Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1896-01-14

vitations for card party Friday even
ing
Four persons united, on confession OF
faith, with the Old First church on the
first Sabbath of the year.
c. w. MCDoNoUGH begins taking the
census of births and deaths in the Grad.
ed School district to-day.
MAoDoNoUGH & Co. and the Benning.
ton Bicycle Agency will be represented
at the big cycle show in New York next
week.
THE F. NJ. r. A. Il. Society will hold a
social in their rooms Friday evening
Music viii be furnished by Goldsmith's
orchestra.
FAIR sleighing in Troy yesterday.
None here as yet although Supt. Coffey
drove up from the Soldiers Home this
morning in a sleigh.
THE Christian Endeavor Society of
the Methodist Episcopal church will
serve supper in the church parlors Fri
day evening from six to eight o'clock.
All are cordially invited.
THE new year at Albany Business Col
lege has opened very auspiciously with
large attendance from various parts of
this and other States. Among the mum
Der from this vicinity are Miss Florence
E. Hard of Arlington and Irving Church
of Pownal.
The Bennington County Savings Bank
had on Jan. 1st 1850 open accounts with
depositOrs on its books, the total amount
of deposits, $57S, 1922. This was an in
crease during the last six months in the
year of about $4,000. Since its organi-
cation there have been 1924 separate ac-
counts on it's books.
SAYS the Readsboro Enterprise of
Saturday: "Three loads of goods arrived
Monday evening from Bennington for
the parish house and the four men with
them worked until about midnight I'M
loading. Father Plamondon has one of
the finest houses in town." These goods
were sold by Walbridge, the leading
house furnisher in Bennington County.
CUSTER battlefield, in Montana, where
Custer and his command were massacred,
is to be greatly beautified next spring
and made into an attractive park. The
government is to put in a system of wa
ter works and plant trees, and a substan-
tial stone wall, three feet high, will be
built to take the place of the present
stake fence enclosing the battle-ground.
LIST of letters remaining uncalled fDr
in the Post Office at Bennington for the
week ending Jan. 18th, 1896: Miss Mary
Haythorn, Miss Edney Hosey, Alice
Hal, Mrs. V. Murdell, Rev. and Mrs Fred
E. Vim, Alexander Beckett, Peter
Bowen Paul Hanson, F. H. Peelor.
These letters will be sent to the Dead
Letter Office, Jan. 9th, if not delivered
before. In calling for above, please say
advertised" giving date of list.
THE missionary meeting to be held on
Thursday night at the chapel of the Sec
ond Congregational church will be IA
vored by a speaker from Maine, Mrs.
Woodbury., who is there the head of the
wOman's work of the American Mission
airy Association. Besides adding to the
general stock of information as to the
needs of the negro and the Indian, the
speaker is expected to awaken enthusi.
aSm in the prosecution of the work of
the Association.
THE report of the Inter State Com
merce Commission gives the fol
lowing as the net earnings of
railroads in this section: New
York Central and Hudson River, 1894,
$15,O4S, 1872; 1895, $14, j6S, 642. Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company, 1894, 3d.
$50, 1O6; 1895, $500, 100 Fitchburg,
1894, $2,O6l,244; 1895, 81, 266, 95S Boston
and Albany, 1894, $3,l9O,O5S; 1895, 49,
2j0,24 Bennington and Rutland, 1894, |
So, 7GS; 1895, SHIFT.
In speaking of the G. A. r. depart
ment encampment at Rutland, next |
month, an exchange says: 1.-THE canvass
for the office of department commander |
does not seem to have created much ex-
element, Hon. Joel c, Baker of Rutland |,
and N. NJ. Puffer of Bennington being
the only comrades prominently discussed |
for the position. Little or no work is |
being done for either of them, and it
seems probable that the election will |
simply take the form of the deliberate
judgment of the encampment as to the
respective claims of the two men upon
the office.
DEPUTY U. S. MARSHAL BUzwELL,
of East Randolph, with an assistant,
started for Tacoma, Washington, Sat
urday, with Wing Chun Dark, the China
man who has been confined in the Jail
here for few weeks for violation of the
Chinese exclusion act. The Marshal and
the assistant came down on the sleeping
train and were met at North Bennington
by Marshal Harris, who turned Dark
over to them. The Chinaman was ar.
rested in st. Johnsbury about month
ago and sentenced to be deported. Up