Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-01-08
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News OF the own anu village Told
Briefly tor Busy Readers.

| News OF the own ana village Told
Briefly tor Busy Readers.
Mr. and Mrs Heroert Johnson have
returned from New Haven, CT.
Rev w. H. Washburne will preach
at South Salisbury next Sunday
evening.
Miss Belle Smith is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs Charles L. Robinson, in Rut-
land.
+. Forrest Sibley, who has been
home from Albany for two weeks, went
back Monday,
There will be public services in the
Methodist church this and Friday
evening at 1880 o'clock
Mrs William Warren of Troy has
returned home, after short visit with
her mother, Mrs James O'Donnel.
Mrs Cheesebrough and two daugh-
ters and Marshal Jones of North
Adams have been the guests of Mrs
Geo H. Jepson several days.
Next Sunday morning Rev Edward
Conover will preach in the Methodist
church, in the evening the pastor, Rev
w. H. Washburne, will speak on
Corrective Judgments.
VIM B. Waldron OF Bennington and
Miss Stella A. Grifis Of Hoosick
Falls were married in the presence OF
few friends at the Baptist parsonage
on Saturday evening, January 3, 1903.
An old fashioned service at the
First Baptist church Sunday morning.
Old hymns. The old story OF "The
Good Shepherd" Come and revive
the memories of the days that are
gone.
Assistant superintendent Reilly and
his staff Of assistants viii 60 to Rut-
land Friday to attend the annual ban
Quet by the Metropolitan Life Insur-
ance company to its agents in Yer
mont.
Announcement is made OF the mar
riage of Miss Lura BuSs and Clarence
Wood, both Of Bennington. The
ceremony took place in Hoosick Falls
Saturday, the Rev w w. Cox ofiici-
ating. 1t was a quiet affair.
Contractor silk has the two story
double tenement house for Frank Hop
per on Gage st nearly ready for oc-
cupancy 1t is one OF the best ar
ranged and most comfortable tenement
houses in the village, the plans being
also drawn by Mr. Silk.
District deputy grand master OF the
second masonic district made his Of
fetal visit to Tucker lodge of North
Bennington last Wednesday even
ing. The E. A. degree was nicely
worked. This evening he visits the
Adoniram lodge of Manchester Center, !
refreshments will be served.
Silas l., Griffith of Dandy leaves to-
day for a three months trip to Cali
fornia. He has now in his employ on !
his lumber Jobs in Mt Tabor, Arling-
ton and Stratton, $50 men, $50 horses
and so oxen. He expects to get into |
his mills this season ., 1000 900 feet Of
spruce and 100000 feet of hemlock
logs The work will continue just the
same in his absence.
Vogel's Minstrels here last Friday
evening gave one of the best entertain
ments of their kind ever seen in town.
The work of Arthur Crawford of Ben
nington, who is one OF the leading men
of the company, more than came up to
the expectations of his local friends,
and he showed that he is coming
man in the business.
The women of the First Baptist
church begin this afternoon a study of
"Via Christi, the pathway of Christ
ianity from st Paul to the beginning
of modern missions under VIM Covey.
The subject today is Early Missions
and Prosecutions. y Any, who are in
terested in the "Conaict of Christian
ity with Heathenism under the Roman
Emperors, are invited.
The new officers for the coming six
months of the Y. P. S. c. E. of the
First Baptist church are as follows;
President, Harry Moses; vice-presi-
dent, William Myers; recording secre-
tary, Mary E. Magill; corresponding
secretary, Mabel r. Smith; treasurer,
Carolyn Buss; pianist, Mabel Wood
assistant pianist, Mrs Frank r. Nor
ris; chairmen of COMMITTEES lookout,
Mabel Smith; prayer meeting, Mrs
Fred Sexton; social Mrs Fred L.
Harmon; missionary, Hortense Bald
VIM flower and visiting, Curtis Burt;