Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-05-14

committee or individual.
EDWARD RUGG, of Rutland, spent Sum-
day with his parents in town.
GEO. II. BURCH has moved into his
new house on Grand View street.
G. B. WELLINGTON of Troy, N. Y, has
come to his summer residence at the
Centre.
JOHN RYAN, at the freight house, is
unable to work for few days by reason
of sickness.
HOLDEN, LEONARD & Co., have begun
the erection of two double tenements on
Mill street.
ENGINEER GOULD of the Lebanon
Sp-ings railroad is off duty because of
sickno>,,
MI T., +, CovEY is spending couple
of wee, ntJh relatives and friends in
Kindelhook, N. Y.
GEO. II. BuRCH and N. NJ. Puffer are
in Boston attending the meeting of the
Supreme Grand Lodge, n. E. o. P.
RANSOM S. BUss, who has position
in a custom laundry at BrattlebOrO, spent
Sunday with his family in town.
THERE seems to be no improvement in
the condition of Mrs. j. r. Hewitt, who
has been seriously ill for the past three
weeks.
N. A. BURRITT, formerly of this village,
is now stationed at Montreal as the Ca
madam freight agent of the Delaware &
Hudson Canal Company.
Mr.. AND MRS. PATRICK LYONS and
Mrs. John Sheridan of CohOes, N. Y,
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Toomy over the Sabbath.
THE foundation to the new Savings
bank building is completed and laying
the granite has been begun, the corner
stone having been laid yesterday.
THE Rey. FIR. Plommondon, who has
had charge OF st. Francis de Sales church
and parish during the absence of Father
Barron, has gone to st. Johnsbury.
Mr.. AND Mrs. FRANK FERRIN, who
have been visiting with the family of
Harry Willoughby, returned to their
home in Hill, N. H., last Wednesday,
They were accompanied home by their
daughter, Mrs. Willoughby, for visit of
several weeks.
A LADY subscriber writes: Enclosed
find 40 cents, for which please send us
four copies of the Illustrated Supple
ment. We have enjoyed ours so much,
we desire to send them to friends who
lived in Bennington thirty years ago."
PAST GRAND MASTER H. L. STILLsoN,
Past Noble Grand NJ. E. Watson and j.
E. Walsh, and Past Colonel N. NJ. Puffer
of the Patriarchs Militant will attend the
session of the Grand Lodge, l. o. o. F.,
which meets at st. Johnsbury, to-mOr-
row.
THE Springfield Union for next Sun
day, the 10Th, will be edited entirely by
women, and extra efforts will be made to
make it superior in every respect. 1t
will be the first Sunday paper ever sold
here, the entire work on which was done
by women. Order copy of D. G. Burt.
IT has been reported that work on the
Bennington and Woodford Electric rail
road would be begun soon. A leading
official of the company stated yesterday,
that nothing had been definitely decided
upon and would not be for few days.
The company is trying to obtain posses
sion of some tracts of land along the pro-
posed line of the road, which they ex-
pect to do. Then the work will be be.
gun.
THE Tuttle Company of Rutland is
getting out a work that will not only
meet the requirement of the act of the
late Legislature, for special instruction
in our public schools in the geography,
history, constitution and principles of
the government of Vermont, but will do
a long needed work in fitting future citi-
zens for their duties. 1t is a Primary
Historical Reader of Vermont" and it
has been examined and commended by
some of the most prominent educators in
the State. The material is certainly
abundant to get out, good work of the
kind and school officers, who are charged
with the selection of books should wait
for an opportunity to examine this work
before making a selection.
j. S. HOLDEN. who refused to accept the work
at all and had the matter and illustrations that
were prepared withdrawn entirely, says he
could not stand it.-RefOrmer.
That settles it. Our Supplement, hav-
ing been pronounced most creditable
production, as piece of newspaper
work, by nearly every editor in Yer
mont, and said by many of them to be
the best work of the kind ever produced
in the State, we were inclined to believe
somewhat in the success of our effort.
But the disinterested and manly criti-
cism of Mr.. Holden, as expressed in the
above quotation from the Defdmer
would seem to be something from which
we can take no appeal. He is connOis-'
seur, and to his unprejudiced expression
of opinion of our work, although
severe blow to our hopes and ambition,
- IL. Il