The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-09-18


MARSHALL N. CLAPP has been award
ed pension of S12 per month and ar
rearage for about year.
DIR. H. c. DAY has been in Greenfield,
Mass, during the week, and on business
in Western Massachusetts,.
THE "Golden Cross" cigar is attract
ing attention. For sale by dealers here.
See notices elsewhere to-day.
EDITOR ALBEE of the Bellows Falls
Times favored us with a call Saturday,
having accompanied the excursion,
JUDGE WHITE, home from his trip to
Western Massachusetts,, has greatly i'm
proved in health and has not felt so well
for years.
ATTENTION is called to the New York
Life settlement with Gen. Vim. Wells,
Burlington, Vt, former colonel LIST Yer
mont Cavalry and customs collector.
AT the Brooklyn, N. Y, Y, NJ. c. A.,
meeting last Sunday, Bennington was
represented by Secretary Flindt, who
spoke, among others, to the assembly.
Miss SARA HAWKS left Tuesday for
New Haven, Conn, where she is attend
ing school at "The Elderage." She ex-
poets to graduage from this institution
next June.
LOUIS WHITNEY passed Sunday in
town and until Wednesday. 1t was the
closing week of his vacation. He is en-
ployed in New York city, and is doing
well as he deserves.
w. D. WILSON of st. Adams and H. W.
Hall of Burlington passed through Rut-
land Tuesday on the way to Boston to
join the Massachusetts, delegation going
to st. Louis to attend the annual session
Of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows. The session opens September
21st and continues five days. Col. NJ. j..
Horton of Poultney and Col. n. NJ. Puff
fer of Bennington joined the delegation
at Eagle Bridge Wednesday.
WE notice that the survey for the curb
stone of School street, along the west
side of the Second Congregational
church, is made SO that the line runs
through the centre of the row of stately
elms now about seventeen years old.
We shall never voluntarily consent to the
destruction of these elms. The street
can be changed little so as to allow the
trees TO remain. There is nothing so
iron-clad but what it can be modified in
the interest of common-sense and here is
an opportunity to practice that virtue.
The trees could have been planted in the
first instance SO as to avoid this conflict,
had it been known, but the walk can be
made broader on that street just as well
as the trees can be removed and with
much more sense. These remarks apply
to other portions of our village. tits no
improvement that destroys long rows of
fine shade trees 50 that an imaginary line
may be located one foot further east or
west.
ga SON of the Revolution complains
in the New York Sun that ex-Minister
Phelps neglected to discuss in his Ben
nington Grafton the famous intrigue with
the British carried on by the Vermont
leaders during the latter part of the
struggle for independence. "a son of
the Revolution makes us tired. He
seems to think that that chapter of Yer
mont history cannot be discussed with
out impugning the patriotism of the
Green Mountain Boys. There was an
intrigue with the red-coats and it was
handled by the Vermont leaders with an
ability and skill that have ever since dis
tinguished the craftsmanship of Yer
monts sons. But there is no warrant
for thinking that the Aliens and the rest
had any other object than that of self
preservation for their people. They
would have been great fools had they
not prepared for the possible defeat of a
league of commonwealth that refused
to admit Vermont to their sisterhood
even after she had proved her devotion
at TicOnderoga, Quebec and Bennington.
That Vermont would ever have accepted
an allegiance to the crown while yet a
rebel army could gather on American
soil, we do not believe; but her leaders
were not unwise all the. same in playing
the game they did with the emissaries of
King George. Vermont has nothing to
be ashamed of on that score. -iSDrinafeld
Republican.
THE excursion, Saturday, Sept. 18th,
from Chester, Bellows Falls, Ludlow,
and towns on the line from Rutland to
Bellows Falls, was one of the largest that
has ever come to Bennington. The party
numbered over 500 and came in a train
eleven cars. The excursion was arranged
by Judge Hugh Henry, who had charge
of the party. The Herrick Drum and
Fife Corps of Chester, "a pieces, attract
ed much attention by their neat uniform
and excellent music. The band is COM
posed of boys from ten to sixteen years
of age, and is one of the best organiza-
tons of the kind in the New England
States. Supt. E. d. Bennett had the
train drawn to point on the L. s. R. R.,
near the monument on its arrival, about
II a. M, where an hour was occupied in
seeing the monument and other places of
historic interest at Bennington Centre.
On returning from the monument the
train was taken to the "Boardman CROSS
ing" close to the Soldiers Home
grounds, and the party ate their lunch
in the grove opposite the Home. 1t was
spread on tables provided by Supt. Cot
fey. The balance of the afternoon was