The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-03-22
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News OF the Town andl village Told a
Briefly For Busy Readers

Mr. and Mrs H. j. Cole are in AL
bany for few days.
Miss Nellie Dowd is confined to the
house with the grip,
P. H. Phalen was in Manchester
Center the first of the week.
Miss Florence Walbridge has gone
to North Adams for few days.
Col N. M. Puffer has, been confined
to the house a week with the grip.
Mrs S. J. Farrar, who has been
critically i'll, is slowly improving.
Miss Florence Galusha of Greenwich
is the guest of relatives for few days.
Miss Lena Smith has been confined
to the house for few days by illness.
Miss Stella Wright of Manchester
Center was in town recently on BUSH
ness.
James Wood was taken suddenly i'll
Sunday and is still confined to the
house.
Miss Margaret Meagher Of Troy is
with Mrs A. G. Wood for the spring
season,
Mrs Henry Marsh has been confined
to the house several days with the
asthma.
Joseph Daley is assisting in Shurt-
lefT's drug store during Mr. Shurtlef's
absence.
The Bennington Knitting Co.'S mill
has commenced work after a several
weeks shut down.
J. r. Judson of Arlington and
James Conway of Troy were among the
visitors to the village Monday.
Miss Lillian Harbour, who has been
very Ill for some time, ventured out
too soon and is now quite ill again.
Col A. NJ. Downs was called to
North Pownal Tuesday to attend the
funeral of his uncle the late Blackman
r. Brownell.
Mr. and Mrs J. b. Stebman of
Mountville, Pa, who have been visit
ing their son j. b. Stehman of the
YMCA, returned home this morning.
Harold NJ. Sweet, Roger G. Rams
dell, Fred A. Burt and Robt F.
Moore spent the first day of their va
cation at Sucker Pond. 1t is rather
lonesome there without Mark.
Curtis d. Sweet has been confined to
his room several days with an attack
of the grip.
Miss Bertha Pomeroy has resigned
her position in the graded school and
accepted a similar one in Revere,
Mass. She leaves the first Of April
Mrs NJ. F. Bartlett and daughter
Marion, who have been at w. D. New
tons over Sunday, have gone 20 Al
bany where they will visit Mr. and Mrs
Richard Atwell.
Buel and Hilda VanVleck, of Ports
mouth, n. H.. are visiting their grand
father c. D. Gibson.
Miss Mildred Newmayer, is prepar-
ing display Of hand painted china
etc for Easter gifts.
Mrs John Robinson while going in
to the woodshed this morning stepped
onto a small stick Of round wood,
which rolling threw her to the ground,
and as a result one ankle was broken.
Mrs George II. Biekford was taken
yesterday to her home in Hardwick.
She is improving. The state railroad !
commissioners will meet at Cambridge !
Thursday to investigate the accident.
The general health of the place is |
good. That our same diseases were |
common over century ago can be |
seen from the following extract taken |
from the Vermont Gazette published /
at Bennington in its first issue for
April 1890. "The prevalence of bad |
colds and inhammatory disorders was
never more remarkable in these parts
than at present. Scarcely a family |
has wholly escaped and in some towns
it has proved very mortal The dis
order most prevalent is deemed by
many to be epidemic, and not greatly
different in its operations from in
huenza.".