The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-06-05
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News OF the Town and village Dri.n,
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News OF the Town and vintage Brtcuy
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Matthew Honniker of Mt Tabor was
a guest in the village yesterday
Mercury this morning registered
about 80 degrees above with a cold
rain falling.
A new telephone has been placed In
the residence of Miss Lillian Ford OH
Imperial avenue.
Fred d. Burt who has been spend
ing few days with friends In Glens
Falls has returned home. Mrs Burt
will remain few days.longer.
The quarterly conference OF the NJ.
Il. church will meet this evening at
1880 o'clock. Rev z. l.. Dow. presid-
ing elder, will be present. A full at
tendance Is desired.
J. j. Madden OF Troy who recently
purchased the l.. l.. Fillmore place
on West Main street is expected here
soon with his family to take possess
ION and occupy the house.
Sam Rosenberg, the shoe maker
from the Walker block, will move next
Monday TO the tenement formerly oc
cupled by the late Mrs Babcock. next
door 10 the |. Il. Gibson bakery. 20
c. II. Darling, formerly OF this vii.
lage, now collector OF the port at Bur.
llngton, has contributed $50 towards
starting the baseball nine In that city
on financial basis for the coming
season.
A social meeting OF the Ladies' Aid
society OF the Baptist church will be
held at the home OF Mrs Cutting, 1893
Union street. Thursday afternoon,
June 6. from 3 TO o'clock. All ladies
are invited.
Mr. and Mrs A. J. Harwood OF James
vile. Wis, are guests OF Mr. and Mrs
w. J. Tiffany. Mr. HARDWOOD who was
former Benningtonian Is now con
nected with the Lewis Knitting com.
pany Of Janesville.
Miss Faith Powers is expected
home tomorrow or Friday from Middle
bury 10 spend the next two weeks nj
home before the graduating exercises
Of her class In the college. She closes
n four years course there with this
term.
At Sunday school convention held
In 81 Marks church In Hoosick Falls
| Tuesday an address, The Religious
Education Of Our Children. What
Should be- Taught" was delivered by
Rev George l.. Richardson OF Glcns
Falls, formerly rector Of st Peters
church In this village.
Farmers and others say that Il IL too
early yet to tell whether the blossoms
ON the fruit trees have been damaged
by the recent frosts All kinds OF
fruit trees are loaded with blossoms
Grass IL looking nicely and from pres
ent appearances the crop this year
viii be up 10 the average.
II Is expected now that the Moent
Anthony Country club will BE- formally
opened on July 9th nj which date n
match game OF golf has been arranged
with n team from Adams. With the
exception OF n couple OF days paper
Ing and some work TO be done ON one
OF the tennis courts. everything N IA
apple pie order. Parties are daily
playing on the golf links.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hitchcock Monday made public a list
~ postmasters In Vermont and Rhode
Island whose salaries viii be incrcas-
cd after July I. under tho annual re-
adjustment These Offices which are
the last OF the announcements OF sal
AIRY readiustments affecting New Eng.
land include Bennington where the
salary has been raised from 5000 "a
$500. and at North bennington the
salary has been reduced from siG0o
10 $500. They are the only two pres.
dental ofhces In the county.
The steamship Romantic on which
Miss Sophronla Collins was n passen.
ger on her return from a European
trip. arrived nj the wharf In Boston
Monday evening about I O'Clock. The
Romantic came from Genoa. Palermo.
Naples and Ponta Delgada. Until
reaching the Azores smooth seas and
tine weather prevailed. but after that
gales. head seas. fog and intensely
cold weather was encountered. Capt
Beadnell reported passing close 90 a
giant iccburg last Saturday In lat. a.
degrees north. Ion. 81 degrees west.
u was capped by steeple shaped
peak that gave Il the appearance OF a
huge cathedral. Miss Collins will