The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1906-06-08
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town ami village Briefly
Told for Busy Read rs


e. Estabrook goes to Schenectady
and Gloyersville today.
Seward Rickerson of Troy is here
today calling on friends.
Robert Williamson of llerklmer, N.
y. is with friends here today.
Wanted. Girl for general house
work Inquire at Soldiers Home. i2si
Dave NJ. Phalen, IT,. OF Utica, N. Y.
il the guest OF VIM Phalan and family.
Miss Lila Wlnnie for some time con
nected with the telephone exchange in
this village, is now at work 10 = MISTER
dam.
Miss Ida Schmidt at NJ Il church
June -. good program will be rem
dered
Mrs VIM Barrett OF Grand View st
has gone TO Troy city hospital for an
operation for appendicitis.
Mrs Johanna Walsh of Schenecta
dy is the guest OF Mrs Walter Longlin
of Grant street for a few days.
Frank Strong of the Granville Mon
umellal works who has been here for
Il few days nas returned home.
Regular meeting of the W. r. G this
evening. There will be an Initiation
md q full at enhance is desired.
Rev 4. j. Butler, pastor OF Christ
church, West Rupert for The last Is
months, died Wednesday afternoon.
DrD. V. O'Donnell has gone to AL
bauy today with a patient that is to be
operated upon in one of the hospitals
Mrs II. A. Sralton, who has been in
hospital in the city Of Troy unSoing
ire atment, has + turned home much inn
proved
Mrs w. b. Stewart and children
have gone to Unadilla, N. Y
her former home to be absent the re-
mainder of the summer.
Harvey Davenport has resigned his
position with II, NJ. Ramsdell and eL-
tered the employ OF T.. b. Hyde, pr
prietor Of the Shurtletf pharmacy.
Mr. and Mrs IL. l.. StllsoD returned
yesterday afternoon from EnSsbure
Fails where they have been attending
the grand lodge meeting OF the OES
John Webber has contracted to pa
in sewer for the village on the Bur
gress road for % cents foot IN
sewer viii be 65S feet ia length and OF
q inch pipe.
Mrs VIM Thompson and son Harry
who have been spending a coupe OF
weeks with her sister, Miss Minnie Ma
har, have returned To their home Ia
Glens Falls.
Yrs +. NJ. Tiffany aud Mrs J. {
Clark of Winthrop, Mass, who wer,
here TO attend the funeral of theii
father, Lyman Harwood, returned
home this morning
John Lyons, a machines st on the bat
tleship Indiana, who has been on a ten
weeks furlough n portion of which h.
has pas, ed in this vicinity, left yesler-
day TO rejoin his ship in New YORK.
The Methodist church has already
been partially dismantled and is being
put out of commission as rapidly a.
possible. Work on the excavation for
the cellar is being pushed as fast as
possible.
/ At the annual convention OF the Wo
mans Home Missionary Union in Burl-
I ington yesterday the subject of the
I paper read 10y Mrs Geo ). Mills was
Home Missions, The Twentieth Century
Patriotism.
The Wilmington Hotel company has
sold the Lake Raponda hotel and cot
tages 10 Wilmington, VT, to Frank ID
Warner of Springfield for S2i, 900 The
sale was made 10y f. y. Pierce " Co.
real estate brokers.
Rev. DR.. c. w. Rowley wlnt to
Hoosick Falls yesterday To attend the
exercises in connection with tn 5Olh
anniversary of the insttuting of Rem
sselaer lodge, 4. x a. NJ. which took
place in the afternoon and evening
AT the annual convention OF the
Grand Chap.er OES held Wednesday
II. l.. Stllson was elected grand secre
tary for the pa con ecutive time The
reelection was unanimous. Mrs still
son was elected Grand Harden for the
present year.
Another $1,000 scholarship has been
established at the Troy Conference
academy at Pouhney by Dr. a =
Bixby OF that place DR. BiNb, is the
father of Mrs l. IL. Ross OF this viii
lage, and has been for number of
years one OF the we'll known residents
OF Poultney
James Ameden Of Manchester Depot,
who has set work sold by f.. rs ,by ,ok
since 1900 has just set The 9 ton mon
ument for Rev Chas II Seymour az
bennington Center. Mr. Estabrook
set the marker for Mrs Seymour and
graded the lot last fall. Mr. Amele
goes to Vicksburg, Miss, this month
to set Confederate monument lO) feet
high At that place.
An the N Il, thurch ervices viii ! c
held in the auditorium Tor the last
time Snnd ~ unit the completion Of
the repairs. In the morning the pas