The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-03-19

H. A DROP of two cents a pound in &
~ price of sugar is promised for the fiji
day of April.
y IT is stated that the tracks of maj
wolves have been seen in northern We
IS mont this winter.
u ELI TIFFANY, accompanied by h
wife and son Willie, have gone to jana
IN ca, to be absent several weeks
IL THE Bennington Machine works ha,
received several large orders of late, fro
I'd Kentucky, Illinois and other places.
70 THE Rev. VIM. B. Walker, in additiO
to his multiplied Lenten service
W preached at Manchester Tuesday ever
re ing.
IL HARRY WILLoUGHBY is out with
W circular 10 the citizens of Benningto
a. and vicinity. 1t will pay our readers t
y call and see-him.
D. ED. S. SPEAR, a veteran, has the agenc
for the life of Gen. Sherman, publishe
1t by the Monroe Publishing company. /
N is illustrated and Mr.. Spear will canvas
:, the town for this work.
THE st. Patrick's Day entertainment
\ of the F. NJ. I. A. B. society netted abou
$500. This generous fund will be de
: voted to the completion of the new
church edifce.
DR.. WEBB has received an installmen
of English pheasants with which he in
tends to stock his premises at Shelburne
on Lake Champlain, it is said. How will
, they stand the climate of the Champlain
ValleyP
THE Rev. Mr.. COnOver, retired Bap-
fist minister, occupied the pulpit of the
Second Congregational church last Sun
day, in the absence of the pastor in
Ohio, the Rev. Charles r. Seymour.
NEXT week is Holy Week of the Chris
tian Year and will be observed in st.
Peters Church with daily services and
an observance of the Hours" on Good
Friday.
Those interC s.ed in the "AIite fund" of
the Methodist church are requested to
meet at the church parlors tomorrow
evening at 7 o'clock. The reports from
this project will probably be very en-
couraging.
THE new judge of Probate, Hon. AL
fred Robinson, is highly spoken of by
those who have business before the
court. 1t appears to be pleasure to
transact business with Judge Robinson.
We predicted as much when he was
elected.
WE are glad to hear of the improve
ment of DR.. II. J. Potter. As we went
to press last week he was very sick |
man, but his system has rallied, under
treatment, and he willconvalesce rapidly |
it is hoped.
THE Christian Endeavor societies of |
the First Baptist and Methodist churches |
OF this village, entertained the delegates
yesterday to the county convention of
that association, in royal manner. Tea
was served to several hundred in the
Methodist parlors last evening.
The Troy Press of Saturday editori-
ally says: MATTERS are little bit dull
up in Vermont, and so our versatile con
temporary, the Bennington BANNER,
makes few remarks on Liars The
subject is live one. Any way. the liar
is alive. And barely, too, when the
BANNER gets through with him."
WHILE our readers will note that the
terms with the BANNER and
city weeklies have closed. we still club
with the New York Daily Press at 81
extra, or both papers for $780, This is
an unparalleled opportunity to get
daily at a popular price, that is cheap
enough in rates for the pockets of every
one.
WE noted short time ago the enter {
prise of Squire d Rawson in THE Battle
Spoon which is advertised ;
in another column. These spoons make an
admirable souvenir of Bennington, and
there will arise great demand for them 9
rom Vemonters in the West. Sent by
nail.
THERE are rumOrs in the air that the I
New York Central and the Canadian
are both after the d. & II.
ystem Of railroads in Eastern and North
IN New York. The lease by the Central
II the Rome, Watertown and Ogdens-
,urgh railroad this week, gives color to
he reports. 1t will be great combina-
ion If either get the control and must
fleet Vermont considerably in the end.
Col. VEAZEY has appointed April 9th,
S the occasion when the G.. A. II. is to n
Celebrate the 2lth anniversary of that \
rganization. Custer Post has already II
AIKEN measures to hold camp fire on c
hat occasion. This Post has always a
oted the anniversary of Lees surrend II G
nd we are glad to know that the whole q
rider Will observe the day. 1t is quite I,
tting that the close of the Confederacy ri
hould be taken as an anniversary to
Celebrate the quartercentennial -
School district officers and Others in
crested should bear in mind that under
he new school law the annual meetings r
the districts come on the last Tuesday
1 March, the 3lst day this year. State
uperintendent Palmer has issued cir
ular in which he says that it is neces
airy that the school census be taken
his year during the last two weeks of
larch and that all the questions in the
ack part of the school registers relating D.,
} the census must be answered in order
} entitle districts to their share of the
ublic money. Children of school age
re, for the purposes of this census,
nose over five and I'm Ter 10 years of
&c.
THE Monument Association meeting
last week decided to refer the matter
stairs to the directors and building
after they should have seen
he models constructed by Col! Scott.
N Monday the two models were fin Il
he'd: the stairs called for by the con- W
act and those proposed as a modifca- I'll
on. There is hardly two opinions r
bout the matter Nearly everybody w
refers the longer stairs as suggested by W
oil. Scott. The only question is the h,
1pense. The monument was built with
he common stairs in view and the land M
gs were left inside the monument to m
'rrespond accordingly. If we put in "a
le longer flights of stairs it involves ia
ortising into the solid walls other th
nding places than those already pro- We
died. What those will cost, or what vi
i'll be the extra expense of the longer IN
ght of stairs is not yet known. The in
rectors decided, after the meeting of In
uesday, to direct the building commit No
e to investigate the expense involved,
I'd to see if it is possible to build the In
niger flight and keep within the means at
the association. Should the longer m
I'd easier fight of stairs suggested by di
81. Scott be found too expensive it is va
,obable that the plans for stairs will be tn
idened for broader flights. As we on
lderstand it, the matter of expense is th
be carefully looked into and the ques- dc
on of means to pay and ability to com eli
etc by August will decide the matter. w;
we have the means the longer flights or
stairs will 60 in; if not, then. the of
ones, with a place left for an lie,
evator A good many of our people ne
I'VE visited these models. OF the com
omise plan of Col. ScOtt's it Is to be 81,
id, it is an adaptation of the pension az at'
lice stairs of which "Webb" of the at,
1ston Journal lately said: 1.-The stair fio
SEES are of brick so wide and so shallow an
at even the one-legged and o.legged th
ldiers, who traverse their extent, can wi
cunt and descend as easily as their th
ethren who 60 on two feet" ON
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