The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-07
STRAY BITS GATHERED
FROM MANY QUARTERS
Items of Interest, Bits of Advice,
Hints of Home, Health and
Future Happiness.

Future Happiness.
What would the King of Spain do if
he lost his job is question that is
troubling many in Europe.
A man without ambition is like an
automobile without gasolene. Meth
er should expect to travel far.
Some of the suspended baseball
players are probably specializing on a
snow ball diet for next winter.
l wonder will free hides make
cheaper meat as well as shoes. If so
boarding house keepers will be pleas
ed
Bennington received the first con-
signment of the Seattle exposition
stamps but is still waiting for the
Lincoln cents.
With balloon ascension, auto race
and circus in the near future | be-
lieve everyone should have a chance
to enjoy himself.
August promises to be a jolly good
month for the moon. According to
the calendar, Mr.. Man in the Moon is
scheduled to get full twice.
The miscreant who rang in the
false fire alarm last night should be
severely dealt with when caught It's
mean trick which deserves punish
ment.
Thursdays copious rain proved a
boom to autoists as well as farmers.
The roads were in such a dusty con
dition that no pleasure was to be
found in motoring.
North Adams is ching invaded by a
host of suffragists from Boston which
give lectures hourly on the street cor
ners. The tunnel city and London
will soon be chums.
Pittsfeld can win three times a
week from North Adams but has to
bow to defeat when over the buckle
berry line Vermont seems to be
Jonah for "Cy' Ferry's colts.
Poor old Hoosick Falls is nearly
down and out. Already the flag on
the Walter A. Wood Moving Machine
companys building is flying at half
mast. so a travelling man told me yes
terday.
1t Is an easy manner to distinguish
among your acquaintances an aristo-
crat and a would be one. The former
almost invariably greets you kindly
but the latter never sees you when he
is in the swim"
Despite the fact that the local
team has been playingethe best of
baseball the chronic kicker is still In
our midst Someone ought to teach
him that uncalled for criticism Is out
of style at Morgan and Tudor parks.
Another Bennington need is board
of trade Since the business mems
excursion a few DAYS ago a movement |
has been on foot to form one in this |
town. II plans to materialiZe and we |
may expect to see board of trade in |
this town in a short time
Tomorrow will be tag day at Tudor
Park. Instead of tickets, tags will
be given to those who pay their ad-
mission at the gate. Anyone not
wearing a tag will be put off the field.
The management should advertise
two games-tag and baseball for the
same price.
The season at Newport and other
large summer resorts is said TO be |
dull this season. The
auto is great spreaders of vacation
lists money. The large fashionable
feel it the most but the small |
places like Bennington may rejoice
accordingly.
An exchange says that Luke Nina
han, Billy Van Sleet of Pittsfield and
Peter ]. Tyre of Frogs Landing are |
he three best advertised men in |
Berkshire county. The joke of the |
natter is that none of them pay
cent for the space they occupy almost |
iaily in the surrounding newspapers.
Some local automobilists fail to
with the law providing that |
all machines be equipped with tail |
amps which saall be lighted after |
lark. Heed of this warning may pre- |
vent arrest later. All have the lamps |
ont | have seen several cars in the |
evening which did not have the rear
amps lighted.
The Vermont state golf tournament
las proven of great interest 10 the
many in this town interested in the
,port. If Mt. Antnony's representa-
tive Percy II. Jennings wins In today
finals, bennington may well be proud
of the fact, as it has been held among
PLAYERS of the Ekwanok club for tae
past seven years.
Remington is fast becoming a sum-
mer resort town. The number OF au-
parties which pass through
here daily is as large as in Williams
town. Stockbridge, or Lenox. 1t is up |
10 the people of this town to decide
whether they wish these tourists TO
come this way again and spend their |
money here. The town of itself has
scenery and many historic |
sites watch are the greatest drawing |
cards for tourists What it needs Is |
development. The streets should be |
kept exceedingly clean and the lawns
well cared for AT present fields OF |
burdocks and other weeds may be |
seen growing along our principal
streets within the village limits. Pub |
lie spirit and the enforcement of the
laws would do much to benefit our
own.
Susie Surcingle
VT Aug. Z, 1909.