The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-11-17
PoWNAL

A number from Pownal attended
the Williams-Amherst game on Satur-
day.
Mrs b. o. Barber entertained Miss
Emily Hill from North Adams over
Sunday.
J Guy Barbti and wife of Dalton,
Mass, were eaests OF his uncle, DR..
Barber Sunday.
D. f. Gardaer attended the reunion
Ct the 4. Y. A. Fraternity at Williams
tc~n Saturday evening.
/ M. g d Mis-. S. NJ. Nutting of West
minister arrived Monday to visit their
granddaughter, Mrs. Daniel Francis
| Gardner
Miss Eva Brimmer was one of the
dab3ters at the Wllliamstown high
sch a rccon ly and won her debate
On The other side was che of the
/ schools leading debaters which made
he. victory a greater triumph.
Fred Potter who has supplied the
public with milk for the past five
years has given up the business and
will ship his milk TO Hood in Boston.
Edgar Rathbun has started a milk
route and will deliver the milk to the
houses which will please good many
who disliked the walk after their milk
Road Commissioner Davis has
force of men building a railing on
Mountain street next the river. This
has long been a dangerous place and
the travelling public are all thankful
that THIS source of danger is to be re-
moved One life at east would have
probably been spared had this been
done years ago.
Pownal was treated to quite a spec
tacular fire Monday evening in which
the loss is the b. and NJ. corporation
rather than any of our villagers. An
east bound freight passed through the
village about p. m. and as Ii passed
the Main street crossing 1t was not
iced to be on fire. Instead of stop
ping on the crossing where there are
two hydrants within 200 feet, the
train crew put the car on the siding
way beyond the station which was too
far for the hose to reach. The car
was laden with cotton which burned
fiercely. $50 feet of extra hose was
obtained from North Pownal which
with the 525 feet on the local hose
cart was sufficient to reach the fire,
but too late to save any of the prop
erty The car was valued with its
contents at about $4,000
There was an auto accident Sat
urday night on the Burgess Hill which
was decidedly out of the ordinary.
A large touring car from the Will
liams Amherst game was going up
the hill at good rate of speed when
one OF the wheels struck stick of
wood which flew up and broke a wo-
mans arm in the tonneau. Miss
Helen Lewis was just behind and
noticed the accident but did not
learn who the occupants were. The
queer feature of the case is where the
wood came from. The writer was
just ahead of this car as he passed
Miss Sears only one-fourth mile south
OF this point and there was no stick in
the road that he could see. There
was a team which he passed just in
front of James Hannigan's and it
seems probable that the wood must
have come from this wagon.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. F. Towne who have
been spending their vacation in town
with Mrs. Towne's mother, Mrs. Gard
ner T. Parker, returned to Troy Sun
day with A. G. Parker in the latter's
auto. The roads were In grand shape
and Parker let the machine out. max
ing 26la miles the first hour and Troy
in 1909, both Of which were his best
records. The fan belt broke just out
of Troy and the machine was run
home via Melrose, Johnsonville and
Hoosick Falls without the fan work
ing and the entire trip home was
made without the motor overwhelming
Every hill in the Sc mile trip was
made on high speed. The trip to Troy
via Raymertown carries one by the
south side of the Tomhannock reser-
voir which supplies Troy with water
The return via Valley Falls carries
one by the north side where the i'm
mense dam can be- seen. The reser
vor is beautiful sheet G. water
which makes charming panorama