The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-01-08
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.


WILLS WHITE, son Of Jas. II. Whit
has been i'll for more than a week wit
typhoid fever.
MASTER LoRING BINGHAM went 3
Pittsfield, Mass, Monday, and enter
school in that village.
G. b. SHELLEY was laid up couple o
days last week with severe cold, but
able now to attend to business.
THE Graded schools opened Mohda.
with an increased enrolment of non
resident pupils. This institution is in
very prosperous condition.
Our subscribers, generally, are taking
advantage of our special clubbing rates
This is well-the more merrier-pass IL
tho change and begin your city paper IL
connection with the BANNER with thu
new year.
WE are told that it is probable tina
Mr.. E, Z. Larrabee, the new superinten
dent of the electric lights, will move
his family to Bennington and reside
here. A cordial welcome awaits them
C. S. PERRY, foreman of the BANYET
Job rooms, has been i'll for q week will
an abscess He is better and hopes to re-
sumo work next week. Meantime the
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can to accommodate customers.
WALToN's Vermont Register and bust
ness directory for 1891 is out and sup
ply has been received at the BANNEF
stationery store. 1t contains about the
same matter as previous publications and
is very complete. b..
THE BANNER bindery is well equipped
to bind magazines, papers, etc., and this
is the time of the year to place the house
hold reading into permanent form fol
preservation. Send in your bindery
iobs-prices as low as in the city ..
Miss LULU LUTTE takes the Meth
odist organ from January LIST. She is
promising pupil of Mrs. Geo. w. Reese
man, and has been preparing herself for
this position for several months. Her
first effort, Sunday, as organist, was very
acceptable. > ..F a..
S. B. HAWKS and family have returned
from the West and will reside here. Mr..
Hawks continues to manage his own and
his fathers Interests in Idaho, but his
home and headquarters will be in Ben
nington. We are pleased to know that
Mr. Hawks will not return to the West
to live. He is one of our most promising
yOung men.
A LETTER received from Selectman
E. C. HoughtOn, who is spending the
winter in Seattle, Washington, says
"The weather is still warm here and it
is not very rainy. i am getting on well and
so far like the country. | have been up
Puget Sound nearly to British Columbia.
There is lots of life and business here,
but they are feeling the effect of the light
| n,lya noCf cnOnntyhnt "
LONG live the country editor! Obscure
though he may be, and outside of the
section whose news and gossip he serves
up i'll his own peculiar style from week
to week, his is life of usefulness. There
is probably no class of workers who
labor harder, devote more time to bust
ness, and render valuable service for
smaller compensation than the great
brotherhood of suburban journalists.
I-Erchdnge.
AT the annual meeting of the First
Baptist Church, held Monday evening,
the following officers were elected
Asa F. LoOmis, clerk; f. II. Scott, treas
urer; Edward L. Norton, collector; H..
W. Scott, Dewey Durham, d. Nc Eowen,
trustees; d. Nc Eowen, committee on
music. This society has, during the
past year, erected fine parsonage at an
expense of $1,000, and comes out
at the end of the year in good financial
shape.
ALowELL despatch to the Boston Daily
Record, under date of Dec. Goth, says:
"W. H. Ward, the president of the local
law enforcement league, and well
known contractor here, has all of his
employees Including the fOreman), on a
strike because of a requirement of his
that they should sign the temperance
pledge after Jan. Its. The Records COM
ments are: "He could stand anything
but that"
THE regular meeting of the Graded
school trustees Monday evening, was adj
iourned until Tuesday for want of a
quorum. On Tuesday evening n meeting
was held and a lot of routine business
was disposed of. We notice that the
superintendent was authorized to pur-
chase caligrapha and that hereafter the
ianitor is to work under the direction of
that officer sin all matters pertaining to
his dueies." The Board voted to adjourn
subject to the call of the president, Col.
Abbott.
THE Bennington County Savings Bank
declared the usual dividend Jan. LIST, at
the rate of four per cent. free of tax, per
wear. The criticisms of the Herald cor.
respondence, lately published by us, on
the new tax law has been misunderstood
by several of our readers. That law
does not affect the depositor in Vermont
savings banks as far as local taxation is
concerned. The rule now is just what
it was before, the criticism lay in that
the Legislature Disseminated agains
our banks while readjusting its tax
schedules, not that savings bank deposits
were taxed locally.
THE annual election of the Bennington
County National Bank was held Tuesda,
afternoon. This bank declares semi
annual dividend of three per cent. anC
carries to surplus enough to make it
surplus fund aggregate, in round mum
numbers, $4,000. Following director
were chosen: S. NJ. Sibley, John S. Hol
den, John T. Shurtleff, w. L. Hawks
I. L. Gibson. A. X. Richie, &. w
Thatcher. S. NJ. Sibley was chOsel
president and John S. Holden, vice
president. Clement II. Cone was re
elected cashier and Charles II. Dewe,
teller.
AT the annual meeting Of the Secont
Congregational Society held Monda,
evening, the following officers wer
elected, the first five comprising til
board of trustees: Hon. Henry G.. Root
} president; Col. Olin Scott, David Car
penter. vice presidents; Harrison Nor
ton, clerk; Clement II. Cone, treasurer
IF, d. Bennett, auditor; VIM. L. Murphy
collector. This society opens the ney
year out of debt, substantially, and hay
ing paid an indebtedness of about S60(
incurred the year before, presents
record of prosperity that is yer
. gratifying.
ST. JoHNsBURY is the first village I
hold an election under the new ballo
laws of Vermont. Our readers will d
well to take this law and study up ii
: provisions, else they will be in wOrs
plight than our school authorities. TIL
= lesson of a Legislature controlled b
farmers, bent on class legislation, is a
\ expensive as well as vexatious one, BIT
il it shall teach our people that lawyer
and others know fully as much abot
l. law as those who know nothing OF leg
proceedings, the education may be wort
all it has and will continue to cos
Apropos is a paragraph which we cop,
on this subject: There is difficulty
establishing the Australian ballot syste
in Pennsylvania because Of a cOnstit'
u tional provision that votes shall be nun
lbered and the numbers set against Il
names in the check list as cast. Th
was 10 prevent repeating. The ia
shows how the requirements of ball
reform have changed. 1t was, not
very many years ago, against the vot
himself that precautions were taken, b