The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-02
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News of the Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.

DIR. c. S. Buchanan is spending the
day in Troy on business.
Mrs. ]. B. Stone of Pittsfeld spent
Sunday with Mrs. H. M. Ramsdell.
Miss L. Blanche Adams returns to-
day from a vacation at Revere beach.
Miss Jane Burgess of West Main st.
is visiting friends in Glens Falls, N.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Eastman of
Dorset spent Sunday with friends in
town.
Miss Ida Livingston of the Banner
force began a two weeks vacation this
week.
Mrs. Harriet Williams of the Mich
OILS stores began two weeks vacation
today.
Louis F. Ions of Greenfield, Mass.
has been visiting relatives here for a
few days.
The overstock sacrifice sale at the
Noveck stores will be continued UNI
til August II.
Mrs. N. A. Kennon who has been in
sanitarium at North Adams for med
ical treatment is coming home tomor-
row.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira ]. Warner of Ar
lington nave been the guests of Mr.
and Mrs Thomas Whitman for a few
days.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Davenport and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Lamarre yesterday
Lake Lauderdale
Miss Adelaide Merrill returned to-
day to Brooklyn accompanied by Miss
Florence Potter wac will visit friends
in New York City
To rent:-Beginning August 9th
the Park Homestead, all furnished,
Woodford, VT. Apply to Ethel j.
Park, Woodford, VT. 23t6
Margaret Glavin is receiving care
at the Gibson hospital Patients will
be cared for on the first floor during
the month of August.
Mrs Henry C. Babcock and daugh-
ter Hazel who is a student of SYRIA
cuse university, are visiting Mrs. Hen
rietta b. Adams of Grandview.
Mr. and Mrs f. C. Farnum of Bos-
ton Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Martin of
North Adams and Miss Bootham of
Adams are the guests of Mrs. f. II.
Peelor
NJ. J. Belden for many years a pop
ular conductor on the Rutland rail
road has accepted a position as con
ductor on the Berkshire street railway
between Bennington and North Ad-
ans.
Forrest W. Kehoe who graduated
from the University of Vermont last
June will next month begin his duties
as professor of chemistry and physics
at the Hallock school in Great Bar
rington, Mass.
The 1909 oat crop is now ripe and
farmers will start harvesting it this
week. Oats matured about a week
earlier this year tnan usual on &C
count of the dry weather. This bids
fair to be a good yield.
Dr. Wright, specialist at North Ad-
ans, will be in his office only Mon
days, Wednesdays, and Saturdays I'M
I'll August l. Office open daily for
making appointments and repairing
glasses. Telephone Sand Springs,
Williamstown. 10t24
The plcaic committee of the . ~
T. A. b. society have completed all ar
engagements for the annual field day TO
be held on August l6. Richard Berry
of Boston, a well known aeronGLt and
parachute artist will make an ascen-
sion and daring descent from the pic
mic grounds. The balloon ascension
promises to be the feature of the day.
C. NJ Lambert & Son have recently
sold a monument to S. o. Tefft to be
erected in the North Bennington Gem
etery. one to Mrs ]. II. Cranston to
be erected in the Chapel cemetery,
one to ]. b. Niles for the Center
SALISBURY cemetery, and one to
Charles Monroe TO be set in the Gene
terry at Maple hill.
Misses Margaret and Sarah Healy
were driving a colt owned by their
father J. NJ Healy, down Main street
early Saturday evening when the an
imal SHE'D trifie at a trolley car just
in front of the Banner office. The
slight swerve was just enough to send
the near front wheel against the curb.
The wheel collapsed, dropping the
axle to the ground and compelling the
Misses Healy to get out rather hIr-
riedly or roll out. The colt started
to plunge but serious trouble was
averted by the quickness of Russell
NJ. Hyde who got the animal by the
head and quoted it, Miss Sarah
Healy who was driving chung to the
reins pluckily in pite of her precari-
Gus situation. She is skilled horse
woman.
Within a few days workmen in the
employ of the Berkshire street rail
way numbered the signboards recently
put up along the line of the tracks,
giving facts of historical interest. Now
the company has issued folder Civ
ing the information contained on the
boards. Up to now it has been scarce
ly possible for passengers to read the
boards while the car has been passing.
With one of the folders in hand, all
that will be necessary for the passen-
ger will be to catcn the number on
the board and he may read the inter
esting facts from the folder A board
numbered 62 has been erected at the
Cooper bridge which designates to
passengers that they have reached
Remington