The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-23
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.


own,and ride them.
DIR. F. w. GooDALL, wife and son,
Ellis, started for Chicago Tuesday. DR.,
Henry S. Goodall is already at the fan
and will join the family on its arrival.
lie. GIBSON, of the Building Commit.
tee of the Graded School Board, is max
ing some needed repairs. The fountain
has been fixed and some of the trees
trimmed and thinned out.
RAILROAD JACK, 'the great American
traveller" among CANNES, died of old age
. last week in the baggage room of the
Union depot in Albany, n. Y. His
death was due to old age and high hv-
ing, Jack has travelled alone on nearly
every railroad in America.
REPORTS from various parts of Yer
mont show that crops are growing finely
and good prices are being realized for
many farm products. If the summer
visitor harvest is, abundant, therefore,
the Vermont farmer ought to enjoy a
season of unusual prosperity.
The Burlington Free Press is said to
have libel case on its hands, involving a
claim of $4,000 damages. II. o. Edy of
Montreal, relative of the recently mur-
dered family at ClaTenceville, P. G., sues
for that amount because of an article in
sinuating that he was implicated in the
crime.
SOUTH LONDONDERRY and several
other lively settlements in Vermont are
to celebrate the Glorious 4th. We of
this village are quiet high-toned set OF
mortals, hence we will not celebrate eX-
cept what the S. o. V. may do. We are
chock full of patriotism, however, and
the 10th of August will develop its exu-
berance.
THE Poultney Journal says: Henry
A. Hartman of Rutland was on Monday
appointed clerk of Rutland county in
place Of Judge John Howe, whose death
we noticed in last weeks issue. Mr..
Hartman is lawyer of large practice
and will fill the Office to which he is APP
pointed with intelligence and ability.
The lawyers of Rutland county all speak
highly of the selection"
Col. B. B. SMALLEY has been chosen
one of the executive committee of the
National Car Company At the COM
panY's annual meeting, Wednesday it
was voted that quarterly dividend of
II per cent. be paid until otherwise or
dered. The treasurer's report showed
that after paying all bonds the company
would have 100000 in cash assets.
LIST of letters advertised remaining in
the postoffice at Bennington for the
week ending June II, 1893: Chas. L.
Edwards, Thomas Moran, G. A. Russell,
Mackey, Mrs. Geo. Cook, Mrs. NJ. A.
Wright These letters will be sent to
the dead letter Office July 1st, if not de-
livered before. In calling please say
"advertised'' giving date of list.
WooD pulp has great future before
it, not only in its use for the manufac-
ture of paper, but for pals, doors, mould
ings and a multitude of other uses to
take the place of wood and metal. A
late French invention makes the finest
of silk from wood pulp. Farmers who
have good tracts of spruce timber should
not be in haste to sell it, because it will
command much higher prices in the near
future. -Exchange.
The Populists of Vermont have issued
call for peoples Patty Conference"
at Rutland the 4th of July. The call is
signed by number of farmers in differ
ent parts of the State. The call contains
denunciation of both old parties and
combines, and declares for bimetallic
standard for money. The call urges
farmers and industrial classes to come
forward and enlist under the banner of
the new party of Vermont.
MANY Vermont villages with good
water powers and manufacturing facili-
ties could by little well directed effort
secure the location of new industries
were it not for the fact that when loca-
ton is wanted for the purpose the value
of the land suddenly rises several hun
dred per cent. The would be locators
are thus led to believe that they have
fallen among thieves and stay out. Usu-
ally the free gift of a location would be a
tremendously good investment for a
town.
ONE of the curious things in the news
papers business is the way that news,
correspondence, communications and
everything else that goes to make up
newspaper runs in streaks" says an ex-
change. It's usually feast or a famine,
very seldom indeed does news come
Just the way editors and reporters would
like to have it. 1t hardly seems posi-
BILE, but it's a fact, that too much copy
is infinitely worse than a scarcity. 1t
isn't as most people think, the finding of
something to fill up the paper that plows
burrows in an editors brow and makes
him prematurely bald. 1t is deciding
which one of half a dozen items, all of
which he knows ought to go into the pa
per, shall live, that breaks up an editor,
and it's the cutting, carving and boiling
down of good items that have been
written out with care that makes life
WEAKNESS to him.
WARREN LELAND, the hotel man, and
the last of five brothers, all famous hotel
men, is dead. He died Thursday at the
residence of William l.. Ward, in Combs
avenue Porchestet. Mr.. Leland was the
son of hotel landlord and born in
hotel IN 1884, in the Green Mountain
House, Langrove, which his father,
Simeon Leland kept. Warren and his
elder brother, Charles bought the Gin
ton hotel in 1850, from Simeon Leland
and ran it successfully for two years. In
1852 they sold out and bought the Met
ropolitan on Broadway. They took in
Simeon and William, their brothers,
as bartenders, and in the 20 years at the
Metropolitan built up their early fame.
They were net so successful with the
Grand Union at Saratoga, or with Ocean
House at Long Branch. The brothers
have managed many hotels in New York
and other cities.
THE Troy Times of Saturday says:
There is evidently movement on foot
to consolidate the Bennington and Rut-
land and the Lebanon Springs railroad
companies. The Lebanon Springs road,