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Cmldren's transparent drawing states,
SC.
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Writing tablets, in white or tinted pa
per, each Sc.
Students note books, each Sc.
100 sheets note paper, ruled, for 10c.
Envelopes and paper, per box, 10c.
Sheffield razors, 49c, with fancy han
die, blade of steel with silver mixed;
always sold for 81.
Poker checks, 25c per 100; red, white
and blue assorted.
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Grown edge mort ribbon, all silk,
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regular 25c per yard -. 10c
Satin ribbons, all shades, 10-yard
pieces. ........ ..... Zoc
Tourist ruching, 6-yard pieces re-
duced from 35c. ............. 15c
Household Department.
Remember, what you don't see on the.
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ment. All articles pertaining to house
hold use are kept there at our renowned
proper prices. Our list will convince
that this is the only place to buy these
goods.
Plain dairy pans, each. .......... 315c
Japanned pepper box, large or
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Tack hammers, with tack puller... sc
Novel can openers, each. ......... sc
Bone mustard spoons, assorted. 80. sc
Mouse traps, holes, each . sc
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Marking brushes, assorted sizes Sc
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Stew pans, ,retinned, each. ....... 10c
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Silverine butter knives, each. =. 10c
Cnspidors, fancy japanned. ..... 10c
Frying pans, with cold handle 80. 15c
Ostrich feather busters, each 90, 15c
Maple wood chopping bowls, each. 15c
Splint market baskets ........... 15c
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Perforated chair bottoms, with
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Compartment lunch pails, each 26e
Ornamented slop buckets. 49c
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Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-02
PERSONAL.

R. D. List, notary public. Legal papers care
fully drawn. 125 West Second. Telephone 72O.
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was greatly pleased at the highly salts
factory manner in which the event had
been celebrated. st was a delightful
occasion" he said, land 1 am glad for
the people of Bennington that it proved
SO. They have done wonders, and de-
serve great deal of credit"
81 always have a good time when L
come to Vermont" said Atty.-Gen. Mil
ler. "This visit, however, has been the
pleasantest of them ALL"
"The hospitality of the Green Noun
tain homes is unequaled; 1 never saw
anything equal that dining tent said
Gen. Alger. Such multitude of guests
and so well provided for. The assem-
blage of men who for one reason or an
other have become known to the public
has scarcely been equalled on any like
occasion, The best thing that you can
possibly say will not do justice to Ben
nington and its monument, nor to Ver-
mont and its Centennial. Mrs. kiger
was born only two or three miles from
here, and to-day we are to visit the old
homestead now in other hands. She is
hardly fonder of her native hills than
am"
II was thinking as looked at these
mountains" said Gen. A. S. Webb, how
we had treated the Aborigines. We came
to them among these hills and wales, fertile
and well-wooded, and said: 'get out of
of this! The plains and prairies, sage
brushes and cayotes are good enough for
YOU" 1 have travelled all over this
country, and never saw a lovelier land
scape than this, from Mr.. Jennings
piazza looking across the valley to Mt.
Anthony and the monument"
''It was hard for me to get here" said
ex-Gov. Alexander Rice, but it seems
harder to 60 away. Our company here
has been most congenial one, and the
whole affair one to be long remem-
bered.''
Gov. Rice was driven to Hoosac juno
ton in Mr.. jennings carriage to meet
the p. III. train for Boston. Gen. Webb
and son left for Lenox at o'clock. Ex-
Gov. Stewart, Col. and Mrs. Smalley and
Gov. Pages party went north at 2:30.
Gen. and Mrs. Alger and Atty. .-Gen. and
Mrs. Miller and Maj. Sprague left on the
$3.50 train for New York, r AMI Col. and
Mrs. Walker and Judge md~Mrs. Yea
zey went to Rutland at $50. Only Miss
Jennings of New York rem5ins the guest
of Mr. Jennings and she leaves to-mor-
row to join a coaching party at the White
Mountains. IS
Hon. f. ]. Phelps and family and
President John King of the Erie road,
with Mrs. King and Miss King, will re-
main at Gen. McCullough's for a few
days.
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THE CENTENNIAL BANNER.

