The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-05-19
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

MRS. DIR. PUTNAM was in Hoosick,
N. Y, Friday to visit her grandmother,
Mrs. Caroline Parsons, who is stopping
at w. f. Babcock's.
VERMONT has four daily and fifty-nine
weekly newspapers; and it would be
strange under the circumstances. if the
people of the Green Mountain State were
not ''well read"
WE hear great complaint of the search
" of domestic help. Very few or no re-
plies are received when domestics are
advertised for, and what our households
are going to do is a serious problem.
DIR. ENsoR of South Omaha, Neb., has
been in town during the past week. He
is the discoverer of the remedy for the
liquor habit that bears his name, of
which branch Institute is located in
this village.
THE ''irony of fate" would be sharply
illustrated if Almy's dead body should
be carried back to the scene of his horri-
BILE butchery to be carved up in the
Dartmouth medical school, and that is
the present prospect
MRS. Nc GUIRK, whose husband was
for some time news editor of the Rut-
land Herald, is writing breezy letters
from the West to Kate Fields Washing
ton. She is a charming writer as well as
hustler in the best sense of the term
and she won wide reputation as inter
viewer for the Boston Globe. She found
her match, however, in ex-senator Ed
munds, whom she pronounces the most
difficult man to draw out that she ever
tackled.
IT is time now to clean thoroughly all
drains and cesspools If your sink
drain is on top of the ground, get seven
or eight dollars worth of glazed pipe,
and run the refuse into a barrel set in
the ground at safe distance from the
house. Keep the barrel covered, and
empty when necessary. Use plenty of
lime and dry earth in all vaults. Keep
your back yard as clean as your lawn,
and remember that the cholera and kin
bred diseases are the companions of
filth.
THE Forest and Stream Club of Will
mington, which numbers among its
membership several Bennington people,
has bargained for 300 or 400 pound lot
of the large brook trout at the hatchery
of the New England Trout and Salmon
club, to be placed in the former clubs
new pond at Wilmington, within few
days. The club has a large force of men
at work at Wilmington repairing its
dam which is to be 22S feet long and rs
feet high. The work is under the charge
of Expert Richardson of West Chester
field.
THE Rowe, Mass correspondent of the
Readsboro Enterprise has the following
item: MRS. Caroline Scott, widow of the
late Thomas Scott, passed away Sunday
the 18th inst, at the age of 81 years;
three sons, Albert, Walter and Charles,
and one daughter, Mrs. ]. II. Starr, are
left to mourn her loss" The son Wal
ter is DR., Scott of Troy, N. Y, who is
we'll known to many of our readers. He
did not know of his mothers illness un-
til the telegraph told him of her decease
Mrs. Scott came of one of the old and
most respected families of Western Mas
sachusetts.
THE North Adams Valley News has
the following: Edward Conlon of Ben
nington, VT, was in District Court for
being drunk. Conlon got drunk last
winter, lay down in the snow and both
of his hands were so badly frozen that
he has only two fingers and thumb left.
Judge Lawrence gave him the choice of
returning to his home IN Bennington in
twenty-four hours or going to Bridge
water for year. ConlOn left for Ben
nington right away" This is a game
two can play at. Perhaps the Municipal
Court may have some alternative penalty
the next time similar North Adams
case appears here.
AN exchange SAYS: "R. j. Sanford
and Patrick Morrissey of Stamford,
have been appointed two of the fish war
dens for Bennington county and they
wish to- say to local Nimrods that this
year the six inch law will be rigidly en-
forced. 1t should be only necessary to
call the attention of sportsmen to the
existence of this law to insure its obser-
vance in the interest of the sport itself.
If fishermen will bear it in mind, it will
only be short time when the brooks
will be amply stocked and the catches
more than amply repay the forbearance
exercised now" True as preaching and
we hope our people will take heed.
WE are told that the plan of giving out
the long list of weekly notices in the
Second Congregational church, in this
village, 10 giving great satisfaction. In
stead of taking five minutes for the pas
tor to read off list of announcements
that are half forgotten before people
leave the church, there is placed in each
pew sufficient number of printed slips
to supply each family with the aforesaid
HOIlCeS. HeSo JdSLllJ pIluJeu lISJS are
carried home, where they may be con-
suited as to the meetings, etc., of the
week, the hours of commandments, and
much other information people like to
know. We commend the Rev. Chas. R.
Seymour's plan to others for trial. 1t is
neither copyrighted nor patented.
In the Hardwick Academy Notes. we
find this item: 1.-The word Kiss parsed.
Kiss is conjunction because it connects.
1t is verb because it signifies to act and
to be acted upon. 1t is proposition be-
cause it shows that the person kissed is
no relation. 1t is an interjection lat
least it sounds like One), and it is pro-
noun because it stands for a noun. 1t is
also noun because it is the name of os-
culatory actiOn,-both common and
proper, second person, plural number,
because there are always more than one.
In gender it is masculine and feminine
mixed. Frequently the case is governed
by circumstances and like according to
rule one; If he smite you on the one
cheek. turn the other Also 1t should
begin with a capital letter, be often re-
peated and continued as long as posi-
Bile, and ended with period. Kiss might
be corrugated but never should be de-
clined."
THOSE of our readers who enjoyed the
article written by Brer. Harris of the
Hardwick Gazette, in his racy manner,
will be glad to know that he finally went