The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-09-13

ed 10 certain trains going, are issued,
good to return on regular trains. For
particulars, see small bills.
WIN. E. HAWKS, Esq :, has made G. A.
Custer Post, e. A. R., present of a
handsome flag, l2xlS feet. to hang upon
their new flag pole on the Adams build
ing. This staff is IS feet high and the
whole makes Grand Army hall and
equipments complete.
HENRY SoUIREs and wife, after visit
to his native town, left this week for the
west, where they will visit before their
return to Paris, France. On Tuesday
evening they were waited upon by many
of their old friends, at the residence of
Thos. A. Hutchins.
II may be perfectly true that adver-
Using does not pay, says a con'empo-
rary; but it somehow happens that
those who advertise most have the most
money. Perhaps this is all chance;
but those in positions to know put it
down to wise business management
THE Democratic Ne,U York Evening
Post says: THE Democratic leaders in
this State can not employ themselves to
better advantage during the week which
# mains before the meeting of their
State convention than in careful medi-
tation upon the result of yesterdays
election in Vermont. The Republicans
have carried that State by at least g.
600 majority, the largest which they
have had since the war;
YESTERDAY the Rev u. Marten united
in marriage Mr.. Henry G. Godfrey and
Miss Nj. Florence Hyde, at the home of
D. w. Hyde, Esq, on South street
The wedding was a quiet one, but the
bride was generously remembered by
her many friends, and also the groom.
After short tour they will return here
when they will be lat home" TO their
friends after October 18th.
THE suggestion of the Banner last
spring having now been acted upon
regarding the trimming of the shade
trees of our village, everybody remarks
on the improved appearance. The
trustees did commendable thing when
they authorized this work to be done,
The electric lights ought TO be higher,
but with the trees kept trimmed as now,
the streets will be more than doubly
lighted over former years as they are.
THIS afternoon at 2 80, the funeral of
Mrs. Catherine Hawks was held from
the home of her son, j. c. Cromack, on
School street. Mrs. HAWKES. maiden
name was Burt, and she was the eldest
sister of the late Daniel II and Job
Burt. She first married Jos. Cromack,
the father of Frank and j. c. Cromack,
ard her second husband was the late
Alvah Hawks. She was very e,tima-
BILE woman, beloved by everybody, and
there were large number of mourners
at her obsequies.
PROF. CLARK, Scientific Optician, is
coming again and can be consulted at
the jewelry store Of Squire & Rawson,
for one week beginning Sept. 10th.
When here last season he filled many
difficult eyes satisfactory with glasses,
and we advise all who use spe ctacles, or
have defective vision to see the profess
sor during this visit 1t costs you moth
ing for examination or consultation, an
opportunity offered by no other optician
coming to this city.
THE Battle Monument has been laid
up above ninety feet in height, and
promises to be about 100 feet before the
work for the season is closed. In round
numbers the first one hundred feet in
height contains 5000 cubic yards of
masonry, the second hundred l,5OO
cubic yards and the third hundred 800
cubic yards. According to the altitude
attained the reader can readily see how
far progress has been made, by these
figures. As the work goes on people
begin to realize the magnitude of the
undertaking. Architect Rim was in
town yesterday,
JOHN Rooney, town representative
elect of Woodlord, objects to being called
a,Republican by the BANNER. Our types
last week in one place so designated
him. We hasten to make he correction,
for if q Canadian who has come to the
United States since the war and made
himself man under Republican gov
arnment objects to the name, he
should certainly be entitled to the doubt
The condition of working men here and
in Canada is well known. Our fri"nd
might have lived long enough in
Canuckdom to have been elected to the
Dominion parliament, but it is not
likely. He says he don't object to the
name Canuck, but don't call him a
Republican-hence these remarks.
The lookout room of the Battle Mon
ument will have four sides in which it
will be eminently proper that State and
Historical societies place tablets with
sui able inscriptions. The Odd Fellows
occupy one side, the Masonic Frater-
nifty another, all under the direction of
the architect, Mr.. Rim, who says that
it would be a grand thing if the whole
of the four sides of the room were taken
mp by tablets. If any society is think
ing of applying for space now is he
time to write for it, as Mr.. Rim pro-
poses to arrange the tablets in an artistic
manner that the effect may be in keep
ing with the structure as well as the
records made in enduring stone.
THE Peru correspondent of the Man
chester Journal writes that paper:-
please to inform our Republican
friends in Bennington that at the Dem
ocratic rally held in this town Monday
evening, Sept. 3, Geo. X. Davis stated
that the Republicans of Bennington
sent for him to come there, he being a
Democrat, to run him on a split ticket
for sheriff instead of Mr.. Pike, Republi-
can, and that Mr.. Mccall said that Mr..
Pike was unfit for the Office and that he
(McCalD would support Davis for
sheriff. The Democrats by pocketing
our Republican state tickets at the
election so as to make them run short
of votes, Davis obtained 26 votes out
of hundred"
THE Bennington correspondent of the
Troy Press having taken it upon himself
to ridicule the Hon. A. w. Beard, state
treasurer of Massachusetts, who spoke
here a short time ago, we take pleasure
in quoting the following from the Dem
ocratic Boston Herald, which regards
him as a man entitled to respect even #
il dissents from his opinions: THE |
Journal is discussing as TO whether Mr.. !
A. W. Beard is an extreme protection |
list. We have been in the habit of re-
garding Mr.. Beard as about as extreme |
as anybody in this respect, and as he is
a frank man, who never conceas his |
principles, we think there will be no
concerning them in this
case. Mr.. Beard has sal that he be- |
lieves first of all in removing the entire
internal revenue tax, which, of course,
would take all the tax from whisky. |
This strikes us as his most extreme aud |
position But in his |
general votes on the tariff Mr. Boards |
course would probab'y not be differ mt
from that of other Massachusetts Re-
publicans, while, in adjus ing its detail s,
his business experience would be of
mora yalup than that of any of his