The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-02-27
SOUTH SALISBURY


F. Eddy was in Albany Saturday
last
Mrs. Edwin Bronson's condition
does not improve.
Miss Hope Montgomery spent Sun
day with Miss Bessie Mirfield.
Miss Lovejoy has gone home for
brief visit with her parents in Wes-
ton.
There is snow enough so that lum-
bermen are making good use OF it
hauling logs and lumber.
Miss Tula Bronson has so far re-
covered that they have been able to
let her nurse return to Troy.
The Misses Bessie and Evelyn
Sickle will go home on Friday. Miss
Bessie. will return to her school in
April
Merle Coulter has rented George
Elwellfs farm and will move as soon
as it is vacated by the owner who
goes to North Bennington to take up
his residence.
Another word concerning the mis-
sionary speaker of Thursday evening.
This church should feel highly COM
plimented as Rev. Mr., Sturtz rarely
goes to as small places as this, and as
missionary people we are to feel
! highly complimented. Let us mani
fest by our presence our interest in
the speaker as well as in the cause
Presiding Elder Rev. p. l.. Dow
preached last Sunday morning and
evening in the NJ. Il. church. He gave
a forceful and impressive discourse
on the issues of a clean heart and on
an unclean one. The evening service
was on an evangelistic line, leading
up to work for the coming week when
Rev. Amurion will be here for actual
evangelistic work The pastor par
ticularly desires to have his church
wake up to sincere honest and faith
full work. On Thursday evening of
this week there will be missionary
meeting, the speaker being Rev. Mr..
Sturtz. Friday morning and afternoon
the Sunday school association will
meet here.
| The news of the death of Hugh
| Munroe was shock tOrelatives and
old acQuaintances about here. Mr..
Munroe had not been in good health
| for some time but after a severe ill
ness he had partially recovered. his
physician thinking he would be about
again, but an attack of grip with pneu
monia setting in caused his death af-
| Low Tho dnnnocnh fha
eldest son of Wales and Susan (Spen-
cer) Monroe, Warner and Mary Mum
roe were their only other children.
All have passed away. Mr.. Munroe
was about So years of age. 1t was a
rather strange coincidence that he
! died the same month and same day OF
the month as his brother Warner
both dying February 10th and were
both buried on the 18th, about eight
years intervening The deceased
leaves a wife, one son and two daugh
tiers, all living in the west Mrs
Munroe was a young lady from this
village, a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
James Elwell. One sister, Mrs. John
Van Horn, lives near her and one
lother sister, Mrs. Catherine Madison
lives at North Bennington. Mr.. Nun
roe when married went to Joliet, Ill.
where he has lived and been pros
lperous farmer. There are still living
here those that remember the family
They were attendants in earlier years
at the Baptist church at the Center
when that church was in its balmy
days, but the deceased was later as
ISOLATED in this village and NORTH
Bennington. The deceased leaves
one nephew, Charles Munroe and two
nieces, Mrs. G. r. Hawkins and Mrs
Charles Sweet of Ossining. Tht
family have the sincere sympathy o.
many friends, though far away. are
near in spirit.