The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-04-23

= lively earlier than last
ng Ii is always a good time to snbscri
It. for good home newspaper.
err THE sugar season is over. Ii has be-
to more thln ordinarily successful.
W. d. NEWTON is the owner of
ne promising colt three weeks old, sir
e. by Patchen.
CHAUNCEY GOULD and wife will o
" oupy the north part of Frank Crawford
n, house on Silver street.
y Miss KATE ROCKwooD is teaching
the North Bennington Graded school
s. the place of Miss f. L. Walbri6ge.
ID Mr.. BARNEY and family, lately ,
n Swanton, this State, have moved to Bel
nington and will live on Union stree
d Mr.. Barney is brother-in-law of OF
IT townsman, c. L. Hudson.
Is THERE is a proposal on foot for a
, electric fire alarm service in our village
By all means let us have it. TelephOn
d competition and all these good thing
IS are in the air, and we hope will mater
g ialize soon.
# SINCE our notices of the Canton parad
S in Rutland Monday afternoon next, wer
in type we learn that the parade advel
S tised for O'Clock takes place at >, or Of
= the arrival of the afternoon train iron
V Bennington.
Y Miss BRIGHAM was thrown from he
Q carriage while riding to the depot OF
Tuesday. The wheels struck = post an'
r for moment the danger was imminent
/ Miss Brigham took the cars and con
, tinued her journey.
THE Bennington rifles began their out
, 1Anr Hrillc hxv n YornAn on Monday
paratOry to the June drill, and August
muster and celebration. Capt. Fillmore
and officers are determined to be in read
mess for Bennington's great event.
HENRY SILVER has commenced his
house to be erected on Bradford street.
: In this connection we remark the large
number of residences begun or planned
for this year-probably a greater num-
Der than in any season for more than
thirty years.
Mrs. MARY PARTRIDGE, M. D., has
been very i'll for a week, and her condi-
tions at time very dangerous, but at
present writing is somewhat better.
DIR. John Potter is in attendance with
DIR. Wyman of Manchester Centre as
counsel.
ST. MARY's GUILD of st. Peters
Church, held social at parish hall last
Thursday evening. The supper was the
regular fortnightly affair. There was a
large attendance and the president, Mrs.
H. W. Martin entertained. The company
were highly pleased with select readings
| by Prof. Bradford and members of
the Guild gave vocal and instrumental
selections.
WE find this item in an exchange;
County Delegate James A. Burke of
the Ancient Order of Hiberians, Troy,
N. Y, State Delegate James A. O'Reilly
of Syracuse, NJ. j. Slattery, national
delegate, of Albany, and Vice President
Mark Nc Gowan of the Hoosick Falls
branch will visit Bennington Saturday
to institute a new division of Hibernians.
This will be the first division of the order
in Vermont"
"SPRNG, with that nanpless pathos in the air,
Which dwells with II things fHif;
Spring. with her golden suns aud silver rains,
Is with us once again
The ladies' of the Baptist Church will
give Spring Tea at the chapel We'd
nesday. April 10Th, at which time the
guests will be served with a bOunteous
repast garnished by the first green of
spring, which makes our hearts so glad.
L bd StINtu lIOill V 10 y u ClOCh,
TRAMPs have to break stone for the
roads in Newcastle, Del. This would be
better plan of labor for State prisons
than to have the inmates underworld
honest labor in shirts and collars, shoes,
stoves and other trades. After little
each one of these prisoners diSplaCCs an
honest mechanic. Set the criminals to
making roads, and employ idle laborers
as guards to see that they perform their
task.
An EAST side exchange says: "The
New Hampshire Legislature Just closed
has followed the example set by Yer
mont in number of its new laws such
as the Australian system of voting; es-
tablishing n cattle commission: and
placing benefit societies under reasonable
restraint, It's laws also show regard
for the fish and game of the State.
The State also appropriated 81, 800 for
the purpose of participating in the Ben
nington celebration.
J. II. LoRING & COMPANY are the pos
SCISSORS of tally-hO coach of the Rocky
Mountain stage pattern. 1t has been
newly painted, and yesterday the senior
of the firm and veteran driver of four
finland himself (Mr. Loring), gave his
family and friends drive about town.
The coach was drawn by four magnit-
Gently matched blacks. The Establish
ment'' attracted considerable attention.
This would become a popular conveyance
for outing parties.
THE editor of the Reformer apologies
for any shortcomings in his last issue. on
the ground that he is in the clutches of
Ia Grippe. The paper did not seem nat
ural. We failed to find in it any abuse
of reputable citizens. or any intimation
of dishOnorable dealings among promi-
nent men. There was no fresh attack
on the Graded School, and none of our
teachers were accused of lying, stealing,
or perjury. In short, the RefOrmer of
last week was thoroughly respectable,
and fit to lie on table in the presence
of the family. La Grippe, the dreaded
disease, is not an unmitigated evil.
THE Granville, Y. Y, Sentinel comes
to us in an entire new dress. Our wide
awake and newsy neighbor has the field
again to itself the Republican having be-
come defunct. We congratulate our
friend the editor on the prosperity of the
Sentinel, and will add that we have had
for some time memorandum on the
hook to write for it few "reminiscences
of Moses Strongs Granville Messenger,
the local paper of our boyhood days.
Whether we shall ever reach it depends,
as the saying goes, on the circumstances
attending busy life.
THE State Superintendent of Educa-
ton is right after class of people who
live in almostever community. He has
issued circular from which we take an
extract below. 1t is directed to the
town superintendent but should have
the wide circulation the press can give it.
We are glad Ito commend our State
officials, generally, on the prompt man
ner the laws of the State are being en-
forced. Supt. Palmer says: "Truant
Laws:-There are two classes of truants.
Those of one class do not attend any
school, while those of the other do not
attend school tlpenty Ueeks in yedr, as
required by Sec. 1853, of the School Law
of 1898. Last year there were 1900
children in the State between and II
the age of compulsory attendance-wh0
did not attend any school. There were
6j,6OS pupils enrolled in the public
schools, but the average daily attendance
was only -, 1897. In other words, the law
provides, and the people pay for, 100
days of schooling, while the number of
days attendance for each scholar en-
rolled was only 93.5 days. Here is an
absolute loss Of nearly One-third Of what
is paid out for education, or more than
$220,0O0 annually. The statistics show
that this enormous waste has been going
on in the State more than forty years.
Superintendent J. S. Adams, in his
school report for 1863, on page W, says:
Our schools, as the statistics show, cost
us nearly 800, 00O.a and thus it is apparent
that the absence of 43 per cent. OF the
childred of the State from the schools,