The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-01-08
EAST BENTON.

WITH an dCClutnL 1eW Weeks age
necesitating the amputation of the
hand, is not doing as well as was hop
ed, or expected. He suffers very
severe pain in his arm betimes.
Protracted meeting was commenced
at Hamiline last Monday evening.
Prayer meeting Sunday night previous.
This meeting is held under the auspices
Revs. Hamlin and Alberson with Rev.
+ II Tubbs if hellth permits, as an
excellent helper
On New Years night, some young
people, enjoying pleasure excursion,
were returning from the direction Of
Benton towards Cambria about ?
o'clock a. m, dark as Egypt driving at
high speed, and psrched in dog carts
the left wheel of the rear cart 1.-TWO be-
ing in company missing the bridge at
this place, the cart landed a perfect
wreck on the other side. The wreck
was backed into oar shed. No one
was injured, but the miracle is that
somebody was not killed We have
not learned who the parties were.
Girls, caution your beau not to drive
SO fast, especially when dark.
Benton seems to out travel other
towns along the line of the B. & S. X.
r. Why it should is a mystery, but
nevertheless such seems to be the fact
We cannot see that the town has any
superior advantages over other towns,
or better facilities, but there is a lively
activity in every department of bust
ness within its limits. One may enter
the mammoth store of G.. l.. &. c. B.
McHenry and at once conclude that
everybody is trading with them. Two
or three handsome lady clerks together
with force of gentlemen are kept
busy waiting on customers. A little
further up town you enter the store of
J. J. & O. H. McHenry and every
body seems to be trading there. APP
parently there is as much business &C
tivity in this store as in the store be-
low, as customers are often obliged to
wait their turn with seeming impati-
ence.
Still further up is AL McHenry's
store. and one would suppose that the
mercantile business is all done below.
But you need not be there long before
you conclude that there is no other
store in town.
There are other stores in town, in
cluding the Post office, of smaller cap
acities, but these all have fair share
OF the public patronage.
Considering all the stores and bust
ness places within close proximity Of
town, and of towns surrounding it,
the question suggests itself, "Where
do all the people come from who trade
every day at Benton ?"
But the mercantile is not the only
line of business activity. Along the
streets we notice the Keller tin shop,
drug store, harness maker, blacksmith
and wagon-maker shops, millinery
shops, dress makers, toy and candy
shop, gunsmith, matchmaker and con-
fectionery, dentistry, sewing machine
and musical instrument departments.
The agricultural implements are
also represented, and clean shave
awaits them all when the barber ap-
plies his brush and razor. The plan
ing mill and shirt factory are kept
bouncing at full capacity. The hotels
accommodate all corners and goers
with the best in the market. The mec-
hanics and tradesmen have steady en-
ployment, while we are informed that
farmers near and around town find it
almost impossible to secure a towns
man to perform days labor on the
farm, SO busily engaged are the towns
people of Benton.
Five physicians reside in town who
are kept busy in the medical profes-
sion. Two coal dealers also have a
thriving business here. The intellec-
tual needs of the town are we'll provid-
ed for in the public school building,
while not exactly an ornament of cost
ly structure, nor designed for classical
education of great literary attainments
preparatory to a college course, never
theless, is, well adapted to the require
ments, time and circumstances of the
community.
The moral wants of the people are
not neglected, as a resident minister is
located here, and the M. f. church is
an ornament to the town. while the
Christian chapel across the bridge,
though of long standing, is less i'm
posing, though the services of sane,
tuary may not be less impressive,
Thus the moral needs of the people
lack not in point of opportunity, The
town seems we'll balanced in all de
partments and desirable place to re
side ia.