The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-30
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
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street is Ill with measles.
Charles Myers of North Adams
! visited friends here Sunday.
Mrs. Marshall Clapp has returned
from visit in New York city
Ellis Chase, freshman in the
high school, is i'll with scarlet fever.
Get your tin cans ready tonight and
placed for collection tomorrow morn
ing.
Mrs. c. B. Leach of Rutland has
been visiting Miss Rena Kroning of
Bradford street.
Mrs. Harriet Bradford returned
Saturday afternoon from a several
days visit in Manchester.
Mrs. William X. Graves is spending
some time with her son, Collins NJ.
Graves at his home on Hillside street.
James McDermott of Newark, ~ j..
spent the week end with his mother,
Mrs. Mary A. McDermott of Park
street.
Elihu Russell of the Woodford road
died Sunday as the result of an at
tack of pneumonia. Funeral arrange
ments have not yet been made.
The bearers at the funeral of the
late Miss Frances Il. Cullion were
DR.. II. Il. Brennan, John p O'Donnell,
Joseph McDermott, Louis McDer-
mott. Joseph Murphy and Thomas
Gibney.
William Leroy Bates, who spent
1. ~. 1,
street, returned this morning to AL
bany. Mrs. e. l.. Bates and Miss
Beulah Bates are spending the day in
. that city. tH -
The members of Bennington lodge
of Elks will meet at their rooms
Tuesday morning at $50 to attend In
a body the funeral of the late John
Robinson, which will be held at St.
Francis de Sales church at 8 o'clock.
Spencer Lee. while on a motorcycle
Saturday afternoon, collided with an
automobile driven by Leon Ostrander
at the corner of Main and School
streets. Neither machine was badly
damaged and the drivers were unin-
jured.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy b. Johnson and
Miss Helen Johnson Of New York, ar
rived here Sunday and have opened
their homes in Old Bennington for
the summer. Miss Mary Shaw. who
has been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Johnson, returned with them.
A number OF parents of pupils in
the eighth grade of the graded
10, 40 nnI
the rule stating that no pupils should
be granted certificates allowing them
to leave school May l and go to work
on farms without the permission be-
ing requested by the parents and
granted b ythe superintendent of
schools
Mrs. Eli Archer Sunday evening
was entertained at the home OF ner
daughter, Mrs. Fred Thebarge, GOA
Main street. in honor Of her seth
birthday anniversary. The occasion
was surprise planned by Mrs.
Archer's daughters who have always
been devoted to their parent. The
dinner was served in courses and
many of Mrs Archer's lifelong
friends were present Music was pro
vided by Fred Thebarge assisted by
f. Archer. Mrs. Thebarge and Prof.
H. C. Powell of Trenton, n. j. The
tables were decorated with American
flags. Mrs Archer was the recipient
of many beautiful gifts.
Health Officer j. NJ. Ayres expects
that Secretary Dalton of the state
board of health will be in Benning-
ton this afternoon 10 make an inyes
tigation for the purpose of ascertain
ing whether or not all precautions
have been taken to prevent a further
spread of scarlet fever in the village.
The health officer is confident that he
has traced the source of the disease
to the home of farmer, Edward VIII
cox, who lives just across the New
York line in the town of Hoosick and
who sells milk in the village. Mr..
Wilcox sells milk direct to consumers
in the village and has also supplied
Frank A. Greenslet, milk dealer in
whose family the disease was first dis
covered. Several new cases have
been reported since Saturday. or
the cases reported the health officer
has satisfied himself that all but four
are in families that directly or indi-
rectly received their milk from the
Wilcox dairy. There are or have
been three cases of the disease in the
Wilcox family.