The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-13
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Maurice Wall passed Sunday at
one of the city camps.
C. P. Kellogg of Bennington passed
Sunday at Edward Estes
Albert Sorrell of North Adams was
at Adelbert Harvey's Sunday
Edward J. Hall of Bennington, pass
ed Sunday at Cottage Sunshine.
Miss Evelna Plante has been visit
ing with relatives in Bennington.
Joseph Manuel of Bennington was
in town Sunday riding his motor
cycle.
Miss Nellie Patchen of Bennington
is at Miss Parks cottage this week.
Warwick Carpenter has returned
from New York and is at his cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs Byron LeRay of Sears
burg visited relatives in the city, Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Bugbee and lit
tie son Alton were in Bennington Sat
urday.
Mrs. Chas. G. Cole of Bennington
enjoyed a carriage drive to Ferndale
Sunday.
Robert S. Drysdale and young son,
Alexander, were in Ferndale Sunday
afternoon.
Fred Briggs of Searsburg was in
Bennington and Woodford last week
on business.
Hon. d. T. Bates of Pownal, coun-
ty supervisor of highways, was in
town Monday.
Eli Briggs of Bennington is in Fern
dale occasionally on business, which
seems Ike 'old times
Miss Mildred Wright entertained
few young lady friends Sunday after
noon, her 10th birthday
Mrs. Jennie Smith and Mrs. Edw.
c. Adams have visited Mrs. Anna
DEMO at Bennington Falls.
Mrs. Sarah Mallory came up from
Bennington Sunday evening and visit
ed her sister, Mrs. Robert Mallory.
The late Russell Fisk did business
in Woodford away back in the COS
and was stirring fellow we are told.
Jesse Smith. who had been visiting
in Pittsfeld. Mass, was in town Sun
day, returning to his home in Sears
burg.
Mrs. II. II Allen of Bennington was
a guest of Miss A. C. Park Monday
night and Tuesday.
Robert Mallory has had new piaz-
"a built on to his house and the build
ing newly underpinned. Charles
Wright did the work
Mr.. and Mrs Wilbur Dunton of
Rutland were guests last Friday of
Mr. and Mrs. James Higgins and Mr..
and Mrs. VIM. f. Cutler.
Charles d. Sawyer has taken log
job of the Woodford lumber company
and begun work in Dunville. Algie
Cutler is one of his employees.
Mrs Dahlgren and daughter. Miss
Mary, and Miss Newton drove over
Sunday from the Walloomsac Inn and
dined at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
j. Mallory.
For several evenings screeches were
heard on the hillside which were
thought TO have been made by bob
cats. II has been ascertained that it
was night hawks.
When J. II. Livingston gave the
euphonious name OF Ferndale to
Woodford Hollow the fern business
had not begun. Hundreds of millions
of them have been shipped from town
this fall and still the work is going
on
Some butterflies are seen yet.
Many of them are trans
formed into caterpillars and are
crawling on the earth. II is a won
derful freak of nature that caterpil-
lars can be frozen solid and when
'thawed OUT will be as brisk as
ever, If the warmth is sufficient.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Bradford and
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Graves of
Bennington had breakdown in their
auto Sunday while going over the
mountain. Newton Hagar, who is a
mechanic, repaired the machine and
the party ioyously sped onward to
Brattleboro, returning home through
northern Massachusetts.
Many times several Bennington
ladies and gentlemen have passed en-
comimus on the excellent cooking of
some Woodford ladies', declaring that
they never ate better dinners. These
sentiments came from their hearts.
too. Remembrance of former meals
is so indelibly impressed on the
minds of certain few, that, as a
rule, they make an annual pilgrim
age here to have a repetition of the
repasts.
An elderly Woodford woman who en-
joys herself going out pleasant after
moons to pick a basket of ferns. got
lost in the dense forest last Friday,
and wandered a long distance before
finding her way out two miles
from where she struck in The lady
said she rather enjoyed the romance.
until the long shadows were coming
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