The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-07
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

The selectmen announce that for the
present the board will meet every Satur-
day.
THE new rooms for the town clerk and
selectmen's Office will not be ready for
occupancy before May 1st.
BosToN lays claim to the oldest postal
clerk in the service. His nameis Charles
Bingham, a native of Vermont, a brother
of Gov. W. H. II. Bingham.
The town clock is in running order
again, and we are told that Charles II.
Rice will care for it and keep it regulated.
He will do this well and we are glad he
has the job.
In our comments last week relating to
the oldest lawyers, we transpOsed the
ages of the Hon. George W. Hartman and
Hon. Daniel Roberts, otherwise the item
was correct
A WOMAN in New Hampshire, says the
st, Johnsbury Republican, is street
railway magnate, a good housekeeper
and cook, a fine shot with a revolver, a
first-class swimmer, an excellent business
woman and worker in the church. She
is unmarried, but her postoffice address
is not intended for publication.
An up-country County Examiner of
Teachers says of the answers given by
candidates for certificates: ~ remember
one answer that especially amused me, a
year or so ago. The question was,
Where, when and to whom did Gen.
CORVALLIS surrender 1t was answered,
In 1892, at Bunker Hill, to George
Washington
THE Book of Common Prayer, as re-
vised, enriched by the General Conven-
ton in Baltimore last October by COM
mon consent, went into use in all the
Episcopal churches of the United States
Easter Day. The principal changes are
RESERVATIONS that were omitted IN 1889,
when the Church in this country became
independent of the Church of England.
'MUsT we go to SCHOOL," asks the
Hartland correspondent of the Vermont
Journal. The new school law provides
that 1.-The selectmen of each town and
the mayor of each city shall annually
appoint two truant officials in their re-
spective towns and cities. On failure to
appoint such truant officers, constables,
sheriffs, deputy sheriffs and policemen
shall act as truant officers"
THE distribution of the public money
among the various school districts is as
follows: District No. l (union), SS7. 03;
No. 2, S94.6l; No.3, S73.71; No. 4, $96.5S;
No. 6, S114.33; No. :, S144.14; No. s,
S10526; No. 8, Sll3.0S; No. 10, $50 43;
No. u, S97.10; No. IA, S1S+S3; No. 16,
S201.75; No. 10, $685. Bennington
Graded School district, S2,454.80; North
Bennington Graded School district,
Sj9607
IT is possible that the friends and par
ishioners of some of ourV Vermont clergy
men enjoy seeing their portraits printed
In the newspapers throughout the coun-
try as part of patent medicine advertise
ments; and if all hands Immediately con-
rerned like it, there is no particular Tea
zon, perhaps. why outsiders should find
fault But does this sort of thing en-
nance clergymans dignity and increase
the respect in which he and his calling
are held?-St. Johnsbury Republican.
The second lot of appointments of
fourth class postmasters, was announced
last Tuesday as follows: o. +. Adams,
vice L. C. Woodwork, Arlington; j. NJ.
Armstrong, vice G.. NJ. Sykes, Dorset; p.
II. Marion, vice F. b. Hutchins, East
Barre; w. T. Pierce, vice A. d. Pearse,
East Calais; B. NJ. Newton, vice G. n.
Hook, Felehville; a. Brown, vice g.. /.
Abbott, Gaysville; j. II. McLoud, vice
l. A. Shattuck, Hardwick: G. II. Young,
vice w. II. Bundy, Manchester Centre;
L. PettibOne, vice j. c. Blackmer, Man
chester Depot; L. D. Haskell, vice S. B.
Fair, North Calais: w. j. Town, vice L.
NJ. Pray, South Woodbury..
WHEN can we legally go trout fishing
this year? is question often asked now
a-days. The closed season ends in this
State April 18th, but in Vermont not I'M
til April 30th. SO if you start up the
Battenkill Monday the 18th, be careful
that you do not get across the line into
Vermont for they are particular up there.
County Post. Yes, we are particular,
and you must fish for Suckers this side
the line. To be sure, the sucker fisher
men throw. their lines in places where
trout are found later on in the season,
and some of those drawn out are "speck-
led, but for all that 1t has been found
impossible to make the Vermont Legis-
lature SENSE the import of fishing for
suckers down here in Bennington county
that are ''speckled." If you don't be-
lleve us just look into Overcoat pockets
during April as well as into baskets of
fishermen who spend days and nights
along the banks of the Walloomsac and
Battenkill from now out. Yes, the closed
season for trout closes at midnight on
April Both.
THE informal gathering of school di-
TectOrs in the several counties of the
State cannot fail of being helpful to all
concerned. The state superintendent and
Others who are to execute the law have
thus been brought face to face and made
acquainted with each other, and uni
formity of action has been made posi-
BILE. Having thus met and discussed
some of the most perplexing portions of
the new law, these officials will be able
to move forward in its administration
conservatively and prudently. Ex-State
Superintendent Palmer says: Nothing
can be palmer than that it is the duty of
selectmen to divide the public money
this spring. But there is no good
reason why they should pay to the dis
tricts money to be paid back at once by
the districts as surplus money. By the
statute the towns assume district debts
for school houses, lands, furniture, and
repairs, and other debts. All those dis
tricts that owe nothing ale not entitled
to any public money-because if paid it
would be surplus in the district treas
ury which had been paid by the town
and must belong to the town. Those
districts in debt are entitled to so much
of their shares of the public money as
are needed to pay their debts, but no
more. Ofcourse where the debts exceed
their shares of the public money the ex-
cess must be paid by the district. The
town and district officers should meet
Immediately and have full settlement.
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