The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-06-10

Mrs. WILLIAM SEAToN of County
street died Saturday after long illness.
WIN. E. HAWKS, Jr., returned from
the West this week and will remain
home during the Summer.
NIcHoLs's advertisement will bear
reading. His store is headquarters in
Bennington for dress goods.
MINNIE Christopher was called to
her home Friday in Waterford by
sickness.
AT the missionary meeting of the
Second Congregational church last even
ing Prof. Chas. S. Davis made fine
address on Japan"
WELLS VALENTINE and wife returned
from theie winter sojourn in California,
last week. 1t seems good to his friends
to see Mr.. Valentine about the streets
as usual.
MIR. AND Mrs. ALEX SEAPLE, late of
Broad Brook, Conn.,, are visiting Mr..
Chas. Cooper's family. Mrs. Peck and
daughter of Washington, D. c., are their
guests also.
READ what H. G. Simmons says in
another place to-day. He is putting in
large number of ranges, warm air
furnaces and hot water and steam heaters
in town, with satisfactory results every
time.
n. E. GREENsLET, late popular clerk
in the Bennington postoffice, writes from
Boston that he is pleased with his work
there. He is in the South Boston ex-
tensive machine shops, but boards at
the Club"
JAMES CONDOR, who has been stone
blind for over three years, and who has
been with DIR. Merrill of Albany under
treatment, has recovered his sight so he
can now see his fingers. This is con-
sidered great cure, as he was a helpless
man.
H. W. PUTNAM, Esq, has arrived in
town for the Summer. The extensive
building arrangements he has planned for
the season have already progressed con-
siderably. The West Main street build
ing's foundations, contracted by Joseph
Watson, is well under way, and the ex-
cavation for the Opera House has COM
menced.
THE tank which holds about fifty
barrels of water in the attic of Cooper's
upper mill came crashing through the
floor into the room below this friday,
morning. Fortunately no one was in
jured. Some machinery was broken,
and the help were badly frightened.
The damages were serious enough to
suspend work for a short time.
IT does seem that the village fathers
might have located the stand pipe for
street sprinkling purposes in locality
other than directly in front of one of
our churches. The Baptist church in
our village surely is of enough import
ance that its convenience or privilege
should be consulted in the matter of
stand pipe near its front door, around
which there will be more or less mud
and water.
the line of the Central Vermont road
will commence to run about July 1st.
We expect these will give our village
quite boom. The compiler of the G.
v, pamphlet gave each locality in Yer
mont, mentioned, very decided notice,
but Bennington has more points of in
terest than any of those mentioned there
in, good as the attractions elsewhere are
acknowledged to be.
WE submit to the common sense of
our Board of Trustees that the cutting
and slashing of the shade trees along the
route of the old Stark House is an out
rage that money will not cover. 1t is
bad enough to have that old three story
rookery set into a row of handsome
dwelling house lots, but the public have
an interest in the destruction of shade
trees along its course. Elm street is
dishgured to an extent that years will
not restore, and another row of trees,
fine naples, are apparently doomed to
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Mr.. Lindley is responsible, but his
money in settlement of damages will
not restore trees of 40 years growth nor
can he be made to pay the damages in
depreciation of the property ON Hall
street. The lot was sold with the under
standing that nice residence should 90
thereon. Instead of this the Stark House
is to be thrust in covering nearly the en-
tire lot and made into a six tenement
house.
In the report of the the Village Clerk,
elsewhere to-day, the address of DR..
John T. Shurtleff before the Board of
Trustees is referred to. Mr.. Shurteff
was spokesman for committee appoint
ed by the village TO take into consider
alton the proposal to establish system
Of sewerage for Bennington. The Trust
ees appropriated $35 toward the ex-
penses of an engineer to come here and
look the ground over. Wednesday a
gentleman from Boston was in town.
He went over our streets, and carefully
inspected the grade, etc. 1t was his
opinion that the expense of map would
be about S400. This would contain the
location of the four mains for sewage,
the depth necessary, the cross sewers,
etc. 1t SINNERS right down to this:
Whether the Trustees or Especial village
meeting shall direct this beginning for
sewerage system that is sure to come in
the near future and is needed now. We
infer from talking with the parties in
interest that this subject will be brought
before a special village meeting. AS is
well known the electric light contract
for five years expires this Summer and
special corporation meeting will no
doubt be called for that. Why not en-
brace the electric lights and sewerage in
one call and begin the good workP
AN old Vermont farmer tells a rather
pretty story of missionary, who, before
setting sail for the land of the convert
IDLE heather, took unto himself wife.
In less than two years his helpmate died,
and the missionary board granted him a
vacation, which he improved by return
ing home and marrying again. In less
than year wife number two had sue
cumbed to the rigors of the pagan
climate, but the board refused to grant
him second vacation within so short a
time. He accordingly deputized friend