The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-02-19

! nan.
Mrs. f. w. BRADFORD is much better
this week, to the qualification of her
| friends.
If John Hoey is about to start new
! express company he should be earnestly
labOred with to open an office in Ben
nington.
The town reports are in press and
will be issued in a few days, giving all
| about weeks time to examine this i'm
portaut annual publication.
ATTENTION is called to the interesting
statement of the New York Life Insur-
ance Company, presented by the General
Agency of A. p. Childs, Springfield,
Mass, this week.
Miss II. j. MORGAN is out of town for
a few weeks vacation and will spend the
time in Poughkeepsie and New York.
! Miss Ella Marten has charge of her store
| during her vacation.
NEXT Sunday evening, the Eve of
! Washington's birthday, the subject of
| the Rev. w. b. Walkers sermon will be:
"Washington's Religious Character
The service in st. Peters church begins
at o'clock.
The San Diego, California, Union of
Feb. 9th. says: "Nr. and Mrs. II. G.
| Root of Bennington, Vt, arrived at the
Brewster yesterday. Mr.. Root owns a
ranch near the city; this is his third
| winter in San Diego"
A.P. CmLDs, was reelected treasurer
| of the benson, Texas Cotton Manufac-
| turing Company. at the annual meeting
in that city last Thursday. Among the
new directors are G. c. Moses, Esq, of
Maine, and Mr.. Whiten, the manufac-
turer of Whitinsville, Mass.
LOOK carefully at the label on your
paper this week. If the figures are t
what they ought to be, and do not indi-
cate paid up subscription, let us hear
| from YOU. "Change the label on my pa
| per-" said a subscriber in renting 'fOr
! | do not like the looks of it." Pride of
| that sort is worth developing.
WE notice with pleasure the cordial
greetings and fraternal handShaking
visible nowadays, accompanied by
| hearty words of cheer. Not that such
| things are unusal but that election day
in town meeting is one week from next
Tuesday. Everybody is in favor of the
best man for the Office and all are happy.
MRS. l.. f. ABBOTT opens her house
on Thursday evening, the 25th, for a
| musicale given as a benefit for the Guild
of ST. Agnes of st. Peters church. 1t
will be an elegant affair, enjoyable, and
| the thirty-hve cents admission will go
towards a worthy object People, gen
orally, are invited as well as the friends
| of the little misses in interest.
WE are glad to know that there are
| hopeful signs of an early and deter
mined effort to suppress some of the
''gin-mills'' and ''dives" that abound in
Bennington. Drunkenness is rife and
the subjects are not only men, but youth
and even young boys. 1t is high time
that halt was called, and there is law
enough to do it.
The merchants of Bennington are re-
porting very good success in the cOlleC-
! ton of old and worthless debts, through
the Bennington branch of the Merchants
Retail Commercial Agency. One mer-
chant at their last meeting reporting the
the receipt of over $4,000 already from
old accounts which he considered worth
less Nearly all the merchants in town
belong to the agency.
THE meeting of ST. Peters guild on
Tuesday evening in Parish ,hal(y e
unusually gEeee an address and was fol
| lowed BY RvcJUr walker in paper on
the suggestive topic of Parish Invalid
ism" Both were well received and a
unanimous vote of thanks was rendered
Lieut. Richardson, whose subject was
"Our new Navy" The collation. served
by 81. Mary's guild was also highly en-
joyed
IT is quoted as rather remarkable
fact that all the past Commanders of the
Department of Vermont, Grand Army
of the Republic, covering period of %
years, are living: w, w. Henry, Burling-
ton; w. &. Veazey, Rutland; Stephen
Thomas, Montpelier; Theodore S. Peck,
Burlington; J. II. Goulding, Rutland;
George W. Hooker, BrattlebOro; A. b.
valentine, Bennington; c. c. Kinsman,
Rutland; w. l.. Greenleaf, Burlington;
Geo. 7. Childs, st. Adams; p. d. Blod-
gett, st. Johnsbury; II. L. Taylor, Brat
tlebOro; A. S. Tracy, Middlebury; u. NJ.
Mansur, Island Pond; d. l.. Morgan,
Rutland.
OUR genial friend of the Pittsburgh,
N. Y, Republican, DR.. Bixby, speaking
of the new star just discovered, which is
wrapped in whirlwind of flame, muses.
philOsophically 'thusly:" "The cele-
brated Scottish astronomer, Dr. Cope
land, sighted it on the LIST of February,
and Prof. Pickering of Harvard Univer-
sity first saw it on the 4th of February.
There are high authorities who believe
that the same fate awaits this earth.
Persons who are in arrears with their
newspaper accounts should think care
fully on these things"
OUR Troy exchanges give an account
of the probrte of the will of the late Mrs.
Maria g. Wager. She was a daughter of
the late Deacon Gale of bennington.
Among the list of benefciaries is another
daughter of Dea. Gale, Mrs. Jones, whose
husband was at one time of the firm of
Benton Il Jones of Bennington. Laura
A. Wrisley is the daughter of Dea. L. NJ. !
Wrisley of North Bennington. We quote
as the most interesting feature of public
moment in the will is this clause: 81
give, devise and bequeath to the First |
Baptist church of the city of Troy the |
sum of $4,000 for the purpose of pur- |
chasing or erecting, supporting and |
maintaining "A home for aged persons. |
provided such church shall within two |
years after my decease commence the |
erection of such home or building for
that purpose" The other beduests of
the testatrix are: To Cornelia NJ. Nor
ton, niece, $4,000, in case of her death
said sum to descend to her daughter
Helen NJ. Fisk; to her niece, Mary Fay
OF Titusyille, Pa, $1,000. said sum to re-