The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-02-17
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and ViIl5Se Told Brieft
for Busy Resders-

F j Kendall Of the Roster store
registered at the Putnam House to-
day
William w. Johnson Of Springfield
civil engineer of the Berkshire Street
is in town today on business. /
The local meat markets were clos
ed this afternoon from noon until
$50 during the funeral of the late A.
C. Sweet.
W. r. Howard returned to Peters
burg this afternoon after being the
guest of Charles Carpenter for sew
eral days.
Nelson Waite OF Green Mountain
Valley gave musical entertainment
last evening. Pratts orchestra fur
nished the music.
Bennington Court, F. Of A. will
hold an initiation of candidates in
their rooms in the Hawks block Sun,
day afternoon at 2.3O.
An important special meeting of
Bennington court. Foresters of Amer
lea will be held Saturday All mem
bers should be present
The Board Of Civil Authority will
meet for the final revision of the
check list on Friday evening at Z o.
clock in the town clerks rooms.
A party of so from Wnliamstown
under the direction of Samuel Blair
den of Hillside Farms will arrive
here by special trolley about S:45 this
evening. At 9 o'clock they will mold
banquet at the Putnam House, re-
turning afterwards to the college
town.
delegation from Bennington Aer-
lie, Fraternal Order of Eagles, will go
to North Adams Sunday to attend the
annual memorial exercises in the
Aerie rooms in that city. The meet
ing is to be held at 230 and the To-
cal people will leave here on the l2'-
As car.
The funeral of the late A. c. Sweet
was largely attended from his home
on North street this afternoon at 2:30
Rev. George S. Mills of the Second
Congregational church officiated
There were many beautiful floral trib-
utes The bearers were F. NJ. Craw-
ford. J. Oliver Burt, F. f. Howe, E
b. Hart. II. H. Webster and A. W
Varney. The body was placed in
the vault
Owing to certain changes which are
under contemplation in the character
of the examinations for the Customs
Service, the annual examination for
the Custom House at Burlington,
Vt, previously announced to be held
in May, will be indefinitely postponed
and those who have filed applications
therefor will be admitted to the next
examination when it takes place with
out further action on their part.
Mrs Martha Benjamin Yates, a for
mer prominent resident of this town
and Saratoga Springs, died Tuesday
in New Haven, Conn She was the
widow of Professor George W. Yates
who died two weeks ago at the age
of 90 years. Mrs Yates was 81
years of age She was a native of Mil
ford Conn, where the interment vii.
be made A daughter and three sons
survive. Mrs. Yates together with
her husband, Prof. Yates, was for
( several years in charge of the fam
GUS old Yates seminary at Benning-
ton Center
Among those from this town who
attended the Lew Dockstader Min
strels at the Richmond theatre in
North Adams Wednesday evening
were, Henry c. Knapp, James E.
Burke, b. n. Estabrook, John Whit
ney Sr., Joseph j McDermott, James
J. Burns, John Gunshannon, George
Walsh, John Whitney Jr., l.. j. Ed
dington, Thomas Donovan, Joseph A
Evans, Thee. Mcclure, 2. J. Prender
CAST and Patrick Healy. All report
the play and trolley service satisfac
tory
Orders have been issued by the de
partment at Washington to all post
masters directing that employees who
sell stamps not to hand them on
with the gum side downward, lest b!
contract with the base of the stamI
window, where hundreds of hands
rest daily, they gather and transmi
germs of disease to those who still
follow the old time method of lickinl
postage stamps. The order was is
sued at the instigation of Dr. Wymal