The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-31
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.


chester and Dorset.
THE Litho Carbon Insulating Company
of Bennington, Vermont, says the United
States Investor, has been Incorporated
with capital of 100000
lie. GIBSON has been appointed Major
on the staff of General Underwood of the
Patriarchs Militant. This is a fitting
recognition of Veteran Odd Fellow-one
who has done yoeman's service in the
interest of that order for more than q
years.
THE town of Hartland, Windsor coun-
ty has population of 20 people whose
ages range from 50 to 80 years. One or
two of them are quite i'll and will proba-
bly, not recover, but large percentage
of them, judging from appearances, have
many years of usefulness before them.
In reply to our query in connection
with the letter of Ethan Allen, lately
published, the Hon. w. p. Baxter writes:
"Please notice page 500, Vol l., 'Histor-
ical Gazetteer as to Aliens removal to
Burlington. The date is given as 1887 in
'Hemenway's Gazetteer of Vermont
while the date of Aliens letter, which l
sent you copy of, would indicate his
removal as 1854"
AT the Bennington & Rutland railway
offices Monday morning Troy Budget
envelope was thrown into the stove.
A while after the paper had burned it
was discovered that the printing lin blue
ink. had turned to an elegant purple,
and the ash was taken out intact with the
reading upon it. The specimen was the
object of considerable interest during the
day.
LIST of letters ADVERTISED in the Post
Office at Bennington, for the week end
ing March 25th, 1893: Mr. Buruchy,
Milton Clearwater, Frank Cross, Mrs.
Lewela Brown, Miss Nellie Beadle, Miss
Lizzie Curren, Miss Jennie NJ. Hewitt.
These letters will be sent to the dead
letter Office on April Sth if not delivered
before. In calling please say advertised"
giving date of list.
Mrs. MARIA MASON, widow of the
late Oliver Mason, who has relatives in
this vicinity, is the daughter of a Revo-
lutionary soldier, John Vinton of Cor
nish, n. II. He enlisted as a drummer
boy when not more than IA years old,
and afterwards served as a soldier until
the end of the war. When General La
fauette visited this country many years
after the war Mr.. VlntoA was recognized
by him and greeted as little Johnny the
drummer boy"
THE free library ought to command a
more hearty support, financially, from
our people than it has of late years.
Wherever, around us, like. Wallingford
last week, anyone donates library for
the town, or an addition to one already
established, the city dailies print col
umns in commendation of the benef-
cence. There is nothing that tells more
4In An1l 8 Il L.,
long run than good library well sup
ported Our people should give our free
library generous support
WHEN James B. Henderson, conductor
ON the Burlington and Lamoile trains,
and Mike O'Day of the Central division
meet it is a case of diamond cut diamond
as far as practical joking is concerned.
Henderson thinks he is one ahead now,
however. He met o. Day at Essex juno
ton day or two ago and hailed him
thusly: mike you are are Judge of
good sugar, just taste Of this which got
at Cambridge" at the same time dis
playing a very handsome cake. Mike
has a sweet tooth and taking the cake
started to bite big piece out of it. He
shut his jaws, his teeth entered cake of
bees wax and stuck fast while shout
went up from the crowd who were in the
secret. The participants in this Joke are
known to some of our Bennington rail
readers who will enjoy this item, which
we find in the st. Adams Messenger.
On Sunday, March 18th, The Sunday
Press New York;, started feature that
will mark an epoch in American journal
ism. 1t consists of an Art Cover, in
which the paper when folded to the omar
gi1 &c ! I,
unprecedented demand for the Sunday
Press among all classes of people. The
front page of the Art Cover last Sunday
showed a beautiful reproduction of the
German masterpiece. est. Cecilia" and
for the four sundays in April it will pre-
sent an original water color design with
an art calendar, an original painting in
the original colors by an American artist
and two reproductions of famous paint
ings, admitted masterpieces. The inside
pages of the Art Cover will always con-
tain exquisite half-tone portraits and
illustrations of people and topics of the
then current week. Every copy of the
Art Cover of any issue of the Sunday
Press would command at any art store at
least S1.00.
A GOOD many men-are asking, in view
of the muss in the new school law about
the distribution of public money, says
the BrattlebOro RefOrmer, how it hap
pened that men like J. L. Martin and l..
M. Read should have let it 90 through.
No responsibility lies at the door of these
gentlemen, and especially of Mr.. Martin.
They did their best to obviate the trouble
and if they could have had their way
would have made Ineligible legislation
of it. Mr.. Martin twice warned the
house before the passage on the last
night of the session against letting it 90
through N such shape, showing that it
made no provision for the public money
distribution and appealed to the house
not to spoil what he was pleased to call
good record by perpetrating any such
stupidity. But Darling of Chelsea, and
such cheap chaps who control in such
one-sided and lop-sided body, raised
the cry that what Martin and Read, as
representatives of the big towns, wanted
was to cut off the i've per cent. tax. and
called on the small towns to rally for
their own interests, and the thing went
through with rush, in confusion and
disregard of the men who were fit to be
there legislating.
WE have received from the committee
through E. A. Forbush, director of field
work, Senate Document, No. 6, being the
report of the Massachusetts, Board of Ag-
ricultuTe on the Gypsy Moth. The pub
LEGATION NAV be obtained free by address