of North Bennington, Mount Anthony
of Bennington, Pownal of Pownal. The
District convention, set for last Tuesday,
will occur Wednesday, February 18th.
c. D. Phillips is the d. D. G. NJ.
THE remains of F. L. Albee, who died
near the Connecticut Soldiers Home last
week, arrived here Friday night. The
funeral occurred Saturday afternoon.
Rev. A. d. Heaxt officiating. The bear
ers were A. NJ. Downs, Hiram Allen,
Dwight Rudd and Charles KenDon. 1t
has been learned that Albee was on his
way to the Home, when he accidently
must have fallen into cut about nine
feet deep and probably rendered uncon-
scious, ard afterward frozen to death.
THE Vermont Masonic event of the
year in social way in this section of the
State is the annual banquet and ball of
the Western Vermont Masonic Union,
which will be held in Brandon on
Wednesday, January oath. The list of
those who usually attend these gather
ings includes prominent MasOns and
their wives from all parts of the State,
and especially from the larger towns,
such as Burlington, Rutland, Montpelier,
st. Adams, Bennington and other towns.
Mrs. CALIsTA P. JONES, president of
the Woman's Relief Corps, has appointed
the following from here on the COM
mittees to act on stated reports at the
State convention to be held in Burling-
ton January 3Q-3l: On report of junior
vice president. Mrs. Eliza F. Cutting;
on that of the insUituting and installing
officer, Mrs. Lucy j. Gibson. Mrs. Cut
ting is also appointed one of the con-
ductors to act through the convention.
There are now eighty Woman's Relief
Corps in the State.
MoHEGAN TRIBE No. 6, l. o. of r. NJ,
has elected: Prophet, F. S. Pratt;
sachem, A. S. NJ. Chisholm; senior saga
more, C. II. Dewey; junior sycamore, L.
S. Norton; chief of records, II. T. Cush-
man, End; keeper of wampum, H. S,
Bingham; collector of wampum, John
II. Kelso; trustee for three years, |. E.
Gibson. In response to an invitation
from the tribe, Gov. Fuller will be pres
ent on the evening of January 26th, to
witness the working of the Adoption de-
gree. A banquet will follow the coun-
Gil
ST. ALBANs has rival Minwinter
stories of summer buds, birds and
flowers usually come from Franklin
county. but now the country farther up
the lake takes hand. In Bennington,
news note says, lawns are green, and
man last week picked wintergreen ber-
ries that were fresh and bright as in
spring. There is an impression abroad
on this side of the lake that the winter
green berry has the habit of remaining
red all winter Plattsburgh Republican.
Lay it to Burt. he is the one to "put
Bennington ahead"
AT the Fortnightly, a few weeks ago,
the question of school teachers wages
came up casually, and the amounts paid
before the war in Free Trade times"
was of considerable interest because of
their smallness in contrast with now.
The last issue of an exchange has let
ter from the Province of Quebec, with
this item: "Our country schools, which
closed on the 23d, ult., will resume oper-
ations Monday morning. These are kept,
same in the large villages, by women
who receive about one hundred dollars
for ten months, and board themselves"
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the POstoffice at Bennington for the
week ending January 18th, 1894. NJ. G.
A. IL ~