The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-04-08
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ltNnuAur 0OultNJ VI AtAch'AA spent
Sunday at his home here.
Milk and heavy cream fresh every
day at the Harwood drug store. 44tf
William Parker who is employed
in Pitisheld spent Sunday at his
home here.
F. L. Bottum Of the Bottum and
Torrance company is in New York
on business.
Miss Pearl Babcock of Hoosick
Falls spent last week with Miss
Gertrude Russell.
Miss Ruth Resseguie Of Troy is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs
Charles Resseguie.
4 Miss Regina Therein Miss Jennie
Warren and Miss Hazel Lasher pass
ed Sunday in Pittsheld
There will be a regular meeting Of
/ St. Agnes Guild at 7.45 Tuesday eve
ming in st. Peters parish house.
Leon Boyd of North Adams, for
merly of Bennington, passed the
week end with friends in the village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard d. Dinwiddie
spent Sunday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. James Dinwiddie Of Wood
ford.
Joseph Martin has resigned his po-
sition as cook at the Yale restaurant
and accepted a similar one at Hart S
restaurant
William Spear of Pittsfeld who
formerly resided here spent Satur-
day and Sunday as the guest of
friends in town.
Mrs. e. J. Cummings, who has
been the guest Of her father Thomas
Kinney of the western part of the
town, returned Sunday.
The Board of Directors of the Y.
NJ. c. A. will meet on Tuesday even
ing. April 9th for their regular
monthly business meeting,
Joseph Brann who is a student at
Williams College, returned Sunday
evening to that institution after hay'
ing spent the day in town.
Harry Hufnagle has accepted a
position with Lester NJ. Slocum who
is to open a grocery store in the
Hawks block on Main street shortly
Hiram j Fassett Jr., who is a
student at r. p. l., Troy. came Sat
urday for a visit with his parents, Nh
and Mrs. Hiram B. Fassett of Main
street.
Grant Harbour of Grandyiew ST.
who has been confined to the house
threatened with pneumonia, was able
to be out Saturday. He resumed
work this morning at the Gibson
store.
Two men team game rolled on the
Y. NJ. c. A. alleys Saturday night re
suited in White and Perry rolling
1913 pins against Gooding and Sloai
S34, the first team getting three
points, the second, one.
John J. Kennedy will portray hi.
original role in Excuse Me- at the
opera house Thursday evening thai
of a railroad porter and his trials ant
tribulatlons with the several differ
: ent varieties Of railroad travellers.
} The annual dinner Of the Y. NJ. c
A. will be held either the last weel
in April or the first in May. The
principal speaker will be Col. Franz
4 IL. Greene of St Adams, who is con
sldered one Of the best public speak
ers in Vermont
Three boys partially wrecked the
little waiting room of the electric
road at the Gardner crossing Sunday
They smashed the window and die
other damage. This is not the frs
time that these small waiting rooms
have been damaged, to the great per
[. sonal Inconvenience of the people
who have to occasionally take refuge
in these rooms in bad weather.
Misses Hazel. Hldred and Eliz'
Hart spent the Easter holidays will
4 their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Il. +
1 Hart of Main street Miss Haze
Z Hart returned Saturday to her schoo
1 in Springfield, VI, Miss Eliza Har
4 returning to her school in Pittsford
w.. and Miss IIidred Hart returnin
I 10 Northampton, Mass, Sunday.
{ George Lambson who was wei
known in this village, died Sunda
at his home in Gardner Mass. Nh
I Lambson was a member OF the loca
Y lodge of Elks. lie was about
[ years OF age. The greater part @
I his life had been spent with minstr,
4 shows. He was at different time
with James H. Whitney, Whittemor
& Clark. Carton. Barlow Bros, Al. {
I Fields No show and others.
y The Saturday art section of IN
Troy Times contains well write
| and unpreiudiced account of the Ba
tie OF Bennington by James A. Becl
cit Of Hoosick Falls. The article wa
evidently written on account OF th
state of New York buying the battle
field as a state reservation The al
section also contains a picture Of He
sian hill. where Col Baum's cam
was entrenched and which was IN
center OF the conflict August II
| l777. Another picture shows the n
mains of the ford whore the road {
Bennington crossed the Walloomsa
river in i777, near the house on IN