The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-08-08
PoWNAL.

Miss Marion Kellogg OF West Swan
zey, n H., is visiting 10 town.
Mrs. Murdoch OF Pittsfeld has been
visiting Miss Carrie Barber.
Mrs. lIemenway Of Bennington is
visiting her daughter, Mrs Glen Clark.
Daniel +. Gardner is confined to the
house with bad case of rheumatism
IN the knee.
Mr and Mrs c. + Smith. two daugh-
ters, son and James Canfeld we're at
Leon Dormon's last Sunday
Mr. and Mrs II. W. Myres and son
Frederick were in town last Sunday
visiting at Mrs T.. J. Burrington's
Samuel Wright and daughter, Miss
Winifred, are visiting in White Greek.
W. G. Myers is acting as nagman and
mail carrier.
Mr. and Mrs j. c. Mitchell left Mon
day for Old Orchard, Me-, where they
will be guests for week OF Miss Morey
OF Williamstown.
The building OF the electric road is
adding somewhat t. the business of
our village, adding many boarders
AID some whole families.
For years we have had no milk ped
died in our village, but Luther Hasson
is about TO establish milk route, sci
ling milk at four cents quart.
Mrs d. r. Bates and Mrs Geo. II.
Dunn returned Sunday from Troy,
where they had attended the funeral of
Mrs Rood, Mrs Bates sister in-law.
Miss jeanette Gardner gave a card
party Tuesday evening on the spacious
new veranda al Cedar Hill The party
was in honor of Miss Gardner's two
Vt. Academy friends who are visiting
her, Miss Florence Nulting of West
minister and Miss Julia Hitchcock Of
West Haven,
There was an unusually large attend
ance at the Baptist church Sunday
morning, John l.. Cole preaching a
stirring sermon on the subject "God )
Light The Rev Mr. Skevington and
family of Newark, n j., who are at
.OVerlook farm tor a month, were
among those present.
II liJ iNM nkfuAll HiiONNi lOA VII IAiN"
trio road was all assembled and ia
running order Saturday night. An
attempt was made Sunday tO run It to
It's place under its own steam. When
in front of Geo. Beacon's house the
% ton machine began to sink and was
soon embedded in the dirt nearly up
to the front wheel aXles. BY Monday
night the shovel had been raised and
blocked up and Tuesday it went on its
way again.
The Pownal Valley Creamery has
been compelled to shut down as it has
been steadily running behind owing TO
the scarcity of milk. There has not
been enough business done to pay eX-
penses and the directors decided the
only thing to do was to quit. III. +.
Hood 4 Sons of Boston will take all
the milk the farmers here have to Of.
fer, it being sent each day to Eagle
, Bridge, from whence a special milk
car leaves each day for Boston.
Solomon Wright of Troy was in
town Monday to confer with a firm
from Hartford, Conn, in regaed TO
leasing or selling the water power of
the w. II. L. Co here. Freight Agent
Davis of the Is. x NJ. was also in the
party. This firm have patent pro
cess of manufacturing leather and they
would expect to employ about 30 men
at the onset. They would expect to do
freight business of about ID tons each
way daily. The only objection that
the firm found to the place was that
there was not enough water power,
they requiring about $50. They expect
to send engineers here to see how much
water power the dam will develop.