THE CENTENNIAL BANNER.
We give our readers to-day the prom
ised double number of the CENTENNIAL
BANNER. There were two options, viz:
to come out on time with an imperfect
account, or to delay a couple of days and
print the complete report. Our readers
will bear us out in the decision that the
latter is found to be the most satisfac-
tory. No further apology need be made
for the delay in the issue of the paper.
This number contains, a complete his
tory of the Bennington Battle, ac-
knowledged to be the late Ex-Gov. Halls
latest and best production. 1t also has
in full the speech and poem delivered
August 10th, 177S, at the first anniver-
sary celebration and reprinted for the
first time in modern days.
There will be found complete story
of the exercises Wednesday, with the
speeches in their proper place, and two
or three given in full that were not re-
ported in the daily press, excellent as
was that service. Various notes and
comments will also be found. The
article on vermont as an Independent
State" will be read with interest.
Thanks to our friend w. P. Baxter OF
Chicago, the quotations are taken from
copies of original documents not easily
obtained, and which renders this mono
graph all the more valuable.
The various illustrations will be found
interesting because of the presence OF
these gentlemen. We have already two
applications for copies of the cuts of Mr..
Phelps and Sec'y Proctor, because OF
their recognized excellence.
While we are cognlzant OF some
omissions, yet as a whole, we believe
this issue of the BANNER will go down il
history as the most complete story of the
great celebration of August 10th, 1891.
The BANNER is an eight page paper o.
the size of these pages, is folded ant
trimmed, and mailed to any address fol
S1.50per year in advance. 1t does moi
deal in scandal, is not given to black
mailing or fraud, but will be found t.
be clean family paper, one which tn
children of the household can read with
out fear of impure insinuations and il
its field of local and State news ant
politics it stands without peer, 1t i
in its SD year of continuous publica
ton. Send in your subscriptions.
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the bennington mob" but it was sue
cessful in defending the homes of the
people on the Grants" from the repacity
and greed of the colonial governors of
New York. This "mob' was made up
of the settlers in regard to whom a dis
tinguished lady wrote:
''They are fierce Republicans, refusing
to become tenants to any one and insist
ing on opning lands they should occupy;
whose whole conversation is tainted with
politics-Cromwellian politics; who talk
about slaves to arbitrary power and
whose indifference to the mother coun-
try and whose illiberal opinions and
manners are extremely offensive to all
loyal subjects of the King"
The members of the Bennington mob,
made up of the settlers on ''the Grants" $"
are the same people of whom Burgoyne
later wrote: "The New Hampshire
Grants, in particular, a country unpeo-
pied in the last French and Indian war
now abound in the most active and re-
bellious race of the continent and hangs
like gathering storm on my left"
The period of Vermonts independence
was from June II, 1777 to her admission
to the Union in 1791. Her Declaration
of independence grew out of her land
troubles with New York as told above.
The State was formed from the territory
of ''the Grants" at a series of conven-
tions, the first of which was held at the
home of Oephas Kent in Dorset, in July
1776, at which place and time thirty-one
delegates from ''the Grants" assembled.
The convention adjourned to meet Sep
tember 25th at the same place, when it
was resolved ito take suitable measures,
as soon as may be, to declare the New
Hampshire Grants separate district. -
These delegates again adjourned to meet
at Westminster, Oct. Both, 1776, and
once more to meet at the same place
Jan. Is, 1777. This convention sat three
days and about fifty-six delegates, repre-
senting thirty-six towns were present.
These delegates by resolution declared
"that the district of territory compre-
hending and usually known by the name
and description of the New Hampshire
Grants, of right ought to be, and is here
by declared forever hereafter to be con
sidered as free and independent juris
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limits of the New Hampshire Grants,
and the region was settled principally
by people from the colonies of New
Hampshire, Massachusetts and Con-
necticut. They were a race of sturdy,
aggressive, liberty-loving men who
came to find home in the wild forests
of ''the Grants" much as their Pilgrim
progenitors had come from England to
find homes in the more eastern wilds
nearly two hundred years before.
A great moving principle with these
early settlers was the fixed belief in the
