The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-01-15
WEST BENTON.

The grip is prevailing in and round
Benton. Ellis McI1enry is very low
with it.
The Benton boys had quite bit of
sport Saturday with fat porker, said
to weigh 500 pounds. The party
brought it from Saltwater to Boyd's
Hotel, and it was put up and shot for,
price $50. Some five about the hotel
went snucks, and it is said that they
were all tie, so they concluded not to
shoot off the tie, and thought they
would butcher 1t.
Daniel Brink has not sold any of his
horses yet. He has some fine ones.
Knouse's boys are cutting out the
lumber on the Keltner tract. Greasy
& Wells have bought the timber
Washington Knouse and Alexander
have gone to Michigan to visit their
brother and friends.
Henry Savage is still visiting his
relatives. His home is in Nebraska;
he expects to. start for home about the
first of February.
William Unger and wife are in from
the state of Missouri. He is visiting
his brother in law, Geo. r. Hess, Of
Benton. He says the west is the
place to farm, where the soil is three
TO four feet deep with no stones to
bother the plow.
c.. A. Bull is very sick.
Stephen Parks is very sick at his
fathers house in Jackson township,
with that dreadful disease consumption.
He is married and his wife is at her
folks.
Elder Stricner and Miss Laney
Young left on the noon train last
Monday. Supposition has it they are
going to be married. Time will tell
the tale.
Daniel Thomas is teaching the
Green Creek school in Jackson; he is
a good teacher and gives good satisfac-
ton.
East Benton seems to not know
what causes Benton to be the only
thriving town along the line Of the B.
&. S. X. r.. Some OF the reasons are:
I. They pay more for produce than
any other place along the line.
2. They sell goods cheaper than any
other place in the county. They be-
lieve in quick sales and small profits.
They come from Jamison City, Elk
Grove and all the way from Sullivan
county to buy their goods. They can
make a good days work, and pay their
fare on the B. & S. to Benton if they
want ten dollars worth of trade. We
often see people trading here from
back Of Unityville. The same way
East and South Bloomsbury had better
come to Benton to buy their goods.
They can get coal oil for 7cts, Arbuck-
les coffee for 22cts, and other goods
in proportion. Your scribe was in
Bloomsburg only month ago and one
of the merchants sold Arbuckle coffee
for 2S cts. At that rate the people
should take the train in the morning,
come to Benton with your basket, get
your trade, be bacS for dinner at twelve
o'clock and make your days wages and
fare, and see our prosperous town.
:. The town of Benton is located
along the beautiful stream of Fishing
creek, lies level, good spring water.
That is something that some of our
large towns are deprived of. Any per-
con wantinu m retire from buSineSs can
not do better than come to Benton,
where every thing is cheap, lots are
cheap, and facility for building can
not be surpassed. All man has to
do as to locate his lot, Wesley & Simth
will put him house up by the time he
can get his family there.
Maberry street is going to be the
finest street in town, and lots are the
cheapest at present and are nearly all
sold.