The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-03
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
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MID. JOlii Nhuiii6ob Va hioPaN PsiNC
| is very i'll.
J.F. Collins and T. d. Joyce of North
Adams called on friends in town re-
Gently.
Miss Ruth Warren o. Rutland is Wis.,
ting her grand yai ~, NIr. and Mrs. j..
H. Warren.
Lester B. Vail returned yesterday
afternoon to his duties at the Univer-
sity of Vermont
The annual inventory sale begins at
Noveck's today. Everything in the
store is price cut. 46t3
Archie Mattison and friend H. C..
Hover were in SALISBURY Thursday
calling on friends.
Miss Mary Turrell has resigned her
position at the Cottage hotel and gone
to live in North Adams.
Miss Josie Mangan of Watervliet,
N. Y, is guest of Miss Alice Mulligan
of Maple street this week.
Mrs. Clinton Russell of the Colgate
farm recently hurt her ankle quite
badly and has been laid up since.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Craven of
Schenectady are visiting his father,
John Craven of the North Bennington
road.
The fifteen months old child of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Thebarge of Division
street is seriously Ill with typhoid pneu
mOnia.
The annual stock inventory at Nov.
eck's Is soon to begin. Great reduc'
ton in prices therefore in every de-
partment. 46t3
Welcome Allen who has been spend
ing the holidays with his mother on
Pleasant street left Tuesday night for
Cleveland, Ohio.
H. Daley returned to his duties in
Middlebury Thursday afternoon after
spending the holidays with his parents
DR.. and Mrs. E. B. Daley of Adams St
Miss Ester Dimick, who has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Sheldon oil
West Main street returned to heI
home in WATERFOWL, Mass, Thursday
Mrs. Marion G. Jones, who has beer
the guest of her sister, Mrs. l.. E.
Royce of Valentine street for some
time, has returned to her home In
Danvers, Mass.
Forrest and Arthur Kehoe, Walter
Hayes and Henry Root returned tc
their studies at the University of Yer
mont Thursday afternoon after spend
ing. the holidays in town.
Henry B. Rice has resigned his posi-
East Main street 1t is understood
that Mr.. Rice has taken a position as
travelling salesman for a wholesale
grocery firm.
Word has been received tat William
Hill, Sr., was taken very il. n Bling
hamton, n, Y. Mr.. Hill left r this
town about a week ago to spend few
days with his sister. 1t is feared that
Mr.. Hill may not recover from his
present illness.
The season has been so warm for the
past month that farmers state that
their potatoes are sprouting in the
cellar quite badly. In some instances
the sprouts are over six inches long
and have small leaves formed on then
This is something very unusual at this
season Of the year for as a rule they
do not begin to sprout until the first
of March.
A good resolution for 1908. To the
| mn without of al,
own. We must get home before We
are much older. When? Right away
then we will be able to avoid that rent
monster who is continually keeping
our nose upon the grindstone. How
By watching the hundreds of offers IL
lockwood & Howe's advertisements OF
better still by calling upon them ant
talking the matter over. Thus, while
We are seeking homes, bargains are
seeking us. Call In we have hundreds
of houses and farms also building lott
for sale. lockwood & Howe AIT.
Notable preparations are being made
for the annual banquet and jollificatior
of the Dartmouth alumni of Boston
and New England this year. The tim,
is the evening of January "a and tn,
place the Hotel Somerset. 1t is the in
tention of the committee having tn,
matter in charge to make this occasion
eclipse all other dinners of the Han
overians both In point of numbers ant
features of unusual interest. The CO
hort of speakers promises to be tn,
ablest and most entertaining thes,
dinners have ever gathered to gether
J Ex-Gov Frank Black of New York will
be heard, as well as Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Charles A
Prouty; Joseph A. DeBoer, the famou
life insurance expert of Vermont, an,
Trustee Mathewson of New York city
Prof. Lord and Prof. Reeves will repre-
sent the faculty and President Tucke
will almost certainly look In upon tn
boys" even If he does not make hi
, usual inspiring address. The colleg
glee club will be on hand with neN
songs, and other features, to be ar
nounced later, will serve to make tn
banquet the most distinguished in tn