The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-01-18
HOOSICK FALLS

SIP.
C. w. Buck is among the sufferers
from grip.
Louis Phillips is confined to his
home by illness.
James II. Glenn has recovered from
a recent severe illness.
Mrs. Lila Mitchell is confined to
the house by illness.
Jackson Van Vert has been quite i'll
during the past week.
Hon and Mrs. Legrand C. Tibbetts
have recovered from their illness.
Ralph Erskine of the Hoosac school
faculty has returned from Albany.
William Stowell and family have Ia
ken up residence in Fly Summit.
Miss Nellie Maloney Of Watervliet
has been the guest of friends In town.
Miss Norma Surdam is able to be
out around again after long illness.
Miss Prendergast has been visiting
friends and relatives in North Ad-
ans.
| Miss Alice Quinlan has returned
from visit with friends In Athol
Mass
Miss Maud Ely has accepted pos
ition as teacher in the Brooklyn
schools.
Miss Mary Van Valkenburg has been
| tho nf trianHc In IAh 10
and vicinity.
Rev. Morgan Ashley OF Butler, N. j..
will occupy the pulpit of ST. Marks
church on Sunday
George II. Nichols Jr.. has returned
from Lime Rock, Conn, where he was
the guest of relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Hover have re-
moved to the farm formerly occupied
by them at Johnsonville.
Mrs. Minerva Guile who has been
visiting friends in this section has re-
turned to her home i'm Jacksonville.
Thompson orchestra of Hoosick
Falls furnished the music for a private
dance held in Raymertown Friday eve
ming.
Prof. Charles B. Parker, science
teacher at the high school has been
confined to his rooms by a severe at
tack of grip.
Levi Pierce will remove from the
Frank Wilson farm at Pownal Center
to his own farm in Hoag Hollow on
or about April first
Miss Bessie K Myers has resumed
her duties with a dental company in
Troy, having recovered from her re-
cent attack of sickness.
Owing to theindisposition caused by
an attack of grip, Prof c. n. Smith
has postponed for one week his lee
ture on the history of music.
The annual meeting of the Minister
ing Circle of Kings Daughters will be
held at the home of Mrs. Addison Get
ty on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o.
clock
The mems association of the Presby-
terrain church will meet in the church
next Monday evening when the matter
Of the nominations of officers for the
ensuing year will be considered
A meeting of the farmers of this vic
Unity and others interested in the pur-
suit of agriculture will be held at the
Municipal court building on next Tues
day evening when a local branch of
the New York state grange will be or
ganized.
Entry blanks have been received
at the high school for the big meet to
be held at Troy on Friday, January "a,
in the state armory. The athletic
association has not as yet decided
whether team will represent the
Hoosick Falls High school or not.
The annual meeting of the stockhol
ders of the Industrial and Building
Manufacturing company of Hoosick
Falls, will be held at the Office of the
Hall, Hartwell company in the Indus
trial B uilding and Manufacturing
company's building here on Wednes
day, January 20, at o'clock for the
purpose of electing directors. etc.
Smith T.. Moves, building contractor
died this noon. aged 81 years, after
several months illness. He is surviv
ed by wife and two sons, Walter H.
and Charles n. The funeral will be
held Monday at 10 o'clock, Rev. w. f
Webster officiating. Burial will be in
the family lot at North Bennington.
Company Ms basketball team will
make a try for it's thrtietb straight
victory at the state armory this even
ing, but Manager. Gill has secured a
team from the east that will make the
soldiers extend themselves to win
The visitors will be the All-Collegiates
of Easthampton, Mass, composed as
follows:-HIand, Williston academy;
Curran, St Jerome A. c., Holyoke
Sullivan, Winsted, Conn. Connors, st
Jerome A. c.; Flaherty, Andover; pos
itions of play-Hand. right forward
Curran. left forward; Sullivan, cen
ter Connors. right guard; Flaherty
left guard. The st. Jerome men and
the Williston players have been here
before and left the memory of a corking
fast game. This team represented
above is noted by the Easthampton
manager as being the very best play
ers he can get together, and was will
ing to guarantee that Company M will
not take its thirtieth straight vic
tory.
William II. Slocum, a highly res
pected citizen of this village died this
morning at $3.50 after two weeks i'll
ness of bronchial pneumonia. Mr. Slo
cum was born in Pownal 6S years ago
the son of David Slocum and Charlotte
Spencer For few years after. leav
ing Pownal Mr.. Slocum resided In
Troy and then moved to Hoosick Falls
where he has since made his home. In
1864 he was married to Emma Wheel
er Hewitt who died Nov. II, 1905
Soon after he took up his residence