The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-03-01
FRANZ 3. HOWE. Editor and PuhllshsI
What VIII You Do About IT.

The voters Of Bennington have the
question of the new county buildings
in their own hands tomorrow and the
result will be what they make it, If
they are public spirited and want to
have their town improve and prosper
they will unitedly vote yes on the
courthouse ballot and it will be car
ried. If any considerable number
vote no it will be lost.
A yes majority means that the dis
grace of the present courthouse and
jail here will be removed. We now
have the poorest, most unsuitable and
most unhealthy county buildings in
the state. If Bennington voters have
any public spirit and pride in their
town and county, any desire to have
the town grow and its real estate to
increase in value, they will be at the
polls tomorrow and vote yes on the
courthouse question. Not only will
they be there but they will have their
friends there.
If yes majority on this question
prevails it means the spending Of $780,
600 in Bennington during the next
two years. 1t means prosperity for
the town, more work for the people,
increase in prosperity, increased trade
for the stores, more money in clrcula-
ton, increased value of the towns
real estate, increased money for the
neighboring towns that bring their
goods here to market, and increased
honor for the county of Bennington,
Isn't it worth being at the polls and
voting for?
We cannot expect much help from
the north end of the county They
have a good and sufficient courthouse
up there but do not seem to be willing
that we should have one down here
Our present courthouse and Jail,
which never ought to have been ac-
cepted by the county, were built forty
years ago, with a Manchester man
in charge of the job. The towns of
Bennington, SALISBURY, Pownal and
others of the south shire could not
help themselves. They had to take
what they could get and they got it
in the neck. viii not the south shire
men come out tomorrow and vote yes,
for the credit of their shire as well as
to improve the business conditions
of this end of the county?
1t is not Bennington alone that Is
interested in this. SALISBURY, Ar
lington, Pownal Woodford and other
towns of this section are just as much
affected Bennington buys her lum
Der in Salisbury, Arlington and
Woodford, and her farm products in
Pownal, SALISBURY, Arlington, Sand
gate, Sunderland, Searsburg, STAN
ford and other towns. When anything
helps this town it helps all theothers
The tax is so small that nobody vii
notice ii while the benefits to be de
rived will be lasting.
If the new buildings are not bull
now they are sure to be in the neal
future. If the present buildings are
left to be condemned by the Judge:
or the state board of health, we shall
not have anything to say on the sub
iect. They will have to be built anC
paid for at probably twice the expense
to the county. lint is the right time
now to vote yes on the courthouse
question, when we know exactly what
we are voting for and are taking w
no burden? The readers of the Ban
ner who are voters can carry the ques-
ton as they choose. We appeal to
their public spirit and desire to go for
ward and not backward.