The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-03-05
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Miss NJ. A. TAYLOR has been i'll will
Ia Grippe but is better now.
Mrs. LIB. HURD of Springfield, is visit
ing her daughter Miss Ora Hurd OF this
village. She returns home the last OF
the week.
THE Rev. VIM. j. Chapman was able
to preach at both services last Sunday
land continues to gain in health, which
will be good news to his many friends.
Miss BUGBEE of the High school, has
returned from her home, whittier she
was called some three weeks ago on ac-
count of the severe illness of her father.
DIR. II. C. DAY opened the Australian
ballotting Tuesday, depositing the first
ballot cast He may be said to have been
the first candidate initiated in Benning-
ton.
SEVERAL. of the leading members of
the Philharmonic Club, both resident
and nonresident, are expected to sing in
st. Peters Chuch, next Sunday after
noon.
THE librarian of Free Library asks us
to notice the fact that all books must be
returned next Monday, owing to the an
nual meeting to be held this month.
THERE is an old saying that IAN early
Easter brings an early spring" Easter
this year falls on the 20tb of March, and
for the last thirty years it has only. oc-
CURED eight times earlier than April.
E. H. WoRTHNGToN, one of our enter
prising clothiers, has had word to say
in our columns for week or two. He
is making a run on several articles and
it will pay our people to call and see him.
These goods are not shOddy, but staple
and all right.
DURING the coolest weather of this
winter, an enticing report from North
Dakota averred that men wear straw
hats and linen busters there now. The
Tribune copied it and said: $50 they do
in other places where they are so unfor-
tunate as to have nothing else to wear"
THE announcement is made that on
the first of April sugar will fall in price |
from two to two and One-half cents per |
pound, or from so to 40 per cent. Con-
sumers will be glad to hear of this and |
twice glad to see it. Meanwhile, be it
that All-FOOls-Day falls on
that date.
G. B. SBLEY's space in another place
in the BANNER is looked forward to with
interest by many of our readers. There
is something new noted each week, and
our citizens, withal, like to deal with
this old and reliable house. 1t is the
Free Library clothing store to which we
now refer.
CHARLES DAVIS, builder, has secured
4 position in Hew Haven, Conn, for a
lime. Mrs. Davis went there with HIM
but was obliged to return last week as
he sea-air was too much of change for
ler. Mr.. Davis has gone to New Haven
lgain leaving his wife here.
THE F. NJ. T. A. B. Society are to give
Grand vocal and instrumental concert
IN St. Patrick's night, the 18th, inst.
rhe Citizens Band and GOldsmith's Or
,hestra furnish the music. The enter
will take place in the nave of ,
he new church building on West Main
treet. l
In another place to-day we print the
of The Mail and Express, the
eading evening paper of New York city.
We have noticed during several years of {
clubbing with the Weekly Express with
he BANNER, that those who subscribe |
or these papers. take the Express year q
ftcr year as well as the BANNER. This '
S the best evidence we can give of the i
Excellence of our metropolitan contem-
oary.
THE seat tickets for the Mary Howe 9
Oncert at Rutland next week have all \
zen sold. 1t is given for the benefit of \
he Y. NJ. C. A., and must be a grand n
ucCess. This town takes sixty seats, I
ivided between this village and North
the railroad making rate
1 half-fare, and another rate of fare in ;
luding admission. The concert is to
c given next Tuesday, the 10th.
ACTING upon the BANNER's (exclusive) y
the flags in town were :
isplayed yesterday,in honor of the Tooth
of the admittance of Yer
1ont into the Union, March 4th, 1871. t
iuns were also fired All honor to the S
atriotism which was thus signally dis c
layed, and which is an augury of the j
and Bennington will take in the cele- n
ration of this event next August. il
THE canvass for the Bennington Direc- C
DRY proceeds vigorously and will close n
A three weeks, and will include North a
Bennington and Bennington Centre. All =
for the directory may u
e addressed to the publishers, r. S. a
)illon & Co. Last Sundays Albany I
Press assured us that Dillon & Co. have
zen in good mercantile standing for q n
ears and that a strictly first class work a
nay be expected in Bennington Any q
communications concerning this work n
nay be left at this office. a
THE appropriation pending in Con- Il
ress fixed at $4,000, and which had f
zen cut down to $4,000 passed Monday. a
While this is $4,000 less than we had rea- II
on to expect yet it is good as far as it a
oes. Our delegation in Congress have u
one as well as they could in this matter. /
he dispatches state that the apprOpTia- \
ion bill, in which this was included, was 7
ut down 81 .301, 7l9. 1t was fortunate
hat our S14,00 was among the items re- {
aimed, in aid of the Bennington Battle
lonument. I
THE Wylie & Myers mill has been sold {
o a stock company which succeeds to G
he property and goodwill of the con- a
ern. The new company is composed of T
ohn Wylie, president; Edward j. Hall,
,ice-president; Harrison |. Norton, sec
etary and treasurer; and James T. \
[itchell of New York city. This corpOr- {
tion begins business under most favor
BILE circumstances, having large orders =
head, and will soon be running on full /
ime. The change went into effect '
larch LIST. n
A "PEoPLE's caucus twas held Tues /
Law evening, A. j. Dewey was elected \
hartman. and j, II. Livingston, clerk. i
The following ticket was nominated for
illage meeting the 18th: DIR. Z. B. S
Daley, president; John ii. Kelso, clerk; !
leo. f. Graves, treasurer; j. Is. Meach- c
m, collector; Charles II. Mason, Dr. II. '
:. Day, John p. Guiltinan, auditors. a
rhe various ward caucuses have been a
allied. Several meet tonight, and then, Q
1t least, the 4th, 9TH and 9th wards meet
o-morrow evening, to nominate candi-
lates for trustees.
In another column are few facts con-
,erning the Phoenix Mutual Life Insur- {
nee Company. The statements given [
ire well worth glancing at, for they pre- ,
ent the record of remarkable advance q,
md growth, simply showing that the !
policies Of the old Phoenix are in active
lemand and have become household ne s
,essities as furnishing honest protection
md a large investment. The company
las a new plan which is a decided novel
". for its cost is very low, and it fur
fishes, besides life insurance protection,
, remarkable investment actually much
better than the investments of the mar :
xet.
THE Sons of Vermont have not yet
finished celebrating in honor of their
Mother State. This annual festival be-
comes ironical when the real condition
NJ the State is considered. Every
mothers son" of them having gone out
and left this commonwealth "to 90 to
fba dogsii for all that these 'tsOnsn assist