The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-18
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

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Miss HATTIE SIPPERLY is visiting in
town.
TlMAJ. R. j. CoFFEY attended the funer-
al of r. r. Richards in Troy, n. Y, last
week. There were large number of
State officials as we'll as prominent q. A.
r. men present.
ITEMS of news for our local columns
are solicited. If you are entertaining
guests, especially former residents, let
us know it; if you are going away for a
greater or less period, let us know that
too.
THE Massachusetts Sunday law, re-
Gently enacted, forbids railroad com
panies running excursion trains on Sun
day. The law, it is said, is working
much damage to Lake Pleasant where
many used to congregate Sundays and
listen 10 spiritualistic teaching.
LARGE advertisers say it pays them
best to advertise during the dullest sea-
son when the smaller advertisers discon-
tinue their advs. There is really more
need of advertising in the dull season
when you want more business than in a
busy season when you have all you can
do.
THE sword which Ethan Allen carried
at the taking of Ticonderoga during the
Revolutionary war has been offered to
the government at Washington, to be
placed with similar relics in the Nation
al museum. The sword is now in the
possession of Hannibal Hopkins of Lam
sing, Mich.
WE again call the attention of our
sportsmen to the change in the game
laws at the last session of the legislature,
whereby the open season for wOodcocK
begins September 10 instead of August
Is as heretofore. The open season for
cartridges also begins at the same time
instead of September l.
UNLESS you write or have printed on
your envelopes the number of days you
wish your letter held, the postmaster,
by new ruling will hold them thirty
days instead of ten. This is important
to business men who do not want their
letters detained over five or ten days.
To avoid trouble the number of days the
letter is to be held should be conspicu-
ously printed.
A CURIOUS feature of the closing of
mills and factories is the variety of ex-
cuses given by the managers. Some
complain of slow sale of products; Others
of inability to procure currency to pay
help; others still of slow collection. 1t
remained for Bennington firm to shut
down ito give the prOprietors a chance
to visit the Worlds Fair. "-Middlebury
Register.
THE Vermont Journal of last Saturday
had the following item: Supt. r. j. COT
fey informs us that a large leather-bound
bible, 9x11 inch page, has just been re-
ceived from the American Bible Society
for the Vermont Soldiers Home. On
the cover is the following inscription in
large gilt letters; Presented to the
chapel of the vt. Soldiers Home, Ben
nington, Vt, by the William q. Tracy
Womans Relief Corps, Windsor, VT"
MARSHAL N. CLAPP, Bennington
boy, and son of Chas. S. Clapp, has been
promoted to Master Mechanic of the
New Jersey Central railroad system.
Mr.. Clapp has been in the employ of
that line over twenty-five years, most of
the time in the capacity of engineer.
By his own merits he has risen 'to the
top" and we congratulate him upon his
preferment. Mrs. Clapp passes her sum-
mers here, and Mr.. Clapp always man
ages to visit his old home at least once a
year, where he has many friends.
PROF. J. L. HILLS, who has been the
chemist at the experiment station in
Burlington, since March, 1888, has been
appointed director of the station, sue
ceeding Prof. w. w. Cooke, the appoint
ment to take effect October /. Prof.
Hills graduated from the Massachusetts,
Agricultural College and Boston Univer-
sity in 1881, and before coming to Bur-
lington was assistant chemist in the
Massachusetts and New Jersey stations.
He was appointed a member of the
Board of Agriculture by Gov. Fuller last
fall.
THE commandant, Maj. L. S. Frost, of
Canton Bennington, requests the alton
dance of all members of that organiza-
ton at Stark Lodges meeting, Wednes-
day evening, the 23d. The business of
the Canton will be to determine and
make arrangements for the proposed
parade and picnic at Hoosick Falls,
Sept. 4th. On the part of the Lodge and
Canton together, the invitation of Mid
Lodge, near Roston, will be
considered. The brethren of that Lodge
have extended an invitation to the Odd
Fellows of Bennington to visit them and
participate in seashore trip that will
be very enjoyable.
THE Commissioners of the State of
Massachusetts, New Hampshire and
Vermont, met at Brattleboro the 10th,
and will hold another meeting soon.
Prof. V. G. Barber of Burlington, is the
civil engineer for Vermont, and Hon. ].
K. Batchelder the Bennington member
of the Vermont Commission. The dis
pute is oyer three-cornered piece of
land, which is claimed both by Massa-
and New Hampshire. The
meeting, which was called at Brattle-
boro and then adjourned to the corner
in question, was preliminary to the actu-
al survey, which will probably be made
this week.
IT would seem as though more of our
farmers would engage in the raising of
early garden fruit and vegetables for the
market. Here is one enterprise in which
the farmer of Vermont is not obliged
to compete with his Western brethren,
and the wise farmer of Vermont will de-
vote his energies to that branch of his
calling in which there is the least COM
petition and the best outlook for profit
able returns. Quite an amount in value
of these goods are brought into this and
other towns six days every week and if
raised in town the money could be kept
at home and besides at the prices sold
for there is a good profit to the raiser.