The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-09-15

| BENJAMIN r. SEARS, son of Chas. f.
Sears, is visiting in town. He has been
out West for the past several years.
THE Lebanon Springs railroad sell
round trip tickets to North Adams, next
week, the 10th, 10th, and 21st, including
admission t. the HoOsac Valley fair, for
$1.35. People go down at S.25 a. in. and
returning, reach home at sos. The last
two days special train brings people
here at $50.
j. S. LINDLEY calls our attention to
the reference to his works in last week.
BANNER, says he has not reduced his
help at all and is now employing 80 men,
and still needs ten or twelve good car
penters. We are glad to hear this as it
it indicative of continued prosperity.
The sentence referred to as it stands is
simply the effect of shortening up an
item by a general remark. We were
told. however, that work had slackened
up, and cheerfully make the proper cor
rection.
THE residents around Washington
park will rejoice to learn that Seymour
Van Santvoord has purchased the John
A. GriswOld mansion and that he will oc-
cupy it Immediately upon his return
from Furnace Grove" Bennington.
The consideration in the transfer is OBJ
viously private. Mr.. Van Santyoord is
lone of the family" and friends and
owners alike are pleased to know that
this very desirable property falls into
the possession of one in line.-Troy
Press.
BABY RUTH has a sister. She was
born Sept. 9th. The whole country will
be interested in this event as, besides the
TACT of the little strangers appearance in
the White House, the occurrence will
give double birthday to celebrate in
the Presidents family as Ruth was two
years old that day, so say the dispatches.
The God mother for the child is to be
Mrs. Wilcox, who was born in the
White House 81 years ago and was the
first White House baby.
The dates for future ten-day coach ex-
cursions to Chicago at the rate of one
fare for the round trip are announced by
the New York Central and West Shore
railroads for September 1S, 81, 25 and q,
and October 3, 4, 7, 10, ~, IA, 16, 10, %
and "a. These trains are made up of
first-class, newly upholstered, vestibuled
coaches, and run through solid to Chica-
go on fast time. Stops are made at CON
venient points for meals, and the entire
trip can be made without fatigue in the
comfortable, high back seats. A better
time could not be selected for visit to
the great exposition, and the routes are
by way of the standard roads from Buff
falo. AS Chauncey Depew says: every
body should visit the great Chicago Fair,
even if they are obliged to borrow the
money for expenses" And he backs up
his declaration by making the railroad
fare half price. The sooner one goes
now the better.
WEDNESDAY, John Harrington of
SALISBURY exhibited at Smiths market,
in this village, the skin of black bear
that was shota week ago on the mount
aims in Glastonbury, few miles north
east of bennington. 1t was one of the
largest bears ever captured IN Vermont,
the weight being more than 400 pounds,
although the animal was thin in flesh.
Harrington had seen signs of the bear
for some time and finally came across
him as he was standing upright eating
blackberries from the bushes. Taking
steady aim, Harrington fired and hit the
animal in the head. Maddened with
pain the bear dashed directly for Her
rington, who again fired and sent ball
into the monsters brain just above the
eyes, killing him almost instantly.
From measurements of the skin the
bear must have been fully seven feet
high when standing upright.
HERE is an idea that is worth remem-
boring "a Swedish farmer in Hadley,
Saratoga county, has impaired some val
liable information to his neighbors. He
advised them to have torches made of
peat, soak with petroleum, ready for the
first frost. They did not have any peat,
so they cut pine stakes two inches in di-
ameter and five feet long and put them
to soak in petroleum. A few evenings
since, when the mercury had fallen to
thirty-eight degrees, the stakes were set
up in the buckwheat fields, fifty to the
acre, and set on fire. 1t was fine dis
play of fireworks, and every man who
used the torches saved his crop, while
those who did not, lost half to two-thirds
from the frost. The torches cost half
cent each. This is new idea in Amer
lea, though apple crops have been saved
from the frost in the spring by building
smudge fires under the trees"