total separation of Church and State. They
were practically Separatists who would
not tolerate the laws of Massachusetts,
and other colonies which forced GER
tain religious beliefs and practices upon
an entire community. One of their first
acts in their new homes was to write
upon their church records their un-
qualified belief in proper religious liber-
ty, and to repudiate the doctrine Of
state interference in matters pertaining
to the church, and when on the third of
December in 1852 they organized "The
First Church of Christ in Bennington" !"
the first church organized in "the
Grants" it was voted to exclude from
their platform" everything that re-
cognized the right to use the civil law to
support the gospel.
These settlers were farmers, aggressive
and self-reliant, not scholarly as scholar
ship is counted by the schools, but hav-
ing that large degree of practical know
ledge in civil affairs which schools and
books do not furnish. They had the
Bible and they were a people mighty
in their scriptural faith, nd their belief
in religious liberty allowed them to dis
cuss and weigh its metaphysical bear
ings with skill and freedom that made
them trained debaters, and prepared
them for the skillful exercise of their
talents in the little town democraeies
which some one has called the training
schools of popular self-government.
The early settlers on "the Grants" NOW
vermonb, were indeed well suited to
the turbulent times in which they lived
and to the struggle chat lay before them
first in behalf of their own rights against
the claims of New York and later in de-
fense Of colonial rights against the
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England has SO long controlled the
carrying trade of the world, she has
come to believe that it rightfully be-
longs to her. To the Mckinley bill she
attributes the falling off in her exports,
and believes that the future showing will
be even worse; and that her manufac-
turers have seen the end of good times"
While we may in some degree sympa-
thize with our transatlantic friends, we
cannot shed any tears, and naturally are
inclined to feel just bit elated. The
Mail and Express well says: 'The truth
is, we have at last awakened to the fact
that we must take a leading hand in
trade, and enter into the field as carriers
and exporters, and our goods, our ships,
as we'll as our enterprise, be made ap-
parant to the word at large, even if it
does not hurt Johnny Bulls prospects" :"
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claims Of the English King. 1t is
safe to say that no people managed the
affairs of peace or war more wisely or
more courageously than they; that none
were ever more patriotic, self-sacrificing
and earnest in their defense Of a COM
mon cause and that none ever showed
keener political sagacity than the men
who not only maintained their rights on
''the Grants" but eventually made
their settlements a sovereign state
and maintained its independence
against the world for period of four
teen years, and exchanged that position
only when they could secure another
more desirable, e,-admissiOn to the
Union.
Vermont came to be an independent
State by reason of the so-called rebellion
of the settlers on the New Hampshire
Grants. 1t came about in this way:
The territorial limits Of the State of
Vermont were within the jurisdiction of
New Hampshire. Under titles gained
from New Hampshire, the people OBJ
tained and held their lands and made
their homes. The colony Of New York
to the west was separated from these
"Grants" by line running from the
northwest corner of Connecticut to the
head of Lake Champlain.
Without notice to the settlers this
boundary line was moved eastward by
the English King in July. 1884, to the
west bank of the Connecticut river, thus
bringing all the people on the New
Hampshire Grants into the colony OF
New York. This might have prevailed
had not these hardy settlers been in
formed by New York that they must
now acquire new titles 10 their prop.
erty and pay that province for them.
Surveyors were sent on to lay out the
lands anew and officers of the law came
from Albany to dispossess the hardy
mountaineers of their homes. 1t was
then that the people on "the Grants
decided upon rebellion and the applica
ton of the principle that resistance tc
tyrants is obedience to God. The re
sistance began in Bennington whel
Sheriff Ten Eyck and several hundred
men came to seize the farm of Jame
Breckenridge in July I'LL. Bennington
in town meeting had voted to protec
that farm and the sheriff's posse founC
the settlers of "the Grants" with Ethai
Allen at their head, massed on the bank
of the Walloomsac ready to teach then
that "The gods of the valleys, are no
the gods of the hills" This wa
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FAREWELL TO BENNINGTON.

