The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-27
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News Of the Town and Village Told
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Mrs Hercules Sanche has returned
from three weeks visit In New YORK.
Seymour VanSmtvoord and family
are at their summer home at Furnace
Grove In the east part OF the town.
Principal A. Is. Wilmarth will attend
the Harvard summer school during his
vacation taking labratory, chemistry,
and other subjects.
The class entering the high school
from room IA numbers %. This num-
Der will be augmented by several from
the parochial schools.
Miss Amy Cutler, a member OF the
High school faculty. will take course
I'm Literature and technical English
at Columbia this summer.
During the present vacation new
floors will be laid In several rooms
at the graded school building and con.
siderable inside painting VIII be done.
Miss Jennie NJ. Hatch will spend the
summer ut the seashore near Boston
and will attend a summer school OF
music In that city for several weeks.
Rev w. ]. O'Sullivan OF Montpelier.
and brother Rev. ID. j. O'Sullivan OF
st. Adams. two leading clergymen In
the Catholic diocese are planning to
make a trip to Europe this summer
The past few days of warm weather
has been rushing crops OF all kinds.
Grass IL looking well. rye IL extra good
also corn and potatoes. The gardens
are looking well for the late spring.
.Bradstreets report Of bennington
this week says. The new electric line
was opened for travel this week. Mer
chants and manufacturers report a
large Increase In the volume OF bust
ness.
Miss Gertrude Spear Of Coxsackie,
N. Y, has been engaged as teacher OF
music and drawing for the coming
school year. Miss Spear is teacher
OF wide experience. She was for two
years supervisor OF music and draw
ing In Porto Rico. and comes highly
recommended
Examinations OF applicants for free
tuition I'm the high school will be held
by the town superintendent Thursday
and Friday June %. 2S. These exam
nations are the first held under the
new law. The applicants must pass
In the following subjects: Arithmetic
physiology. grammar. geography. his
tory. and civil government. There VIII
be- no state examination this season
In Rutland and Bennington counties
Several OF those who graduated last
week may 40 To college In September
Miss Beulah Bates enters NasSar. Miss
Sara Whitney and Miss Eliza Hart AT
Middlebury college. Arthur kehoe al
the University OF Vermont. Shelley
Wall expects to enter Cornell and
Frank n. Heath IL considering Middle
bury. Both Barron Fitzgerald and
Joseph Cone will take college courses.
Harry Davenport will probably attend
normal school.
Invitations have been issued by Mr.
and Mrs Lewis NJ. Palmer OF brooklyn
20 the marriage OF their daughter
Miss Emily l.. Palmer. Ia Jcstpr III
Nichols Of bennington. The wedding
will take place Wednesday evening
July 10. nj the home Of Mr. and Mrs
II
Palmer nj 90 East 18th street. Brook
Ign. Only relatives and n few intim
ate friends OF the contracting parties
are TO b. present owing 20 recent
deaths In the family.
In the death OF County Clerk Harry
r. Cushman at bennington on Sunday
last the town Of bennington loses one
Of its most popular and the state one
of its most useful citizens II was our
pleasure 10 have been personally &C
quainted with Harry Cushman for
nearly a quarter Of n century and We
can bear testimony rs 10 those pc
culiar traits of character that made
him respected and loved by all. Il was
all too soon for life such ms his To be-
removed from this busy world.-Man'
chester Journal.