The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-05-18
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News OfIthe Town andI:lvillaGo Told
Briefly Fer Busy Rsadsrs

Mr. and Mrs H. S. Bingham are in
Rutland to-day.
E. E. Larrabee has been in New
York this week.
Miss Helen Darrow spent Sunday
with friends in Castleton.
Mr. and Mrs James Ewens of Chat.
ham are stopping at the Putnam.
E. w. Bradford went to Brattleboro
yesterday for medical treatment.
William Caplais of Pittsfeld is
visiting his aunt Miss Julia O'Don-
nell.
Albert G. Patchen left this morning
for Springfield to visit his daughter,
Mrs G. X. Turner.
Miss Lizzie Mcmahon has gone to
New Brunswick, N. j., to reside with
her sister, Mrs Fred Rickert.
Mrs Herbert Mallory of Gage st has
gone to the Troy city hospital to sub
init to an operation for cancer.
General Secretary Stehman of the
YMCA has returned home from the
International convention at Buffalo
Moses Dupuis, a former resident
now of Manchester, spent the first of
the week with his sister, Mrs David
Murray.
Homer A. Lyons trapped a small
black bear at Glastonbury yesterday,
He was in good condition and weighs
about 100 lbs.
The Pleasant street branch of st
Mary's guild of st Peters church will
meet with Mrs Abbott Thursday after
noon from 3 to O'Clock.
Willie Temple, who had both bones
in his right leg broken Monday even
ing, although suffering much pain is
doing as well as could be expected.
Miss NJ. f. belong representative
Of Madam Wood, Syracuse, N. Y,
will be in town next week to call upon
the ladies and customers of the late
Mrs Barnes.
The regular meeting of the village
school board will be held this evening
There is considerable interest in it
from the fact that at this meeting the
selection of teachers for the coming
school year will be made.
The Bennington and Hoosick Valley
Electric railway company has a force
of men at work on the section between
here and North Bennington putting
the road bed into order, also laying
large number of new ties Open cars
nave been used some, but the weather
has not yet been very favorable,
Announcements have been received
Of the marriage of Miss Ruth Stafford
Wilder of st Johnsbury to Caro-
Pratt Barney a former resident, now
Of Woodsville, N. Il. The marriage
,ook place at her home Saturday May
IA. Mr. and Mrs Barney will be at
nome in Woodville after June first
SIEVE nty-f years ago this month
there was heavy fall of snow and
Gordon Squires, at that time promi-
lent resident, used to tell that on May
10 1884 81 walked from Bennington
20 Bennington Center, one mile, to ac-
,ept the position of clerk in Lyman
oatchins store. Five or six inches of
snow had fallen the previous night.
The apple and peach trees we're in
blossom and the bright sunshine of the
made them look as though |
oaded with crystals"
Mrs H. S. Goodall, her mother, Mrs |
Hodges and daughter Elizabeth return
ID to Bennington this morning and are |
,uests OF DR. F. w. Goodall. Durir G
he past three and one half months
he and her daughter have visited |
riends in Rhode Island and DR. Ellis |
= Goodall in Pottsville, Penn, but
ave spent the greater part of the time
t her former home in Washington,
}. G. Mrs Goodall will go on
for a visit to her husband,
n the Adirondacks, where he has been
ince Jan 18th for his health, and
e seems to be recovering. BE weighs
lore than ever before in his life and
he disease is nearly eliminated from
lie svctau flor vicittnp him che |