The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-26
BENNINGTON BANNER.
BENNINGTON:
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1892.
town meeting occurs next

NEXT Wednesday, March 2d), will
he Ash Wednesday, the first day of
Lent.
Miss LIBBIE SIBLEY of Albany, N. Y,
is Wishing with her sister, Miss Blanche
Sibley.
O. II. SBLEY has been laid up for a
week with a sprained ankle. He is able
to be out.
THE Council R. & A. NJ. announced
for Feb. Goth, will be held on Monday,
March 18th, at 7.90 p. m.
THE infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
II. Dewey who has been quite i'll this
week is greatly improved.
THE o. E. S., postponed it's convoca-
ton of Wednesday, because of death in
the family of the Worthy Matron.
CAPT. FILLMORE and officers of the
bennington Rifles attended the Officers
School of instruction at Bradford this
week.
WE are glad to hear of the improve
ment and convalescence in DR.. CHS
holm's case He has been very i'll and
suffered protracted sickness.
ARCHITECT VIM. G. BULL has tho
plans completed for five dwellings to be
built in this village the coming summer.
They will vary in cost from $500 to
5000.
THE Lenten services at st. Peters
church will be Tuesdays and Thursdays,
d. p. M, Wednesdays and Fridays,
10 a. M, and 7.3O p. IN. Lectures or
sermons at evening services.
THE town reports were issued from
the BANNER job rooms Monday, and the
49, lo,. Sc, sNF
the'tOwn finances, as we predicted last
week The town of Arlington's report
was also printed at this Office.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOHN FLAGLER of
brooklyn, who have been in town few
weeks, returned to their home via Me-
chanicville, N. Y, Thursday morning
last. Mr.. Flagler has quite recovered
from his recent severe illness.
JAS. S. LINDLEY has just had placed
in his planning mill boiler and engine
so as to run his works by steam when
the water is low in the summer. He
has also just finished a brick smoke
stack oyer one hundred feet high.
COMMANDER MURPHY of 9th Corps
Post, No. 112, G. A. R., was appointed
memorial committee to confer with G..
A. Custer Post, No. AZ, to make joint ar
rangements for the observance of next
Memorial Day in Bennington, May Both.
THE village meeting is just two weeks
later than that of the town. Our people
should see to it thata board of trustees
are elected, who will continue the i'm
provements already begun. Our pro-
posed scope of these for 1892, We stated
last week.
OUR readers should bear in mind that
hooks belonging to the Free Library must
be returned on or before Monday March
t4th, to avoid fine of one dollar. Tick
cts for the coming year are now in readi-
ness, and all tickets sold in the future
will be good for one year from date of
sale.
THE Essen County Herald last week,
says an exchange, volunteered the post
mOrtem information that "Albert Victor,
the heir presumptive to the British
thronel is to marry Princess Mary of
Teck." Although Albert died several
weeks ago, the editor of the Herald is
not insane. He simply uses plate mat
ter.
THE Hon. Thos. White has not been
we'll for several weeks, and since Mon
day, has been graphing with congestion.
a fresh cold, which, coupled with what
he had has combined to make him very
sick man for several days past. We
hope. however, to see him out again
soon.
LAST Monday the little daughter of
Editor StillsOn was taken away by scarlet
foyer after a sickness of three days, and
this morning his only son, Lee Hascall,
fol hn
Mr.. and Mrs. Stillson have been sadly
afflicted and have the heartfelt sympa-
thy of the entire community in their be-
reavement.
THE billiard tournament now being
conducted by the Red Men has caused
some inquiry in the neighborhOod of the
Wigwam as to what is going on therein.
Some pale-faces have supposed that
ghost dance is in progress by the saw
ages, but they have learned to their sur
prise that the unusual and unearthly
ROises are made by Little Man Afraid-Of-
Thunder.
THE traffic on the Central Vermont
Railroad has assumed enormous proper
tons and the power is kept moving con-
tinuously in order to keep The tracks
cleared. Three hundred cars were
hauled from Norwood last week, and
there will be ready for transportation
next week over the Central Vermont
road 700 cars more. The freight from
Canada is also unusually large.
AN exchange pertinently puts it in
this wise: A doctor will sit down and
write a prescription; time, five minHt.s,
paper and ink one quarter of a cent; and
the patient pays 81, s., $40, as the case
may be. A lawyer writes 10 or IL lines
and gets $40 to $50 from his client An
editor writes half column puff for a
man, pays so cents or 81 for putting it
in type, prints it on 81 worth of paper,
sends it to 5000 subscribers, and sur
prises the pulled man if he makes any
charge.
PLANS for new union depot to be
erected in Rutland this summer have
been prepared. The building, which is
TO cost in the neighborhOon of $40, 900,
will be one of the most complete strDc-
lures of its kind in Vermont. II will be
of brick, with slate roof, with blue
stone foundations and trimmings. There
will be three sections, the centre section
two stories high and the other two one
story. The new depot will probably be
erected on the site occupied by the pres
ent one, although this has not been de-
-Gided upon. 1t will be noticed that this
is said of Rutland not Bennington.
ABOUT 11.30 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing, as Mrs. s. IL. Norton was about to
cross Union street near its junction with
Main, accompanied by her little daueh-