The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-01-15

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The sleigh ride and oyster suppe
given by Miriam Lodge TUESDAY eve
lining. to the Odd Fellows of the town wa
greatly enjoyed, and goodly numOe
were out.
The officers of Mt. Anthony Lodge o
Masons were installed Tuesday eVenlnl
by ]. H. Whipple, Grand Warden. ~
was assisted by l. Henry Bench, Dlstrlc
Deputy.
STATE SECRETARY LAWRENCE OF thu
lynn. C. A., has been in town all TIT
week making arrangements for the Stat
Convention which opens at the Second
Congregational church. He is stopping
at the Putnam.
LIP. HAIGHT went to Saltwater, n
Y. his new home, Saturday. He haI
partially recovered from the strain hi
received upon his back while lifting re
Gently, but will be long time getting
over it.
Town CLERK BooTH has been laid NJ
several weeks with assesses. He IL
better. The office meantime is cared fol
by First Selectman Harris and Miss
Belle Goldsmith, the latter, Mr.. Booths
assistant.
AT the First National Bank election
Tuesday following were elected: Dlrec
tors, l.. r. Graves, II. G.. Root l.. f.
Abbott, w. r. Graves, Willard Gay
President, l.. II. Graves; vice-presldents,
II. G.. Root, L. F. Abbott. The usua
semi-annual dividend of five per cent
was declared.
f.. +. HART has moved into his new
home, this week, on West Main street
This is the brick house just west of the
st. Francis de Sales new church, which
has been refitted for two families, heated
by steam and other modern conveniences.
w. c. Hitchcock will occupy the other
part of the house when ready. One
would hardly recognize this place now
that it has been remOdelled.
A FORMER pastor of one of our leading
churches, in remitting for the BANNER
for 1891, remarks: 81 wish you happy
New Year and congratulate you upon the
high standard of excellence you main
tain in your paper" We are greatly
obliged to our friend for his good wishes
and the great compliment he pays us.
Such words of encouragement are highly
appreciated.
The State Convention of the Y. NJ. C..
opens this evening in the Second Con-
gregatiOnal church, with stereopticOn
exhibition of Association buildings, by
L. w. Watkins of New York city. This
will be very fine presentation of the
work and progress of this society, and
will be followed Friday, Saturday and
Sunday by the admirable order of exer-
cises outlined by us last week. Already
the success of the convention is assured.
Several prominent speakers have arrived.
THE regimenal election of the Vermont
Patriarchs Militant is to be held at st.
Adams, Tuesday afternoon, the Goth,
inst. Canton Bennington are making
arrangements to go in force going up on
a special car. The present provisional
Colonel, n. NJ. Puifer. now ranking as
| Northumberland. will no doubt be
unanimously elected commander of the
regiment. The institution OF a new
Canton at st. Adams completes the
number necessary for three battaliOns
and increases the interest of the event.
THE speeding of horses on Main street
has become a menace to public safety.
We have called attention to this fire.
quently for years and yet our authorities
have done nothing to stop it. Yesterday
one of the teams racing ran into Mrs.
Henry Parker's cutter pitching her into
the snow, fortunately not with much
injury, but no thanks to the racing for
escape. We hope the selectmcn will
take the matter in hand and stop fast
driving. The trustees have provided
rules governing such cases. Why not
enforce them?
WE hear that the creamery is to star t
up next month. Our farmers should all
20 into this system of cooperative but
| Tor nrnlttnftAn Nhnn m hnrQ nnnttmh
are banded together the expenses are so
reduced that nothing is more profitable
that farmer can do. Another thing,
the creamery should rua the year around.
| Winter diaries are more profitable than
summer. Read an item on this point in
another place to-day. Now is the time
to arrange for dairy next winter. Be
sides regular customers for butter will
buy where they can obtain it every
month in the year.
VERMONT investors in Fort Paine,
whether they reside in Bennington or
elsewhere, will be interested in some re-
marks in another column. With such
gigantic business enterprises (assured
Isuccesses), as Barre and Hardwick gran
lite, Castleton and Western Vermont
slate, Manchester and Dorset marble
quaries, not to say hundred others,
llanguishing for years and undeveloped,
what shall we say OF home capital going
away and foreign capital developing
these resources OF our State? The les
son is plain.
THE Bennington Historical Society
met at the town clerks Office, l4th inst
Hon. Ge1. W. Hartman, president, in the
chair. The old board of officers were re-
elected, with the exception of Mr. Chas
Th1tt her, treasurer, de, Used. Cl ,men
II. Cone was elected treasurer to fill thu
vacancy. The seven members of the
Bennington Battle Monument Associa
ton elected annually, were the same az
last year. BY vote of the society thu
president appointed Alfred Robinson
Thomas White and Olin Scott a com
mittee to draft resolutions commemmo
rative of Mr.. Geo. w. Robinson. The
president read an interesting letter from
Mr. Merritt Clarke, relative to a CAM
kettle used in the BurgOyne Campaign
now in the possession of Col. Olin Scott
Adj.
In the case of Daniel V. Sweet VS.. Ell;
, j. Sweet, enormously reported by us il
, a previous issue, we take further occa
sion to say that the charge of willful de
t sertiOn is the only charge against the pc
. titiOner contained in the petition i'll tn
S cause, and further, there was no evidence
= introduced on the trial tending to sup
| port any other charge. Upon the grant
: ing of the divorce the court decreed tn
\ exclusive custody of her two minor sons
2 the fruit of the marriage, to the pet
: toner, the said Ella J. Sweet. Mrs
$ Sweets name is above reprOach in thi
I lap ttniftr tnl.nrn ghn 10 xual Irnnuyr
v We very much regret having subiecte
her to the very serious and who'll
= causeless annoyance Occasloned by on
previous transpOrtion of two causes Q
> divorce, whereby Mrs. Sweet WIS mad
:, to represent some one elso.
, WIN. II. WARD of Lowell, Mass
e writes: 81 notice in your paper of la
a week highly imaginative statemen
n copied from Boston paper, concernin
p purpOrted strike among my emplO,
e ees on account of my requiring of thel
e a pledge of total abstinence. The stol
n is untrue in every particular The en-
10 plOyees knOW my sentiments on Il
Q question of the use Of intoxicants, an
many of them are as strict as myself
10 abstaining. but do not require of the
:, that they shall sign pledge, but simp'
- dismiss them from my service If the
" continue to use liquor to excess. As Il
II strike | know of none actual
y prospective. The only one in which
~ in common with many other citizens, a
=, particularly interested, is one again
. the rumsellers of this city. some twent
o. five of whom have recently been co
u victed and sentenced to fine or impriso
CT ment."
DE-, EDWARD c. HAYWOOD died SUI
a denly at his residence in New York CT
~ y Tuesday in the fifty-seGond year of h
= age, He was born in Bennington, No
y a6th. 1893. and graduated from Belleyl