The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-03
S. B. HAWKS has returned from two
weeks trip to the West

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weeks trip to the West.
Several of the Masons in town, includ-
ing the D. d. G. NJ, attended the funeral
of Jos. ]. Peckham in North Pownal,
yesterday.
AT the R. A. Chapter, convocation
next Monday evening in Masonic Hall,
the D. D. G. H. p, w. E. Terrill, will be
present and make an official visit.
John Robinson, one of the delegates to
the Chicago convention that nominated
President Cleveland, has gone to Wash
ington, to be present at the inaugural
ceremonies tomorrow.
The BANNER business office, editorial
and composing rooms have been located
for the present in the third story of the
First National Bank building. The
latchstring is on the outside as usual.
G. L. HARDWOOD will return home from
Albany, n. Y, in about two weeks. He
has been taking a course at the College
of Pharmacy in that city. We are told
that he will enter the new drug store of
Messrs. Van Week & Potter as clerk.
The civil service examinations for
clerks and carriers at the post Office are
to be held the It'll. The Board consists
of Thomas J. Halloran, chairman, Chas.
R. Sanford, clerk, and JOhnP. GuiltinaE.
Several applications have been received.
The L. S. R. r. have secured A. NJ.
Jones, the Chatham, N. Y, agent who
defaulted and ran away last October, tax
ing with him quite large sum of money.
He was apprehended near Omaha, Ne
braska, and was lodged in Jail in Hudson
last Saturday.
MISS LAURA MURPHY gave a card
party Wednesday evening, to about thir-
ty of her friends. Refreshments were
served. Miss Susie Rogers won the first
prize for ladies and Fred Packard that
for gentlemen. Both were elegant prizes.
We greatly desire to print the town Of
ficers of the county in full in our
next weeks issue. The fire has so dis
arranged our business that we do not
send out the usual postal cards for reply
Will our correspondents and the town
clerks Of the towns kindly send us in
early returns of those elected?
WITH the town reports the clerk and
selectmen are sending out a handy and
complete map of the town of Benning-
ton. luis or convenient size and shows
the highway districts, roads, etc. The
school districts to be superseded April
1st, by the town system, are also outlined
with the location of the school houses.
THE iron and plate glass front for the
new drug store of F. G. Van Week and
DR.. H. J. Hotter, Jr., the place lately va
Gated by Hudson, arrived week before
last, and but for the billiards would
have been in position before this time.
As it is the front will go right into place,
and then the elegant store will be COM
pleted. There will be nothing in the
State to smpass it in elegance and APP
pointment.
Office at Bennington for the week ending
Feb. 25th, 1893: Russell Crayton, R. L.
Correll, Joseph Daniels, Simon Green,
]. II. Hover, Timothy Regaw, Mrs. John
Donnelly, Kate Mowrer, Mrs. Anna Sib-
ley, Mrs. Julia Teal These letters will
be sent to the Dead Letter Office March
18th, '93, if not delivered before. In
calling for above please say advertised"
giving date of list.
A CONVERSATIONAL party will be given
at the residence of A. Buel Sibley under
the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society of
the First Baptist church, Friday evening,
March 10th. Music, vocal and instru-
mental, readings and recitations, will add
to the attractiveness Of the event which
promises to be most enjoyable. All are
very cordially initved to be present. Re-
freshments will be served during the
evening.
WE have received from Berlin, Ger
many, an article written in German for
publication. We must decline. If we
had known anything of that language,
we are quite sure the fire would have
driven it all away. Won Leo Silberstein
will have to accept this remark for an
apology this time.
A. G. Coomer, roadmaster on the Ben
nington and Rutland railway was at
North Petersburgh, N. Y, Sunday, where
he runs a store. Mr.. Coomer took of
his overcoat and laid it on the store
counter and went away. Several par
ties were in the store and going out and
in. When Mr.. Coomer went to put on
his coat he found his pocketboOk under
the coat on the counter, with $500 taken
out. No clue has been found to the rob
ber
We note that our "up-country" ex-
changes are attributing the delays to the
Green Mountain flyer and the Montreal
sleepers to 'time lost on the Bennington
and Rutland Railway" Better tell the
truth, gentlemen, and say that the null
tiplicity of accidents on the Central Yer
mont this winter is the real cause of
most of the delays. The B. & r. road
bed was never in better condition and