The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-04-03
DORSET

last week.
F. F. Gilbert, Jr., was guest of
Sherman Nichols, End, in the Hoi-
low Sunday afternoon.
Miss Julia Richardson of Manches-
ter has been spending the past week
at the Barrows house.
Rufus Gilbert arrived from o. v.
N, Saturday to remain for o short
vacation with his parents.
Miss Ethel Kerr Is guest at the
home Of Deacon and Mrs. Charles
B. Gilbert Of the West road.
Grant Matson, who has been visit.
ing his sister In Fort Edward has
been detained by washtouts.
Miss Amy Blackmer has been visit |
ing in Glenns Falls and Fort Edward |
and had ample opportunity to view |
the floods there at their height.
Mrs. Eugene Simmonds has been |
i'll with grip. Mrs. Moses Sheldon
has been staying with her the past
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Edgerton
quietly celebrated their first wedding
anniversary last week Thursday at
their home with several relatives.
Miss Plummer, who has been stop
ping the past week at the Barrows
House, where she was detained by
the weather, left Sunday afternoon
for New Jersey.
Lewis Batchelder is at home from
U. v. M. He experienced some
trouble in reaching here from the
flooded condition Of roads near Rut-
land and north of there.
w. E. Kent has been spending
some time in New York and on his
return trip last week encountered
considerable inconvenience from
high water at Albany and Troy.
The disappearance of Frank s.
Holley as reported by New York and
Troy papers last week was shocking
news to all in Dorset where ne is &C
well known. All possible means
have been taken by his brother FREQ
and his sisters to make a thorough
search for him. hoping he may bt
found alive. 1t Is thought he NIGH
have been overcome by Illness IL
some unaccountable way and beer
taken to some sanitarium. All tn,
large cities have been posted will
likeness and descriptions. Every
one Is hoping for encouraging news
The mails to Dorset for two day
was limited to the locals from X.
o. and Manchester. Saturday after
noon mails from the north arrived
by regular stage driver, who later IL
the evening. being importuned b!
numerous citizens, made an extri
trip to Manchester for the mail
from the south.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lester Thompson o
Peru, Ind, are reported safe, having
escaped from their home to hill
All their household effects were los
in the food. Mrs. Thompson wa
formerly Miss Carrie Chapman o
South Main street. Miss Flora Chal
man, who was with her sister wal
also rescued.
1t is reported that G. M. Sykes hal
sold his store and property connect
ed with 1t to Messrs. Peltier of He
bron and A. o. Chapman who will
conduct the business as heretofore
carrying general merchandise. Tn,
rooms over the store which have sew
we'd so long as accommodations To-
Dorsets Public Library, will be re
modelled into apartments to be occur
led by the family Of Mr.. Peltier ant
the library will be moved to tn,
south rooms In F. X Manley's house
The library is to be closed for tw,
weeks pending the new arrangement
of affairs
Dorset had its full share in the de
struction OF highways, washouts Il
bridges, and other natural conse
quences of the extreme high waite
last week; roads In the Hollow an(
the hill road to East Dorset suffered
the most. The road near j. F. Lit
lies was a veritable pond and pc
destrians were obliged to take to tn,
stone walls or circle through tn,
meadows. The meadow of Mrs
Homer Williams near the grave
bank was covered with water to
depth OF several feet, which when 4
subsidized left the land strewn will
thousands of tin cans and othel
debris from a rubbish dump nearby
In the north district the high wateI
was most destructive to meadow lane
of c. H. Norcross. Clarence Black
mer found his horse in the barr
standing in over two feet of watei
which overilowed from Prentiss Pont
and also flooded his henhouses. L
II. West found the two pigs at his
place floating in water up to theil
necks. He let them out of their per
and then had the time of his lif,
coaxing them into a dry place. He
knows more about pigs than he did
Contrary to reports, the poultry Of
Clifton p. Kent are all intact, but
that is more than can be said of his
bridges, and some Of his good meadow
land has been involuntarily acquired
by Merritt Phelps and other proper
ty owners below Kent's. The Kent
pet cat has returned home after six
days combat with the freshet ant
still has several lives to its credit
The old resident, who remarked q
few days ago that summer was here
felt the weather was "fooling" hin
April LIST when he found the grount
covered with snow and more falling