The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-05-29
BENNINGTON BRIEFS

/ News OF the Town aud village Told
Briefly for Busy Rsaters
Stocky tomato plants at Heaths.
Elm street. 90 2
Decoration day post cards OF all
kinds at Evans News rooms. 68t2
The grand list OF the town OF Man.
chester for the year 1907, is $l6,573 IS.
The Pastimes will bowl a match
game with the Brunswicks this even
Ing.
The usual holiday hours will be OBJ
served tomorrow at the postoffice and
the banks.
/ Red geranlums, saliva, pansies,
and other bedding plants Mt Heaths,
Elm street. 69t2
Mr. and Mrs Fred ID. Burt will leave
tomorrow morning for Gle1s Falls
where they will spend Memorial day
and Sunday.I n
The prayer and covinant meeting OF
the Baptist church will be held as US.
ual Thursday night. Subject "Chris-
tian Patriotism"
Rev II. w. Fields OF North Adams
will speak at the Baptism church to.
night at 8 o'clock. All colored people
OF Bennington are urged TO be present.
The condition OF Fred Peckham,
who has been laid up at his home on
South street for several weeks, does
not improve as fast as his friends
would like 10 have him. He Is not able
TO do but little work
The stewards OF the Burlington dis.
t-ict OF the Troy conference met 10 reeg
ular session 10 Rutland Monday, az d
at the meeting II was unanimously
voted 10 increase the salary OF the pre-.
siding elder, Rev p. l.. Dow 10 $1,000
a year.
Rev J. q. McGarry for some time 10
charge OF St Francis church and parish
but for the last year pastor OF st
Johns church at Enosburg Falls has
been obliged 70 reliuQuish his work be-
cause OF III health. He Is now 10 the
hospital at Proctor where he has been
for several weeks.
The Walloomsac Inn will open for
the season Saturday. The house Is
already for business now and the drst
guests are expected this evening. They
are Mr. and Mrs Guy V. Johnson OF
New York, who will remain at the Inn
until their new house erected at the
C,nier, nj cost OF about $50, 900, Is
ready 10 go into.
Manager III. Il. IIutchlns OF the Ii
brary theater received n telephone mes
sage from Mechanlceville last evening
hat the Mobile Black Artists did not
make good and they closed with them
last night. The attraction will there.
fore not appear here as advertised
Those who have purchased tickets can
get their money back by calling ut
Ayres drug store.
Comrade A NJ Downs with q de
IAil OF men we're at the village cemetery
Tuesday, while comrade ID. ii. Rudd
with another detail went 10 the old
cemetery at the Center where they trim
med up the bushes, the grass, and
placed the necessary markers a. the
heads OF different graves. IL n labor
u love n. which the two comrades In
particular have been engaged In for a
number OF years.
Word has been resolved at the post
flee Ia weigh all incoming and out.
going mall for the space OF six months
rom July first Heretofore 10 has
been the custom 10 weigh for only
nlnety days but the government thinks
that better results will be found BY
extending the time 10 six months.
These weighing seasons come every
lour wears. On the seight found. the
compensation 10 transportation Is de
'ermined. II makes considerable ex.
IRA work for post office officials.