The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-04
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.

gone to Bennington, to pass the summer.
Troy Telegram.
DIR. H. j. POTTER, Jr., is in ST. Al
bans, in the interest of the Ensor cure.
He reports commendable progress in the
work.
THE canvass for the new directory of
the village and town, is rapidly progress
ing. Up to Saturday, last, more than
400 additional names had been put on
the streets then canvassed.
FARMERS will be glad to hear that
new enemy of the potato bug has ap,,
peared,-a little, long, narrow, RED
winged insect which stabs the bugs to
death. Let the good work go ON.
WE are undecided whether to call it
hard luck or bad management when
Young man comes 80 miles to see his
best girl and then finds she is away from
home. We will never print the name.
OLD Weatherwise is on deck again
with the prophecy of hard winter. 1t
is not muskrats, or corn husks this time,
but he bases it on the fact that the out
put of skate factories is unusually large.
If flies have invaded your home in
spite of screens and MEETINGS you may
rid yourself of them by mixing half a
teaspoonful of black pepper, a teaspoon:
full of brown sugar and tablespoonful
of cream and placing it on plate in the
room. 1t won't cost much to try it.
Now is the time to set out celery
plants. As the early potatoes are dug
from gardens, the soil is mellow, clean
and easily worked, and no better use can
be made of the space than to trench it
for celery. The crop requires some little
care and attention, but pays for such la
Dor when ready for use.
L. NJ. HoLToN & Son, the School street
florists, have just completed an office and
reception room contiguous TO their
gardens and flower house. 1t was for
mally opened by the Ladies' Society of
the Baptist church, last Friday, who
held their sociable there. On that occa-
sion the rooms were decorated with the
American flag.
THE death at Concord, Mass, recently,
of Mrs. Anna Bronson (AlcotD Pratt re-
moves the last of the Little Women"
made famous by the pen of Lousia May
Alcott, her sister. Mrs. Pratt was the
oldest of the girls, having been born in
Germantown, Pa, in 1881. She re-
sembled her father i'll features and char
acter more than any of her sisters.
ONE of our sensational exchanges re-
Gently said of st. Johnsbury: There
were nearly as many cases of typhoid fe-
yer in st. Johnsbury during June as in
New York City, and more than in all the
rest of Vermont" The CaledOnian very
justly calls this the extravaganza of Ian
guage, and repudiates the idea of an cpl
demic.
THE Masonic Temple of Chicago is the
highest building in the world, and visit
to its observatory, 302 feet above the
sidewalk is both entertaining and in
structive. From no point may such
perfect comprehension of the vastness
of that great city be had, and ones visit
to the Worlds Fair is not complete until
one sees this great building aud its en-
VirOnments.
THE cases of diphtheria on School
street in the families of A. r. Sweet and
Jas. j. Nevils, suggest that the system OF
sewers have come none too soon. The
soil is permeated with nastiness and con-
tagion. We are glad to say that these
cases are not very malignant, there have
been no deaths, and the houses are
strictly quarantined, so it is hoped the
disease will not spread. Later.-The
quarantine has been raised on Mr..
Sweets dwelling.
THE subscribers in the local Lodge OF
Good Templars and others, will be inter
ested in this item: John A. La Porte,
foreman of the Lyndon Union, has
bought the subscription list and good
will of the Temperance Herald of its
publisher, w. Arthur Jones of Montpel-
Ter, and the paper will be issued hereaf-
ter from the Union office. Mr.. Jones,
who formerly resided in St. Johnsbury,
will go to Chicago where he has posi-
ton in a daily Office"
THE last number of the Vermont
Chronicle contains an excellent likeness
of the late DR.. Alfred Stevens, who was
pastor for 80 years of the Congregational
church in Westminster West. DR.. Ste
vens was born in Waterford in 1870 fitted
for college at Concord, Peacbam Acade
my and at Meridian, n. H., and was grad
uated from Dartmouth in 1912. DR.. Ste
vens united with the church in Water
ford at the age of Is and never removed
his relationship from that church.
THE Qualification of Christopher Col
umbus, says the Burlington Independ
ent, published at the See city of this
State, to be followed by his canoniza
ton, it is announced has been deter
mined upon at Rome, and the name OF
the great admiral will thus be added tt
the roll of saints. The adoption of st
Christopher Columbus as the patror
saint will follow as a matter of course
Even to the skeptic patron saint ha'
advantages, for art and literature gail
by symbolism in which we are as a ma
ton very deficient
THERE are frequent reports of new
factories starting up in different sections
of the country OF course it can't be so
There is evidently widespread con
spiracy to trife with Major Mckinley
lings.-Burington Independent, Sat
urday, July 20. Yes! and for reply not
page 2, Boston Journal of the same date
or any other daily, for four columns o
lists of failures and ''shut downs" will
thousands out of work. Brer. Dodg
we offer our spectacles for your failing
eyesight and perverted vision.
A NEWSPAPER man, says the Granvill
Sentinel, is in some instances like othe
people. He respects his friends, appre
ciates a kindness and is always ready I,
return a favor In another respect h
resembles his fellow men. He will no
continue to pat man on the back ant
tell what prominent citizen he is, hoV
much he has done and give him persona
puffs when that man will not aid in SUP
orting the paper. In other words b
stands by the men who stand by him