The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-03-16
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SUPERINTENDENT E. D. BENNETT and
family arrived at Shreveport, La, Sat
urday.
THE "Peerless ,Wove' writing paper
sells for 20 cents per box at the BANNER
Office. For 20 cents, you can find none
better.
FRED SMITH has a fine assortment of
Easter ties, all the latest styles and pat
terms. See his fine show windows,
North street.
DR.. F. W. GooDALL is seriously i'll
with appendicitis. For time, his con-
dition was considered critical and his
sons were sent for.
DIR. J. w. RACETTE will move, April
list, from Main street to the corner of
North and Gage streets. DR.. RaceGte is
getting good practice in town and is
we'll liked.
THE Hoosick Falls, N. Y, Democrat
says: "Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Russell of
60 Wilder avenue, will leave for Benning-
ton, the LIST of April, and reside there in
future
ATTENTION is called to the annual
meeting of V. |. S.. and also for the pur-
pose of arranging to put in fountain in
the cemetery park. A large attendance
is desired.
THE village auditors have been busy
this week on the accounts of the mu-
nicipality, and the results are given in
their report published in another col
umn to day.
MISS MAY SPEARE, eldest daughter of
E. S. Speare, after six weeks illness,
passed away at d o'clock a. M, yester-
day. Funeral from the Methodist
church, Sunday, at o'clock in the after
moon.
IT will be seen that there are quite a
number of important items of business
to be transacted at the village meeting
next Tuesday. The yarious items in the
warning and the information given by
the auditors is of interest to all our local
readers.
Mrs. MARY HARDWOOD MILES of Can
andaigua, N. Y, an aunt of H. o. Har-
wood of this village, died February Dist,
at the age of nearly "a years. She was
known to some of our readers and was
an old subscriber of the BANNER.
The executive committee of the trus-
tees of the Soldiers Home will meet
here in April, for the annual inspection,
etc., before the close of the fiscal year.
There are now 81 members of the Home,
ID of them being present. There are II
now in the hospital, seven of them quite
serious cases.
THE Rev. Geo. L. Richardson will be-
gin as rector of st. Peters church on
Easter Sunday. He will live in the rec
tory on School street, so long used as a
Parish hall. April Sth, the occasion of
Bishop Halls first visitation, Mr.. Rich
ardson will be formerly instituted, a
ceremony performed for the first time in
Bennington.
In the contest for the sites of the three
proposed Normal schools in Massachu-
sets, we notice that North Adams has
been selected as one location and Fitch
burg another. We congratulate the
"Tunuel City, on it's recognition and,
with the Valley News, think it shows
that the claim was urged with tact and
good judgment.
EASTER comes very early this year, as
il falls on March 25th, but it will be
nearly 100 years before it falls again on
this date, the next years being 1851,
2035, 2O46, POST, 21O3, 2114, 2125 and 2l9S.
The earliest date upon which Easter can
fall is March 22nd, and the last casters
on this date were in the years 1893, 171t
and 1878; but so early an Easter will not
come again until 1870.