The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-11-13

MRS. a. A. NORTON mas RETURNED IfOm
her visit to North Adams, Mass.
Col. E. D. BENNETT is able this week
to be down to his Office, but is still con-
fined to the use of crutches.
A CoMMANDERY of the military order
of the Loyal Legion will be organized at
Burlington on the 18th, inst Fare one
way will be granted by all railroads in
the State.
THE youngest child of the late Benson
Thrasher died on Monday of lung fever.
The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon.
This, coming so soon after the death of
the father, is sad affliction indeed.
A SACRAMENTO despatch of the 18th,
ult, to San Francisco paper just re-
ceived says that Giles Kellogg of San
Deigo was elected president of the State
Convention of the Y. NJ. c. A. that re-
Gently met in that city.
JOHN E. REDMOND late NJ. P. for We1-
ford, Ireland, who has just ran for men,
Der of the British House of Commons
for Cork as a Parnellite candidate and
was defeated, is an own cousin of the
father of our Chief of Police, John
Nash.
WE commend to our readers the care
full perusal of an article to-day from the
". E. Journal Of Education, pertaining
to temperance in reading. If parents
would notice what some of their chill
dren are reading we are sure a surprise
would ensue in some cases at least. The
caution is timely.
THE regular convocation of Temple
Chapter, No. s, r. A. NJ, will be held in
Masonic hall next Monday evening at the
usual hour. The occasion will be
marked by the visit of the District
Deputy, E. G. futile, who has been
making the rounds of this district. He
reports the subordinates in fairly pros
porous condition and these visits will
have tendency to awaken renewed in
terest.
THE Kindergarten work of our Graded
schools, exhibited at the State Teachers
Association in Montpelier last week, was
the specimens from the four primary
rooms taught by Misses Whitney, Wal
bridge Norton and White. The compli-
ments bestowed on this exhibit showed
that our schools are certainly in the
foreground as regards the educational
work of Vermont. There is nothing to
compare with it in any school in the
State.
QUITE number of articles prepared
for our last issue were unavoidably
crowded out and will be found on the in
side of the BANNER to-day. We have
lately enlarged this paper, as our readers
know, but each week there seems to be
surplus of interesting news that must
await its turn for publication, so that
this hint for the benefit of our CORE
spondents should be noted by them. To
ensure the publication of your favors
send them in early in the week.
THIS evening the Odd Fellows are to
receive and entertain the Degree Staff of
the Lodge in Middleboro, Mass. This is
visit that has been contemplated for
several months and will be red-letter
occasion. The visitors will exemplify
the First Degree and Stark Lodge is to
show them it's method of Initiation,
which was adopted by the Vermont
Grand in 1888, and which differs from
that of other States. A banquet at mid
night will close the festivities. The
visitors will be entertained at the Put
nam house.
THE article in another column on the
stocking of the Battenkill with salmon
is supplemented in the news columns of
our exchanges by the item that these
fish are to be placed in the head waters
of Lake Champlain also. Gen. w. Y. w.
Ripley of Rutland, has made a survey of
the rivers of the State tributary to Lake
Champlain to select proper localities for
stocking with this species. 1t is the de-
sire of the commission to hold the sal
mon in the streams until maturity, when
they could 60 down to the lake to spawn,
and need not return to the rivers. In
the selection of rearing waters therefore
this element was not considered import
ant, and the range of choice was wider.
The following distribution, suggested by
Gen. Ripley, will be made: Winooski, at
Waterbury, 5000; Browns river, for tn
Lamoille, 5000; Indian brook, 1000; NAL
ett's creek, 1000; Sunderland Hollow
brook, 1000; Lewis creek, 5000; total,
10000. The young fish will be placed in
waters as far removed as possible from
the lake, in order to avoid the pickerel
and other predatory fish which abound
in the lower portions of all the rivers.
SPEAKING of the proposal of the Re-
publican State Committee as to clubbing
rates with city weeklies, noted by us last
week, the Middlebury Register makes
some comments so pertinent to the
whole system that we copy it here :
THAT is to say, the Republican papers
are asked to pay 25 cents on each sub
scription they have, or get paid for, for
privilege of advertising the 'combina-
ton Why doesn't the committee ask
the Republican merchants of Burlington,
for instance, to deduct 30 or 40 per cent.
from the selling price of their goods in
order that their customers may have
money left with which to buy goods of
the Republican merchants of Boston or