The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-04-25
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of she Town and Village Told Briefly
for Busy Readers.


Alfred Goyette Of Springfield, Mass.
Is guest at the home Of r. o. Graves
Mrs Clark Spencer Of Cambridge is
visiting her father Henry w, Marsh
on School street.
Miss Mary Shaw OF Bennington Cen.
ter has gone to Sllngerlands, N. Y. for
two weeks visit.
Bradstreet's weekly report says.
Bennington reports all manufacture
ing plants with the exception of two
or three mills, employed to capacity.
Some Improvement is reported among
retail merchants"
Edmund e. Keough of Springfield,
Mass, began work today on the To-
cal STAFF Of The Evening Banner. The
young man is a stranger in Benning-
ton and therefore considerably handi-
capped until he gets acquainted and
| The Banner hopes its friends will help
him along what they conveniently
can.
Street Commissioner Dunn is put
ting in new sidewalk at the top Of
the South street hill where the ledge
has been blasted out the past winter
With the coming of spring hundreds
of people walk out to Park Lawn GEM
etery and it would be a good thing if
the sidewalk could be extended all the
way to the cemetery.
George Allard who has been EN-
Lployed in the mechanical department
OF The Banner office for the past three
years has finished work here and is
to 60 to Toledo O., where he will
join his brother and the two are plan
ming to go to the Pacific coast.
George is one OF the best boys who
ever grew up in Bennington, honest,
industrious and persevering. He will
make good citizen wherever he set
ties
Howard Eckert, formerly manager
of the Greylock hotel at Williamstown
caster Penn, yesterday. Mr.
Eckert came to Williamstown five
years ago and with Fred Emery took
the management of the Greylock hotel.
After about two years Mr., Emery with
drew and took the management OF
the Idlewild hotel and for the last
three seasons Mr.. Eckert had con-
Quoted the Greylock alone. Owing
to Ill health Mr.. Eckert announced
that he would not retain the manage
ment this year and Frank league
took the hotel management.
Henry l.. Harrington of Adams as
appraiser, has filed an inventory of
the estate of Dewey Phillips of Airing
ton, showing personal property of
S1O,525 itemized as follows "Receiv-
ed in October, 1910, from the common
wealth of Massachusetts in settle
ment and payment of land taken by
the commonwealth during the lifetime
| of the deceased by the right OF emin-
Ient domain, S10,500; old engine and
boiler, valuable only as old junk, S25."
The administrator of the estate is
James X. Batchelder of Arlington
North Adams Transcript
Lumber dealers and those who buy
lumber will be interested in the fact
that prices in the city markets are
slightly higher. The following is
from the Boston report in last weeks
issue of the American Lumberman.
Retail dealers report a larger vol.
ume of business and a firmer market.
Some of them think that as the mills
get under way the offerings of lumber
will be so much larger that prices will
ease of, but others are confident that
there will be no lower level and that
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ell OF values will be reached. Frames,
9-inch and under. selling at $3.50 to
S24. Random is in moderate demand
only but prices are firmer in sym
patty with the whole market. The
call for spruce covering boards has
ruled little more active but there is
still room for improvement. Prices
are a little firmer"