The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-03

are visiting at Mr.. John H. Warren's this
week.
DR.. F. S. Pratt was one of the judges
at the Merchants Carnival, held in Cam
bridge, n. Y, recently.
Letter Carrier Haynes was called away
to attend the funeral of his aunt at
Hoosick Falls February 2Sth.
The pastor of the Second Congrega-
tional church, the Rev. Chas. r. Sey-
mour, will close a series of Sunday even
ing sermons with three in "the up
grade" That of next Sunday evening
is entitled, Sober"
Captain Guy c. Howard, assistant
quartermaster, U. S. A., son of Major
General o. o. Howard, has been assigned
by the Secretary of War to superintend
the construction of the new cavalry post
at Burlington.
The members of Custer Post No. 42,G.
A. R., will give public campfire in
their rooms Saturday evening. Special
invitations have been sent to the Sixth
Corps Post, which will be present, also
to the Sons of Veterans, Woman's Relief
Corps and citizens.
E. A. Booth, who has been nominated
by both Republicans and Democrats for
the position of town CLERK, has held the
Office six years, and for several years be-
fore was clerk to his predecessor, the
late David F. Squires.
Attention is called this week to the
advertisement OF the Northwestern
Mutual Life insurance Company. Mr..
Norton the General Agent is competent
to fulfill any agreement that he may
make and is willing to do SO in the
instance quoted.
son, who have been spending several
weeks in New York and vicinity, will
return home tomorrow night Their
return home was delayed on account of
the illness of Mrs. Richardson, she hav-
ing suffered from an attack of la Grippe.
As will be seen in another item and by
our last issue, there will be but two tick
cts to be voted upon at the coming Town
meeting: The Republican and the Dem
Ocratic. In fact, our readers will note
that while each party has nominated a
ticket it is not entirely on partisan lines,
the same town clerk beiog on both
tickets.
The building OH Depot street, formerly
owned by James Pike Of North Adams,
and recently occupied as a market by A.
j. Pike, with the land running from the
street to the tracks of the Bennington
and Rutland railway has been sold to
Frank E. Bailey of New York for 81, 1000.
The lot has frontage of sixty-six feet
and depth of $50 feet.
Next Tuesday there will be neigh
borhood meeting, so-called, of thirteen
Sunday schools in the Methodist church,
when the Sunday schools of the towns of
Bennington and Woodford will meet for
social time and to devise means for the
encouragement of religious workers la
boring under diffinultioH in email anoish
borhoods in the towns. Refreshments
will be served.
The N. U. quartette of which E. c.
Bennett is a member and to which allu-
sion was made recently, has just started
out on trip of eight engagements in
Vermont and New Hampshire, covering
a circuit of 500 miles. E. w. Gaynor
was the first prize speaker and Bennett
the second Both are members of the
quartette and they give readings in con-
nectiOn with the concerts.
THE Democratic caucus last Friday
evening organized by the election of
Daniel Reyes, chairman, and MI. WEIGH,
secretary The following ticket was
placed in nomination: For Moderator,
Emmett B. Daley; Town Clerk, E. A.
Booth; Selectmcn, r. NJ. Houghton, AL
fred Robinson, Chas. H. Houghton;
Treasurer, Geo. F. Graves; Overseer of
Poor, NJ. w. Stewart; First Constable
aud Collector, Andrew j. Griffin; Second
Constable, John Nash; listers, Emory S.
Harris, J. j. Miller, Jared Howard, NJ.
V. Armstrong, Edward Walbridge; aud
itors, E. B. Daley, E. D. yelling, Fl. F.
Fillmore; trustee of public money, Enos
Adams; fence viewers, E. II. Rudd, Geo.
L. White, John Cone; grand jurors, Sam
uel Keyes, L. B. Newton, Michael WEIGH;
inspector of leather, James X. Miller;
pound keeper, Morris Connolly; survey
or of wood and inspector of lumber and
shingles, Albert NJ. Downs; town agent,
John Robinson; road commissioner,
Paul NJ. Sanders; school directors, Gar
riet Paddock, Geo. L. White, Jared
Howard, Edward Rice, S. L. Robinson,
Jos. Crowley.
THE Troy Times has the following:
"The owners of the electric light plant
of Hoosick Falls have in contemplation
the building of a railroad from that en-
tsrprising village through North Hoosick
and WallOomsac to Bennington, Vt. AS
the electric light plant at Bennington is
owned by the same parties who hold the
stock in the HOosick Falls plant, power
would be used from both ends of the
line. The two plants have surplus of
$50 horse power, and to make the large
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