The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-06-26
STRAY BITS GATHERED
FROM MANY QUARTERS
Items of Interest, Bits of Advice,
Hints of Home, Health and
Future Happiness.
What's the use.

What's the use.
Don't fret it won't make you feel
cooler.
The ice cream man is popular today.
If man says to you, Just keep
cool''-don't hit him. Perhaps he
means we'll
Does any one know of an ice cream
man in town with whom this weather
does not agree?
The new vacuum cleaner is furnish
ing as much amusement for the chill
dren as a monkey and hand organ
did earlier in the season.
Ice cold lemonade, sucn as the cir
Gus is famous, would sell fast at to-
days ball game. Here's a chance for
some enterprising young hustler.
The season of growing things is at
hand. If you have not garden or
farm where you can watch things
grow you are missing half of life.
Every morning after a band concert
1.-The corner resembles Morgan's lot
take any pride in the towns parlor.
If you want to enjoy breeze SINH
lar to that which is refreshing your
more fortunate brother at the sea
shore, just invest a quarter in trolley
ride.
The greatest problem which is
throbbing in the hearts of the juve-
niles these days is to decide between
baseball AID the favorite swimmin'
hole.
Yesterday a white man was con-
victed in the Great Darlington court
of stealing two hens from a colored
man. Getting even, h?-Pittsfield
Eagle.
Announcement has been made that
Rutland has been added to the list of
Aero club stations in New England.
Eventually Rutland may be an airship
instead of marble city.
Fireworks will soon be in blossom.
A garden full of these Chinese play
toys might rival rose garden in APP
pearance at night but the odor would
not appeal to most of us.
Often when men are elected to Of
flee they think they have no boss and
that they don't need to listen to any
suggestion while in fact they are the
servants of all the people.
With the advent of the new low
neck street attire and peek-a-boo
waists of wide-opeh design, the rop
of pop-eye boys and rubbernecks will
be very large this summer.-Troy
Standard.
Yesterday the mercury registered
about ninety in the shade, while just
a week before it almost touched the
freezing point. Verify women are not
the only things in New England that
are tickle.
General Humidity arrived Tuesday
with a whole regiment of sizzling
soldiers at his heels. From all accounts
he intends to continue the seige for
several days longer. In the cities the
list of lives lost in the cause is bound
to be large.
Someone has remarked that the
cool weather was over come with the
heat the past few days and is at pres.
entla the Gibson hospital recuperat-
ing. 1t is hard to figure with the
mercury at ninety whether it was in
tended for joke.
At Bennington Center oil has
been successfully used on a large
portion of the principal thorougnfares
to lay the dust. The beauty of the
scheme lies in the fact that but one
application year is needed to secure
almost dustless roads.
Tomorrow should be an excellent
day to harden the soldier boys to the
heat so they can stand the strenuous
work next week at the celebration.
1ncidently it will probably be a good
day to watch the maneouvres-from
under the shade of the spreading
elms.
In passing over the tar cross walk
at the corner of Lincoln and River
street the wagons carrying the mas
sive coping stones for the Holden
mausoleum broke the walk to pieces.
Residents in the vicinity are busy
surmising who is to pay for making
the necessary repairs.
JOY TlulnS is Delng considered
serious offense by the authorities in
many cities. In New York Thursday
chauffeur was given a several
months prison sentence for using his
employers auto without the latter's
knowledge and badly damaging 1t
while on reckless ride.
Some local automobiles have an at
tachment in front of the machine to
prevent the hood from being damaged
If the chauffeur should forget to turn
out for telegraph pole. In defer.
ence to the walking public with nice
cotton batting, in case the offender
should happen to be a pedestrian in
stead of pole.
A well known local young lady on
being asked at the station by Ban
ner reporter what the destination of
her journey was replied, IF any one
asks you tell them l have gone to
hell" Later 1t was learned she was
in Troy We don't think the men,
bers of our Trojan colony will be fat
tered when they read this.
On Tho hoolr 30 A. 1-