Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-03-08
IN THE LOCAL FIELD.
North Bennington.

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March 9th, was postponed until Wednes
day, March 18th. An entertainment will
be given by the "Helping Hand Club"
Supper will be served.
Miss Attic TOzer is on the sick list
while we are glad to say her father is
some better, so as to be about.
Miss Clara White, niece of Mrs. John
White, is visiting here from Minnesota.
A daughter, little Leola Beatrice, came
last week into the family of Frank Lyon,
at Riverside.
Miss Florence E. Northouse has been
sick for about two weeks but at this
writing is some better.
Henry c. Kapelle of Hoosick, N. Y,
has hired farm of E. L. Northouse and
moved on to it.
The sOciable at the Congregational
church parlors on Tuesday last, was en-
joyed BY large number.
Miss Lizzie Granger of Troy, N. Y,
sister of Mrs. Scott Minott, is visiting
here, called by the sickness and death of
her niece. Relatives and friends from
Hoosick were also in attendance at the
funeral.
Orders sent in by Arthur H. Cushman
give a flattering result of his first exper
fence as a travelling salesman.
In the death of their daughter, Bertha
Ella, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Scott MinOtt have
been sorely afflicted. Though she had
been in feeble health for year or more,
and her situation was source of great
anxiety the decline was so gradual that
the fond parents were unable to see the
sure approach of the destroyer, and when
the blow came on the 18th inst, they were
hardly prepared for it, Bertha was born
June 18th, 1877, and would have been
eighteen years old her next birthday.
She was a general favorite in the com
munity, genial and pleasant in her de-
pertinent, and modest and unassuming
in her intercourse with her companions
and friends. As a chill she was affec-
Tomato and dutiful, and the deep SYM
pathy of the whole community goes out
to the parents in this time of their ex-
IRENE sorrow. She early became men,
Der of the Congregational Sunday school
and has ever been constant attendant,
taking an active part in all its work, and
also was an active member of the Y. p.
S. G. E., and faithful to her duties.
Less than year since she signified her
desire to make public confession of her
faith in Christ by uniting with the
church, but for sufficient reason had de-
ferred doing so. 1t is a source of conso-
lation to her Sunday school teacher and
her other intimate friends, that her aunt
Lizzie was providentially permitted to
be with her for several days before her
decease, to whom she lovingly impaired
her firm hope and trust IN Christ as her
friend and Saviour. The funeral SER
vices were at the house yesterday, at
2.3O o'clock, the large number attending
the respect in which she was
held The remarks and prayers of those
were comforting to the family,
the love of Jesus to the race
and his sympathy with the afflicted and
sorrowing, as in the case of Martha and
Mary at the grave of Lazarus, and the in
vting mansions he had gone to prepare
for those who love him. The singing
was by Mr. and Mrs. II. T. Cushman and
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Hathaway, and the
bearers were Harry G. White, John H.
Cushman, Fred Roberts and George d.
Atwood. The flowers were from her
many friends, beautiful and in profus-
ion, among them being several pieces, a
pillow with Bertha in immortelles,
from the Graded school of which she was
a graduate, an elegant star from the
teachers and one from the Y. p. S. G. E.
The casket was pure white and deposit
ed in the grave, made pleasant and the
less gloomy by evergreens and flowers,
placed in and about it by kind hands,
the whole under the direction of j. Ed.
Walbridge of Bennington,