The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-08-30
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Toio
Briefly for 1usy RsaGs-a

Electric vacuum cleaner brushes
refilled. Tel, 251-X or call 800 Pleas
ant street, Bennington ADV. 1876
Mrs. George A. Richardson OF
Sparta, Wis, is the guest ~of her
sister, Mrs II. n. Williams of Elm
stree;.
There viii be special meeting Of
the Bradford Hooks this evening,
Aug. 80 at o'clock at its rooms in
tho central fire station.
Miss Marjorie Lyon of Harwood
Hill is camping for a week at Hedges
lake with a party of young women
from Bennington and vicinity.
Charles Thompson of North Ben,
ningtCn has returned from a two
months trip through the West in the
interests Of the IL. T. Cushman com
pany.
Miss JEANNE Dewar, who has been
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Crichton, has returned to her
home in Hoosick Falls accompanied
by Miss his Farnum.
Rev. p. l.. Dow and family who have
been spending their vacation in
Lanesboro, Mass, will return Thurs
day of this week. Mr. Dow will con
duct the mid-week prayer meeting.
Work was begun this morning on the
oiling OF the streets. The upper part
OF Main from the corner of Valentine
street has been completed and also
parts Of School, Pleasant and Stafford
streets.
The normal school at Castleton will
open as stated in the catalogue Tues
day Sept. 5. The students are to ar
rive Monday In case Of railroad
strike on Sept. 4 the opening will be
postponed one week
Persons and heads Of families that
do not notify the Health Officer when
children come to Bennington under
sixteen years of age from the state OF
New York or Massachusetts will be
treated as guilty of misdemeanor
and dealt with according to the law
ADV.
hagus design have recently been
placed by James S. Clark on the fami-
~ lots Of Daniel b. Kceler and James
il. Keeler in Park Lawn; the work is
executed in best clear Barre granite
with classic panel and carvings in
, bold relief, forming a noteworthy ad,
dition to the cemetery
Because OF the prevalence of infan-
tile paralysis in the states of New
York and Massachusetts, persons with
children who leave Bennington for
points in these two states will be sub
ject. upon returning, to the same
quarantine regulations that are now
in force relative to persons with chill.
dren coming into Vermont from
Massachusetts and New York. Adv,
W. II. Barber, foreman Of the Brad
ford Hook and Ladder Co, with Asst.
Forman VIM. Shindler were in Rut-
land Tuesday to meet with the Rut.
land Fair association committee. The
president of the fair association, f.
NJ. Wilson. has arranged a freman's
parade for Labor Day evening as in
former years The railroad rate from
bennington $3.50 for the round trip.
The Bennington city band has been
engaged TO play for the occasion.
There was a special meeting OF the
village board OF trustees last evening
at which It was voted to appropriate
5000 toward the expense of laying an
1S-inch cement pipe from the property
of the Il Waist company to the west
side of Park street. The tube is to
be laid to carry water from the large
Morgan spring east of Stafford street.
The work IS to be done by the L Z
Waist company which is TO maintain
the pipe in the future. The board re-.
; fewed the application Of Nathan Kan.
Der for q permit to rebuild the barn on
: North street recently destroyed by
fire to the fire committee with power
to act.