The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-17
HOOSICK FALLS

Lynn Spaulding of North Hoosick,
| i'll with typhoid fever, is reported to be
somewhat improved
The Misses Saxton of North Adams
were the guests of friends here Thurs
day.
Knights OF Pythias will occur this eve
ming.
Edward S. Abel of Amsterdam. for
mer resident, is the guest OF his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Durham c. Abel.
Miss Bessie Nealon. bookkeeper for
Jones, Parsons & Co. who has been
i'll with grip, has sufficiently recovered
to resume her employment.
Cussons orchestra will furnish the
! music for the social of the Hoosac
club to be held on Thursday, Jan. 80.
! 1t will also play at the annual concert
and ball of the International Moders'
Union, whose event will be held on
Feb. Z.
Mrs. John Dolan slipped off the
stone coping in front of her house
Thursday, just as she was handing a
letter to Postman Smith, and fell heay
lily to the ground, breaking her left
wrist Mr. Smith called to DIR. Clay
ton h. Shaw who was driving past and
he attended the injured woman.
The singing orchestra filled Woods
opera house Thursday evening. The
feature was a descriptive number
'Branagan' rendered in chorus. The
number was written by Paul May of
New York who was present The
company will play return engage.
ment here on February II. under the
same management
The discussion as to the improve
ment recently suggested by Highway
Commissioner Chase Hathaway is now
waxing warm. This is the point Wis
/ tied by the members of the Town
Board, who decided to request that an
engineer from the state engineers de-
partment come here to make sur
Wy, which will be without expense to
the town of Hoosick. The temporary
bridge referred to in the report of
Commissioner Hathaway is near the
! turn of side road about one mile
west of North Hoosick. To repair the
road at this spot would require the
building of road 221 feet long, 20
feet in width and of depth of four
| feet, one abutment and wing wall
which latter would be 46 feet in length
and each wall to run from nine TO
eleven inches in height On the creek
side of the road approaching from
North Hoosick a retaining wall would
be required in honor to protect the
road from the foodtides of the stream.
| The necessary repairs to this road,
however, might make 1t another con
sideratiOn from a standpoint of fin
ances. Commissioner Hathaway has
stated that while something had to be
done, and that the Town Board had
made an official inspection of the high
way at his suggestion and considered
the ACCESSIBILITY of a temporary bridge
pending the consideration of steel or
! iron structure in place of a change In
the highway, personally he would pre-
! for a proposed change In the highway,
This, h said, can be accomplished at
less than half the cost Of repairing the
old roadway. Commissioner Hatha-
way did not hesitate to state that he
knew that he was already spoken of
as trying to build new bridge. The
bridge in question. he said, was triv-
Fial affair only % feet long and as. far
as public censure was concerned on
| that score, IL the town would furnish
the money sufficient for the work in
his district, he would produce results;
and II he did not, the law provided
recourse The little piece of roadway
has already cost the town $500 on
account of the overlooking of the
tcreek, having sustained two destruc-
tive washouts.