The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-01-20

HE iJll6 son Ol tleu II. BOWEN Is
cpnvalescing from his recent critical at
tack of brain fever.
THE remains of Mrs. Horace T. White
will be brought here for interment to-
morrow. She died in Washington, d. c..
EX-PREsIDENT HAYES was greatly in
terested in the Forest and Stream Club
at Wilmington, and was to have built
cottage there next summer.
AMONG all the beautiful things in COLI
nectiun with the Kirmess the beautifui
souvenir programme should not be for
gotten. Don't fail to secure one as it
contains the programme complete for
each evening, and names of every one
participating.
The belfry and tower of the Court
House are in process of preparation for
the new clock which is to be placed
therein at the expense of Henry w. Put
nam. The clock will have four dials,
and will be lighted by electricity. 1t
will take between two and three weeks
to get the machinery in position.
AT the meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the State Fireman's AssOcia-
ton, held at St. Adams yesterday, it was
voted to hold the annual tournament in
that village July goth and 9th next, ST.
coo in prizes being the stakes. From
here there was in attendance II. T. Cush-
man, 2nd, President, and E. D. Moore,
Secretary.
The Troy Press says: Hon. l.. R. Graves
of Bennington, who was reelected OIL
rector at til" ..tdst meeting of the stock
holders of the National State Rank OF
Toy, has resigned the position, He was
one of the first directors elected and is
the last of that Board. He resigned be-
cause he is not able to attend any of the
meetings, being eighty years of age and
in poor health"
A PARTY of some fifty young people,
including few older, by invitation of
Misses Lizzie Remington and Laura Will
liams, gave Miss Carrie Remington a
surprise last evening, it being the occa-
sion of her sixteenth birthday. The
company assembled at the house of Miss
Carries grandmother, Mrs. NJ G.. Rem.
ington, who threw open her spacious
dwelling for their use. 1t was pleasant
affair and greatly enjoyed by all.
TUESDAY evening at the wigwam of
Mohegan Tribe, No. 6, Improved Order
of Red Men, the ceremony of Raising
Chiefs was performed by Deputy Great
E Sachem Charles S. Kehoe and suite. The
elective chiefs of this Tribe for the pres
ent term are: Prophet, Orrin D. Adams;
Sachem, A. S. NJ. Chisholm; Chief of
Records H. T.. Cushman, End; Keeper OF
= Wampum, Henry s. Bingham; Collector
of Wampum, j. Ii. Kelso; Senior Saga,
more, E. b. Daley; Junior Sycamore,
Chas. H. Dewey. The Tribe new occu-
7 pies it's new rooms in the Putnam block
WE ask the attention of our readers tC
the provisions of the new highway Law
that call for the election of a road com
missioner. to expend the highway tax oil
the town; and, also, that the commits
1 sioners elected by incorporated villages
Y shall disburse the highway tax separate
b, " as before. The question nriree, or
3 rather, several questions arise: Who arr
t to vote to elect said road commissioners
: Take our town for instance, can the com
II missioner be elected by all the voters il
g town meeting, or only by those residen
/ outside the two incorporated villages
z II by votes outside these village limits
e where is the statute defining the right
i of the two classes of voters? Must tn,
n tJwn commissioner be resident of tn
+ tOIcn, or of the town outside the two vii
S lagos? If the latter, what becomes o
= the provisions of the Vermont Bill o
= Rights as to duties and privileges of cit
t liens of the town as unit? This officia
e is very important man in the proposed
IS economy of things looking to the better
n and if any of our readers can tell us jus
n how he is to be elected, etc, it will be
good thing for them to do so. The schOO
}: law is explicit as to some of these mat
(. tiers of election, but we fail to find til
d raodus uperandi in the new highway stat
t, utes, and the old ones as amended.
IF THE funeral of Mr.. Henry Stafford MOI
l. ton was attended from his late residenc
a Monday afternoon. In he absence G
lie the Rector of st. Peters church, the Rev
Ie Geo. d. Silliman of St. Marks, HOosic
x Falls, n. Y, conducted the services. MI
ID Notron was commitment of the Epi'
re copal church a.d man much esteeme
le by a large circle of friends In Marcel
+ 1850, Mr.. Norton was one of party {
a twenty five BenningtOnians to go to Ca
is ifornia uid the Isthmus of Panama. The
10 route across the Isthmus was the sam
i'll as that of the proposed Panama cana
ID which shakes France to-day because {
r the scandal attached thereto. 1t is ais
of worthy of remark that the party returne
>, uia the Nicaragua route-the course {
is the American canal project Judg
Thos. White and Fred Hancock of Bel
ri nington, and David Bushnell of Powna
,e are survivors of that historic party {
40 gold hunters. Mr.. Norton was a men
- Der of the Norton family, pioneers in u