The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-02-17
HOOSICK FALLS

Mrs. Nellie A Dunden OF Troy Is the
guest of relatives in town.
Mrs. W. F Rising is III with portion
tits.
Capt. C. w. Eddy is home from New
York for few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Fisher of
New York are spending a few days
with Mr.. Fishers mother.
The quarterly tests at the high
school will not be held Feb. 2S but
will be given the following week.
The Woman's Benevolent society of
the Presbyterian church will have
chicken pie supper at the church par
lors Tuesday evening.
The following is a list of letters ad
vertised at the local postoffice: Albert
Moron, Walter Callahan, Morris Har.
ris, Daniel ]. Haskins. James Reard
and Mrs. Jerome Sulkailis.
The ]. F. H. club. twenty in number
had ride to Eagle Bridge Friday
evening in drizzling rain, which
rather spoiled the enjoyment, as all
were thoroughly wet when they reach
ed the home of Miss Ora Hall. After
a short stay at Miss Halls an ad-
journment was taken to the Eagle
Bridge opera house where a dance
was held, lasting until the arrival of
the midnight train.
Andrew r. Mclean who is now act
ing i'll command of Company NJ per
special orders issued by Col. Lester
of Saratoga, pending the acceptance
of Capt. Woods resignation, is char
ter member OF the old 32nd Separate
company. N. G. S. N. Y. and was mus
tered in at the organization of the ser.
vice as private. He went to the
Spanish American war as sergeant.
After having been mustered out In
1898, he became first lieutenant of the
company in 1901.
The regular debate of the Nousa.
skian Debating society on the subject
Resolved. That this High School
should have one Session, Commencing
at $500 a. m. and lasting until 100 D.
M, instead OF two short ones" was de.
cided in favor OF the negative side,
which was upheld by Jay Webster
with Herbert Tuttle and Claude Laker
as colleagues. The affirmative was
defended by Gilman Dryer with A.
Quinlan and Samuel Cottrell as col
leagues. AS the president, Mr.. Dryer
was on the debate, he appointed Ed
ward Jones as chairman. The judges
were: Arthur Kinney, Sherwood Mil
Ter and Jackson Van Wort. Volney
Chapman rendered several piano solos
after the debate and the afternoon was
much enjoyed and OF great interest
The next debate will be held on Mon
day, Feb. "A.
| The ice on the Hoosick river broke
up shortly after one O'Clock on Satur
day afternoon and 1t is stated that the
water mark reached was the highes,
in Is years Crowds of sightseers
lined the river at points of vantage
and saw the water and ice on theil
wild career. The Haynes fats, south
of Hoosick Falls, were completely sui
merged and great cakes of ice were
hurled up toward the roadway of the
friver road. A switch under the b
and NJ. railroad bridge was knocked
out of shape and huge cakes of ict
were landed on the Wood company!
tracks near that point At the power
station of the Hoosick Falls Illumina
ting company, north of the village the
ice was foced over the raceway. TIL,
lower parts OF Lyman and Water st
received their usual amount OF watel
In the cellars and enough ice was lef
to block traffic at the points near tn,
river.
Company NJ added another victor,
to its long string of basketball sue
cesses ON Saturday night when tn,
soldiers defeated the semi-professiona
five of Northboro, Mass, by a scor,
OF "a to 26. The merit of the contes
may be defined by the excellent ex
hibition of password on the part o
Company Ms team as the player
from Hoosick Falls did not have t,
extend themselves very much afte
the first few minutes of play
The lineup follows: Company M
Willis and Ely, right forwards; Fair
banks, left forward; Carpenter an,
Willis, centers; Gill, right guard
Shelter, left guard: Northboro. Mass
Ellsworth, left guard; Deresier, RICH
guard, Armstrong, center; Gendreau
left forward; Meanor, right forward
goals from the field, Gill, Is; Willis
s.; Fairbanks, 8; Shelter, 2; Ely, 2
Deresier, a; Gendreau, A.; Ellsworth
~; Armstrong, q Meanor, /. NJ
fouls. Referee, Andrew Rankin, Hoo
sick Falls; timers, Edward F. Gill
Hoosick Falls and F. Howell of North
boro; scorer, A. s. Lyman. Time
two 20 minute halves. Dancing wa
enjoyed after the game with Miss Sa
die Mooney, pianist furnishing tn
music.