The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-05
c REGAT|ONA'L
BROTHERHOOD
BANQUET
Second Annual Gathering at the
Chapel Last Night
AN ATTENDANCE or EIGHTY
Short Addresses by Bennington
County Citizens Who Are Interest
ed In Community UpIift.

The second annual banquet of the
Congregational Brotherhood organic
ed about year ago, held forth in
the chapel of the Second Congrega-
tional church last evening from six
thirty to ten O'Clock. The ladies OF
the church, with the assistance of
Mrs. Paulson, provided the supper
which was one of the best and con-
sisted of hot roast ribs of beef,
mashed potato, mashed turnip, cab
bage salad, three kinds of jelly, plum
conserve, SNOWFALL doughnuts, hollis,
lemon pie, mince pie, coffee.
The tables were arranged in rect
angular form and were covered with
spotless linen and set with numerous
blooming plants, boquets of flowers
and candelabra holding lighted cand-
les. The mattresses, from among
church ladies', were most efficient
and proved themselves past-masters
in the art of serving.
The Sunday school orchestra dis
pensed sweet music, Rev. George S.
Mills said the blessing and the eigh-
ty men present set to" for the space
of about an hour until the last one
was abundantly satisfied, after which
and more music by the orchestra,
the speaking began. John l.. Sher-
man, U. s. Government agricultural
expert for Bennington county, spoke
on the scope of his work and its re-
lation to better conditions among all
classes and its effect, physically,
morally and religiously on the com
munity life. He was. followed by
John A. Scheuerle, secretary of the
Bennington County Improvement as
sociation, who told of the work of
that association in its endeavor to
better every phase and condition of
life within our own county, placing
much emphasis on the educational
After these two excellent address
es, each of which was of about thir-
ty minutes duration, Hon. Henry L.
Cushman of North Bennington made
everybody happy by his witty re-
marks and laughable stories, closing
with his unqualified approval of the
work, OF the brotherhood. Then
Supt. II. b. Dickinson was brought
forward, must to his surprise, and
was induced to tell of some of his
experiences in his new work about
Manchester
He paid a fine tribute to Benning-
ton, saying that it was, he found, a
good place to live in and for which
he should always have tender spot
IN his heart
Rev. Geo. S. Mills responded to
the toast, The Ladies of the
Church; his remarks we're most
felicitous and he toasted the toast
master TO a crisp before he finished
He told in a more serious vein of
how the ladies of the church had
never failed to respond handsomely
to every hint for a supper, or other
entertainment, when they were need
ed. and were quite indispensable at
all times This ended the speaking.
Some fingered afterwards to confer
with Messrs. Sherman and Scheurle,
but all went away pleased with the
entertainment and looking forward
to the next one year hence. The
arrangements for this banquet were
made by the entertainment COM
mittee of which II. MacGregor Ritch-
lie is chairman.
In connection with the brother
hood banquet, the matter OF the re-
ligious work department is suggest
ed. Beginning next Sunday, the
study of eugenics will be taken up.
This class meets in the chapel class
room which is reached by the first
door to the left when you enter the
corridor. All men will be most well
come to drop in any Sunday noon
and take part, If they see fit, in the
discussion of the problems that con-
front the people on the question Of
the numerous agencies under social
control which may improve or impair
the racial qualities of future genera
tons, either physical or mental.