The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-09-04

dI6 UNNECESSARILY uoltIIou uhtll uSAb WICK.
The Rev. Mr.. Severance has returned
from his outing at Atlantic City, and will
preach and administer the Sacrament of,
the Lords Supper next Sabbath morn
ing, at the First Church. u5 ~ 8
, DRaF w. GooDALL, who has written
several articles on medical subjects, has
recently contributed one to a journal
that is attracting marked attention. 1t
has been reprinted in pamphlet form.
THE regularquarterly meeting of the
Womanls Auxiliary of the, Young Mems
Christina Association, will be held in.
the Association rooms at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon of Thursday September 10th.
D. Hon. MILo PIERCE of, South Shafts.
bury, VT, superintendent. of the Eagle
Square Manufacturing works, is visiting
his sons, Charles Il, and Dennis G..
Pierce, in st, Paul!e-S St. Paul, Mimi,
DESPATCH "Ed lO-M3Y- ~.
MICHAEL ROGERS of Bennington,
pleaded guilty on Wednesday morning
to the charge of drunkenness. He was
released on probation with the under
standing that he would get out of town
at once.-NO. Adams Ne,US.
THE Grand Master of Odd Fellows, j..
W. Goodell of Burlington, has called the
Vermont D. of R. convention to meet in
that city on October Sth The work is
to be exemplified by Dennis D. of R.
Lodge, No. /, of Brattleboro, so we are
told.
THE Vermont delegation to the Sover-
eign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which
meets in st. Louis this month is: N. NJ.
Puffer of this village, NJ. j. Horton of
Poultney, and W. D. Wilson of st. Al
bans. They start one week from next
Tuesday. .., -.... .. ..
The exhibit of business penmanship
and, typewriter work made by the Al
bany- Business College at the New Eng
land fair last week, attracted marked
attention and sustained the well-known
reputation of the college for superiority
in all it undertakes. No premiums
were offered this year.
THE Rev. Chas. R. Seymour next Sun
day, gives an exposition of the Interna-
tional Sunday school lesson of the 18th,
inst, before the Y. NJ. c. A. at o'clock.
This is the first in the course noted by
us last week. He is to be followed this
month by Rev. Messrs. Marten and
Heaxt and Secretary Flindt.
A POSITIVE nuisance has grown out Of
new advertising trick by which GER
tain companies, notably in Boston and
Chicago, are pushing their wares by get
ting little boys to act as peddlers and
agents in the hopes of getting bicycle
free" These companies sell books,
baking powders and lawn-mowers in this
way, demanding large sale in return
for cheap bicycle. The trick is prac-
ticed to such an extent that the average
neighbours child is ten times more of a
terror than nature made him.--San
Francisco Argondut. ... - s. NJ
WE are glad to note that the street i'm
provements are being extended up Main
and that the curb is to be put in to
commence on School street before win
ter sets in. The difference between the
improved cutters and the old plan was
very noticeable after the freshet of last
week. The little strip of new cutters in
Of n ThofnhorIo
Pleasant street demonstrated, if it were
necessary, the utility of the new regime.
Had our three east and west streets been
improved and mp to grade last week, the
damage to the streets would have been
reduced to a minimum. Let the good
work go on.
THE Rev. Claude NJ. Severance writes
us a postal card from Montomiya, Japan,
under date of August It'll, in which he
says: ''Have been off the lines of R. r. S
for % days, and it seems delightful 70
sit in station again with a table to
write upon. Have seen some of the
Famous Kutaui Porcelain Ware of Kan
azawa;' the remarkable island of Sado,
whittier tens of thousands of r. C.
Christians were banished long years ago,
and where celebrated gold and silver
mines yield the emperor an annual in
come; the oil wells and natural flow, of
gas near Nutsu, which illumines, heats,
cooks, ETC.; the beautiful lake on the
mountain tops near Mt Baudaizau-
whose eruption three years ago killed
hundreds of peopleS the lake is called
Inawa shifo. Could: I enlarge on, the
beauti es and wonders of what 1 have seen
you might be interested. Rice crop is
promising a.s.f..,t.... 47. r. d,
otTHE flood damaged the streets some
$500 which the village pays for, and il
that portion chargeable to the town is
reckoned the damages viii reach about
$500. This is fortunate escape from
more serious consequences. OF private
damages the sum is yariously estimated
at 5000 and upwards. Probably , the
Valentine Knitting Company are the
more serious losers, their damages being
probably over $1,000. Compared with the
havoc Of the Little Hoosac Valley, oul
damage seems insignificant indeed, how.
ever exasperating it is to repair the
wrecks, Inyoluntaiily the flood of 1885
is recalled. Seventy-sevenqye years ago to a
day, Bennington was visited with most
disastrous freshet The Bennington
Newsletter of Aug. S0th, 1914, says
.'The. rain on Sunday [Augr-2Sth] fell
in such torrents that in the course of a