The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-09-16
HiBERNATION
OF NO. ADAMS
Small Pox Quarantine Has Put
the Town 10 Sleep.

Ike Brown of Williamstown, we'll
known in Bennington from the adver-
tising schemes he has worked here has
letter on small pox in the North Ad-
ans Herald which is of interest. 1t is
as follows:
"If the present highhanded course is
pursued much farther, North Adams
must soon sink into smallpoqus desue-
tude. Williamstown, the home OF mem
tai culture; the aromatic onion the
aHtumnal pumpkin; the lowneck squash
and other agricultural resources, has
stemmed the tide of westward emigra-
tion and in so doing, violated the laws
ofreciprocity.
"The maroon tinted Syrian maid,
bending under her pack of tempting
commodities, must no longer tarry at
the college city gates but either press
onward while she may and hold fond
dalliance with the WhiteO Oaks yeoman.
ry, or retrace her weary footsteps to
the "Quarter Latin, Rue d Etat' from
whence full of hope and garlic she had
departed in the early gladstone morn,
"The automobiles death rattle no
longer disturbs the sabbath stiffness
of this scholastic resort; all is peace
full as the bosom of boiled SQUAD
from which the soul has fled forever.
Determined men, carefully selected,
armed with injunctions, issued fresh
from the minds of still fresher author
tiles, are zealously guarding every
avenue in order that residents may re-
tain the citizenship in Williamstown,
rather than be added to the growing
population of New Jerusalem. In or
der to enter the sacred precincts of this
tranquil abode of wisdom, one meets
at every avenue of approach rustic,
proudly wearing the escutcheon of his
exalted Office, whose duty it is to inter-
rupt the meditations of the tourist by
hurling at him the Interrogation
"whar y from and whar y goin' tu?"
to which the experienced tourist will
answer, 'Pittsfeld, going right
through to Pownal" The latter will
also express great surprise upon being
informed that small pox is prevalent
in North Adams. The traveller of less
experience, whose great failing is in a
tendency to truthfulness, will not (ifh he
gives his abode as North Adams) re-
main long enough to note any remark
able changes in his native city during
his absence.
In the meantime what is being done
by these same Williamstown authori-
ties to stem the tide of the avaricious
horde from invading our city and re.
lieving the strain Of our overburdened
pocketbooks?
The bleating calf torn from it's par
ent's bosom, the frisky lamb that gam
bols in the dewey morn, the susculent
squash, the athletic onion, the green
apple and other agricultural internal
disturbance are gleefully distributed in
our affected community in exchange
for our sordid pestilential currency.
To still further augment our unhappy
condition Stamford, Hartwellville and
even Florida has pronounced an edict
that hereafter We must play in our own
back yard.
Twas but day or two since the
Bennington Banner-which proudly |
floats o'er the land of the free and the |
home OF thebraveand several subscrib- |
ers-was Haunted in our very face |
with proclamation that residents OF
North Adams we're not wanted in that !
town. This cruel desire to deprive us
of our chief delight, has already cast |
a funeral gloom over our entire COM
munity. Had 1t been New York or
Boston we might survive this tortur-
ing issolation-but Bennington, the |
mecca of gaety; Bennington with its
intoxicating pleasures--and that's no |
dream-Bennington, soon to become
electrically welded to our city, thus
adding to our importanee-for her to T!