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

THE Graded School Corps of Cadets
has been re-organized, and yesterday af-
ternoon regular drills were resumed.
THE town auditors will begin the
work OF auditing the accounts of the
town officers, February 9th, next.
THE regular meeting of the Fortnight
ly will be held on Saturday, January
18th. The afternoon will be devoted to
Art, Miss II. S, yelling, chairman.
QUITE number of members of Mt.
Anthony Lodge, will attend the meeting
of the Western Vermont Masonic Union
in Wallingford Thursday and Friday
evenings.
DURING the year 1895, there were
fourteen fire alarms and three alarms to
call out the fire department to hunt for
lost children. The damages caused by
fire were very slight. g..
AT the annual meeting of tie Vermont
State Agricultural Association, held in
White River Junction, Friday, Henry G.
Root, of this village, was elected direc-
tor for the ensuing year.
STARK LODGE, l. o. o. f., has issued
invitations for social dance in Odd Eel
lows Hall, next Friday evening. The
dancing is from nine to twelve, music be-
ing furnished by Goldsmiths orchestra.
ENos ADAMS desires to contradict the
statement in the papers last week that he
was in feeble health, suffering from
heart disease. He says that he has never
had heart disease, is well, and is as able
to attend to his business affairs as he has
been for sixty years past,
A COMMISSION to take further testi-
mony in the Page will case is expected
to sit here soon, when parties from Man
chester, Bennington and other places
will be examined. New testimony has
recently been found in this vicinity, the
nature of which cannot yet be learned.
THE last few days have been very ia
vOrable for building. Work on the
Ritchie building is going on rapidly. A
part of the roof is on, the rear walls are
up, part of the iron trimmings are in
place and most of the brick work on the
front is completed
Mr.. AND MRS. JOHN S. HOLDEN gave
one of the largest card parties of the sea-
son at their home on West Main street,
Friday evening last. The whist prizes
went to Mrs, Charles II. Darling, E. L.
Bates, Miss Edith Dewey and II, L, How
eT. K. j. CofTey and Mrs. Il. N. Will
liams captured the widow prizes. Re-
fTeshments were served.
THE directors of the Bennington
County National Bank have chosen S.
M. Sibley, president; j, S, Holden, vice
president; Clement II. Cone, cashier;
Charles II. Dewey, teller. The officers
hope that by the last of next month the
banks business will be carried on in the
best arranged and furnished and lighted
and the most convenient banking rooms
in Vermont, if not in New England. 70"
JAS. J. CoRBETTs business at the
Columbia theatre, Boston, is spoken of
ny the Boston press, as the largest ever
known at that theatre. Hundreds were
turned away nightly. "The Naval Ca
det' made very great success. Mana
ger Brady has received an offer to put
COrbett back into Boston for a run, but
was forced to decline for the present,
COrbett's season being solidly booked.
He was also offered four weeks at the
Bijou, New York, but that was declined
also for the same reason.
NEWSPAPERS printed along the line of
the Hudson river announce the presence
of wild ducts and geese going north,
some of which are unusually large This
is sure sign of an open winter. Some
twenty years ago the winter set in with
severity, and early Ia December the Hud-
son was closed. January LIST, found it
open again.. so much so, in fact, that in
Poughkeepsie the thermometer regis
tered so degrees in the shade. viii the
history of that winter now repeat it.
self? -,
AMONG the important entries for the
next term of the superior court at Spring
field, Mass, is that of Susan E. Fish of
Springfield vs. RoseY. Cook admins
tratrix of the estate of Edward W.
Royce, late of Wales, to recover $4,000
The plaintiff alleges that she loaned
Royce that sum, and brings in an addi-
tional bill of 1915 for nursing him and
providing for his family during his last
Illness Royce is the physician who did
large business several years ago in the
large towns of Vermont, advertising him
self very extensively as specialist. He
paid several visits to Bennington.