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

be given to the poor. The morning of
fertOry solo will be: Charity by
Faure.
A HANDSOME front was put into the
new Dewey extension on North street.
yesterday. 1t will be occupied by Fred
Smith, the tailor, when done. The small
room will be occupied as a sewing ma
chine room.
MISS FRANCES COLEMAN left this
week for Toronto, Ontario, where she
viii spend a few months. She will be
missed by her many friends here, and
the different organizations in which she
has been such an efficient and untiring
worker.
THE Bennington delegation from St.
Peters church, attending the consecra.
ton of Bishop Hall to-day, so far as we
have heard, are Dr. John r. Shurtleff,
Alonzo Remington, l.. Z. Norton and
wife, Col l.. F. Abbott and wife, Mrs.
G. T. Burt and Mrs. Georgia Riddle.
THE board of officers of the Good
| Templars elected last week, are !:
Ernest Lambert, c. T.; Miss Grace
Stupplebean, V. T.; Chas. Ineson, Sec
rotary; Miss Carrie Packard, assistant
secretary; Miss Eliza A. Puffer, treas
urer; George Frost, chaplain; Burt Ell
liot, marshal; Miss May Hewitt, deputy
marshal; Miss Eta WEIGH, guard; Clar-
ence Niles, sentinel.
AMONG those in attendance upon the
State Encampment, q. A. r., at Bur-
| lington this week, we note the follow
| ing from this county: w. H. Bundy of
Manchester; Maj. A. B. Valentine, Maj
r. j. Coffey and wife, Mrs. Eliza F. Cut
| ting, r. Nj. Houghton and wife, and N.
M. Puffer, Bennington; f. B. Warner of
Manchester; o. E. Adams of Arlington;
G. d. Gibson and wife, Mrs. Geo. II.
Burch, Miss Lucy Cutting, Mrs. Geo. NJ.
Marsh, of Bennington; Mis-. j. B. Nc
Namar of North bennington.
A FULL house greeted the Young
Woman's Club, last Tuesday evening,
and probably $50 will be Melted. Miss
I Harriet HARDWOOD presided with unusual
grace and ease. The vocal solos by
Misses Sullivan and Middlebrook were
well rendered and heartily applauded.
Miss COleman's piano solo was of the
highest order. A defamation by Miss
Holden was very fine. The club has a
good chorus and quartette both of
which sang to the great delight of all.
The drills under the leadership of Miss
Holden were the feature of the evening,
and were highly appreciated by all.
THE fifth attempt to burn out the
property of NJ. E. Burgess, situated on
| Main street, was frustrated Wednesday
morning. An entrance was effected to a
store room back of the old livery Office
| 1.-THE SOuthworth office, and pile of
clothes in one corner was saturated with
| turpentine and ignited. The clothes
were covered with dry pine. Turpen-
tine was also spripkled on the sidewalks.
Three men were asleep in the room
| passed through to get into the store
room, one of whom had not been in bed
more than twenty minutes. These men
heard nothing. The fire was discovered
by Waterman. The clothes were con-
sumed, but little damage was done to
the building.
AFTER the death of the little son of
G. NJ. Wood, last week, all precautions
| were taken to suppress the diphtheria
that had, without any known cause,
broken out in that family. The prem
Uses were fumigated and on Saturday,
the two girls were brought home. On
Wednesday, the youngest came down
with diphtheria, and fingers as we write,
at the point of death. The eldest girl
was taken to Dea. Bottum's on Gage
street, and is we'll to-day. All that med
ical skill could do has been done, both
TO save life and to prevent the spread of
the disease.-Later. The child has
| since died. The heartfelt sympathy of
all our people will go out to the sorely
afflicted family.
The Rev. a. c. A. Hall, D. D., bishop
elect of Vermont, went through Ben
| ningtOn, on his way to his see city, Bur
lington, Monday. At North Benning-
ton, Arlington and Manchester, he was
met and greeted by Episcopal people.
The bishop-elect is most cordial in his
| greeting to strangers, and leaves a very
| favorable impression on those who meet
him. He appears to be in robust health
and is in excellent spirits. He arrived
Saturday and was met at the pier by the
Rev. j. Isham Bliss, chairman of the
! Standing Committee of this diocese
They were the guests of Col. LeGrand
b. Cannon while in New York city. On
Sunday, D.. Hall attended divine ser
vice at st. Agnes Church, and the Church
of the TRANSPORTATION. Before he
sailed from England, the Doctors
| friends presented him with purse of
ESQ sterling.
THE entertainment Saturday evening,
uDu6I duSplCeb VI ln6 Clby OAHU, was
great success. The spacious Opera
House was filled with an appreciative
audience, and the organization Melted
about $175 by the performance. 1t was
so well received that the long and pleas
ing programme will be repeated, we are
told, at Manchester tomorrow evening.
The programme was not out in time for
our issue last week, and as. they were
freely circulated we will not repeat here.
1t is just to say that the whole fifty
people engaged did exceptionally well.
The minstrel setting in the first part
v as very unique-something which could
neverlhavs been accomplished on such a
stage as. that of Library Hall. The
genius of this, as we'll as some other
parts, was that of James ii. Whitney, fine
iy supported by the local company. The
music was good, under the direction of
r. o. Goldsmith. The patronage be-
slowed will materially assist the band in
the payment of its necessary expenses.
We bespeak for the boys full house
at Manchester.
THE East Randolph, N. T., Enter
prise of January 25th, 1894, has an obitu-
airy notice, that will interest a number
of our readers, as follows: "Mrs. Davis
Williams died at her home in this village
on Sunday, aged 80 years. Her funeral
was held Wednesday forenoon, Rev. T.
j. Hamilton officiating; burial had at
East Leon. The following biography