The Boston Herald of the 20tn, sums
up the closing hours in these words:
The rush of the Centennial travel has re-
ceded, and left its dust and its dollars in
Bennington. The troops break camp to-
morrow morning, and then this historic
town will return to its quiet ways.
Some idea of the direction travel took
to-day can be obtained from the fact that
train which brought down eight car
loads of people to North Bennington
junction returned with but single pas
senger, and once it went back with every
car empty. Nearly all trains were de-
layed more or less by the great pressure.
The rush to get out was as great as il
had been to get in.
Hon. E. J. Phelps, orator of the day
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VERMONT An INDEPENDENT
STATE.

1t is fact not generally remembered
that Vermont, unlike any other New
England State, was once an independent
commonwealth. The original thirteen
colonies never had separate independ-
ent existence. In most cases each
was founded as q dependency of sOme
European power and held that relation
until the colonies unitedly declared
themselves free and independent, in
ITS, and proceeded as one body to
throw off the dominion Of Great Brit
ain. Texas was acquired by conquest
and purchase. The other states,
excepting Vermont, have been formed
from territories and Immediately ad-
mitted to the Union by Act of Congress.
Such additions to the union of states,
with the exceptions names, have al
ways come from the national territory.
None of them ever claimed a free and
| independent existence. Vermont in
that respect stands practically alone.
For period of fourteen years she was
held by her citizens to be as free and in
dependent from other governmental
connection as any monarchy of the old
world. She was not dependency of
Great Britain. She was in no political
way bound to her sister states, but was
during the period named, to all intents
and purposes an independent country.
The territorial limits of "The indie.
pendent State of Vermont" (substanti-
ally those of the present State,) were the
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diction or State, by the name of New
Connecticut
This was reported on the third day of
the convention in Declaration of Inde-
pendence, formulated by committee,
consisting of Nathan Clark, Ebenezer
Hoizington, Captain John Burnham,
Jacob Burton and Colonel Thomas Chit
tenden. 1t was at once adopted. This
declaration of New Connecticut was pub
lished to the world in the Connecticut
COurrdnt newspaper March 10th, 1777.
The representatives of the freemen of
this new district next met at Windsor in
the following June when the name of
''New Connecticut was changed to Yer
mont. On the second of July, 1777 these
representatives again met to form Con-
stitution for the State of Vermont.
These meetings were held in the old
Constitution House (still standing) a pic
ture of which we give in connection with
this article.
This constitution opens with a pream-
BILE setting forth in no uncertain terms
the reasons for the making of "a free
and independent State" The conven-
ton was considering the adoption Of
this constitution when terrified horse
man rode up and announced the invasion
of Burgoyne with an army of Hessians
and savages. This news spread conster
nation among the members and they
were for going home at once, but fortu
nately they were delayed by a violent
thunder storm during and amid the fire
and artillery of which the constitution
was adopted.
Thus it was that Vermont became al
independent State. Patrick Henry
praised her and her Spartan mountain
eers for their persistent courage in de
Tending rights that in other colonies haC
been surrendered to English greed with
out blow. In the light of her story i
is easy to read the illustrious and roman
tic character of her people. Through
out her history they have been sturdy
independent and honest, quick to defenC
their rights and to demand justice fol
themselves and as quick to accord jus
tice to others. Seldom uncertain in
choosing between absolute right and ex
pedient wrong, Vermont has Away
stood at the head of the column in tn
great controversies vital to the cause o
humanity and the safety of the Union
Thus when slavery, if not existent, wa
at least protected in almost every state
Vermont through one of her judges salt
that bill of sale transferring a negro, Il
be valid, must be in hand writing ant
under the seal of the Almighty, anc
when the thunder of cannon shook tht
Carolinas in '61, the spirits of WaTne
and Allen and their brave followers il
the struggles on ''the Grants SCENE,
stalking abroad to rouse again the hard.
yeomanry of the Green Mountains +
service for their country, and the answe
came in victory shout from hundre
southern fields. AS her mountain ham
lets have been in the past, so they will
be in the future, nurseries of freedom a
enduring as her beauty and her ever
lasting hills
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PENNINGTON co. SAVINGS BANK,

