The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-07-21
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

L HE We6Nll Is uOluS SIodb udiidSo III
the wheat fields of Western New York.
ORDERS have been given for issuing
all U. s., postal cards of one size-5t
inches long 81 wide.
Mrs. JAS. HABBERLEY, Mrs. H. L.
Stillson and daughter, visited in Man
chester the past week.
Miss JULIA A. WHITE has gone to
Webbs Mills, n. Y, for a three weeks
visit to the Bradburys, who reside there.
THE New Year" is more than half
gone already. A good time to renew
good resolutions, and drop that bad
habit.
PROPHET WIGGINs is on deck again
with the declaration that the ''Star of
Bethlehem" is comet which will now
reappear soon.
A DEPRECIATION of the currency in
creases the price of everything except
labor. If you sell labor and buy every
thing else, think this over.
THE Estabrook Granite and Marble
Works have been moved into its new
quarters in the rear of the National EX-
press Office, West Main street.
THE BANNER job printing department
has every faculty for turning out work
with neatness and dispatch. Call and
ask our prices before ordering elsewhere.
BENNINGTON will receive about 5000 as
her share from the State on the basis of
road mileage. Six dollars mile is the
figure paid by the State to the several
towns.
THE latest wrinkle is to take soda
water through a straw. This is said to
be more healthful than gulping the ice
cold liquid into the stomach, besides be-
ing far neater.
Gov. FULLER has invited the United
States army officers stationed at Platts-
burgh to join his staff at the annual en-
campment of the Vermont National
Guard at Rutland next month.
THE Water in the Walloomsac river
has been turned into the Branch for
few days during the past week, to enable
the contractors to lay the sewer mains
under the stream at the Depot bridge.
THE Rev. C. R. Crassett, pastor of the
Second Advent church at Manchester
n. H., announced to his congregation
last Sunday that he saw signs in the air,
the heavens and the earth that the end
of the world was at hand. Pay the
printer!
THE country press is the great educa-
tor of the people, and when properly and
honestly conducted is relied upon in a
large measure by its constituents. There
is no way to reach the public except
through the country press.
THE editors of the Norwich University
Reveille for the coming year are: E. W.
Gibson, editor-in-chief; Ii. G. Mosely,
literary; c. A. Plumley, personals; G.
Sterrs, exchange; III. II. Stearns, locals;
X. A. Smith, business manager; e. j.
Scribner, assistant.
Ex-JuDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL
SoUTHARD, of Castleton, has in his pos
session an old engraving of Melon
nough's victory ON Lake Champlain in
1912, representing at its height the naval
engagement between the British and
American forces little south of Platts-
burg.
HERBERT H. GLEASON, aged 16, was
instantly killed by falling on long roll
in the Wheeler wood lot in Dummerston
the other night. He was running at the
time and, by some misstep, fell, his head
striking the corner of the saw carriage.
He was the son of Henry G. Gleason of
Landgrove.
THE vacation of two weeks, taken by
the pastor of the First Baptist church,
town and in the woods, healthful way
of recuperation. Last week he was over
Wilmington way. The church will be
opened next Sunday for services as usual
morning and evening.
PATRICK MoRRIssEY has received his
appointment as Postmaster at Stamford.
Clarence Whitney will be his assistant.
Nj. Morrissey will make a competent
official. A correspondent says: "Mr.
Morrissey is the first Democratic post
master we have had here in good many
years. Our oldest inhabitant cannot re-
member onen
Mrs. ANGELINA H. ROBERTS died in
North Adams, Mass, last week Thurs
day morning, aged 70 years. About
year ago Mrs. Roberts suffered stroke
of paralysis, from which she never re-
covered and which was the cause of her
death. She was an old and highly re-
spected resident of the town and is sur
vived by one son, Prof. David Roberts,
organist of the Baptist church and with
whom she lived.
THO surplus earnings in the postoffices
in nine counties in Vermont, says the
Waterman. are deposited with Post
master J. Eli GoOdenough, of Montpelier.
During the 10 days from July /. over
$500 has been received from 210 Offices
One postmaster in Franklin county
cracked the record by sending a silver
dime to Mr., DOOdenough as the gross re-
ceipts above expenses of his Office for
the three months ending July 1
AN Anarchist in Brooklyn meeting,
according to the Burlington Independ-
ent, said: "The working classes of
America work harder, sweat fiercer, have
less to eat and to wear, obtain fewer re-
wards for their toll and come sooner to
the end of their prosecuted and wretched
lives than any other class of workers on
the face of the earth.' The speaker
had probably meyer had an opportunity
to observe a man working out his road
tax.
IT was one of the expressed wishes of
the late Hiram Atkins before his death
that Camp Watson, that charming and
widely known spot on Lake Champlain,
should be open for his friends and his
friends friends as usual after his de-
mise. The camp was opened this sum-
mer July l, and will remain open until
September l, under the management of
Capt. Alfred Atkins, of Roselle, N. Y,
who has quite large party there now
Montpelier Argus.
BRER. DODGE of the Queen City indie
pendent gives i friend this "send off" /:
''Mr. and Mrs. Fred. n. Whitney have
gone to Brattleboro to reside, Mr.. Whit
ney having secured an interest in and as