Bennington semi-weekly banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 1894-1902, 1895-04-16
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DOCTORS bills,
LIP. NORTON and wife passed Easter
in New York City.
THE Rev. Father Barron is expected
home Friday or Saturday.
MRS. HENRIETTA B. ADAMS left yes
terday, for an extended visit to Saranac
Lake, N. Y.
Jos, II. LoRING has been quite i'll for a
week or more. His condition is matter
of solicitude. The disease is rheuma-
tism.
IT is a pretty good idea these days for
one on seeing a bicycle approaching TO
get to one side. The rider may be new
at the business.
DISTRICT DEPUTY BENNETT and Mt.
Anthony Chapter, o. E. S., go to North
Bennington this evening to organize an
Eastern Star Chapter there.
KEROSENE oil is becoming scarce and
rising in price. Let it go up. Electric
light will soon be cheaper than oil light
ever was, counting the loss from evapor-
alton and breakage.
A CATHOLIC Winter school has been
planned for New Orleans, somewhat af-
ter the Summer school on Lake Cham
plain, and it is to open on Ash Wednes-
day and continue three weeks each year.
AN undertaken and his little daughter
were in a store last week. Noticing
some chocolates, the daughter remarked:
"There are some chocolates, papa,
''But, my dear little girl, you must re-
member that business in our line is on
the dead quiet now" But papa bought
the candy.
THERE was trouble in the Michigan
State University at Ann Arbor, over the
important and interesting question of the
right of young women to wear boomers
while walking and well as when riding
bicycles. The landlady finally settled it
by giving the option: skirts and hash or
to leave the house. The young lady
donned the skirts.
THE Hardwick Gazette is published
Fridays. Its last issue had this item:
To-day is recommended in general or
ders as a day of fasting, repentance and
other things meet for godliness, but it
can hardly be enforced for this purpose
unless the commander-in:chief emulates
the example of Col. Smith of glorious
memory, who detailed two dozen men
for baptism in order to keep ahead of an
Ohio regiment. Fast day is the mongrel
day of all the year."
THE Readsboro Enterprise has the fol-
lowing: George Jepson, who lives on
the Bennington flats, has killed, for diff
ferent ones during the past winter, be-
tween four and five hundred hogs, tax
ing the hogs to his slaughter house and
returning them dressed for $1.-Alba
Buss, who has taken the town farm, has
purchased of j. II. Loring & Co., the
Snively team that was in the barn when
it was struck by lightning. Each horse
has blind eye by the accident.
THE New York Court of Appeals has
affirmed the decision of the lower court
that Notaries Public, in that State, are
prohibited by the amended Constitution
road passes. At the same time the court
delivered the opinion that it was absurd
to class Notaries as public officers within
the meaning of the Constitutional provi-
sion but that the fact remains that they
come under the definition. The court
forget 20 include editors who are more of
"a public officers" than Notaries.
In the Troy Conference, to assemble at
Saratoga tomorrow, are six venerable
men, the youngest of whom has been
member fifty-five years. They are Rev.
Richard Brown of Odessa, Missouri, who
united with the conference in 1888, and
was in active service until 1860; Rev. p.
NJ. Hitchcock of Glens Falls, and Rev.
John Graves of Saratoga, who Joined in
1884; Rev. VIM. Griffith, D. D, of West
Troy, and now president of the Round
Lake Association, who united in 1886;
Rev. J. L. Slason of Round Lake, in 1886,
and Rev. Aaron Hall of Troy, who united
with the conference in 1910, and was in
active service until 1892.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL error may be small
only one letter may be displaced-aud
it can completely change the sense of
the phrase, though in the large majority
of cases the meaning is clear. An item
must be written correctly, the compost
tor must set in type and adjust the thou
sands of pieces correctly, the proof-read-
or must not overlook a single one of the
thousand letters, no matter how much
he has to do or how great his hurry, the
compositor must carry out every correc-
ton as indicated and the makeup must
drop out not single letter. When all
this is done then one can expect paper,
perfect and devoid of all errors. The
newspaper man and compositor not being
infallible sometimes make mistakes.
And when they do they feel it as bad as
anyone. Some people, however, fail to
remember all these things when they are
harsh in their criticisms on the printers.