The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-16
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

THE prospects are said to be good fol
the average crop of apples throughout
the Champlain Valley.
THE proper pronunciation of Eulalia
the beautiful Spanish Princess now in
this country, is Oo-lahl-va.
VINDICTIvENEss is almost always a
sign of narrowness. The vindicitive
man is never broadminded man.
THE Father Matthew Total Abstinence
Society will hold their 18th annual pic
mic in Soldiers Home upper grove Au'
gust 16.
During the complicated process OF
manufacturing postage stamps they are
counted II times in order to guard
against pilfering.
e. EsTABRooK has sold to Edwin
Allen of Northfield, N. Y, family
monument to be placed on the Isaac
Allen lot at Bennington Centre.
THE Ri. Rev. Louis de Goesbriand,
bishop of Burlington, who has been in
Rome for several weeks, is expected
home the latter part of this month.
OUR readers should remember the
special village meeting called for to-
morrow, in Library Hall, at p. m. The
warning appears in another place to-
day.
HARRY BosTwIcK has taken the stage
route from Pawlet to Granvill, n. Y.
The old gentleman has driven the stage
for thirty years. He is now seventy-six
years old.
PETER HILL, Robert Mcfarland, Geo.
McKie, Charlotte Tingue, Blanche era
anI Paccin CUaat of thiS yJillana
were guests at the Putnam House, Ben
nington, last Friday.-County Post.
GIVE the currant worms a mild dose
of Paris green. An even teaspoonful to
pail of water. 1t poisons the leaves
so as to sicken the successive crops of
worms, and does not injure the cur
rants.
THE Columbian stamped envelopes
are much more popular and sought after
than the Columbian postage stamps.
The total number issued in May was
100000 and it is thought that 25,000,-
600 will be issued in June.
THE Sons of Veterans rather had it on
Landlord Tyler when he event for a
knot of them for not answering the
calls. Their uniforms and those of the
bell boys are quite Standardization
Reformer. This item refers to the de-
partment meeting last week.
HENRY MCDOWELL was brought be-
fore the county court on Friday and
pleaded not guilty to the murder of
John Crowley in Glastonbury, a year
ago. Mcdowell declined to have any
counsel, but Batchelder & Barber were
assigned by the court to look out fol- his
interests,
CHAs. II. LOCKWOOD, road commits
siouer, has nearly finished his work on
the highways for the present. They
have been greatly improved. The
bridges have all been reprinted, and the
general impression is that the new sys-
TEN of working the roads is preferable
to the old.
THE new shop which Mr.. Putnam is
building for Estabrook Granite and
Marble works is nearly completed. 1t
will consist of marble, granite, polishing
will use water mOter for power for
running polishing machine and other
machinery here at the depot.
The project of an electric railroad
from Bellows Falls to Saxton's River
has not been given pP t6 B9st9R lpe9gle
$4,000 of the home money is needed.
proposal for railroad from Hoosick
Falls to Bennington, via Waloomsac and
North Bennington, has stopped With a
terminus at Wallomsac, via North Hoo
sick.
Gov. FULLER tells a Rutland Herald
reporter that he has called the next an
nual muster at Rutland for August 1919
and the official orders will soon appear.
His object in calling so early is to enable
people who wish to plan trips to the
Worlds fair so as not to conflict. He
says the doors of the Vermont building
at Chicago have been closed at his re-
observation-disclosures Reformer.
THE Rutland correspondent of the
POultney Journal Dem.), says: THE
Rutland National and Savings banks are
making preparations for the evidently
approaching financial panic. They are
of the opinion that September is too late
to shape financial policy to avert it.
Silver is probable to become the circu-
lating medium and large amounts of it
are being placed in bank vaults for use
when gold is no longer obtalnable,"
Mrs. DOLLY GETcHELL has resigned
the position as postmistress at Bradford
Centre. She has filled it 26 years. saws
the Opinion. Will Porter is appointed
postmaster. He took down the sign
Monday from the place where it had
hung for nearly half a century and re-
moved it to his grocery store. Mrs.
Getchen has moved on to the old farm
where she was born and lived until she
married Jasper Ge.chell 46 years ago.
HERE is pointer" under the new
school law: parents and guardians
should remember to notify the school
teachers in case their pupils have per-
mission to be absent from school as
otherwise the absentees will be consid-
cred as truants, and the truant officers
must be employed at the towns expense
to arrest and bring the children to
school. 1t should also be borne in
mind that the statute compels children
between the ages of ) and IA years to
attend school at least 20 weeks in each
year and that our school officers propose
to carry this law into effect"
ALBERT STEWART of Argyle, n. Y.
was acquitted by the jury on his second
trial in the Court of Sessions at Sandy
Hill, last week, for assault on a book
agent named Townshend. The book
agent drove into Stewards yard and de.
clared that the latter had agreed to sub
scribe for the work he was canyassing
for. Hot words followed, and finally
Townshend jumped from the buggy,
whip in hand, and struck at Stewart.
The latter snatched the Wlip and laid