The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-04-16
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10 B.nS Roaden-

Pork Chops and roast pork l6
cents a Moors's cash market. Adv
sits
See the new children's dresses al
tie New York Store. Latest Balkan
styles az popular prices Adv.
Edward CoEens viii 60 10 Chat
ham for n week end visit with his
family the latter part OF the week
AT the Troy Methodist Conference
nov being held In Troy. Rev. y. l.
Dow was chosen necrologist for the
next year.
The dance tomorrow hight 20 be-
given hy the senior class Of the high
school is 20 open AZ O'Clock. with
! dancing from 5 20 ID.
Misses Eva and Dora Monat are in
Pittsheld today visiting their sister
Agnes who Is in the Hnlcrest hospi-
ial undergoing treatment
Miss Sophronia Collins viii give
some readings az Community club
Friday night which win be followed
by social time and dancing.
Miriam Rebekah lodge viii hold
special meeting Friday evening.
April Il. for the purpose OF enter
tanning the president OF the Assent
ly and initiation.
Tho regular meeting Of the ". r.
G. viii open tomorrow evening NJ
730 o'clock. Note the change OF
time and try and be prompt as this
is the last meeting before the CON
vention.
Howard Baird. who has been in
partnership with James c. Harte in
the management Of the Harte restau-
rant, has sold his interest in the
business TO Hare and has returned
70 his home In Rutland.
Arthur Currier. who is employed
at the factory OF the Charles Cooper
estate. is moving his household
goods 10 HE former home. Manchester
n Il. lie will remain in Bennington
for the present but Mrs. Currier will
return TO New Hampshire.
There viii be a meeting in Man
! chester Saturday evening for the pur
pose Of periecting the organization
OF the Manchester section OF the
Green Mountain club. The Benning-
ton club will hold a meeting next
week to make the preliminary ar
engagements for the laying out OF the
Bennington county end of the Long
Trail
The Bradford Hooks at a meeting
Wednesday night voted to appropri-
ate S4OO from the treasury for the
purchase OF new uniforms. The con
tract for the suits has already been
placed with a Philadelphia firm. The
uniforms are to be made OF blue mel
ton, double breasted long coats with
gilt buttons. The hats are to be the
regulation form worn by the New
York fire department.
Postmaster Collins NJ Graves Is
making a test OF Encouragement Of
certain portions OF the routes OF the
| Bennington mail carriers. At the
present time residents in certain sec
tons of the village are not receiving
the service to which. in the opinion
OF the postmaster. they are entitled.
The village has slowly but steadily
expanded during the past few years
and today covers more territory.
According to the number Of license
applications received by Town Clerk
r. A. Booth there are not so many
dogs in Bennington as there we're a
year ago. A year ago the records Of
the town clerks Office showed that
there were GAO dogs owned in Ben
nington. This year there are nearly
a hundred less 1t is probable that
the hydrophobia scare OF last summer
resulted in the quick transmission OF
quite a few dogs to the canine happy
hunting grounds.
No new names have been Sled
with Village Clerk w. p. Hogan for
the appointments to the village po-
lice force. There have been no OBJ
jections fled against the men whose
names were submitted at the regular
April meeting of the village board OF
trustees The elections will take
place at a special meeting OF the trus
tees to be held next Tuesday evening.
j There are two candidates for the
position OF chief Of police, Patrick
Brazell, the present incumbent, ana
Richard Hurley
DR. 3. c. Jenney, W. H. Bradford
and Trenor p. Gregg have returned
from Arlington where they went to
open the annual trout season. 1t has
been their custom to fish Green river
on the opening day each year but
yesterday the stream was so high
that it was impossible to get any
where near the channel. They fish
ed the Battenkill, going across the
line into New York state. and obtain
ed fairly good catches of trout. In
the lot were two brown trout weigh
ing over a pound each. One OF the
big fellows had native trout FIVE
inches long in its stomach.