The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-05-23
GREATER VERMONT NOTES

The Vermont society Al san Dieg0.
California held a -suEaring on par
~ last week.
The Buffalo. New YORK society OF
Vermonters recently became a mem
Der OF the The Greater Vermont As
ISOLATION.
Boards Of Trade in Caledonia Coun-
~ are in correspondence with a gieW
TO having an exchange OF visits on
Greater Vermont auto tours and IN
spection OF local Industrial plants.
On Monday. May rs. there was
held AZ Manchester a mass meeting
10 boom the Long Trail and noun
tain development In Bennington
County. Mr.. Herman \. Morse. Sec
rotary OF the Bennington County Wen
mont Improvement Association, gave
a lecture on the Bennington County
Mountains and the Long Trail. illus
trated by eighty stereopticon slides
The White River Junction Board OF
Trade has increased It's membership
this year from 50 20 80. The Board
is raising funds 10 be applied to the
oiling OF the streets In White River
Junction and In Hartford during this
season. About $4,000 has been
raised for this purpose and for the
cleaning OF the streets. The Board
has ben instrumental in the improve
ment OF the local freight service.
Two policies are under consideration
the holding OF a Chautauqua Week In
August. and the employment OF stud
ents in the Tuck School OF Dart
mouth College TO aid in the admins
tratiye work OF the Board during the
next college year.
The Mortified Commercial Club.
July Is will be Paine Mountain Day.
a day OF celebration with a barbecue
in the afternoon and music and
speaking In the evening. A good
road will make IL possible for yisi-
tors to drive to the top of the noun
tain. Il II hoped that boards OF trade
on Greater Vermont auto tours. es-
pecially those OF Washington County.
will attend the celebration and aid
the Commercial Club in the opening
OF the Park.
There are many local improve
ments under way in Windsor. a
large force OF men is at work paving
Main street through the business sec
ton. Steps are being taken to re
move all electric light and telephone
wires and poles from the central part
OF the village. Bids are being receiv
ed for the construction of new
eight room school house at the head
| OF State street The Windsor AS
sociates are building FIVE double
houses on Halls Terrace.
The following interesting letter APP
| proving the Greater Vermont Pill
| grimages for High School students
has been received from an enthusiast
| tic Vermonter in Washington, ID. c.:
Il believe one Of the best possible
means of unifying the splendid Yer
mont spirit The Greater Vermont As
ISOLATION has done so much to en-
| courage, would be by taking the
| youth of the state TO travel as much
as possible through the state. in their
formative period, letting them learn
by personal observation the manifold
| resources OF our commonwealth, and
| get a first hand knowledge of the
| topography and of the character of
the many diversified interests that
now lie practically dormant in so
| many respects. Such a course If
Systematically undertaken by school
authorities. would go far to supple
ment and enlarge the lessons to be
learned from books. and equip our
rising generation with stock of in
formation that would enable them TO
combat a more or less Indifferent or
| skeptical opinion of the outside
world. by meeting criticism and COM
ment in the language of the old clas-
sic "All of which saw and part of
which was"