The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-11
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

Tor Busy Readers.
H. P. Woodman is in Troy today on
business.
Mrs. e. C. Bennett is spending the
day in Troy.
Reliable vegetable and flower seed
in bulk at Goldsmith's 60tf
Luke Bishop of the Burgess road is
decorating his house with coat of
paint
A regular meeting OF Stark lodge
l. o. o. F. will be held Wednesday
evening.
Starchers wanted, women preferred
Bottum & Torrance Co. Apply Laun-
dry Dept.
Dennis Hurley of Rutland is in
town for few days working on the
Chatham division.
William Best of "The Wendell
Pittsfeld, was the guest of friends in
town on Monday.
Lewis ]. Carpenter, the piano tun-
er arrived in town on his motorcycle
last night from New Hampshire.
Starchers wanted, women preferred.
Bottum & Torrance Co. Apply at
Loundry Dept.
Farmers report hay to be very
scarce and are asking SIG to SIS
ton for first quality in the local mar
ket.
Eighteen young ladies were re-
ceived into the Sodality society of the
Sacred Heart church Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. f. d. Wintersteen and son,
who have been guests of Miss Mary
Hyde for few days, returned to
Schenectady this morning.
Mrs. f. j. Cummings and Mrs. j.
NJ. Healey of River street have been
spending couple of days with the for
mer's father, Thomas Kinney in the
west part of the town.
George Bushnell has sold. his valu-
able four year old stallion to parties
in Pownal. The horse at present
weighs about 1900 pounds.
Nearly all the local farmers have
already sowed their oat crop and in
some instances oats are an inch high,
! nearly covering the ground.
A requiem high mass was celebrat-
ed in the convent chapel this morning
at 1880 for the repose of the soul of
the late Mrs. Mary Lundergan.
| Several farmers have already put
their cattle out to pasture on the east
mountain, several lots being on the
Harmon pasture owned by Major II.
d. Fillmore.
Col. and Mrs. Thomas Harmon went
to Burlington this morning to attend
the annual state encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic which is
being held in the queen city this
week
Joseph Levin returned from New
York this morning He reports the
condition of Barney Levin who re-
Gently underwent an operation in a
New York city hospital. TO be about
the same.
Fred p. Morehouse, who recently
sustained a sprained ankle by slip
ping on the stairs, is recovering
nicely from his injury. 1t will be a
few days yeti however before he will
be able to be out.
The gang of men who have been
laying ties on Main street along the
trolley tracks from Cooper's bridge
down are progressing rapidly with
the work. AT present they have laid
new ties as far as Eli Briggs
Miss Agnes Howard of Rossville
Kansas is a guest of her uncle Jared
Howard Miss Howard is a daughter
of Otis Howard, a former resident OF
this town. She expects to remain
here until September and in the
meantime will visit relatives in Pow
nal, SALISBURY and Hoosick. Today
with her uncle. she visited the battle
monument and the battle ground near
Hoosick.
Letters received recently by Jared
Howard from his brother, ID. M
Howard of Rossville, Kan, state that
the spring in that section of the
country is very backward and the
peach crop has been seriously dam
aged by late frosts. Farm produce il
selling as follows in that section Of
the country: Corn 60 to rs cents {
bushel, oats 60 cents a bushel, pota
toes so cents, butter 20 cents ant
eggs 20 cents dozen.