The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-08-07
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Stephen Robinson and Orrin b.
Bowen have returned from hike TO
Worcester, Mass.
Miss Christine L. Ward of North
Adams is the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Helen j. Thomas.
Miss Beulah Kendall has returned
to Dalton, Mass, after visit to Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Kendall.
w lillian Swarzwad of New York
came this afternoon to be the guests
at the home of Dr. e. b. Daley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Robinson of
Old Bennington are passing the day
in Pittsfield.
Water Buck, who has been visiting
friends in town, has returned to his
home in Rutland.
Miss Mary Sanford of Old Ben
nington has returned from trip to
the Eastern coast.
Miss Harriet Harriet has returned
to her home in Rutland after a visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. William II. An
drews.
Miss Phyllis Schuyler returned on
Tuesday evening from Fortunes ROCK,
Me, where she has been for several
weeks.
Joseph Daley of New York, former
ly of Bennington, is expected here to-
day to visit his parents, DR.. and Mrs.
Il. b. Daley.
Hon. Seymour Van Santvoord and
family left Tuesday for a several
weeks outing at Beover Lake in the
Adirondacks
Capt j. B. Harmon, commissary of
the First Regiment, has Joined the
other officers of the regiment and has
gone to the maneuvers in Connectl-
cut.
Prof. r. Seymour Bahan of Cleve-
land, O., who is spending his vacation
at Old Bennington, his former home,
visited friends in North Adams Tues
day.
Miss Luella Chase, a former well
known resident, who is now residing
in Amsterdam, n. Y, has arrived in
town to be the guest of friends and
relatives for two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs Earl H. Darling, their
guests, Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Lamb of
Pittsfield, and Mrs. Darling's brother
Joseph Hufuagle, have gone to New
York for two weeks stay.
The subscribers sale of reserved
seat tickets for Rhadeska, which is
to be the attraction at the opera
house August a. will open at the box
office Saturday evening at o'clock.
Mrs. H. II. Porter, Jr,, of Chicago,
who is sepnding the summer in Man
chester has been staying at the Wal
loomsac Inn. Mrs. Porter is a
granddaughter of the late Judge Pier
pont Isham.
C. H. Hawley, Miss Wilhelmina
Hawley and Mrs. NJ. +. o. Mari
bury of Manchester, and NJ. J. Haw-
ley, Miss Helen Hawley of Oakland,
Cal, have been guests of Mr. and Mrs.
w. A. Walker.
The funeral of the late Louis Chris
tan Kelson will be held from his late
home on Grove street Thursday af-
ternoon at 23O and from the Old First
church at 800 o'clock. Rev. Isaac
Jennings will officiate.
1t is expected that DIR. George H..
Gilbert of Dorset will preach next
Sunday at the Second Congregational
church. DR.. Miller leaves Belfast,
Me-, the last of this week. but will
spend a few days at his fathers home
in Limerick, Me, before returning to-
Bennington.
Mrs. Warren Morse and the
Misses Morse of Brewer, Mass. who
arrived here Tuesday for a visit, are
being entertained by Mrs. Samuel
l.. Robinson of Old Bennington. IL
is expected that Mr. Morse a former
pastor of the Old First church, will
come here Thursday for brief stay
with his family.
Harold Qua, John Ray and Sunni
ner Holt, Boy Scouts, from the Pitts
field Y. NJ. c. A., arrived in town on
Tuesday afternoon from a hike from
the Tunnel City and went to Sucker
Pond After being encamped at that
place for few days the boys will be
Joined by a number of others from
Pittsfeld and will go to Silver Bay.
The Republican town committee
met last evening and voted to call
the Republican caucus next Tuesday
evening to nominate candidates for
representative and justice of the
peace. The usual time for calling
the caucus would have been next
week Friday evening, but that is the
10th of August. Thursday evening
the stores are open and Wednesday
evening there is an entertainment at
the opera house thus leaving Tuesday
evening the only available date.
The investigations of the postofflce
lot under government directions
show that the soil and conditions
could not be improved on. The dig
ging has shown that this was an old
bed of the stream that flows through
the village and which in ages past
has probably at various times coursed
over every part of this valley. The
formation Of gravel and 'hardheads"
insures proper drainage. No water
was found until a depth Of Is feet
was reached and then only a little
seepage. AS this is fully seven feet
lower than the basement of the new
building would go It will not prove
a factor in the matter.