Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-05-01

JUDGE WHITE is on the gain, and is
slowly convaleseing from his late severe
illness.
CHAs. ADAMS has the foundation foI
his new house, on South street, well I'M
der way.
STRAWBERRY blossoms were seen Sat
urday on Grand View Terrace, the first
of the season.
JOHN SMITH has begun building new
house, not far from Geo. A. Wickham's
building on Weeks street.
THOMAS J. HoYT, manager of the
Northern News Company of Troy, N.
Y, and wife, passed Sunday with Doc.
tor and Mrs. A. q. Cutler.
CLEAN up your yards and cover up all
vile places about your premises. Spring
has opened so much earlier this year
that the cleaning up should all be done
now.
THE Erie Railway Company, of which
Gen. ]. G. Nc Cullough is director as
we'll as receiver, has placed $4,000, 900
blanket mortgage on all its real and per-
sonal estate, chooses In action, franchises
and easements.
THERE are two cases of scarlet fever
in school No. /, of this town, the child
rem of J. Jay Niles. The District is one
Of those union affairs, and the cases now
reported are under the control of the
town of Pownal.
GEO. R. MATTHEWS has been confined
to his bed since Thursday, suffering
from a severe attack of imfiammatory
rheumatism. No improvement is noted
in the condition of his wife who has been
sick number of weeks.
ISAAC T. PRATT, the veteran bear
trapper, secured two-year-old bruin
Sunday morning. Its weight was about
100 pounds, and the skin was superb
specimen. Whenever Isaac gets after a
bear, the animal is sure to suffer.
AT the general convention of the Con-
gregational ministers and churches of
Vermont, which meets in Montpelier,
June 1914, the Rev. G. Fl. Peck of North
Bennington, will read symposium en-
titled: present Day Influence of the
Scriptures"
WOULD it not be wise to treat your
business as you treat yourself? In the
spring, if you feel run down, you take
medicine something to relieve that
tired sensation. For your business, a
dose of advertising in the BANNER will
be found an infallible tonic.
THE First Baptist church, which is
prospecting under the passionate of the
Rev. Alex. Macgeorge, will hold its COW
onant meeting, preparatory to the Com
nuAion next Sunday, at the conference
meeting Thursday evening. There will
be baptism, also, next Sunday.
A POSTAL card was received by Chi
cago firm the other day, which had been
twelve years in reaching that city from
Tuscola, Ill. The United States mail
service is the best in the world, but little
slips of this kind are liable to occur. 1t
is important to note that the card finally
reached it's destination. Probably many
letters that have not reached their desti-
nations for several years past can be &C
counted for in the same manner.
1t may interest some of his Benning-
ton friends to know that Geo. W. Yates,
Jr., is, and has been for some years, on
the staff of the Texas Siftings. In writ
ing to this Office, Mr.. Yates reminds us
that he began his newspaper career on
the BANNER. While he was with us he
worked faithfully, and no doubt he does
SO in his present position. The first adj
vertisement he solicited he got, the bust
ness card of Charles Fl. Mason, attorney,
which has run all these years in our col
umns.
THE State Board of Health have
Adopted, and are about to issue code
of RULES and Regulations for the con-
nection of building with drains and sew
ers," in cities, towns and villages that
have not ordinances of their own regulat-
ing these matters. This is a move in
the right direction. In many places
where there is no public system of sew
ers, there is need of these rules, and
where such a system exists there is no
safety without them.
A MERCHANT of Woodstock publishes
this card in the Standard: "Fifteen
hours day are too many for anyone to
be tied to store or any other business,
and we have decided from this date to
discontinue. Our store will be closed
Tuesday and Friday evenings at six
O'Clock. We are convinced that this
time devoted to other pursuits will pro-
duce beneficial influence in ourselves
and thereby benefit our customers. A
man must know something outside of
business"
Ar one Of our recent Sixteenth of Au-
gust celebrations, Gen. Joseph B. Carr
of Troy, N. Y, was received with an
ovation second to none. Many of our
readers will be glad to know that he has
returned from New York to his home al
most entirely recovered from the opera
ton which he recently underwent for the
removal of cancerous growth in his
mouth. and in few days will be about