Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-09-18

MRS. q. N. POWERS spent Sunday with
her mother in Middlebury.
HART, at the Mill Store, is the only
one here who advertises 10 pounds of
granulated sugar for 81. Make a note
of this.
MRS. FANNY MCLEOD has gone to New
York this week to purchase fall goods.
Look out for her opening advertisement
when she returns.
IT ought to be made crime punish
able by severe penalties to advise or
counsel suicide in any manner, whatever,
by writing or speaking.
THAT George W. Collins was in Rut-
land after he left here Saturday, Septem-
Der 1st, there is no doubt. The Monday
following DR.. S. r. Wilcox received a
letter from him written on paper with
the Bardwell House heading, and post
marked on Essex Junction and Boston
r. P. o., which runs from Essex juno
ton to Boston via Rutland. No further
information has been received from him.
To accommodate those who wish to
attend the Hoosick Valley Fair at North
Adams, September 10Th and goth, the
Lebanon Springs railroad will attach to
their regular train leaving Bennington at
S.25 a. M, a special car which will run
through to North Adams, and stopping
at the fair grounds. Returning car will
be attached to train No. 7, leaving North
Adams at o'clock p. M. stopping at
the fair ground at $40 p. m, and reach
ing Bennington at Cos p. IN. Fare for
round trip, including admission to fair
ground, $1.25.
THE committee of the Bennington His
torical Society, appointed to report if a
plan for union of that society with the
Bennington Battle Monument Associa-
ton were practicable, has decided adj
versely. The objects of the organize
lions are different. The Monument AS
ISOLATION is corporation, with members
in four States, having one object only;
the society has several objects, and only
citizens of Bennington are eligible to
membership, and it is not a corporation
The society has in view marking the his
torical localities of the town, the erection
of a soldiers monument and other OBJ
jects, all of local nature. 1t was, there
fore, considered impracticable to unite
the two organizations.
The North Adams correspondent of
the Sunday Globe, says: 'tTheJ terrible
accident in the tunnel Sunday morning
came as a shock to the town, 1t was the
first serious accident that had occurred
there since it was opened to traffic.
Every one was glad that the town had a
hospital where the victims of the disas-
ter could receive the best of care and at
tention. 1t calls to mind that the town
owes its fine hospital to the public spirit
that was aroused when the caboose acct
dent occurred number of years ago and
the need of hospital was made so clear
ly apparent. AS needed public institu-
tion it came as result of that terrible ac-
cident years ago, in which hundreds
have since been cared for and relieved as
far as possible of their suffering, so this
accident has brought some good. The
need of the ambulance has long been felt,
but the managers of the hospital did not
feel that they could assume the expense,
and so it needed this new calamity to
again arouse public spirit, and over $500
has been subscribed for the purchase of
an ambulance. James II. Flagg has gen.
erously offered to assume the expense of
maintaining it for year." We copy the
above not only for news, but to suggest
that hospital in Bennington would he
as good an institution as in North
Adams. And with all the modern i'm
provements, fire alarm, electric lights,
sewers, city water, ETC., not to forget the
proposed electric railway, why not have
an endowed hospital as well?