The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-09
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
Nsws Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers

hC oti fiCC Cdl Vi tut Del hSllltt Ol.
railway was in town today.
Frank Newton of Union street is
laid up with an attack of tonsilitis.
The N. Y. B. society are planning to
hold leap year dance In the near fu-
ture.
Henry Bailey of East Main street
has taken position with the Tiffany
Manufacturing company.
Augustus O'Hare of Gage street has
taken position as coachman for 4
Buel Sibley Of Union street.
The lockers in the Y. M. c. A. build.
ing have recently been put in shape
and are now ready for rent.
Miss Mayme Mccarthy of Burling-
ton is the guest this week of Miss Win
ME Casey of Bennington Falls.
There will be a bowling match to-
morrow evening between the Y. M. c.
A. End team and the Brunswicks.
Wanted-Business men to attend
the gymnasium class In the Y. M. c.
A. Tuesday and Friday evenings from
s to 6 o'clock.
e. l.. Nichols & Son have just start.
ed their annual white sale consisting
of muslin underwear, wash goods,
hamburgs, laces etc.
Mrs. Lillian Albee and son Francis
of North Adams are spending the win
ter with her mother, Mrs. Hattie AL
bee of Stafford street.
The Y. M. C. A. rooms are open
every day to- its members. The sec
rotary states he would be glad to
meet few of them there.
Mrs. Lenora Perham of Congress st
who has been very i'll with pleurisy
has so much improved that she is able
to sit up part of the day.
Joseph Crowley of Beech street who
has been very Ill for the past week
with pleuro-pneumonia is reported to
be in a very critical condition today
The special topic at the Second Con-
gregational prayer meeting tonight is
The Place and Power of Prayer in
the Life Of the Christian and the
church"
Milo Tudor, the youngest son of
William Tudor one of the recent pur-
chasers OF the John Robinson farm, Is
seriously Ill at the Samaritan hospital
In Troy.
The public schools opened with
full attendance after the holiday va
cation. There are no cases of con-
tagious diseases at present among any
of the pupils.
The severe rainstorm that visited
Bennington Tuesday night appears to
have been mostly snow few miles
farther north. At Montpelier over
foot of snow fell.
According to the books of Town
Clerk Z. A. Booth there were 179
births, 1853 deaths and So marriages in
Bennington during the year which
closed December 81.
Miss Mary Toomey of Boston Is
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. d. A. Ward
of Grandview street. Miss Toomey
was formerly resident of this town
being a member Of the class of B. II.
s. '05.
Company X. will begin drilling
next week regularly in preparation for
muster. Captain Harmon states that
the company is now in very promising
condition and the best equipped it
ever has been.
At the close of business December
81 the books Of the Bennington Coun-
ty Savings bank showed deposits of
81 ,294 ,254.S2; surplus and deposits.
$120,322.10 The figures show a graft
flying increase In the total deposits
and number Of depositors over the
figures for 1906.
The funeral of Albert Dunn was
held this afternoon from his home on
County street at 2:30 o'clock, Rev. F.
r. Morris. pastor of the Baptist church
officiating. The members of Custer
Post, No. AZ, G. A. r. attended the fu-
neral in body. The interment was
In the village cemetery.
Henry B. Rice Of Main street, for
merly employed in the grocery stores
of w. E. Houran & Co., and Earl H.
Howard has taken a position as trav
cling salesman for the e. Norton Co.
He expects to begin his duties tn.
first of next week. He will travel
chiefly through the New England
states.
A large pair of dark bay horses
from Hoosick attached to a pair OF
traverse sleds created considerable
excitement at the corner of Main and
North street this morning by becom
ing frightened at an electric snow
pillow and running into the hydrant
They were untangled without any
damage to the outfit.
Pupils tickets are now ready to e
on sale, and are good anywhere be
tween Hoosick Falls, N. Y. and tn,
Vermont-Ma Massachusetts State line
AS before stated, the tickets can b.
purchased in strips of ten (10) for 81
cents, and at present can be obtained
only from the cashiers office in 0. M
BARRIERS Office, Main street l.. A
Contois, cashier. SIT:
A party Of workmen Is expected to
day to begin laying the new concrete
and marble chip floor in the director.
room Of the Bennington County Saw
ings bank building. The substance t
be used In making the floor is a mix
ture of cement and different coloret
marble chips Once that the sub
stance hardens 1t has the cOnsistenc!
OF stone and resembles mosaic excep
that the entire floor is one solid piece
instead of being composed of separate
tiles.
DeWitt's Little Early Risers are thu
best pills known. Sold by D. A. Ward
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY