Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-05-01

urday on business OF Jne county.
MRS. FRANK M. TIFFANY is said to be
recovering from her recent severe ILL
ness.
Hon. GEORGE w. HARTMAN left home,
Monday, for business trip of several
days.
DIR. H. ]. POTTER JR., is painting and
otherwise improving his house on Union
street.
WALBR1DGE is ''on deck' in this issue
as announced last Friday. Read what
he says.
FISHING tackle is in great demand to-
day. Reason-the opening season for
trouting.
THE advent of the street sprinkler is
great relief from the dusty condition of
our streets during most of the past two
months.
MRS. HELEN R. DELEvAN of Albany.
N. Y, has come to her summer home at
the Centre.
F. o. GRAVES has begun the cellars on
which his present residence is to stand,
after being cut in two and made into two
tenements.
TAFT CoMMANDERY, K. T., meets in
regular conclave Thursday evening of
this week, and will confer the Order of
the Temple.
THE Messrs. Burt Bros. have an ad-
vertisement in this issue that will inter-
est our people. They are reliable and
will do as they agree.
THE recent rains gave the grass a
healthy start and the hum of the lawn
mower on the many closely-clipped lawns
of the village is familiar sound these
days.
Gov. FULLER has appointed Prof Ed
win II. Whitehill, principal of Wood
stock high school, examiner of teachers
for Windsor county, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Prof. Guy George
of Windsor.
THE little grandson of Michael Cronin,
sick with scarlet fever, corner of River
and Depot streets, is doing well, and
hopes are entertained that the disease
may be kept confined to the one case
where it started.
THE Williams College glee, banjo and
mandolin clubs, the whole mum bering
about twenty-five performers, gave a
concert at the Opera House last Friday
evening. The concert was fine and de-
served better house. We predict that
if these clubs will come again, and give
more extended notice, that our people
will be glad to hear them in some of
their excellent specialties.
HARRY WILLoUGHBY has offered to
donate cross of galvanized iron for the
spire of st. Peters church, if the church
will gid it. 1t is said that the cost of the
gold will be about $50, and the question
arises: will some one step forward, and,
with others, pay the expense2 This
should be done and we hope to announce
in our Fridays issue that Mr.. Willough-
by's generous offer has been accepted.
A WELL known newspaper man, one
who has been connected with the press
of the State, and in Boston for number
of years, visited here last week and
among the places he visited, were the
new fire department quarters on Stafford
street. He was highly pleased with
them, and said while he had seen much
larger, yet had never visited any rooms,
that were in any way superior to those
of the Tiffany hose and Bradford hooks.
THE Free Press of Saturday, says:
alderman and Mrs. Fl. W. Hall re-
turned last evening from Bennington,
where they attended the dedicatory ex-
ercises of Stark Lodge, 1. o. o. F.,
Thursday night. They were entertained
by Major and Mrs. R. j. Coffey at the
Soldiers Home yesterday" Mr.. Hall is
already talked of as the next Republican
mayor of Burlington. His record as
distancing his Democratic opponent we
lately gave in the BANNER.
THE season for trouting began at mid
night this morning. There is tradi-
ton extant of Bennington lone fisher
man who stood ON the Putnam bridge
watching the town clock and waiting to
hear the twelve strokes ere the line was
thrown into the water. This year we
presume no such thing occurred, as the
close season was off in New York State
April 18th, at least the part of the COM
monwealth near us, and the "speckled
beauties" of the Little Hoosac were COM
mon property since that date.
THERE are several capitalists in West
ern Vermont, as well as in other locali-
ties, who will be interested in this item:
''W. R. Rice, formerly of Windsor, has
turned up in New York, whore he is said
to have succeeded in placing several mil
lions of bonds of building company
which proposes to erect in Buffalo, N.
Y, the largest Office building in the
world. The Saunterer is of the opinion
that there will not be much call for these
bonds by Vermont investors in Fort
Payne, Cardiff and Denison."
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