FTNhe Bennington County Savings Bank at the
i Bennington County National Bank, is open
daily for the transaction of business from 10 O'Clock
q. m. to 4 o'clock p. m, Sundays and Holidays ex-
cepted.
interest to depositors strictly in accordance with
he laws of the State of Vermont. Money de-
posted anytime after the first day of each month
draws interest from the first day of the next sue
ceeding month. Interest computed January
LIST and July lst, and if not withdrawn will be added
to principal, and interest thereafter will accrue
Loans solicited upon real estate and undoubted
personal securities.
A. B. VALENTINE, President,
W E.HAWKS, Vice President,
J.T. SHURTLEFF, Treasurer,
G. W. qARMAN, Secretary,
TRUsTEEs-A B. Valentine, VIM. E: Hawks
u. W. Harman, Olin Scott, j. I. Shurtleff,
Gibson, j. r. Judson.
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BENNINGTON.

Thy very name. like bugle call,
Comes pealing adown the years;
At Its sound once more the heroic dead,
Are seen midst the flashing Of spears.
In letters Of gold that glisten
'MOngst the brightest of the world,
Thy name is forever written
On History's scroll unfurled
And whoever hears 1t uttered,
Must with gratitude be thrilled.
For the brave deeds here enacted,
And the noble blood here spilled.
Thy soil is sacred soil to all,
Who loved their nations gloryj
Thy scenes are hallowed by the deeds,
That make thee famed In story.
Thy rugged mountains, lordly crests,
Thy lovely, winding river
Recall the blood-shed of that day,
Which laurelled thee forever.
Whoever loves this nation grand,
Must love the name Of Bennington;
And with emotion views the sands,
Where Victory was nobly wonl
Must o'er this soil with reverence tread,
Thro' all the passing years;
For TO him with martyrs blood tits red,
And wet with woman's tears.
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The Police and their Work.

Bennington was well policed during
centennial, which accounts for the good
order which prevailed generally, and
which was quite remarkable considering
the large crowd in town. Sheriff Robin
son had 80 specials on duty, while Chief
of-Police Nash had 200 specials: besides
these, there were 13 uniformed police
from Troy under Sergeant Lane. De
tectives Butler of New York, Kavanaugh
of Rochester, Knox of Boston, Ford and
Forrest of Troy, and Sheriffs Conway
and McGrath of Hoosick Falls. There
were some 40 arrests. On Wednesday
one arrest was made at the depot, three
at the monument and five at North Ben
nington. Four were arrested on Sunday,
one of them running from the arch and
resisting arrest at Hill and McGee's barn.
Several faro and bunco layouts were
captured. The haul OF pickpockets has
been noted elsewhere. Members of the
centennial committee were also appoint
ed as special police, and wore badges so
designating them.
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DIR. B. G. JENNEY, Dentist.

SUCCESSOR TO DR.. ]. N. sCRANToN:l
- Is prepared to perform all operations IN Dent
Strv In a thorough and yorkmanlike manner. Per-
ect satisfaction guaranteed in all cases submitted
O his care, and at reasonable prices. Gas or
Ether administered or extracting teeth when re-
luired. Office opposite Congregational Church
Main ST., Bennington.
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cutting prices all Light Weight Goods and lively
times prevail the old stand of COLE BURT The Fall and
arriving The Summer Goods 60
them Mr. has been accommodating Boston
clothing centres studying the situation fully
prepared the high prices through the Fall and
Winter campaign Each fame for buying and selling
prices Increases and with trade by
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WILLIAM E. MASON, LAWRENCE N. ENNIS
ROBT. P. BATES.
Y Aw OFFICES OF

II
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Investments specially. Loans Of any amount
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For Sale.

Two rare Grandfather Clocks, made in Eng
land and Scotland. Brass works and decorations
Address L." 1852 N. Prospect Street. Burling-
ton, VT. oOtz.
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q. CUTLER, Dentist.
A


Al operations performed in the most thorough
and careful manner, and at reasonable prices,--.
Ny aim will be give entire satisfaction to all
cases submittedto my care.
Gas and Ether administered for extracting
teeth without vain, when desired.
Office Opposite Free Library Hall, Bennington,
37tf Vermont.