The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-04-06
THE BENNINGTON BANNER, FRIDAY. APRIL 6, 1894

TAE President yesterday appointed
John Robinson Postmaster of Benning-
ton. The name of ex-Sheriff Robinson
was sent to the Senate with that of O. b.
Tilden of Mortified, two Vermont APP
pointments.
e. S. GoKAY, having sold his Main
street photograph gallery to Mr.. G. r,
| Farnum, has begun to build light on
the top of his house, Union street, for
the purpose of opening another suite of
artist rooms. The frame is up for the
second story.
THE Odd Fellows will open their new
hall to the public the 26th of this month,
the Diamond anniversary of tile !. o. o.
F. The hall will be dedicated with the
usual ceremony by Grand Master Farrar,
assisted by the Grand officers, and a
social time and banquet will follow.
THE visit of Bishop Hall to st. Peter S
parish is looked forward to with much
interest. He will arrive in town Satur-
day and on the evening of that day be
| given a reception at the rectOry, where
| the people of that church will have an
opportunity to meet their bishop. The
order of services, Sunday, is given in an
other item to-day.
! WHY does not organized labor speak
out now in favor of Protection? In all
| large towns and cities there are labor
unions that can make themselves power
| on occasion, and now several millions of
members are out of work because of the
menace of British Free Trade. Why not
petition Congress in body to kill the
| Wilson bill and restore the good times of
the past 80 yearsP
JOHN w. BEEBE of Kans as City. Mo-,
writes under date of the End, inst: 1--WE
observe an item in your paper referring
to notice in the Troy Times of the
death of my wife. We are at loss to
know how this notice found its way into
the paper. Although Mrs. Beebe has
been quite an invalid for a number of
| years, she is now IN fair health"
THE City Band held an election of Off
GERS Monday evening, with the following
result: G. W. Evans, president; n. r.
Thompson, vice-presideDt; w. L. Long,
secretary; G. E. Cook, treasurer; Ed
ward Scully, business manager: f. B.
Packard, N. r. Thompson, Edwin Cor
bett, finance committee and auditors;
r. o. Goldsmith. leader.
W. G. BULL, architect, is at work on
plans for a new residence, contemplated
by Fred o. Graves. Mr.. Graves says he
has not decided as to when he shall
build, but we hope it may be in the near
future. He has an elegant site on the
corner of Washington avenue and Elm
street. When completed that locality
will have five elegant residences, and be
one of the finest parts of our village.
THE Rev. James Ten Brooke, the tai
ented pastor of the Berean church, Bur-
lington, has consented to deliver his in
teresting and instructive lecture, en-
titled: 1.-THE Hero of the Fall of Jeru-
SALEM" Wednesday evening, April 18th,
in the chapel of the Baptist church. Mr..
Ten Brooke comes by invitation of the
Y. P S. G. E. The price of admission
has been placed at ten cents, that as
many as possible may be able to attend
this instructive and able lecture.
THE spring term of the Graded schools
began Monday, with a increased regis
tration of pupils. The primary depart
ment is so full that a room has been
hired in the old armory building to con
tain the scholars and another teacher
will be employed. Monday, most of the
new scholars had to be sent home until
there could be suitable quarters provided.
This opens the question of an enlarge
ment of the present school building,
which, as, is seen, has been outgrown.
Mr.. JARED HOWARD of this town, re-
ceived letter Monday from Beloit, Kan
sas, announcing the serious illness of his
son, who is veterinary surgeon, and
who is named after his father. DR.. How
ard. in performing a surgical operation,
cut both hands, and blood poisoning en-
sued. The accident happened March
10th, and at the date of the letter, the
Goth. ult., the disease had been gotten
under control, although the patients con-
dition continued serious.
REFERRING to another item about the
trip of the N. E. o. P, to North Adams,
Tuesday, the Herald of the Tunnel city
says: "Pythian hall has never in its
history had so many couples on its floor
at one time as there were last evening.
For besides the usual attendance of
members and their friends, there were
numbers of out-of-town orders present.
A special car from Adams brought over
forty members of the order up, while
four. horse load of fourteen drove from
Bennington, and returned last evening.
In this later party were District Deputy
N. NJ. Puffer; Warden G. N. Phillips and
wife; Supreme Guide, G. H. Burch and
wife and some other officers. There
were also number present from Pow
nal. The guests partoek of their ban
quet first, as the tables were not ample
enough to supply all at once. Caterer
McElligott served the repast The com
pany dispersed at an early hour after
very pleasant evening"
THE evidence in the case of E. A.
Hamilton, of Manchester Centre, charged
with firing his store, closed Saturday.
Several witnesses swore positively that
they were early at the fire and that it
was confined to the store. Five witnes-
ses positively swore that that saw it at
the same time and the fire was coming
out of the back windows two stories
above the store. Defence claims the fire
originated from a defective chimney.
Several witnesses testified that the ac-
cused was hard pressed for money, and
that the stock was insured for more than
its value. Testimony for the defence
tended to show that Hamilton, on the
night of the fire, attended a Masonic
Lodge meeting until 10 p. M, arrived at
his boarding place and went to bed at
1920 p. M, and that the alarm of fire
was given at II 40. Persons in the house
were awake till after II and the accused
did not go out. The general impression
IS that the evidence is not strong enough
to hold the accused. Justice Dean held
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