Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1894-07-03
MONDAY of the year.
ONE-HALF of 1894 is gone.

The long vacation is here once more.
POTATO bugs are said to be thicker
ever.
COLLINS GRAVES of Brown University,
is home for his summer vacation.
Miss LILLIAN VALENTINE and Miss
Fannie Walbridge are spending their
SIMMER vacation at home.
CURTIS D. WOODWARD, who has been
out of health for some time, has had a
shock, and is now confined to his bed.
WATSON, the artist. has some new
backgrounds, painted yesterday by a
master of the profession. You should
see them.
ulGooD medical authority warns against
gulping ice water in hot weather, and
says few sips of hot tea, or other hot
drink, will allay thirst the best.
Mrs. L. A. HoUGHToN of Brattleboro,
accompanied by her daughter, Mabel,
left that place last Wednesday to visit
friends in Bennington, and other towns.
THE curious condition has been
reached during the past week in the
markets, of oats and wheat commanding
about the same price.
THE postal note died natural death
last Saturday at p. m. The Benning-
ton office had twenty-one blanks left,
which will be returned to the depart
ment.
MRS. JOHN C. CLARK, now at the
Brattleboro retreat, is no better, and her
condition is such that death may ensue
at any time. Mr.. Clark was over to see
her Friday.
WE regret to hear that the improve
ment in the health of the Rev. S. Nc
Laughlin, pastor of the Methodist church
of this village, is not as marked as had
been hoped. However he is on the gain
but slowly.
H. S. WHITE, assistant engineer of the
Syracuse, N. Y, fire department, with
his family, are stopping at the Walloom-
sac House. Mr.. White will be present
at the muster and tournament, the 18th,
and 10Th, inst,
JOHN EVANS, the North street shoe
dealer, means business in the bargain
boot and shoe sale advertised in another
place to-day. Every one of the 1000
pairs of shoes will be closed out. Call
while the assortment is good.
FRED GODFREY returned last week
from his visit to his brother, Geo. B.
Godfrey, in Missouri. He went as far
west as Omaha. We regret to hear that
the condition of Mr.. Geo. Godfrey is pre-
carious, and there is little hopes of his
recovery.
OLD HUMIDITY has been discovered to
be the chief enemy of summer comfort
Hot days and nights, with the air well
charged with moisture so as to check
evaporation and stop that natural cool
ing process, making what is known as
''muggy" weather.
POSTMASTER GENERAL BIssELL's Or
der against the offensive partisauship of
Postmasters was not taken very serious
ly at the Vermont Democratic State con-
vention, but it was probably taken quite
as seriously as Mr.. Bissell expected that
it would be.-Boston Journal.
HENRY NORMANDY and George Bahan,
both of this village are to meet in an
eight round sparring match at Barber S
Pond in Pownal July 4th. Both are from
this village. Normandy, who is a native
OF Rutland is the champion light weight
of Vermont. A good match is antici-
pated.
THE esteemed Philadelphia Press
thinks that Vermont will have to
hump herself if she maintains her
lead in this year of overwhelming re-
publican majorities. 1t should not be
forgotten that Vermont has something
of "Camers Hump" already.-Ver-
mont Journal.
OUR correspondents are reminded
that the publication days of the BANNER
are Tuesdays and Fridays, not Wednes-
days and Saturdays. This item refers to
number of items sent the next day for
publication, and which did not appear
because the paper had been printed and
mailed the previous afternoon.
Poison ivy is very easily recognized,
and every child ought to be taught to
distinguish it, The plan is have sam
Pile on exhibition in every school room,
and it is good one. Our study of local
botany could not begin at a more profit
able point. This ugly plant grows along
many highways, and in woods about Ben
nington and surrounding towns.
THE Bennington BANNER owes The
Gazette distinct apology for abiding
to it as a Democratic paper. We are
longsuffering and patient under afflic-
ton, but there is limit beyond which
no person can 60 with impunity Hard
wick Gazette. We are trying hard to
keep up with the procession, Brer. Har-
, ris, but, with Democrats repudiating
Democracy, and so many FLEEING from
bhO nldbl W SOLlCs 1OlBlNO 10 1OL uOM
and then an error like this one.
YALE College is about to effect a
change in Commencement Day exercises,
dispensing with graduation essays and
making the comforting of degrees, with
possibly an address from some distin-
guished graduate, the prominent feat
ures, patterning somewhat after the ex.
ercises of commemoration day at Oxford
University in London. This example
will probably be followed by all other
American colleges, and, possibly, by
schools, also.
HERE is Hartland item. Who equals
or surpasses it? Sargent Hill has beer
famous ever since the Sargents settled
there in 1892. The farm, never out OF
the family, has passed through one gen
Grafton after another, till now the Sar.
gent brothers, Frank and Charles, are in
charge. That they are wideawake farm
ers is shown by the fact that on the day
when the sun entered the summer soils
tice June 21st, their field peas and new
potatoes were ready for the market"
COMMENCEMENT oratiols and essays
are now all delivered, and the impress
sion still remains that public speaking
or reading, or oratory, is becoming lost
art. The fact also remains that, no mat
ter how carefully studied, and worded
and thrilling an essay, or paper, or ora
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