Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-06-05

ton are visiting with his parents in Black
linton, Mass.
JOHN WYLIE, who holds a fine posi-
ton IN Brooklyn, N Y, was in town
over Sunday, returning yesterday.
WIN. A. Roof and family came ON tc
Bennington Saturday, from Lakewood
N. j., where they have passed the win
ter.
CHAs. M. WooD is making repairs up
on his residence, corner Union and Will
low streets, painting the same in an at
tractive manner.
THE Lebanon Springs railroad is using
wood in their locomotives entirely, and
at times some difficulty is experienced in
keeping up steam.
E. G. BUMP picked two quarts of ripe
field strawberries Friday morniog. This
species of berries promises to be quite
plenty this season.
Mrs. Col. A. POTTER and daughter
Agnes have just returned to their home
in North Adams from California, where
they spent the winter.
THE remains of the late Luther R.
Graves were taken yesterday afternoon
at four o'clock from the receiving vault
and laid at rest in the family lot in the
Centre cemetery.
If you wish to see prosperous look
ing locality, just look at the lands of 1t
w. G. Richardson, just north of this vii
lage, the next time you ride past it. He
occupies the old Fairbanks homestead.
THE Bennington & Rutland Railway is
using hard wood for fuel on some of its
engines, owing to the continued scarcity
of coal. The company is saving the lat
ter to use on the engines that run the fly
ers and the sleepers.
THE bicycle races that were to come off
Saturday on Rensselaer, Park were post
poned until this week, by reason of both
the rain and the heavy condition of the
track, J. Elmer Ayres is to ride in these
races.
THE basin for the fountain, memorial
of the late Mrs. Eli Tiffany, in the V. l. S.
park, is completed, and the superstruc-
ture will soon be placed in position. The
basin is octagon in shape, and is about
twelve feet in diameter.
Mrs. MARGARET GILMAN, whose death
is announced in another column, was a
sister of Prof. Fred N. Squire of this vii
lage. She passed away on the 31st ult.,
aged &C. years. Mrs. Gilman left Ben
nington about forty years ago. Her first
husbands name was VIM. Bratt, and her
second marriage was to Mr. Gilman.
THE st. Albans Messenger of Saturday,
speaking of alabama" which is to be
presented at the Opera House tomorrow
evening, says: ''The performance of
Alabama" at the opera house last night
was, all things considered, one of the fin
est dramatic entertainments ever seen
in this town. The parts were all admir-
ably sustained and the details of the
presentation we'll looked after"
WHY don't some sensational Boston
Globe or Journal writer write up a bo-
gus article upon Wilmington's deserted
v1llage?" Not a house now stands
where once was the entire village of Will
mington on the hill; only the old cellar
holes mark the place where the village
stood when the present village site was
a swamp and grown up Wilderness
Wilmington Times
PAST DEPARTMENT COMMANDER A.
3. VALENTINE was among the speakers
at the camp fire given by Roberts Post
of Rutland, Friday evening, when Me-
mortal record book was presented to the
Post by the Hon. John w. Cramton.
The book is beautiful piece of work
and cost Sl25. Every person connected
with the post has full page allotted TO
him, in which to preserve his military
history.
WALBRIDGE, the furniture man, and
Gibson, the druggist, are putting in eel
lar windows in front of their business
buildings on Main street, preparatory to
raising fhair xuall,c to Il rhic
bles them both to utilize their cellars for
storage. These Improvements have been
delayed since last year waiting for the
village fathers to finish the cutters by
turning the corners of Main and Wi How
streets, just completed.
EUGENE L. GRAVES of Cleveland, O.,
has been in town the past few days, call
ed here to attend the burial of his father
as noted in another item. He remarks
upon the increased amount of local mat
ter given by the BANNER these days, and
says it is what people away from Ben
ningtOn, as he is, are looking for, and
that he likes the idea of a semi-weekly
paper. We are pleased to state that 300
other people have expressed like opin-
ion, and become subscribers to the paper
within the past three weeks.
On Sunday tramp was arrested at
our depot supposed to be the one who
so .fiendishly assaulted fifteen year old
girl at COleraine, Mass, recently. Com
munication with the officers at Green
field showed that they have in jail there
the fellow who did the dastardly deed at
Coleraine, and so this tramp was sent up
to the work house for 20 days, for drunk
enness. He gave his name as Michael
Burke, said he was born in Iowa, and
that he got drunk on New York State
liquor.
leach YEAR." says Gov. Francis of
Missouri, "the local paper gives from $500
to $4,000 in free lines to the community
in which it is located. No other agency
can or will do this. The editor. in pro-
portion to his means, does more for his
town than any other ten men, and in all
fairness with men he ought to be sup
ported-not because you like him or ad-
mire his writings, but because the local
paper is the best investment a communi-
ty can make. 1t may not be brilliantly
edited or crowded with thought, but f.
nancially it is of more benefit to the COM
munity than the teacher or preacher.
Understand me, do not mean mentally
or morally, but financially, and yet on the
moral question you will find most of the
local papers on the right side. To-day
the editors of the home papers do the
most for the least money of any people
on the face of the earth.n