The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-03-28
HOOSlck FALLS


Miss Edith Snyder of Cambridge is
the guest Of her aunt, Mrs. Humphrey
Groesbeck of Wilder avenue.
George c. Andrews has purchased
through Salem H. White the Hyland
Carpenter place located ON the North
Hoosick road.
The Hoosick Grange has added nine
new members to its roll, making a to.
tai of ia members Of this fourishing
young society.
The subject for the mid-week pray.
er meeting at the Presbyterian church
on next Thursday evening will be
Prayer for Missions"
Hiram c. Prentice Is recovering
from the injuries sustained by him in a
fall from ladder at the Walter A.
Wood companys works.
Van Rensselaer, Chapter, No. l61,
o. Z. s., will hold its next regular
meeting on Friday evening. There
will be special program.
The annual roll call of the Baptist
church will be held tomorrow (Sun
day. when the members will either be
present or expected to send letters.
Mrs. Anna Core of Albany is spend
ing the week with Mr.. and Mrs. MI
chael Dougherty and later will 60 to
New York to reside with her brother
John s. Conway.
William Johnson of Springfield
Mass. one of the surveyors of the
Berkshire street railway company, has
completed survey Of the Hoosick
Falls division of that line.
Next Tuesday will be the last day
on which school tax collector, William
II. O'Brlen will receive taxes. and he
has posted notice that after that date
the books will be turned over to the
county treasurer.
A. J. Thurber has purchased two
acres Of land adjoining his village
property in Hoosick from Mrs. F. f.
Armstrong. The homestead of Rev
H. r. Luney in Hoosick has been sold
to Albert E. Brown.
Mrs. Frances Burdick who has
charge of the kindergarten class of S,
Marks Sunday school, is preparing
the little ones for an entertainment
and drill to be given at Holmes hal
during Easter week.
The petition of the high school stu
dents requesting that the Easter vaca
ton be postponed from the week oil
April II to the week of April 10 and
which was signed by practically the
entire school, has been granted by the
faculty.
The regular debate of the Nousask
ian Debating society on the subject
Resolved, That the Tariff is an Evil.
was debated before large gathering
with the affirmative led by Edward T
Jones and Gilman Dwyer as his onl,
colleague. The negative was led by
II. futile and Leo Brimmer and Angus
tus Quinlan aided as his colleagues
The judges were Reilly, Webster ant
Fairburn with Volney Chapman offici
ating as critic. The judges awarded
the debate to the negative supporters
The following is list OF the recent
ly elected officers of the local lodge o
Elks. as announced by Exalted Rule
Carl II. Getty:-Past exalted ruler, NJ
Clark Milliman; exalted ruler, Car
H. Getty; esteemed leading knight
T. j. st. George; esteemed loya
knight, Frank l.. Stevens; esteeme,
lecturing knight, r. G. Austin; secre
tary, George F. Carney; treasurer
Louis Haussler; tiler, William ]. Hay
den; trustees, DR.. John T. Cahill, Del
mer Runkle and Joseph Buckley. TIL
offices of esquire, inner guard and tn
members Of the finance and social com
mittees will be appointed early mex
week.
A mass meeting is called for mex
Thursday evening, April 2, at 8 oclocl
in the municipal building for the pun
pose of organizing baseball associa
ton for Hoosick Falls. Plans for rails
ing funds to put the team in shape vii
be considered for the high standar
set by Manager Thomas H. Toohey.
is proposed to erect large grandstan
and bleachers, to provide the prope
equipment for the grounds and to pul
chase uniforms for the players on tn
team. AS all this is in line with wha
Is being done in our neighboring eli
les, 1t is hoped that all interested Wi
accept the cordial invitation of tn
committee to attend and express thei
views on the national game as
should be placed in Hoosick Falls.
The candidates for the baseba
team to represent the high school thi
summer were out for practice durin
the week on the Richmond field. Tn
track team has also had few inning
and on Thursday afternoon a eros
country run was held, a large humble
of the boys being out to participat,
The following Is list of games
date on the high schools schedule
April IS, Bennington high school Q
HOosick Falls; April rs, La Sale II
stitute at Troy; May 2, Benningto
high school at Bennington; May
Lansingburg high school at Troy; Ma
16, La Sale Institute at Hoosick Fall
May %, Williamstown high school 6
Hoosick Falls; May 30, Lansingbur
high school at Hoosick Falls; June
open; June 10, Troy Conference {
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