The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-06-07

exhibition in one of our stores en-
larged pictures beautifully executed
of the tallest battle monument in the
world of the famous cat in bronze,
of granite boulders marking the spots
where Gen. John Stark encamped
August IA, 10 and 16, 1777, and where
are buried patriots who fell in the .
battle of Bennington, of prisoners .
taken who died of their wounds after /
| having been confined in the first meet /
ing house erected in the state OF Yer
mont, and lastly, a picture of the /
Garrison marker, erected not long
ago 10 mark the nearby site of the
building where Garrison edited and
published his well knoy paper, The
Journal OF the Times. This marker
consists of a huge granite boulder,
upon one side OF which is magnif-
cent piece of bronze showing a cut of
an old time printing press in relief.
1t is also appropriately lettered.
These various pictures will decorate
the headquarters of the Vermont
Knight Templars at Chicago at the
gathering of the thirty-iirst triennial
of the Grand Encampment of the
Knight Templars of the United States
to be held at Chicago in August of
this year. Ex-Judge Bates OF this
town is one of the Committee on
Decorations for Taft COmmandery.
Bennington is rejoicing over the
prospects of having a federal building
to be one of the finest in the state.
} The cost will be at least 100000.
While our great factories resound
with the busy sound of toll, our peo-
pie are giving a good deal of atten-
ton to politics, for the second time in
: nearly sixty years, if not more, Ben
( nington County expects to have one
, of her sous nominated for the Office
Of the Chief Executive of this state
at the Republican state convention to
t be held in Montpelier the last Of
) June. Unless all signs fail the next
q | Thanksgiving proclamation will bear
, the familiar autograph of James X.
Batchelder Of Arlington, but whose
E law offices are here. Mr.. Batcheder
1 is well known to Trojans, having
( been at one time law-partner Of the
, late Judge Gilbert Robertson Mr..
|
latiye matters, and has been Speaker
e of the Vermont House of Representa-
e tives and twice President of the Yer
A mont Bar Association. He is one of
the foremost lawyers and advocates
In New England Recently in giving
0 his views upon what was needed in
@ the management of the affairs Of the
state OF Vermont he sounded the key
note when he stated that if nOmi.
u mated and elected Governor of the
/ Green Mountain State his Office would
d be conducted on strict business prin.
. ciples and progressive yet conserva
tive management OF all that pertains
+ to developing the material interests
d of the state This platform was like
D. bugle call to all voters.
, Already preparations are belne
- made to decorate the graves of the
l. heroic dead who are buried not only
p in the cemeteries of this town but IN
II nearby hamlets. But the greatest In
a terest always centres in and about
the old burying ground on Benning
e ton Hill, for here sleep not only the
N soldiers who fell in many wars bu
10 men who helped TO make Vermont,
10 history. The old cemetery on the hill
Is beautifully located and while bleal
al winds whistle through its many tree
IS and many graves are piled high will
NJ the SHOWS in winter when Memoria
~ Day comes round everything Is in
viting and all nature smiles, bird
sing and the flowers send out thei
sweet perfume as the old soldier
with fast-thinning ranks assemble t,
pay their tribute OF love to those witt
I'd have passed on to the great camping
ground beyond.
:. wonderful stream is the Rive
~ Time.
pc AS 1t runs through the realms O
ne Tears.
20 With a faultless rhythm and muslca
W. rhyme,
. And n broader sweep and surg
I'll sublime
Az As 1t blends with the Ocean of Year.
e' John V. d. S. Merrill.