The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-15

GEO. +. LEONARD is in New York and
Coney Island for a short vacation.
MISS JENNIE STERLING of Montpelier,
is visiting with Mrs. Geo. II. Harwood.
MRS. AMELIA STEWART and daughter
of Boston are visiting Mrs. +. o. Graves.
THE village grand list increased $780,
900; the town decreased over $S,OO0
Why'
CAPT. ALBERT WALKER has gone to
Murray, Pa, to visit his son, Buel
Walker.
Mrs. F. l.. BLAKE of Grand Rapids.
Mich, is expected here soon to pass the
summer.
THE A. o. H., Division No. 1, is
making great preparations for its annual
picnic, which will be held some time
this month.
THE Fitchburg run another Sunday
train to Saratoga the 18th, on the same
time as that of the 10th, and at the same
fare, SLIPS.
OUR readers should not overlook the
fall announcement of our County edu-
cational institution the Burr & Burton
seminary in another column to-day.
THE Water Company is laying pipe to
connect with the cold spring on the east
mountain. When this is done Benning-
ton will have the finest water supply in
the country.
THE way the side walks have been
left on Union street flor which we are
told A. D. Stewart is responsibility, is a
great Inconvenience to people, and the
same should be fixed at once.
THE Tiffany knitting machine works
have received large orders and are start
ing up full blast, which is good news.
This fact is in line with what we say in
another item. 1t all illustrates America
and Protection, the home of the free and
the land of the we'll paid wage Garner.
THE spectacle of an elderly man sleep
ing off the effects of ''tangle-foot," or Ben
nington whiskey, yesterday afternoon
was not edifying. He lay on the grass in
the yard back of the express office. From
the front door of the building may be
seen at least one rum shop running with
open doors.
WE are informed from reliable source
that Mr.. H. w. Putnam has offered Mr.
S. NJ. Sibley $4,000 for the corner rookery
The lot is said to be 25x50 feet, and as
the land is worth more with the building
off than with it standing, this would
appear to be very high valuation. No
one else will ever give more-this is
certain.
THE Selectmen are about to locate two
watering TROUBLESOME at the east and
the other at the west end of the town.
Mr.. Putnam furnishes the water-an-
other public-spirited idea of his. As it
stands to-day there is not place in this
village where the public can water a
horse, save only the trough at the Sol
diers' Home.
DRYsDALE's great closing out sale in
the BANNER this week will attract at
tention. He literally paints the town
red," as he says in his large circulars,
which are a copy of the advertisement
aforesaid. Rob" does nothing by
halves as we all know, and there is a
streak of poetry running through even
his announcement of sale, that makes
his competitors hustle.
WE desire to say word to young men,
who will cast their vote this fall for the
first time. You see signs of great pros
perity all about Bennington, the mills all
running, some of them overtime, good
wages made, etc. Will you vote for
Harrison and continue this boom, or for
Cleveland and Free Trade by which two
thirds of this business will be done in
Europe if not all of it? Or if done here
at the wages paid in Europe?
THE Valentine Knitting company find
it necessary to put on two sets of en-
ployes to run all day and part of each
night. This is done to keep up with
orders, and as business looks now it is
not improbable that in the near future
this mill will run day and night the
year round Will our Democratic
friends heed this fact of ProtectionP
The Campbell mills, also, have been
running nights as well as days-all owing
to the Mckinley tariff.
The Rutland Herald of Wednesday
says: Edwin Horton of Chittenden took
G. b. Hemenway, an old veteran of that
place, to Bennington yesterday. Hem
enway was presented to Col. G. G. Kins-
man, who bought for him a ticket to
Bennington and furnished him with pa
pers to enter the old Soldiers Home.
Hemenway has lived alone on the noun
tain in Chittenden for number of years,
his wife living elsewhere. About four
weeks ago his home was burned, with a
considerable sum of money that he had
saved from his pensions. He then left
the mountain and went to the village of
Chittenden. He was finally persuaded
that the Soldiers Home would be the
best place for him, and entered accord
ingly."
WE quote the following, occasionally,
now going the rounds, because some
people are likely to forget the facts; or
who act as if they never heard of such an
instance. Every year that it is pub
lished the local newspaper gives from
FIVE to twenty columns free for the sole
benefit of the town in which it is locat-
ed. No other agency can, or even offers,
to tax itself to such an extent. The
publisher of local newspaper, in pro-
portion to his means, does more for his
town than any other ten men, and in all
fairness man to man, he ought to be sup
ported not because you happen to like
him or admire his writings, but because
his paper is the best investment the
town can make. 1t may not be brilliant
or crowded with great thoughts but
| financially it is more of benefit to the
town than the preacher or the the
| teacher"
THE Chicago Globe has an item that
''The West side will present R. P. Bates
for Superior Court Judge" which will
interest the many friends of that Ben
nington boy, as follows: "The Cook
County Superior Court is similar in or
ganization to the Circuit Court, having
a chief justice and six judges, or seven
altogether, and an equal number of
Masters in Chancery. There are two
vacancies existing on the bench of this
| Court oonoad hu fba condemnation Of ha