The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-09

have selected j. r. Houghton of SIAM
ford as foreman.
GEN. j. G. MCCULLOUGH and F. B.
Jennings, with their families, arrived in
North Bennington last week for the
| summer.
THE Walloomsac House at Benning-
ton Centre, full of the comforts and
brightness of life, is ready for the sum
mer tourist, and the outlook for lib
eral patronage is flattering.
H. P. WOODLANDS new residence, on
Grand View Terrace, is completed and
he has moved his goods into it. Him
self and wife will resume housekeeping
therein next week.
THE seth Commencement of the Uni
versity of Vermont and Agricultural
College is to be held from June 25-29.
The Forest prize speaking is to occur in
the evening of the p, at s o'clock.
MRS. EDMUND A. ROBINSON, who
passed the winter in Boston, has re-
turned to Bennington Centre. Mrs.
Gen. Cooper of Albany, N. Y, also re-
turned to the Centre, short time ago.
Col. {. C. KINsMAN says that it is
practically settled that the muster will
| be held in Rutland the week beginning
rifles are already beginning to prepare
for that event.
GEN. JULIUS J. EsTEY visited the
Soldiers Home, stopping over night,
| Tuesday of this week. Judge Hugh
| tees, was at the Home Wednesday on
official business.
SEVERAL Bennington people have
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| Stakeholder in the contest for the New
York Press's teachers excursion to the
Worlds fair, and have forwarded for
her benefit all the votes they could get.
THE st. Johnsbury Republican, daily,
and weekly issue, completed its first
year May 16, ult. Manager Walter
hopes to keep up the standard of the
paper in the future as promised in the
past. The Republican is bright, newsy
periodical and the BANNER clubs with
DO tn editions at favorable rates. See
prospectus in another place to-day.
THE Burlington correspondent of the
| Sunday Budget, who is near the Free
Press of that city discussing the prob
abilities of successor to Bishop Blssell
settles down to this: 1.-THE Rev. DR..
| Atwill, formerly rector of St. Paul
in Vermont, and but for the fact that he
is bishop of diocese in Missouri he
would undoubtedly be made bishop of
Vermont. AS the case stands the new
bishop will undoubtedly be the Rev. DR..
Bliss or the Rev. DR.. Cary"
Miss MARY F. SHACKsHoBER of Ar
lington, is one of the 30 teachers elected
to 90 to the Worlds fair as guests of the
New York Press. There were 30 in the
cities of Brooklyn and New York, and
20 from outside eff those cities. OF
these Miss Stakeholder was next to the
last with over 5000 votes. While nearly
one-half the teachers of the two cities
named are elected on ballots amounting
to from 1000 to 1000 votes yet hundreds
of country competitors came just short
of the 1900 necessary to elect. 1t seems
to us that with the interest manifested in
the city and country, the figures should
have been reversed.
Two North Adams young men return
ing from Hartwellville, Sun day, with a
lot of trout less than six inches long,
stopped at Paradise's in Stamford, where
they fell in with Fish Warden Sanford
and were arrested for the violation of
the six-inch law. The maximum fine
for catching trout in Vermont less than
six inches in length is $40 for each fish,
and the young men found themselves in
tight box. They were tried Monday
morning at Stamford, but the justice
was lenient and let them off compare
lively easy, although their fish cost them
much more than they were worth. The
Vermonters are epdeavoring to enforce
their fish law strictly, and other anglers
will do well to profit by the experience
of these young men.-North Adams
Transcript.
OUR friends "dOwn east" are con-
demning the custom of making Memo
rial Day an occasion for base ball con-
tests and other athletic sports. To the
west of us, in New York state "horse
trot" monopolized the attention of the
crowd and interfered with the attend
ance upon Memorial services. The
Salem correspondent of the Granville
| Sentinel says: THE usual horse trot,
most unwisely as it seems to many of
our citizens, was appointed at the same
hour, drew the crowd, and absorbed the
chief interest of large number of per-
sons for the day. 1t is hoped that
our friends and lovers of the turf can be
persuaded in the future to recognize the
sacredness of Memorial Day, which
should be devoted to patriotic honoring
of our heroic dead. The year is full of
other DAYS that can be appropriated for
the trot."
WE had talk with the Chairman of
the Board of School Commissioners, the
other day and from the information
gained it is our opinion that the new
school law is working very satisfactor-
lily in Bennington. This trial is under
adverse circumstances. In the first place,
the best part of the town is pre-empted
by the Graded schools of this and the
North vi lage, leaving only she'll on the
outskirts, something like the town in
distinction to the city Of Rutland. Then
the full benefit of the law is inopei alive
because of an oversight in the warning
of the March meeting. 1t could have
been voted to send the advanced pupils
to the Graded schools, which would
have been good thing for both the
scholars, and the tuition fees of each
graded school. But it was not done
hence the remark of trial under lad
verse circumstances" The trial of the
town system, Notwithstanding, is a sue
cess. All the schools, whether rich or
poor, large or small, will hold 81 weeks
of school under competent teachers.
This is an average gain of several hun
dred per cent. over the old system of
district go as-you-please and can afford
plan. In this line we find that State
Superintendent Stone was asked by a
reporter the other day how he thought