The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-03-16


there Wednesday March 2Sth.
MISS E.. JOSEPHINE MOORE has re-
turned from Granville, N. Y, having ac-
cspted a position in Bennington.
GEO. H. WARREN, wife and child, of
Rutland, were down here over Sunday
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John FL. Warren.
STARK LODGE of Odd Fellows, will
work the Initiatory degree next Wednes-
day evening and the First degree the
succeeding week.
THE Fortnightly meets on Saturday
March 18th. The subject is: "Educa'
ton" The committee in charge are (:
Misses A. G. Park, A. D. Rogers and
Mrs. d. Carpenter.
THE business of Chas. II. Potter has
so increased, notwithstanding the hard
times, that he is talking of obtaining
more room for his stock. Meantime
keep an eye on the bargains he is offer
ing.
The not ce of Teachers Examina-
tions," in another column, to-day, will be
of interest to some of our readers. tx
aminer Simonds seems to be disposed to
accommodate the teachers of the county
as to time as far as it is in his power to
do so.
THE Boston Sunday Globe has the fol
lowing: "Miss Ruth Squire of Ben
nington, has been visiting Miss Lucy
Boone of Chester Square. The latter
gave a musical for her last week, at
which Miss Squire who is an accom-
plished pianist, played"
THE Domestic Bakery of Mrs. Poor's,
North street, will be open hereafter Sun
day evenings for lunches, and the usual
assortment of bread. Parker House rolls,
biscuits, pies and cakes will be on sale,
fresh from the oven, all the other days OF
the week. Lunches can, also, be OBJ
tanned every evening as formerly.
THE work of connecting with the sew
ers begins briskly with the opening
spring. Those of our readers who can
do so should take the opportunity to dis
pose of the waste from the house or
shop. and allow the clearing up of their
premises once for all Those who have
tried the sewers would not 90 back to
the old plan for any money.
ONE of the new wrinkles is bicycle
so arranged that the arms help the legs
to propel it. and the inventor, a French
man, recently beat champion bicychst
in an off hand race, although he had
only ridden less than year on wheel.
The motions of both legs and arms in
riding this improved bicycle are very
like those made in running.
THE Rev. Geo. L. Richardson, rector
of St Peters church, announces that the
Easter services in that sanitary will be
as follows: Holy Communion at a. m. ;
Morning Prayer, sermon and Holy Com
munion at 1890; Evening Prayer at
o'clock. The children of the Sunday
school are especially asked to be present
at the Evensong, with Carols.
1t is reported that the N. Y. G. and II.
r. railroad has acquired the Greenwich
and Johnsonville short line and proposes
to build the long talked of extention
through Granville, Middletown to Rut.
land and there connect with the Central
Vermont. If so there is another rail
road deal on foot and third parallel
road between Rutland and Troy. How
will this affect the B. & R.?
ONE result of the Woodford town
meeting is "hold over" constable. On
the ballot there was tie and the mod.
orator then cast the ballot in favor OF
Mr. Rooney, but as the polls were closed
he clearly had no right to so do. The
proper course was to take another ballot
That not being done, there is no vacancy
to be filled by n special town meeting
and Constable Gleason will continue ia
serve.
THERE is no contest over any of the
caucus nominations for village officers
and trustees, that we have heard of, and
so the board will stand as follow: Presi-
dent, IL. s. Bingham; clerk, John H.
Kelso; treasurer, George F. Graves; col
lector, Fred Godfrey: auditors, c. H,
Mason, John P. Guiltinan, II. d. Fill
more. Trustees: Ward /, John S. Hol-
den; Ward 2, Martin E. Lyons; Ward 3,
John Carrigan; Ward 4, Geo. r. Mat.
thews; Ward 5, G. B. Wall; Ward 6, John
T. Shurtleff; Ward 7, Fremont Gregg.
ABOUT o'clock, Monday evening, a
horse belonging to George Moore, that
was hitched in front of residence on
Pleasant street. became frightened and
breaking away, ran down the street at a
rapid rate. The animal was unable to
turn the corner at North street, and
dashed through the glass front Of the
Reformer Office, breaking out part OF
the door and large part of the large
window. 1t immediately backed out,
and, freeing itself from the wagon,
started towards home, but was caught
before it arrived there.
WE have received from the publishers
a copy of a song and chorus: "A love
that will never die" words by James
Habberiey; music by Rudolph o. Gold
smith. This ballad is published here by
these gentlemen, and is composition
that is exceedingly creditable. 1t is
much above the ordinary publications of
this class, it is catchy" the music is
finely adapted to the words, and we pre-
dict a large demand. The music at the
close of each stanza is particularly pleas
ing as an Interpretation of the poets
sentiment. Our local readers will of
course procure this song.
THE first Masonic Lodge in Vermont
was Vermont Lodge at Springfield,
which was chartered November 10th.
1881, by the Massachusetts, Grand Lodge.
North Star at Manchester was chartered
January Goth. 1855, by the same Grand
Lodge. Dorchester at Vergennes was
chartered May 9Th, 1901, by Sir John
Johnson, Bart, Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Quebec. Temple at
Bennington was chartered May 18th,
1893, by the Grand Lodge of Connecticut,
and Union at MiddleburY was chartered
May 18th, by the same Grand Lodge.
The charter of Vermont Lodge is now in
Windsor. These five formed the first
Grand Lodge of Vermont. Paul Revere
was one of the wardens of the Massa-
chusetts Grand Lodge who sighed the