The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-06-18
HoosIck FALLS


Mrs. John Warren has arrived at At
wood Farm from New York to spend
the summer.
Fifty from Hoosick Falls went to the
WilliamsHoly Cross game at VIII
Jamestown Tuesday afternoon, return
ing on the evening trains.
The topic for the Epworth League
meeting on Sunday evening at the
Methodist church will be Gods Pro
lection of His Children In Peril" Ben
jamin G. Ladd will be the leader.
Star lodge, Knights OF Pythias will
observe next Sunday as Memorial Day
for deceased members. The graves
will be decorated with flowers and
there will be the usual devotional ex-
ercises.
, Rev. r. G. Miller, OF Hartford, sec
rotary Of the Reform Bureau OF Mass
achusetts, Rhode Island and Connect
cut, will occupy the pulpit OF the
Methodist church on next Sunday
morning and will speak on "The New
Emancipation"
The E. B. A. held a stag and enter
tainment at their rooms on Tuesday
night. About sixty were present to
enjoy the songs. speeches, dancing
and refreshments. William Kirk
acted as master ofceremoniea but kept
the things interesting all the time.
A meeting OF the Methodist congre-
cation will be held on Monday even
ing, June 22 to elect three trustees in
places OF Hon. Willis Il. Heaton. Har-
ris s. Hawthorne and Thomas ID.
Wood, whose terms of Office will ex-
plre on July |, and a trustee to All the
unexpired term of James G. Shaw,
deceased.
The $4,000 bond issue of the town
of Hoosick was disposed of at a meet
ing of the town board on Tuesday az
ternoon. The Peoples National Bank
of Hoosick Falls bid $14,0SS.50; the
New York firm, sl4.079.0O; the First
National Bank of Hoosick Falls, $14,-
900. On motion, the entire issue went
to the Peoples National Bank of Hoo
sick Falls.
board OF trustees on Tuesday night at
the municipal building. J. S. Watts,
an engineer from vincennes, Indiana,
was engaged for the direction of the
proposed street improvements. The
following. offered by Willis L. Thorpe,
chairman OF the street committee,
was adopted:-"Resolved, that the
clerk OF the village be instructed to
advertise for sealed proposals for the
purchase of $4,000 of Bonds of the
Village OF Hoosick Falls, to be issued
for the purpose of grading and paving
the streets OF said village. Said
bonds to be dated July LIST, 1908, and
to be of the denomination OF $500 each
and to become due and payable twen-
ty-five years from the date OF issue,
In twenty annual installments of
$250000 each. commencing July LIST,
1913, with interest not to exceed five
per centum per annum from July LIST,
1908, payable annually, both principal
and interest payable at any bank
named by the purchaser. Said bonds
shall be negotiated for not less than
par. and shall be sold to the person
who will take them at the lowest rate
of interest not to exceed five percent.
That O certified check on a reliable
banking institution for per cent OF
the amount of each bid payable to the
order Of the Treasurer Of the village
of Hoosick Falls, N. Y, must accom-.
pany each bid. That bids be received
until o'clock p. m, on the 9Th day of
July 1908. That the bids he publicly
opened and announced at the Trustees
room, Municipal building, in said VII.
lage on the 9th day of July 1908, at s
o'clock p. m. and that bidders be in
vited to be present. That the Board
reserve the right to reject any and all
bids and advertise again. That all
bids be sealed and addressed to e. A.
Doyle, Clerk of the Village OF Hoo
sick Falls, N. Y, and marked on the
outside of the envelopes enclosing
them Proposals for grading and paw
ing bonds"