The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-01-17
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told Briefly
fos Busy Readere

Mrs. John Bishop was taken to the
Troy city hospital Tuesday for
treatment
$3.50 buys a $500 overcoat, $500
buys a $1,000 overcoat at Mulliban g.
Roche's. 77tf
Howard H. Shields of Old Benning.
ton has returned from his business
trip to Cumberland, Md
The North Adams Poultry show is /
now in progress. Several from here
have exhibits at the show.
Social dance in Academy hall Fri
day evening, Jan 18th. Dancing
from to IL. Admission rs cents.
75t5
The ladies' of the Baptist church
will hold a food sale in the chapel
| Saturday afternoon from 2 until o.
clock. 77t3
Miss Irene Graves has returned
home after visiting her sister, Mrs
F. B. Whiting in Neenah, Wis. for
several months.
Tam O'Shanters at 39c worth S1.00,
lToboggans at 19c worth soc, ladies
knit vests and blouse Sweaters at
buys a $1,000 overcoat at Mulligan &
& Roche's. 77tf
The subscription sale for May IT.
win will start at the box office at
o'clock tonight and the regular sale
at Coles drug store at 8 o'clock
Thursday morning
The class in English for foreign
speaking men will meet at the Y NJ.
c. A. at 7:45 o'clock this evening
Any men or working boys who are in
terested will be very welcome to at
tend these sessions at very moder-
ate charge
Street Commissioner A. X. Dunn,
after working all day Tuesday with
an electrical machine to thaw out the
frozen pipe leading to the watering
, trough on West Main street, this
morning adopted the old-fashioned
method OF building a fire on the
ground over the CONCEALED section Of
pipe
George A. Robinson of Old Ben
nington says the story of his spend
ing all day Sunday thawing out
/ water pipes that weren't frozen is ex-
/. aggerated by several degrees, but
. that he has no intention of suing
E John Van Der Spiegel Merrill for IL
5 bel as he allows that a lawyer must
), have some leeway In telling a story.
The local exhibitors at the North
Adams poultry show who lost hope
Of securing many premiums this year
because the combs and wattles OF
. their prize birds were touched with
frost during the cold weather of last
week. have learned by visiting the
show which opened Tuesday that a
larger portion of the exhibitors in all
sections have met with the same
misfortune.
Assemblyman Bradford r. Lansing
the representative In the lower house
from the lower Rensselaer, district, is
still very III. at his home. being con
fined to the bed and under the care
OF trained nurse. Through one OF
his legislative associates, he has had
introduced practically his bill OF last
year, appropriating 100000 for the
acquisition and preservation by the
state OF the historic tract OF land
known as the Bennington battlefield
in the town OF Hoosick--Troy Stan
dard.
Mrs. J. II. Livingston went to Hoo
sick Falls this morning to attend the
funeral this afternoon OF her aunt
Mrs. Mary T. Lewis. wife of Richard
c. Lewis who died Monday. Mrs
y Lewis had been III for three weeks
from heart trouble. Mrs. Lewis
death is mourned by a host o.
friends. She was born GO years age
in Berlin and was formerly Mary +
Sanders. Her father was a farmer
e About % years ago she was married
to Richard c. Lewis OF Hoosick Falls
. For a score Of years she had been &C
tive in the Methodist church, was
valued member OF the Willing Help
" ers OF that church and had served oil
: many committees. Her death is re
GREETED In the community, where sh'
was so we'll and favorably known
q The survivors are her husband, Rich
ard c. Lewis. a daughter, Mrs. Chas
w. Brown. and two grandchildren.