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ANNUAL MEETING. 
Congregational Church of Manchester Hears 
Reports and Elects Officers. 
The annual business meeting of the 
Congregational church, Manchester, 
was heldin the chapel, Thursday night, 
at which time only the regular order 
of business was carried out, and no 
action was taken or reference made 
to the recent departure of Rev. Mr. 
Whitaker. 
The reports of the various church 
officers, committees and auxilliary so- 
cieties represented the various branch- 
es of the church work in a healthy con- 
dition. 
It was decided to hold the annual 
church sociable and reunion during 
GEORGE F. ALLEN, 
ELECTED CLERK OF CHURCH FOR THIRTY— 
SEVENTH YEAR. 
the coming winter as in former years, 
the date to be settled upon by the 
standing committee and a committee 
to be appointed by them to make ar- 
rangements for the reunion. 
Frank P. Knight was elected mod- 
erator of the meeting, and George 
Forster Allen was elected clerk for 
the thirty-seventh consecutive year. 
The other officers elected were as fol- 
lows: George W. Jewett, treasurer ; 
A. L. Saben, Superintendent Sunday 
school; Howard M. Stanley, assistant 
superintendent, secretary and treas- 
urer ; Lila G. Goldsmith, superinten- 
dent of Junior Sunday school; Mrs. 
Daniel Leach, Mrs. Anna _ Phillips 
and Mrs. Susan Knight, missionary 
committee ; Mrs. Alice Haskell, Mrs. 
Emma Stanley, Mrs. George W. Jew- 
ett, Miss Abbie Larcom, Mrs. Victoria 
Johnson and Mrs. David Bennett, 
deaconesses ; Howard M. Stanley and 
Miss Isabelle M. Warner, representing 
the Sunday school and Y.P.S.C.E., 
and Mrs. Alice Haskell and Mrs. Geo. 
W. Jewett, representing the deacon- 
esses were elected on the standing 
committee. 
Dea. F. A. P. Killam was re-elected 
to the board of deacons for a term of 
five years. 
Eliza Bailey Benner. 
Funeral services over the remains 
of Mrs. Eliza Bailey Benner, who 
passed away last week at East North- 
port, Me., were held at the Memorial 
chapel in Manchester last Saturday 
afternoon. Rev. E. H. Brewster off- 
ciated. Many of the friends of the 
deceased, both in Manchester and 
from out of town, were in attendance. 
The interment was in the family lot 
in Union cemetery. 
Mrs. Benner came from one of the 
old-time families. She was a daughter 
of Capt. Tyler and Irene Parsons. 
She made her home in Manchester 
till grown into womanhood, when she 
married Louis Benner, a young cooper 
here at the time. After marriage, 
Mr. and Mrs. Benner lived at various 
places, Mr. Benner serving at one 
time on the police force in Boston. 
The past fifteen years, however, they 
have lived in East Northport, Me. 
Many of the older residents can 
well remember Mrs. Benner. She 
has always been a frequent visitor to 
Manchester where several cousins now 
survive her. She was born May 2, 
1843. 
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