The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-01-16
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News OF the Town and Village Briefly
Told For Bnsy Read srs.

News Of the Town and Village briefly
Told For Bnsy Read srs.
A. j. Cooper has returned from Bos-
ton.
Joe Evans is having a bad attack Of
rheumatism.
Robert and win Jepson OF Science.
tady are visiting here.
Mrs c. N Powers and Miss Cecil
Powers left Monday morning for Bos-l
ton.
The ladies' mission study GLASS will
meet at Mrs W. Is. Sheldon's Wednes.
day.
Rev f. II. Morris will lead the
guideboard prayermeeting Wednesday
evening.
Mrs Frank Lasher and daughter
Mrs Robinson, have returned from
North Adams.
Mrs Amy Haythorne has taken one
OF the new tent ments on Gage 81 be-
longing 10 DR. Putnam.
Miss Jennie Valentine will leave in
about week 70 spcuG The remainder
of the winter IN New Iore.
The Bennington Falls EB team will
90 to Sna ,bmy 10 play game in
Cole hall Friday evening.
The marriage OF Miss Margaret Rice
of Bennington Falls to Edward Palmer
of iloosick Falls has been announced.
Owing to the large amount of ice the
coasting on Silver street has been un
usually dangerous for the past few
days. Saturday three double.runners
were partly wrecked.
Mrs Theodore Thomas, Mrs George
BickfOrd aud Mrs Norman Bassett who
have been visiting their parents, Mr.
and Mrs John 5. Holden, returned to
their homes Monday morning.
The postponed installation of Off
GERS of Sixth corps post, and WRC
was held Saturday evening. Past M
mander j. A. n. Williams and past
president Ann Day acted as install
ing officers.
The Delineator for February contains
a fine half tone picture 9f the children
of Judge and Mrs C. II. Darling
dressed as Dutch Girls" in which
character they recently appeared at a
costume party in Washington.
Harrison |. Norton and family have
gone TO New York where they have
rented fiat and where they will re-
main several weeks. During their all
sence considerable additions and
changes will DE made to the house.
Inc evening train from Troy Satur
day did not reach here until after
O'Clock, much to the disgust of a num-
Der of Bennington people that we're on
their way home. The delay was caused
by one OF the passenger cars on the
down train leaving here at 5;l5 jump
ing the track near Melrose. No one
was harmed.
Many of the roads around Benniug
ton have been in bad condition for
over week Near the Bushnell dis
trict the roads we're not broken out un-
til Saturday and the residents in that
section came to the village Saturday
afternoon for the first time during the
week. L. E. Hart, while returning from
''"s oNNNich q ~ ndi dlNtInpOu' blOho
the thills on his cutter owing to the
depth of the snow,
A ote from Bennington informs us
that the original ofthe Vermont Revo
lutionary proclamation, printed the
other day in this paper from copy
found in an old copy of Vermont
statutes, is in The nossession OF George
A. Robinson of Remington, who has
had il framed. Mr. Robinson has
number of interesting early Vermont
documents and manuscripts, which we
trust may some day become the pro-
perry OF the state. BY the way, the
volume of Vermont statutes in which
the Bennington declaration was found
by Judge Palmer, was not, as errone-
ously stated, the acts and laws OF 1873,
(of which we believe but two copies
are known to be in existence) but the
Vermont statutes of 1887. Burlington
Free Press,