The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1905-10-03
BENNINGTON BRIEFS


WI Thompson Of Sunderland Is
u visitor la the village.
Miss Mary roomey will return 10 her
school in brooklyn soon.
Geo + Bsmis OF Readsboro was ono
Of tho visitors In town, Monday.
Miss Name Kelley OF Brooklyn l.
the guest OF Miss Nellie Murpny.
Melvin II Robinson lefl this morn.
ms on u business trip 70 Springfield,
Mass.
Tho Mission study aud Teachers
class begin work al The Baptist church
this evening at i.ib.
Tho front 81 the brewster block on
North street has been improved In Ap.
poaranca by painting.
Mrs George Remington who has
been quite ~ for several days was not
much Improved this morning.
The North Adams Amusement Co.
will continue 10 run the skating rink
every night through the winter
SIR aud Mrs Pc Butler recently
married here have removed from
Schenectady, 10 Pillsheld, Mass.
Six excursion tickets for the Mont.
polior celebration we're sold nj the To-
cal Office Of the Rutland railroad.
DIR W r Putnam aud c y Powers
left this morning for Montpelier ~
attend the anniversary celebration.
SIR aud Mrs ID A Riefenburg aud
son, William ana II Lyons spent Sun
day NJ Dear View cabin Ia the noun
tains.
Misses Filth and Virginia Van
Santvoord have gone 10 Urcsnsich,
Conn where the latter gill enter Roe.
emary school
Mrs q + In ress aud Mrs + T. Howe
ATE delegates from ~ Peters church
10 the Nomcn's Auxiliary cVGy,nion
10 Burlington next week.
The heavy rala Of last nigh, cooled
The air considerably. The beat Of the
past four days has been unprecedented
in over twenty years, or since lssl.
Should the weather permit there will
be n game OF base bail Saturday aft.
crnoon between n nine made up most
~ of coils x players from Williams.
towa and q nine OF Bennington players
The funeral Of Mrs Jennie Coulter
was observed this morning, Rev c W
Rowley, IN ID officiating. The body
was taken 10 Cambridge for ln,erment.
Street commissioner Clapp has q
number OF men and teams at work on
Grand View street ploughing out the
cutters and improving the roads and
walks.
The selectmen have about completed
the Job of removing the hard heads
between the Meach hole and
the Governor Robinson bridges.
wm Kirkwood has completed the
ploughing OF twelve acres Of green
sward at the residence OF James A
Eddy at Bennington Center. IL will be
leveled of and greatly improved.
Mrs + Smith has left the hospital
In Troy 10 which she was taken few
days ago and is now spending q few
days with her sister Mrs DEMO near
Bennington Falls.
The first chestnuts made their ap-
pearance Ia the local market yester-
day. They have been reported scarce
this year. Butternuts have been un-
usually plentiful and there are abun-
dance of walnuts.
At the annual meeting OF the Yer.
mont Medical Association to be held
In Burlington, October 12-13, DR. &
w Bartlett OF this village and DR. w
s Phillips OF Arlington will read pa.
pers, subjects to be announced later.
II Is understood that the detach-
ment OF the Salvation Army that has
been located here for several months
will not remain much longer. While
here II has done considerable good.
Inability TO secure larger quarters l
one of the reasons for leaving.
Hon A B Gardner, David Gardner,
Amasa Thompson and Thomas Hoxle
Hall of Pownal we're visitors TO the
village Monday. They we're attending
a hearing before the bankruptcy court
in the Stephen J Grady case from
their town.
The marriage OF Miss Clara p Ray
of North Adams and Marcus 7 Rey'
nolds OF Hoosick took place Monday
morning at the home OF the bride in
North Adams, Rev DR. Busfeld per-
forming the ceremony. The couple
left during the day for weeks visit in
Boston. They will reside in Hoosick.
The groom has been for number of
years connected with the Hoosck Saw
ings bank.
In a recent conversation John Rob-
inson the well.known wool buyer stat
ed that wool has not been so high in
twenty years as 1t is now. He is pay
ing 81 cents a pound for ordinary
wool, and 80 cents for washed wool
and expects the prices will GO higher.
MIR Robinson attributes the high pric-
es to an actual scarcity in this coun-
try and Australia, and to the greatly
increased demand for wool In this
cn,,ptry md an EuOlard