The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-04


are running over time and have plenty
of orders, and Mr.. F. n. Tiffany tells us
that they have no intention of shutting
down.
THE Ninth Vermont Veteran Associa-
ton holds its sixth annual reunion, in
connection with the muster at Rutland,
August 16 and II, at the tent of General
Peck. Business meeting the 18th, at 2
o'clock p. m.
THE regular meetings of che Ensor
Club of Bennington, are to be held the
1st and 3rd Mondays in each month.
beginning next Monday. The graduates
of the Institute are requested to be pres
ent next Monday for special business.
THE Bennington Board of Health are
diligently at work for the sanitary i'm
provement of the village and town. In
this matter, we are pleased to say, the
people generally are in hearty accord and
readily cooperate to abate nuisances
and to clean up accumulations that may
become, if they are not already, a
menace to the public health.
THE hearing before ex-GOv. Dilling-
ham, in the Battle Monument suit, has
been in progress this week. 1t is hardly
probable that the hearing will be finished
this week, and yet all parties are work
ing to complete the case as soon as pos
sible. The sessions are held in Sheldon
and Cushman's Office and are attracting
| a good deal of public attention.
THE New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone company has been charging its
plant here, and additional telephones
have been placed in private residences
and mills. They are all supported with
metallic circuits, this being the first sta
ton in Vermont to be so fitted. Long
distance telephone connection is now
had with Boston, Troy, Albany, New
York and Chicago, and connections are
now being made with Rutland, Burling-
ton and other points north.
THE BANNER acknowledges the re-
ceipt of an invitation to attend the
Breeders meeting at Glens Falls, N. Y,
next week beginning Tuesday, and last
ing four days. We have already noted
the entry of several well-known Benning-
ton county horses, and no doubt it will
be one of the very best events of the
year in the Northern New York Circuit.
The list of competitors includes the
great yearling Perial, colt that is en-
Tered through from Sioux City, Iowa, to
Mystic Park, Medford, Mass. Among
the older ones are Stanley, three-year
record 2.29a; Ernest, the fast son of Me-
| ander; Jacksonian, that showed better
THAI 2.30 last week; Schoolboy, 2201, by
Meander; Miss Copeland, 2.254, by Al
mont Star; Rupert Gillig, 2.24, by Gillig;
all new lights, and host of fast ones
who came to the front in previous years,
such as Bonus, Bankstock, Foggy, FIRE.
mont, Madge Wilkes, Felix, Quiz, Ham
lin, Top Royal, Dannemora, Scramble,
Hyperion, Jumbo, Wilkes, and others.
Then there are Highland L, 2.l94; Alice
Wilkes, 220t; Bass Blue Wilkes, 2l94;
Pappoose, 2.1Sa; Ell Flora, 2.1S1; Bel
mont Prince, 2.174; Tempest, 217t;
Jones Ordway, 2.16f; Sheriff, 2.19t; and
the dark horses that always show up at
such meetings.
THE Mortified News has personal
item relative to ex-GoY. Dillingham; that
will be appreciated by our people. AS
special master in chancey he has been
in town of late, and is here this week,
hearing the testimony in the Battle
Monument case, and this gives our citi-
zens an opportunity to renew their ac-
quaintance with the Governor. The
BANNER was the first paper, some years
ago to suggest his name for governor,
and will always be glad to support him
for Office at the hands of our
people. The News says:
'There is no man in Vermont day who
demands the degree of popularity ac-
corded ex-Gov. William P Dillingham; OF
Waterbury. We say this in full know
ledge and appreciation of the many
other public men of our State. Gov.
Dillingham's cordial, yet not ELUSIVE
manner; his open, honest countenance;
his upright, Christian life; his ability as
a thinker-and speaker-make him a
man of men. He is not merely the son
of his father, although an honored par
entage is nothing to be ashamed of. II
he had been born in a less humble sta
ton he would doubtless have risen by vir-
tue of the qualities that are in him. All
who know the governor will testify that
this is not fattery unless the pleasant
truth is tlattery. Vermont as State
will have further need of his services
when the time is ripe"
THE Sixteenth of August promises to
be quite an event, if the number OF
things proposed to be going on are of
any moment. With what we know our
selves, and the items published in our
Rutland and Troy exchanges considered,
the summary is about as follows: The
Father Mathew r. A. B. society will
celebrate the one hundred and sixteenth
anniversary of the battle of Bennington
August 10Th by field-day and picnic in
Hunts upper grove. Among the at
fractions will be De Combs New York
aerial bicycle troupe and 500 Graeco-
Roman wrestling match between Troy
and Albany athletes. The muster of the
National Gu I'd at Rutland will call the
Rifles out of town, and the annual meet
ing of the Sons of the American Revolu-
ton, in that place in the evening, will
call number of our people out Of town.
1t has been talked that the annual pa
rade and muster of the fire department
would take place that day. Chief Tiff
fanny tells that it is not yet decided, but
that probably the 2Sth will be the date.
The excursion to Wilmington via Hoo
sac Tunnel, was down for that day, but
the circus coming, they will choose a
date either earlier or later, of which due
notice will be given. Adam Forepaugh,
jr., will exhibit his circus afternoon and
evening, and the Bennington rovers will
have bicycle field day at the North
Bennington driving park. In the even
ing of the 18th play is announced al
the Opera house for the benefit of the
fire department. This ought to be
amusement enough for several dates
about the 10th.
THE Bennington Wooden mills this
week have gone upon hours per day
for 4 days a weeK-32 hours weekly
with prospect of half time in the neal