The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-05-20

cemetery lots with their new monu-
ments are very attractive.
A BUEL STBLEY's dwelling and barn
are in process of erection, at the same
time making 1T busy corner.
IT would not be bad idea to have a
little rivalry among residents to see who
will have the finest lawn this season.
THE residence of Mrs. w. II. Brad
ford with its new, light colors can be
seen distinctly from Bennington Centre.
READ what Mrs. Mcleod says in
another place to-day, about her second
opening' sale of Millinery-the first lot
having been closed out,
FREAR takes one-eighth of the BAN
NER to-day and the whole page will bear
careful perusal. His word is as good as
his note and herein lies part of the Sc
cret of his success.
MONDAY, Tuesday and Wednesday of
next week will be the Rogation Days.
Thursday will be Ascension Day, or
Holy Thursday. Special services each
day at st. Peters church.
G.. B. SHELLEY. the Free Library cloth
Ter, has wordIto say in this issue. While
Mr.. Sibley does not make as much noise
about it as some yet he sells goods way
down" and warrants them.
TAFT COMMANDERY of Knights Tenn
plar will attend service at St. Peters
church on the evening of Ascension Day,
or at Evensong on the Sunday after.
The Ritual of the Order will be followed.
OUR readers need a city paper es-
pecially this the Presidential year, and
no one can get leading journal cheaper
than the Tribune in connection with the
BANNER. See another column.
WIN. H. SHIELDS of Troy, n. Y, has
removed to Bennington for the summer;
also, John Wool Griswold and family,
and Seymour VanSantvoOrd and family,
the latter to Furnace Grove east of
this village.
THERE will be special conclave of
Taft Commandery on Tuesday evening,
the oath, The +. E., Kittredge
Haskins, Grand Commander will make
his official visit and the Order of the
Red Cross will be conferred.
H. B. CARPENTER returned to Kansas
this week for the purpose of bringing in
another carload of horses, the ones that
arrived in April having been disposed of.
Mr. Carpenter says that the second lot
will comprise family drivers, saddle,
heavy team and carriage horses, all to be
sold at auction.
IT is some little time since we have be-
fore referred to the old and reliable
of Troy, n. Y. This is no neglect on
our part for their notices appear regular
ly in accustomed places in our columns
as they have for the past 20 years. You
will do well to call on them when shop
ping in Troy.
THERE should be a corporation Ordi-
nance forbidding the throwing of waste
paper upon the streets. Horses that are
never known to be frightened at any
thing else will sometimes run at the
sight of paper blowing about in the
wind, and besides, it filters the streets
and ground needlessly.
GAGE STREET looks fine in spots,
along the Putnam and Tiffany cottage
frontage-but when you come to the
against on this narrow street. then
things do not look as well, but we feel
sure of one thing, that when the fences
decay no more will be built, and then the
street that is now narrow will become
wide in appearance.
B. FRANK WooD went to St. Louis,
ltlSb WllGI6 uG udS oil OuSdSG-
ment on powder mill job that will last
from eight months to year. Mr.. Wood
gets $500 per month and expenses. He
is one of the best men to superintend
such work in the country, and this
large firm have been very fortunate in
securing his services to rebuild their
large plant.
THE Troy Times of May 18th, has the
following: Henry r. Royce, ex-post-
master of Fonda, and prominent DEM
ocrat, died last night, aged 81 years"
Mr.. Royce, for several years, along in
the tifties, resided in Bennington, and
will be remembered by many who lived
here at that time as genial, warm
hearted gentleman. He married one of
Bennington's fair daughters, Miss
Ogden, who, as we understand, survives
her husband, and who will receive the
sincere sympathy of many of her old
friends in this hour of her sad bereave-
ment.
THE Rev. James Harrington, who for
the past four years has been the pastor
of the Presbyterian church in Bruins
wick, n. Y, has received an unanimous
call from the Presbyterian church in
Middle Granville, n. Y, to become It's
anu W JIG
first Sunday in June next. He announced
this fact in his church last Sunday morn
ing, and very feelingly alluded to the
motives that had prompted him to &C
cept the call. Mr.. Harrington is we'll
known here and many friends will wish
him success in his enlarged field of la
Dor. His new church is an old one, es-
tablished in the last century and the
field is practically unbounded. The old
church should have a membership of
five hundred.
THE reaction in favor of the Vermont
farms, predicted when Maj. Valentine
was Commissioner of Immigration and
started under that regime, has come in
some localities and will affect all in
time. The Hartland correspondent OF
the Vermont Journal writes on this
point as follows: at speaks well for
the future farming interests of this
town that so many of our young men are
settling down on the old farms. You
all know who they are, and they are a
credit to the town. As farm
ers are much inclined to grumble at the
low prices that prevail for beef, veal,
potatoes and nearly everything farmers
have to sell. Now let us quote a few
prices from an account book in our pos
session which was kept by Squire Marcy
The book commences in 1885, and the
first account is with Nathan Mace,
against whom, from May Goth of that
year, the following charges appear: One
bushel of potatoes, 16c.; one quart n.