The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-06-09
VICINITY AND LOCAL ITEMS.


The Chinese fire cracker must go off
anyhow, whatever becomes of the Geary
law, for Independence Day and the 10th
of August will soon be here.
OK July list, Mrs. F. H. Scott will
move into the Hutchins homestead en-
Pleasant street. Mrs. II. w. Booth re-
tains rooms there and will not move at
present.
ALBERT A. NORTON and wife, Mrs.
Wadsworth and Master Marshie Clapp,
returned to Bennington last week. The
family have passed the winter in New
York City.
THE New York Weekly Tribune, the
greatest of American journals, will be
sent to any person subscribing for the
BANNER and paying one year $3.50, in
advance. This is two papers for the
price of one.
D. E. MOORE goes to Amsterdam, n.
Y, to take charge of an Ensor Institute
that is to be established there, by the
corporators of the company we gave last
week. We do not understand that he
will remain permanently, but only for a
time.
AN eXcha remarks that the home
grown, hand-spanked, ragged, barefoot
ed country boy makes a better fight in
the battle of life, than does the pam
pered, well-clothed, daintily-fed city boy,
the seat of whose pants is busted with
golden slipper.
THE band stand was moved down
from the east part of the village the last
of the week and was placed IN position
on the Ensor Institute grounds early
this week. 1t is the intention of the
Of
ing the warm season.
OUR Chicago correspondent, Corp.
W. Z. Sheldon, has had stroke of
paralysis and has been confined to his
bed since May -. His attendant writes
for him that he does not know when he
shall be able to write another letter for
the BANNER. We hope he may soon be
about again.
INFORMATION has been received from
Monterey, Cal, stating that Senator Ed
munds, who has been passing a portion
of the past winter at Hotel Del Monte,
has left for San Francisco, from which
place he will 90 to Chicago, accompanied
by his family for short visit to the
Columbian Exposition.
UNDER the new game law of New York
remarks an exchange, book agents may
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spring poets from March l to July 1;
scandal mongers from January l to De-
cember 1, exclusively; umbrella borrow
ers from February l to May l. Open
season all the year on life insurance
agents and picture peddlars.
A WRITER in Science gives a piece of
information which anyone may test. 1t
is merely that while one holds his breath
he is proof against the sting of q bee.
He says that the bee may be held by the
legs and that he will try to sting but
will never succeed until the breath is
expelled, and then he will accomplish
his purpose with speed and certainty.
HENRY w. PUTNAM, esq, returned to
Bennington, June LIST, for the summer.
He had at one time the finest stable of
horses in New York, bnt he has sold all
but one of them, and that one he brought
with him to BENNINGTON. If Mr.. Putnam
could see his way clear to put mp anoth-
er business block this season, no doubt
it would be rented as soon as COM
pleted.
THE following is the list of letters adj
vertised in the postoffice at Bennington
for the week ending June 3: Alexander
Bardway, John b. Briefly, Walter l..
Cox, II. M. Harwood, b. Horsley, Thomas
Plenkett, John E. Porter Miss Sadie
Farmer, and Miss Dolly Ford. These
letters will be sent to the dead letter
office June II, if not called for before.
In calling please say advertised giving
date of list.
THE famous cloth cats are being put
to a new use in some places. They are
places in strawberry beds which are
frequented by birds and the birds
always keep safe distance. The latest
production of the Windsor print works is
souvenir sofa pillow printed in many
colors on nice quality of cloth. 1t con-
tains perfect scene of the landing of
Columbus, his picture and much else
of interest concerning Columbus.
THE Windhom County Swedes have
earned money enough to begin to think
of trips home. Witness the following
from the Brattleboro Reformer Of last
week: "Quite a party of our local
Swedes, including Andrew Kugge, Alma
Olsen, Indenburg Olsen, Anna Ander-
son, Reka Anderson and Axel W. Lar
son and bride, sailed Saturday from New
York for visit to their respective
homes in Sweden"
ANOTHER count has been added to the
indictment against English sparrows.
They have taken possession of the inside
of the great buildings at the Worlds
fair, nesting under the lofty roofs in
great numbers, and defacing the exhibits.
1t is said that thousands of pairs are
nesting in the buildings, and as each
pair produces five or six young ones
twice every season the plague threatens
to be very serious one before the fair
is over.
MAIL contractors who bid off the
Brattleboro and Hartwellville routes,
says the Wilmington Times, have re-
Gently been here but have not sublet the
routes as yet that we can discover. Both
routes were bid off for several hundred
dollars less than they can find anyone to
take them for. 1t is too bad that the
price for carrying the mail is bid down
so low,as it compels poor service when
with fair or good pay good service would
be given.
THE uniforms for the conductors
and brakemen on the Fitchburg railroad
were all sent to them by express c. O..
D., from Boston, and no one was allowed
to try his suit ON till it was paid for. In
nearly all instances they are misfit, ne
cessitating alterations at an increased
expense by local tailors. The Boston
firm received the contract with ample
time for making the uniforms properly,
and as the orders were to appear newly
plothed On lime thara was No altarno