The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-05-29

l. FARMERS I6pOIb Nlldb VIC pONdbo buF,
has survived the cold winter, and will be
! with us again soon.
r THE annual convention of the Diocese
of Vermont is to be held in Trinity
, church, Rutland, June II and Is.
i In our South SALISBURY items to-day
is an account of the sudden death of a
brother of b. C. Barber of this village.
= GEORGE B. WELLNToN and family
have removed to Bennington Centre, to
remain during the warm weather.-Iroy
Telegram.
AN extra sleeper is to be attached to
night trains over the B. & r. to accom-
modate increased travel between New
York and Montreal.
THE residence and grounds of Ed. L.
Bates have been fixed up to quite no.
ticeable extent. One would say that they
are ready for the celebration.
A PARTY of eleven attended the must
cal festival at Rutland last evening. The
ladies were Mesdames Burt, Keeseman,
Graves, and Misses Hutchins and War
rem.
N. B. SQUIREs of Troy, N. Y, was in
town this week. We wish that he could
be induced to build a summer residence
ON one of several excellent sites now for
sale.
WE are very glad to hear that Mrs.
VIM. Moore is now recovering from al
severe attack of Ia Grippe, which has
confined her to the house for about four
weeks.
THE Central Vermont Railroad Com
pany will sell round trip tickets for half
fare on Memorial Day, over all its lines,
including the Ogdensburgh and Lake
Champlain.
THE Bennington directories are in the
hands of the binder and will be issued in
a few days. We notice that Mr.. Dillon
has nearly completed the canvass for the
new Rutland directory.
THE Vermont Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution is to appear in
the Bennington celebration as distinct
organization. 1t now numbers l75 men, |
bers. -MOrriSuiile Citizen.
The Grand Chapter, o. E. S. of Yer
mont, meets in Brattleboro on Wednes-
day and Thursday of next week. A dele
CATION of three from the local Chapter
will attend, including Maj. Coffey who is
Worthy Patron.
THE later reports from the Rev. Fred
Widmer, who had cancer taken out last
week, are to the effect that he is recover
ing. 1t having been reported that he
could not survive the operation this will
be good news indeed.
THE Rev. Z. Marten takes weeks
outing at this season. visiting the regions
of the Taconic range in Massachusetts,
and returning ria the route over the
Green Mountains. He is expected home
the last of the week.
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convention is to be held in Burlington
the first week in June. Mr.. Moody has
consented to be present again this year,
and will probably speak on Tuesday |
evening and Wednesday morning. Other
prominent speakers have been secured.
WE wish to call the attention of the {
village trustees to the importance of {
well regulated police force to patrol our
town night and day of centennial week.
No doubt, they have the matter in mind.
but the people are also thinking of it
too and have spoken to us about this
subject. Il
THE Troy Press of Tuesday, says: q
"The Fitchburg train leaving this city at {
1850 a. m. had attached to it to-day car
load of Italians bound for the HoOsac G.
tunnel station. They will be employed $
as laborers on the extension of the Hoo
sac Tunnel and Wilmington narrow
guage railroad"
IT is announced that the Central Yer {
mont, Central Hudson and Fitchburg .
railroad companies have deferred the "
assurances of summer time tables until
June Goth. When the change is made
the new fast Montreal express will be
put on, which was announced by the
BANNER some time ago.
HAPPENING into the store of L. H. \
Mcintyre, on Main street, this week, we {
were struck with the great variety of
bargains in novelties and notions, toys fl
and small household articles. 1t is a c
perfect paradise, 50 to speak, for chill II
dren to find things they want and for I
housekeepers as well. Call and see him. d
AMONG the changes in local postolfice c
in the interest of greater C
to the public, we note the fl
extension of time of closing the money ii
order department from six to seven
o'clock, p. IN. Hereafter it will be pos h
sible to procure money orders from the W
time the office opens in the morning UNI is
til seven o'clock in the evening. W
THE Bennington base ball nine play q
the Woolens of Blackinton at base ball
park next Saturday. There will be an "
admission fec of 10 cents to apply to- D
wards the expenses of fitting up the o
park. The home nine defeated the No.
Bennington nine by the score of 10 to 6
Saturday. Ldter.-The game is post a
poned. n
w. d. LANE went to Bennington on g,
the sleeping train last night with 5000 =
plants to decorate several private =
gre un1s there and the grounds of the q
railroad companies. The Ben VI
ningt0n people propose to make their :.
town look as attractive as possible dur %
ing the centennial celebration. -Rutland .
Herald, Tuesday. y
JOHN II. BAHAN is man of his word. "
He promised ten days ago to commence Il
the building of the sidewalk between h
the villages in ten days, and commenced n
it on the tenth day. We now congratu- q
late the community, who are not able q
to keep horses, that they will not be n
obliged to walk in the middle of the
road in going to the monument any
longer.
In another column to-day we print--as
a fitting prelude to Memorial day-an =,
article historical of the Grand Army of "
the Republic. We do this in place of u
our usual review of Memorial Sunday, !,
but are glad to say that day was univer- !.
sally observed throughout the North and =
in many places South. The article re y
ferred to is from the NelCs C Citizen and Z
is signed by the initials "a. A. N" :,
Read it.
AMONG the arrivals from Troy next n
week at Camp Comfort, will be Waldo i,
X. Chase, Henry b. Thomas and others. II
They will spend several days at the I,
camp and at Lake Placid. where the fish a
ing is excellent. During the latter part +
of the week a company from New York, r.
larger than that which went thither a
Wednesday, will visit the place for an e
outing and with the view of returning a
later in the season to pass the summer. a
Troy Times. W
OUR State exchanges announce that Ii
vigorous endorsements of the law prohib- fl
iting the taking of trout less than six a
inches in length is becoming necessary c
to save the streams of our State from be- +,
ing entirely cleaned out of the "speckled D
beauties" Locally we need this enforce
ment as badly as in any part of Vermont. G
WoOOdfoTd streams, in particular, are T
the places where devastation prevails G
and the law is to be inforced there also. ii
THE first issue of The Social Science fl
Library, entitled "Six Centuries of Work n
and Wages" published by the Humboldt fl
Publishing Company of New York, in Il
monthly parts at $3.50 per year, is before o
us. From the initial number before us
we should say that the only thing to do
to sell this new aspirant for public favor
is to let the facts of its existence be
known. Printed in monthly parts, the