The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-12
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

CURED in Berlin on Thursday, was an
aunt of Mrs. E. w. Bradford of this viii
lage.
J. ED WALBRIDGE is building a tene-
ment house on Grand View Terrace in
addition to the one he will occupy him
self.
COLONEL. E. d. BENNETT. and wife,
Major r. j. Coffey and wife attended
the kirmess festival in st. Adams Friday
evening.
MRS. ]. B. PARMENFER leaves the
first of the coming week for several
weeks visit in Maine. Mrs. Monroe
will accompany her.
THE board of trustees for the Soldiers
Home are having plans drawn for new
driveway to be laid through the grounds
extending around in front of the chapel,
thence out to the main entrance.
Gov. FULLER has appointed the COM
missioners to revise the laws of the state
authorized by an act of the last legisla-
ture, they are Col. Alfred A. Hall of St.
Adams, Hons. P. X. Gleed of Norris
vile and o. NJ. Barber of Arlington.
Miss CLARA STEARNs will give free
organ recital this afternoon at 4 o'clock
in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church
She will be assisted by Miss Mary L.
Hutchings of Bennington, George Doring
and the Premier Notwithstanding
Troy Telegram.
The Grand Chapter, Order Eastern
Srar, meets in annual convocation, in st.
Johnsbury, Wednesday, June I. Ar
rangements are in progress to obtain re-
duoed rates of fare on the railroads.
Three new chapters have been formed in
l,n Of
and Cabot.
THE Troy Telegram of Saturday. says ::
Frank E. Stack has gone to Bennington
to accept a responsible position with E.
L. Hart & Co., of that place. Franks
many friends wish him unbounded sue
cess in his new field of labor" Mr..
Stark succeeds to the place made vacant
by the retirement of Robert Elliott, as
stated last week.
AMONG the long list of names of those
who attended the Home Market Clubs
Boston dinner in honor of Coy. McKin-
ley, last week, we notice Maj. A. b. Val
entine and |. E. Gibson of Bennington.
Hon. H. T. Cady of North Adams, and
others from Western Massachusetts were
also in attendance.
HERE is straw which indicates the
depopulation of Vermont rural districts
Thirty years ago in the ''red school
house district, in Bridgewater, ten
families resided, having 25 pupils of
school age. To-day family with one
child, and widow near by, are the only
inhabitants of the lonely region.
d. L. MORGAN of Rutland, whom Gov.
Fuller has appointed superintendent of
the house of correction to succeed Geo.
n. Eayres is tailor, it appears. The
Windsor Journal suggests that it is nat
nral to suppose that the house of correc-
ton may be turned into grand estab
lishment for the production of tailor
made suits.
GEN. MCCULLOUGH caught the ''Press
excursion" Saturday, by going up
special to Rutland with the car used
onthe Branch. He arrived with ten
minutes to spare, meantime an old New
York, Rutland and Montreal car did SER
vice between here and North Benning
ton during the afternoon. 1t was gay
party that left st. Adams for the Worlds
fair that evening.
ABOUT this time some husbands go
home with trembling step-not for
what they have done but for fear of what
they may have to do. Very likely car
pet must be cleaned, stove moved or
some other useless job, they think, done.
Take this and living on cold victuals a
few days in connection with the weather
like that of the past week does not tend
to improve ones temper.
IT does seem to us that the wretched
condition of our cross walks ought to be
remedied and that there is no excuse for
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we have had to do all the spring. As al
lowed to go our new cross walks are the
greatest inconvenience and nuisance
Bennington has yet had IN the matter of
streets, Will the street commissioner
please take notice.
The calling in of the deposit books for
verification at the Savings bank is hav-
ing some interesting results, illustrative
of the rush and change of our American
life. The Vermont bank at Brattleboro
has got back two old books, issued back
in the fifties to two brothers who were
killed in the war, whose parents are both
dead and an uncle claims as the nearest
heir. They have got back another old
book, dating back some 45 years to the
days when the bank was first started.
The original and only deposit is record
ed at $400 The depositor has since
drawn out $500 and still has $1,000 to his
credit.
WE find pleasant personal item in
the Troy Press relative to an old friend
of the writer In giving it we first re-
mark that we long since agreed to dis.
agree politically. Mr.. Lyon is known to
many of our readers in the north part of
this county. The Press says civilian
Lyon of Middle Granville, who as chair
man of the county committees, guides
the Democracy of Washington county to
the satisfaction of all, called on Troy
friends yesterday. Although he has
large business interests he gives to pol
itics part of his time, and the conse-
quence is that unity of opinion and ac-
tion prevails owing to his sagacious judg-
ment and popularity"
THE Hartland correspondent of the
Vermont Journal, has an item that will
be of interest to our readers as follows:
Mrs l.. A. Grant of Minneapolis, Nina,
reached Hartland Friday morning with
the remains of her mother, Mrs. Alfred
Pierce, her husband Gen. Grant coming
Thursday from Washington, d. G.
Friends from distance were Nina Pierce
from Minneapolis; VIM. Chamberlain,
Chesterfield; Burt Bishop and daughter,
Bolton. Mrs. Pierce was buried in the
family lot here. The bearers were VIM.
Chamberlain, w. r. Sturtevant, VIM. T.
Perry aud j. II Emerson. Rev. A. w.
Ford conducting short services at the