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

THE Christmas music at st. Francis de
Sales church will be repeated next Sun
day.
S. II. RoCKwooD is i'll with inhamatory
rheumatism. He has been improving
the past few days.
MISS GRACE J. DAY returned to Green
field, Mass, last week, after visit here
since Christmas week.
MAJ. A. B. VALENTINE is contemplat-
ing southern and Western trip during
the early spring months.
MRS. CHAs. T. BURT is visiting friends
in Brooklyn, n. Y, and Mr.. F. q. White
is passing few weeks with friends in
Boston, Mass.
EUGENE HoLTON and wife spent. two
or three days last week. while on their
wedding tour, as the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Waite, in Shushan.
THE new quarters of the Sixth Corps
post and w. X. c., in the Opera House
block, are promised to be in readiness
for the second Thursday in February.
D. G. BURT has been appointed agent
and correspondent of the Manchester,
N. H., Mirror and Farmer, one of the
best agricultural papers in the country.
The Fortnightly meets on Saturday,
January goth. Subject: art" The
committee in charge are: Mesdames, W.
A. Root, E. H. Scott, and Miss Hattie
Yelling
GEORGE NJ. RowELL has assumed the
duties of freight agent of the Benning-
ton and Rutland Railway here. He has
leased the house soon to be vacated by
Louis A. Graves.
ANSWER to a subscriber: The stone
road between Troy and Bennington was
built in about 1916 by William Roberts,
an engineer who resided in Troy. Mr..
Adam, from whom the Albany road took
its name, was an Englishman.-Troy
Times.
PRESIDENT CUsHMAN of the state fire.
mans association will soon notify the
executive committee to meet here for
making arrangements and fixing the
dates for the annual meeting and the
tournament that is to be held here the
coming summer.
THE annual meeting of the Benning-
ton County Sunday school union will be
held here January oath. ReI. DR.. II. c.
Rev. C.. II. Peck of North Bennington is
plColuCllu vi lllt uulOn ttilA W. D' hlOl gan
of this village is secretary.
A NUMBER of the neighboring children
met at the home of Robert Gardner to
celebrate the birthday of his little five
year old daughter. Her birthday being
on the l4th, they celebrated it on the
18th, in the afternoon, for the l4th came
on Sunday. Many remembrances were
left to the little one d many hearts
were made glad by the happy meeting of
the children. Refreshments were served
ut half past three for the party
THIS year Ash Wednesday, the begin
ming of Lent falls on February 7th, eight
days earlier than last year. Easter falls
on March 25th, and it will be many years
before it comes at so early date as it
does in 1894. The holidays of the year
occur as follows: Westinghouse birth
day on Thursday; Independence Day on
Wednesday; Labor Day September, Sd;
election, November 9Th. Thanksgiving,
November 9th; Christmas on Tuesday.
THE pay roll of Holden, Leonard and
Company was never so large as to-day,
but should the Wilson bill become law,
one of the firm tells us they will be
obliged to reduce wages one-half to keep
their mill running, even if they should
be successful in operating at all. The
operatives of this mill haye, almost to
person, done what they could to kill tho
Wilson bill, their solid protest having
gone forward TO Congress Christmas
week with over two hundred signatures.
THE recent addition of freight trains
to the Bennington and Rutland railroad
has necessitated number of promotions.
J. A. SFufelt, brakeman on the passen-
ger train leaving Bennington at 6:l5
o'clock a. M, is now the baggagemaster,
G.. E. Green is now conductor of the To-
cal freight between Bennington and Rut-
land. d. A. Baldwin has been promoted
to baggagemaster on the branch paSsen-
ger train, and G.. A. Shufelt is conductor
of the branch freight train. George Lee
is brakeman of the branch passenger
train.
MARY HowE-LAvGN and her husband,
William LAWN, are now in Berlin sing
ing under the management of Hermann
Wolff. She sang at Hamburg on the Sth
with the Won Bulow Philharmonic Club,
and both sing in Berlin for the Philhar-
monies on the 20th, to be followed by
concerts in Dresden and other German
cities, after which they sail February
18th for America The Howe LAWN Con-
cert Company is booked for the Court
Square Theater, Springfield, Tuesday
evening, March 6th.-North Adams, Val
ley News. According to the promise of
A. p. Childs, Mrs. LAWN was to sing
here first on her return to the United
States.
THE elegant pamphlet souvenir, "The
History of Methodism in Bennington,
w." issued last week by the BANNER, is
just the thing to send away to absent
friends. The price is within the reach
of all go cents), while to those who want
lots of 20 or 80 copies the rate is sure to
be popular. The edition is not large, so
that orders should be sent in soon. The
work has already been ordered from out
of town. The eminent character of the
gentlemen responsible for the historical
statements, such as the author, Rev. A.
D. HeaXt, and the Rev. j. L. Bowen, and
DR.. Bostwick Hawley, and others, is
ample guaranty that in this work is con-
tanned valuable contribution to current
Bennington history For sale at the
BANNER Stationery store.
TIVE Bennington fire department held
its annual election of officers last Thurs
day night. E. D. Moore, secretary of
the Vermont Firemans association, was
elected president; Geo. H. Jepson, vice
president; Geo. H. Burch, secretary,
and John p. Guiltinan, treasurer. The
ra alaotion nf Chiaf II M Tiffanv and