The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-08-11


ton that they consequently know how to
satisfactorily supply the gastronomic de-
mands of others, hence how to keep
hotel as we'll as did Riley or any
other man. One of the many fiIst-class
hotel keepers in Chichgo is William F.
I circuit, well known VermOnter and
proprietor of the City Hotel, the build
ing being owned by the estate of the
multi millionaire Vermonter, j. ID. Jen-
nings, a son of Bennington county"
THE Brattleboro Reformer says: Gas
was to be expected there is some kick
ing, which the st. Johnsbury Republi-
can leads, on the part of the large and
rich towns, against the per cent. high
way tax which draws so much from them
to be distributed among the poorer and
more sparsely settled towns according to
mileage. 1t may yet be doubted wheth-
er the law is right in detail, whether it
will operate to secure real improvement
in the highways rather than as a subsidy
to the latter towns, replacing so much
expenditure which they would other
wise make. All this can only deter
mined by experience, and any adequate
plan is difficult to formulate, But it is
certain that there is a right principle be-
hind the act. 1t is alike the duty and
the interest of the large and prosperous
towns, which are trade centres, to help
the outlying districts. BrattleborO, for
instance, which has o contribute 1000
more than she gets under this law, will
get it back in the end, if it is wisely eX-
pended in securing really better roads
leading to Brattleboro. A highway is
not entirely town matter. Not only
the people living in the town where it is
located have the use of it, but so do the
people all around, even to quite distant
points, for the purposes of travel, traffic
and commerce, and there is reason in
asking all to contribute in some measure
to keep it up, especially as it is a dem
onstrated fact that some towns cannot
now do so without oppressive burdens"
In the Northampton Journal, pub
llshed by H. Wade, we find the follow
ing, good thing: did you ever notice
the advertisements of our different mer-
chants? l am not trying to be satirical,
because my reader may be one of those
who never burn the midnight oil hunt
ing for bargain adds. If you do notice
them now and again, and are anything
of student of human nature, you must
have by this time gained pretty correct
estimate of the advertisers. There is
the conservative add, set up in small
type and putting before the public a
very slightly exaggerated story of the
goods the advertiser has to offer. There
is the oddly arranged add, never alike
two days at time, telling generally a
true story, aiming to attract only by its
originality, and hoping only to remind
the reader of the existence of the adver-
tiser. There is the humorous add, gen.
orally honest too, and adopting it's fun
ny ideas and ludicrous cuts to reach its
readers sympathy through their love of
humor. There is the elaborate add with
a snatch of poetry, quotation from
Shakespeare or the last edition of Puck,
embellishing history as old as the hills,
setting forth the virtues of the advertis-
er's goods as beyond reproach, and the
price beyond competition. There is the
modest, few-worded add away in one
corner, and breathing softly and artistic
ally that only at Messrs So & Sos can
you find what you want. 1t is an exhib-
ition of egotlsm of the advertiser who
want. There is the add with loaded
type, block type, taking up column
space and Dragging like a conceited
schoolboy of the superiority of its wri-
ter's goods over all other goods in the
world. You needn't believe it unless
you want to, and there is no harm done.
There is the add that throws mud on its
competitors, that questions their veraci-
ty, that sneers at their prices and calls
them liars every time. 1t is written
with a pen dipped in venom and freighted
! with jealousy. 1t claims unheard-of
virtues, ridiculous opportunities and alb
surd superiorities. 1t ruins its own
cause and turns the footsteps of eager
buyers from its doors. No man can ad-
vertise his competitors goods more
thoroughly than when he finds fault
with them"
THE terrible accident on Lake George
the last of the week, is the most lament
able casualty that has occurred on its
peaceful BOSOM. The calamity of
Thursday evening possesses more than
ordinary local interest because of the six
hundred of our people who were over
there on an excursion the week previous
because the great loss of life were
Burlington people, some of whom are
known in Bennington. A despatch
from that city of Saturday says: "This
city has not been stirred up in many
years as it is over the fatal accident on
Lake George, in which four residents of
Burlington lost their lives beside one
who formerly resided here Mr.. and
Mrs. Mitchell and son Frank left Bur-
lington Tuesday and intended to return
tonight. Misses Black, Corley and
Clark left Thursday for a weeks trip
through Lake George and the Adiron-
dacks. The three young ladies who
were drowned were general favorites
among their friends. Miss Black was 20
years of age, Miss Corley % and Miss
Clark "a. The latter formerly lived in
Burlington, but of late had made her
home with her sister, Mrs Hughes, at
Bridgeport, Conn. They have been Wis
iting Miss Corley for the past month and
Mrs. Hughes is still in Burlington. Mrs.
Mitchell will be missed in the Episcopal
church and in Y. NJ. G. A. work. She
was an active Christian worker and was
the valued chairman of the Boys Work
Committee of the Ladies Auxiliary.
Frank Mitchell was 10 years of age. lie
entered the Merchants National Bank
as clerk after his graduation from the
Burlington High School in 1892, and was
one of the most promising young men
that have ever been in the bank. John
Black and P. S. Corley, whose daughters
were among the drowned, went to Lake
George yesterday, and having the bodies
of their dead ones embalmed, returned
with the remains to this city this after
noon or the steamer Vermont, as did Mr..
Mitchell. The latter was met at Ticon-
deroga by /. r. Turk and Mr.. MITCHELL S
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