The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1906-05-31


Msss I1rnise nusgm ~ Norih Ben.
nsaEsssn = visiting hef Paf~ats hoEs.
Mr.. u. Y. Roters - yisiiiaF
fFaends IN Rutland
Mas Ida Seymour is confined b
Der hosns piih muscular rheumAiisH.
Miss Bertha Ba~en Of Caslletoh
was rncens visitor Ia town
Stew. Hector u Hoosiek fslls
spent Sunday Al has bone here.
! --Rass Mclaughlin ~ North Dorset
spent Sunday siih her uncle.
Mr.. John Harrington vas resent
visitor ID Rutland.
E1@Ari liArwood has purchased a
new gasoline engine. which be vii use
on the curry be Is opening,
sorTH DORSET.
The long distance telephones don'l
work worth a cent IN this valley.
-flnldA. A. l.. BowrB's oldest
daughter, is quite sick.
r. The schools here are preparing Tor
an old fashioned exhibition in June.
--B. Niles had valuable borse die
in the barn on Sunday last. Dropped
dead.
--prentiss Kent underwent another
operation last week for AN abscess IN
bis back.
IN. MeWayne has sold his farm
known as the Martindale place 10 chas.
n. Norcross last week.
Fish and game wardens are
roaming the woods and wading the
brooks well armed.
Now don't you wish you had one
Of Bowen's mo Tar roofs TO keep
the rain out
Quite lot OF corn and potatoes
came mp Sunday, washed mp by the
hard rain and consequent food.
There is talk OF getting larger
wheels for the road machine so il will
20 over the big rocks in the road
The auction at Dorset last week
was all day and good prices prevailed.
Nathaniel McWsyne bought the house
for sl04l.
What little mud the road machine
scraped into the road this spring has
gone TO New York via the Battenkill in
food Of Sunday.
John G. Blaekmer and Charles II.
Parker Of the Blackmer Co. Manchest-
err Depot called at Brookside last week.
Come again boys We like 10 see you.
"A young man and woman were
calling up people about here Saturday
night They were pedestrians they
said on trip around the world and
were trying to beat their way. 1t was
raining hard and they were experience
ing some of the fun they expected to
find. They didn't want to pay for any
thing because they had bet they
wouldn't" They are still walking and
are another sample of the dead beat.
SYNDICATE.
Our cheese factory seems to be in
hourishng condition.
Mrs. X. C.. Smith is visiting her
mother in Fair Haven this week.
--Chas. Thompson of Salem, N. Y,
was in town last week buying cows for
his dairy.
Robert Dewey has purchased the
steam saw mill of Mr.. Monroe, and
will continue the lumber business.
A. w. Prinde is running groc-
cry wagon for A. II. Green of Shu-
shan, n. Y, making the trip through
this town and home by the way of
Arlington,
Clarence Mears and Miss Libbie
King very quietly drove over to Salem
last Saturday morning and came back
man and wife much to the surprise of
the older people.
The following were in town last
week called here by reason of the i'll
ness and death of Willis S. Bentley -
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Mears, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard Barber and two children,
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Barber and one
child, Mrs. John Barber, Mrs. james
Madison. Mrs. Bessie Lundberg, Ber-
tie Bentley, Mr.. and Mrs. Hollis Bent
ley and four children, Edmond Bent
ley and John A. Wyman Of Arlington
and Miss Belle Gregory Of Hoosiek
Falls, N. Y.
WILLIS S. BENTLEY DEAD.
Willis Smith Bentley died at his home
in this town on the 23d inst, after few
days Illness that was thought 10 be
slight attack of cerebral apoplexy. Mr..
Bentley was born in Sandgate in Jan
uary, 1881. In politics Mr.. Bentley ,
identified himself with the Republican
party. He was the oldest son born TO
Whitman and Lavinia Bentley. Two
brothers, Harmon and Reuben and two :
sisters, Mrs. Melissa Young of Fort
Edward, n. Y, and Mrs. James Pro
van Of this town survive.
Mr.. Bentley was a member Of the NJ.
Il. Church of this town and had been
since lis organization and was active in
The erection Of its church building Civ
ing literally of his substance and time
towards its erection He was one Of
the Stewards from its organization to
his death. The town bad placed the
utmost confidence in his integrity and
Judgment and had elected him TO every
Office within its power excepting one,
that Of Town Clerk, from highway sur
veyor 10 first selectman He was a JUS
tee Of the peace "a years and oyerseer
Of the poor n years. He had repre-