The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-03-08
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sted. Conn. spent Sunday at her home
in this town.
Frank Evans has purchased a fine
family horse from Edward Snow 81
Brooklyn.
Mrs. George H Moore of Weeks ST.
is spending the day with her mother
in Williamstown.
Miss Bessie Gardner of Pownal was
a guest al the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George H. Moore over sunday
Mrs. Julia Harlow of Valentine ST.,
has recovered from a severe attack of |
the grip and is now able to be out.
Mrs. Edmund c. Brown Of South |
Branch street and Mrs. f. 7 Hopkin
son of Gage street visited friends in
SALISBURY Sunday.
The next meeting of the Southern
Vermont Pomona Grange will be held
Wednesday, March "a at Bennington
instead OF Stamford.
Mr.. and MIS- Herbert Van Steen-
burg Of Main street have returned
/ from a couple of weeks visit in Plough
! keepsie and New York
Mrs. Thomas Thomas Of Lowell
Mass. and Miss Edith Chapman OF
New York visited Miss Mary Hutton
OF Main street Sunday
The new millinery parlors in the III
brary hall building opened Saturday
night with good success. The store
is managed by Miss Gertrude Levin.
The Y NJ c. A. senior class will
meet in the gymnasium this evening.
The business mems class will hold its
regular meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Comrade George w. Kidder has re
turned to the Soldiers Home after his
furlough and is again on the warpath
against rats bugs, mice, cockroaches
etc
Charles r. Crosby of Brattleboro
has been chosen trustee of the Yer,
mont Sanitarium for consumptives at
Pittsford to succeed Senator Carroll S
Page.
The w. r. c. ladies' will have a so.
cial after their business meeting on
Friday evening, March ~, and each
member may have the privilege OF in
yiting a gentleman or lady friend to
the social.
Miss Jeanette C. Woolsey of New
York City an experienced milliner, ar
| rived in town Saturday and will be at
the New York millinery parlors, Ii
brary building, during the spring and
summer seasons.
"Forty-five Minutes From Broad
way" the famous comic opera which
will appear at the opera house Friday
evening March 49, is playing weeks
engagement at the Princess theatre
in Montreal this week
Lieut.. Frank b. Newton returns
this evening from White River juno
tion where he passed a successful ex-
animation for the second lieutenancy
OF Company X last week before the
state board Of examiners.
NJ. T. Hamlen had large force of
men and teams at work on the Sold
! iers Home reservoir Sunday harvest
ing ice to ill his houses on Morgan
street. The ice Is Is to s inches
| thick and of fine quality. This pond
is now about one-half cut over.
Look See the new pictures and
| songs at Library theatre today feat
| uring in life size and very REALISTIC
many interesting pictures of comedy
drama, etc, and today only. The IA
nous "Jim Smith, the Champion Box
err and others Don't miss them
| The adjourned meeting Of the fourth
| quarterly conference OF the Methodist
| Episcopal church will be held this
| evening in the church At 7:45. Dis
| trict Superintendent Rev. p l.. Dow
| will preside ard full attendance OF
the official members is greatly desir
ed.
| Rev. NJ. ]. Carmody Of Brattleboro
| brother of Mrs. Thomas Halloran lief
last week Tor a months soioum il
Florida, Louisiana and other southern
states He will spend a few days il
New Orleans and later go TO Daytona
Fla, where he will make his head
quarters.
Post cards were received here toda.
II from Cashier Clemnt H. Cone. date,
at Venice, Feb. "a. He stated that h
was then well and enjoying himself
though the weather there was rattle
cold. The Banner has also receive
post cards today from II. S. Brow
dated at St Augustine, Fla.
The couple of inches of snow whc
fell Sunday patched up the sleighin
and this morning it was as good a
any time this winter On account {
the warm sunshine, today the sno'
will not remain long on the highway,
especially in the country district
! where there was only thin covering
| The funeral of the late Miss Ma
| guerite Burghardt was held from h
| home of her parents on Putnam sire,
Sunday afternoon at 1880 o'clOc
Rev. Philip Schuyler oiiiciated. II
| bearers were Edward Todd of tn
| town, Harry and William Chadwe
| and Arthur Campbell of William
| town, The remains were placed
| the vault to await burial in William
| town when the weather permits,
Ill George Harmon drew bal
! through the village on two wagoi
| last week. Asked what he was carr
| ing on he replied that 1t was the ne
| courthouse which the county had l
| fused to accept The structure W
too large to go through the cover
bridge on the flats and had to be CT
| ried across the riyerbed Of the Roi
| ing Branch, This was quite fe
as the bed is full of hardheads whe
they crossed, near the trolley brid