Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-01-15

MRS. NJ. G. HULING of North Benning-
ton, accompanied by her daughter Carrie,
are visiting Mrs. f. E Burgess, another
daughter, in Burlington.
THE ladies of st. Luke's Society, st.
Adams, sent, Friday, to Bishop Graves
of Platte, Neb., over a hundred dollars
worth of clothing and shoes, to be dis
tributed among the sufferers of that
diocese.
The annual meeting of the Congrega-
tional Club of Western Vermont, will be
held in Brandon Jan. Goth, inst The
principal subject of the session will be
the Tendency toward Ritualism," and
among the speakers will be Rev. NJ. L..
Severance of Bennington Centre.
MISS NELLIE CoFFEY entertained
about thirty of her friends at a card party
at her home Friday evening. Eight to
twelve were the hours designated, and
they were none too long for those present.
Cards were the principal amusement, the
honors being won by Misses Louise
Thatcher, Louise Rawson, and Loring
Bingham and Fred Hutchins.
Mrs. HANNAH EDDY of Glens Falls
will be 90 years old to-day, and the day
will be observed with appropriate cere-
mOny at her home. During the past
twelve months Mrs. Eddy has completed
two bed quilts, one containing 1920
pieces and the other 1884 pieces, and has
a third quilt well under way. The work
of piecing and putting together the quilts
was done by the aged woman unaided.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled for
in the Postoffice at Bennington, for the
week ending Jan. 14th, 1895: Mrs. VIM.
Mcqueen, Mrs. Eulie Gay Rushmore,
Richard Bamderge, Charlie Draper, P. j.
A. Evans, Master George Kennon, Jacob
Kahl, Chas. G. Murphy, James 'Donnell,
Fred Weatherhead. These letters will be
sent to the Dead Letter Office Jan. 18th.
if not delivered before. In calling for
above, please say advertised" giving
date of list.
LAST Sunday the Green Box Bank
Company assembled at the Second Con-
gregational Chapel and declared semi
annual dividend of more than $40. In
other words the contents of the little
banks amounted to that sum, notwith-
standing the hard times. The harder
the times are the more good this mis-
sionary money will do. AS for this COM
pany the directors decided not to con-
tract their business whatever the times
may be or become.
D. H. GUILTINAN, Thomas Lyons,
Joseph Murphy and John Ryan, dele
gates from the local F. NJ. T. A. B., are
delegates to the sixth semi-annual con-
vention of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of the diocese OF Albany, which
is being held to-day in West Troy, under
the auspices of the Total Abstinence So
ciety of st. Bridgets church. Robert
Guiltinan, who is one of the vice presi-
dents of the convention, is also in at
tendance. The delegates from here will
make strong effort to have the next
field meeting of the societies in the do
cese held here.
THE Hoosick Falls correspondent of
the Troy Press, in Saturday S issue, says
1.-TWO extremely youthful wanderers
were accommodated with lodging at the
court house Thursday night They gave
their names as Hogan and Meredith,
aged u and IA years, respectively. The
boys claimed to reside with their parents
in Bennington, and stated that they had
been enjoying ride on farmers wagon
and were carried further than they had
and, arriving at Walloomsac,
dusk drove them to seek shelter They
were well taken care of by officer Reed,
who in the morning put them on an cleo
trio car for Walloomsac, whence they
started for home with the evident deter
mination of remaining nearer home for
few years."
THE commissioners appointed to edit
and superintend the publication of the
Vermont Statutes, consisting of Senator
o. NJ. Barber of Bennington county, and
L. NJ. Read, of Rocking
ham, and John Young of Newport, are
now engaged in the work at Montpelier.
The commissioners will include in the
the constitution of the United
States and the public acts of the general
assembly of 1891. The commissioners
are authorized to change the title of
State officer or the name of a State lnsti.
tuition, as used in public act of 1894, to
the title or name given in the Vermont
Statutes, and also to revise the Vermont
Statutes to conform to the amended acts
and laws of the last session. The COM
missicners are authorized to provide for
printing not exceeding 5000 copies.
A WRITER in Saturdays Free Press,
says: 81 notice that the one hundred
and eighteenth anniversary of the declar-
alton of Vermont's independence is to be
observed next Friday evening by the
Nebraska Sons of Vermont, who on
that date will hold their annual mid
winter meeting at Hotel Lincoln in the
city of Lincoln. This is one of the most
vigorous of the many Vermont societies