The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-02-20
DORSET

Charles n. Williams and H. P. Gil
bert were in Bennington Thursday on
business
Mrs. Warren Dunton has sold her
residence at the village to Mr.. Bourn
and is engaged packing her goods for
removal
Miss Louise Lille In company with
friends from Manchester attended the
play at the opera house in Bennington
Thursday evening.
It is reported that Chas. D. Nc
Wayne will build a new residence the
coming season, on the east road near
the dwelling he now occupies.
The Rupert Grange will give an en-
tertainment at the hall the evening of
Feb. %, which will be an anniver-
sary comedy and it is hoped a large
number will attend.
Many nimble fingers and busy
brains are employed arranging cos
tunes for the sociable on Washing
tons birthday. The array promises
to be truly enhancing.
At the Grange Wednesday eve, the
following candidates for the 1st and
2nd degrees were received: Miss
Hazel Seymour, Messrs Tobin, Matti-
son, Graves and VIM. Kelley, Jr.
It is reported that a Farmers Insti-
tute will be held here soon. A com
mittee has been appointed to look af-
ter music for the occasion, which
promises to be pleasing and instruc-
tive.
A large number OF young people
from Burr and Burton seminary en-
ioyed slieghride TO the home of
Chas b. Gilbert where they were
pleasantly entertained Thursday eve
ming
The Battenkill Valley grange are
invited to meet with the Dorset
grange on the occasion of the harvest
supper, March Srd Five candidates
will take the 4th and 9Th degrees on
that evening,
AT the recent Lincoln memorial ex-
ercises in the north district school,
a new flag was swung to the breezes
by the patriotic pupils. The teacher
Miss Manora Edgerton, deserves
much credit for enlisting the interest
Of the children and their parents,
who together secured the flag. We
believe this is the only school in town
which is the proud possessor of a
bell and flag which were secured en-
tirely by the teacher and pupils with
no outside aid The bell was pur-
chased last year and presented to the
town.
While citizens of towns, far and
near, are placing suitable markers at
the sites of noble or heroic deeds. or
deeds of great pith and mament" it
seems fitting that our townsmen
should become interested in placing a
lasting monument near the location
.of the Council OF safety" which
convened on July 1776 at what was
ihen known, as the Cephas Kent
Tavern. This place is now occupied
by Mrs. Humphrey, an aged lady of
New York and her two daughters,
who reside here summers. The barn
connected with this famous hostelry
stood across the road on property
now owned by Clifton Kent. This
section of Dorset is of historic inter
est from its connection with past
noted events. The so called Ethan
Allen spring is located a short dis
lance south of the west road Should
IN organization be formed, there are
many who express their desire to aid
in the matter, among the first, E. H.
West Vice-President of the Norcross
West Marble Co., who agrees to give
gratis fifteen ton block of marble
to be placed on a location chosen.
1t may be Of interest to note that sew
eral coins of the time of Ethan Allen
have been ploughed up at various
times in the Kent meadow, having
doubtless been lost at the time of the
meeting so famed in history, when
the land was the camping place Of
soldiers from the adjacent states.