Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-07-23
POWNAL
given later.

Miss Nellie r. Grady was inHOosick
Falls for Sunday.
Mr. Frohman and family of Troy are
at the Niles farm house.
George w. Otis of North Adams oc-
cupied the NJ. E. pulpit Sunday.
Mr. Crandall has returned from Bal
timore where he has spent the winter.
John Tighe is confined to the house,
having had number of attacks re-
Gently.
Rev and Mrs A. Fl. Simons of New
York City are the guests of f. j. Pet
tibone.
Mrs A. B. Gardner and son A. B.
Jr., went to Rutland Wednesday to
visit Mrs r. II. Miner.
F.. Stanley Sloat wife and daughter
Evelyn of Patterson, N. j., are the
guests of Mrs A. G. Parker
DR. B. 0. Barber went to West Troy
Monday on receiving a message that
his brother, Col Merritt Barber was
worse.
Theresa McAdoo of Williamstown
who was the guest OF Miss Theresa
Pratt for several days, re 'urned home
Saturday.
Mrs C. F. Butler and Miss Lena My
ers of Sandlake and Miss Annie Smith
of Troy we're guests at the NJ. T.. par
sonage Monday.
Mrs S. G. Bentley and Theodore L.
Root of Winsted, Conn, were the
guests of Mrs Bentley s daughter, Mrs.
r. H. Washburne recently.
Miss Laura Peltier is suffering a
great deal of pain from sciatic rheu-
matism and is being cared for by a
doctor from Williamstown.
Joseph Taylor and the Misses Fam
ME Blair and Teresa Stemwald of New
York, who have been at A. n. Potter's
for two weeks, returned home Satur-
day.
Supt William A. Hermon and wife
left for New York Monday where Mr.
Hermon is an important witness in a
suit brought against the Wright's
Health Underwear Co.
The Ladies Industrial Society of
the Baptist church meets again next
Wednesday, July 29th. Committee in
charge, Mrs G. t. Parker, Mrs Lelah
McCumber and Miss NJ. +. Parker,
Mrs Joseph ]. Bechard and two
daughters have gone to Princeton,
Mass to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs
c. E. Potter. Before returning home,
Mrs Bechard will visit relatives in
Boston.
Joseph Kedian, formerly proprietor
| of the Exchange Hotel in this village,
has forfeited his license in Dover, N,
r., where he was running hotel, be-
cause he sold liquor to other than
guests on Sunday.
Some miscreant pulled up Fred
Woodcock's garden Friday night.
This was a despisable, cowardly trick,
and no one but an extremely meanper-
son would do such thing. IL iShoped
that the worse-than-thief may be dis
covered.
Ernest Burgess and William Col
we'll received an unexpected bath last
Saturday. While driving through the
river, their wagon was overturned and
both got a thorough ducking. The
water was shallow so there was no
danger
Samuel Wright and daughter, Wash
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Williamstown and Miss Tillbury OF
England made the ascent of the west
mountain Saturday and visited "Snow-
hole" They found no snow but any
quantity of ice.
David Towsley has probably grown
the greatest curiosity ever produced in
the corn line. On May 2Sth he plant
ed Leaning corn. On July 18th he
showed the Banner correspondent a
stem which he had broken off near the
ground from a stalk of corn which had
apparently 80 well developed kernels
of corn. Who can equal this?
A certain deacon of the Baptist
church is wondering where his winter
supply ofcoal is coming from. Hehad
a carload come toNorth Pownal which
was a little more than sufficient to sup
ply the needs of his family He gave
the "Judge" permission to get load
which however turned out to be of gi-
gantic dimensions, and the deacon"
mad the pleasure of emptying the
pockets of the car and then was a num-
Der of tons short. The law is mightier
than the church.