Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1896-01-14

III DIou9nC out pOrJlOn OF the nre de
partment for the third time this year
but their services were not needed A
lamp was knocked to the floor in the
tenement in S. H. RockwoOds house on
Union Street, occupied by Oscar Lowney
The lamp exploded damaging the car
pet etc., but the fire was out before the
companies arrived there. The damage
was slight.
Mrs. l. E. GIBSON, district deputy
grand master, assisted by Mrs. II. L.
Stillson as grand marshal, Mrs. John H.
Ayres as grand treasurer, Mrs. Geo. H.
HARDWOOD as grand secretary, Mrs. j. H..
Livingston and Mrs. James HoughtOn,
went to Manchester last evening and in.
stalled the officers of Excelsior Lodge
Daughters of Rebekah. At the close of
the exercises, banquet was served.
The visitors returned home on the
sleeper.
AT the annual meeting of the Ben
nington Fire Department Saturday even
ing, Frank NJ Tiffany will undoubtedly
be re-nominated as chief engineer of the
department. First Assistant Sullivan
will not be a candidate for rejection.
Chas. Barnes, second assistant, will be a
candidate for the vacancy caused by the
retirement of Mr.. Sullivan. 1t is report
ed that the members of Putnam Hose
Co., of which Mr. Sullivan is a member,
will support VIM WEIGH, another men,
Der. as a candidate for the vacancy that
will occur.
THE annual meeting of the Second Ma
sonic District of Vermont will be held
with Red Mountain Lodge, of Arlington.
Tuesday next, the 2lst inst, afternoon
and evening. District Deputy McWain
of Adoniram Lodge, Manchester, will
preside. The work of the second degree
will be exemplified by Mount Anthony
Lodge of this village. Grand Master
Kittredge Haskins, of Brattleboro, and
Grand Lecturer Charles K. Montague, of
Woodstock, will be present. Past Grand
Master John II. Whipple, of Manches.
ter, Grand Tyler Emmett G. futile and
and other past and grand officers will be
present. Following the evening exer-
cises a banquet will be spread. The
Bennington and Rutland railroad will
carry for fare one way, from any point
in the District. which embraces Ben
niugtOn County.
THE BANNER has several times recent
ly touched upon Bennington's need of a
Board of Trade, some organization,
whose purpose it shall be TO secure for
Bennington some of those industries
which are always on the lookout for
some place in which to locate. Now, all
work done in this line is by individuals,
and what is left for everyone to do, no
one does. The BrattleborO Reformer, in
the following, shows that that place is
also in need of some organized effort to
enlarge its industries. What that paper
says will apply, in great measure, to
Bennington: "As Brattleboro enters
upon what is likely to prove the dullest
winter she las ever known in a business
sense, it is time to ask whether we had
not better organize Board of Trade
again, not such one as we had before
though even that did some good in its
short life--but one that will have gen.
uine solid basis, will be made up not of
81 members, but of men who will be
willing to put up S2j or $50 year if
necessary to insure persistent, consistent
and continuous work to build up bust
ness, that will be in shape to investigate
aud improve thoroughly every opportun-
ity that offers, instead of letting it slip
by for lack of any individual interest, and
will secure for Brattleboro some of the
industries that other towns are constant
ly getting. We are now altogether too
much of a one industry town, and
though the organ business is a most de-
sirable one, one that employs the best
kind of help, and one that is sure to
have great future, it is business that
is more liable than any other to be af.
fected by period of hard times, because
its product is luxury and its market
chiefly among people whose purcha iag
capacity is the first to be cut off, and we
must have more of other kinds. The
other kinds that we already have have
done much towards filling the gap, but
not euouuh ~