The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-11
DORSET

New potatoes are selling readily at
40c a peck
Mrs. George E. Sexton OF East Dor
set was in town Sunday.
A large crowd enjoyed the band
concert on the green Saturday even
ing and evlnced great appreciation OF
the event.
H. f. Vogel of Granville has taken
tne contract TO move the residence OF
Clifton Kent about sixty rods across
the meadow.
One of the attractions for Field day
on August Dist will be a tub race on
Prentiss pond, in which several OF our
young men will participate.
Miss Elizabeth Evans OF Poultney
is visiting Miss Mabel Gilbert.
Arthur Monroe has hired out to
Plyn Ladd and is boarding at his
house
Austen Phelan received quite a
painful injury to his right ankle
while at the mill in South Dorset on
Saturday, caused by the falling OF a
heavy piece of marble
Berry pickers are somewhat terror
lied by the Sunderland panther re-
port Last year it was the crazy
man" and the fierce wild cat" that
infested the berry fields. What next,
snakes?
Mr.. and Mrs William McWayne and
family and Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Nc
Wayne and their guests, Mrs. II. f.
McWayne-Kent. Miss Zillah Ireland
and Edgar McWayne, spent Tuesday
picknicking at Lake ST. Catherine
Field day at Manchester on Thurs
day will attract many from this sec
ton. Besides the usual sports and
contests there will be horse trotting
by local horsemen. Ii is reported
that Maid" the oldest and gamiest of
trotters will be entered by her owner,
c. p. Kent.
A party OF residents with their
guests visited the cave in East Dorset
one day last week and report an in
teresting time. The cavern has new
er been extensively explored on ac-
count of the impossibility OF keeping
the lanterns burning after a certain
distance. Large clusters OF bats
hanging from the ceiling seem to be
the only inhabitants OF this uncanny
place
Many donations from unexpected
sources have come to aid In building
the new church. The gifts have been
extremely generous, whether in mon
ey or in labor In some instances
the widows mite has been almost
paralleled. The pledges have proved
how dear the cnurch home is to the
home people as well as to the sum-
mer friends of Dorset, who have been
most enthusiastic in their helpful
ness. But we believe there has new
er been shown a happier mingling OF
work and purpose than that of twenty
little girls all under twelve years OF
age, who live in Jacksonville, Florida,
six of wnom had attended services in
the old church and who wept with
true grief at the news of the disas
trous fire. These six little girls at
once started out to interest their juv-
emile friends in the matter of rebuild
ing the church, and have since been
uolulHS TEA parties anu lllJe enter
tainments in their far away homes
for that purpose. They also arranged
for bazaar which they held, doing
the sewing on fancy articles with
their own hands. The sum OF $50
was recently received from these
young people whose names will be
engraved with others to be placed in
the corner stone thus recording
good deed" in not entirely 'naugh.
ty world" The parents of several C
these little folks are spending the
summer here and may, perhaps, have
been the instigators of the plan where
by they worked, however, they are all
entitled to much commentator and
gratitude. The names follow: Pattie
Holmes, Sara Holmes, Katherine Ba-
ker, Louise Baker, Nan Corde Elean-
or Phillips, Margaret Spratt, Rosalee
Toomes, Marion Adams, Susan Gree
ley, Blanche Wise, Phoebe Stryker,
Kate Boylston, Isabel Daniel Meriel
Wilson, Haidee Rodd, Ninah May
Cooke, Katherine Riddle, Emmala
Burroughs, Julia Stockton.