The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-12-16
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.


Miss Nellie Morrissey is here from
New York to remain Jew weeks.
Street commissioner M. w. Stewart
is confined to his home by illness.
Miss Nellie Morrissey is spending
the week with friends in Cohoes and
Albany.
The graded schools close next Fri
day and resume their work Wednes'
day Jan 4.
Miss Matte Scott of Pulaski, N. y
is visiting her aunt Mrs j. nj. Scott OF
School street.
The President has sent to the Senate
for confirmation the nomination OF
Lewis A. Skiff, to be postmaster at
Middlebury.
Tickets for Romeo and Juliet will be
on sale tomorrowmorningat l0o'clock
for the subscription tickets only. Reg
ular sale Monday.
d. d. G. H. p, r. L. Clark of Rut.
land will visit Temple chapter RAM
Monday evening; the Mark Master de-
cree will be eXemplitied.
Mr. and Mrs Frederick Russell, who
were married Thursday afternoon viii
reside in Bennington after wedding
trip in New York state
Remember the school exhibition to,
night. You should enjoy it. Songs,
fancy drills and recitations. All
school children 10 cts adults 20 cts.
Recent navy orders announce that
! Tom Du in Barber, "a son of c. a.
Barber of Burlington has been com
missloned second lieutenant in the
marine corps.
Over one hundred twenty-five school
children will take part in the enter.
taiument at school hall this evening,
Doors open at : O'Clock Adults %
cts, children ~ cts.
Asa B Hancock, of Coventry has
been made a lie subscriber to The
New England Homestead for being the
father to the largest number of chill
drea OF any of It's subscribers.
Tonight Lorne EIwyn Co. will pre-
sent 'Resurrection,' play that they
played last season and made such an
impression. The company is keeping
up its reputation built up last season,
it being the best repertoire company
that has appeared here,
The NatiQpal City Bank of Troy has
been organized With q capital of $500,
600. 1t is found by the consolidation
of the Mutual National and Central
National banks of that city. Among
the directors of the'new bank is Tho
mas Vail whose summe" residence is
at Bennington Center,
The present panel of jurors on duty
at the county court with the exception |
of those now engaged on the Bonn /,
case has Nnen excused from further
duty until Tue Tuesday after Christ
mas. An entirely new panel has been
drawn for duty after the Bonn case |
is completed.
A. d. Kellar state manager of the .
Sperry and Hutchinson Green Trading /
Stamp Co. has been he a couple of .
days inspecting the accounts etc of .
the local branch. 1t ia reported on .
the streets that the company will main /
tain its office here for the present.
1t is expected that j. c. Colgate and |
family will come TO their summer resi- |
deuce next week and remain there .
through the holiday season. lichenor /
place will also be re-opereI for The .
season MIR and Mrs Phillip b. Jen- /
nings returning with their children to .
spend the holidays.
The case of f. K. Bagnall vs. the
Burlington festival chorus, which was
To have been tried Wednesday before
Justice of the Peace J 7. St-arns, was
discontinued by the plaintiff. 1t was
an action brought to recover 800 which .
the plaintiff claimed was due him for
taking part in the recent presentation .
of the comic opera. Chimes of Nor .
mandy by local talent.
A meeting OF the surgeons employed .
by the Rutland railroad was held at .
the Van Ness house in Burlington
Thursday afternoon. The object was .
to make a general permanent organi-
latiOu of the -tafl and t, discuss the .
railroad work as whole. DR. &. w. .
Bartlett wa, present and read paper
on abdominal Injuries.
Two men, who were indicted at the
October term Of court, were arraigued
before George f.. Johnson, clerk of
thd United States court. in Burlington
Wednesday. They were Frank hurry
OF Middlebury, who was taken II ere by .
Deputy United States Marshal +. H. .
Chapman, OF Rutland, the charge be-
ing a violati IN of the internal revenue
law, and who furnished i'll in e sum
ul 500: and George Richards of bar
louisville, charged with violation of
the postal laws in tearing down a
rural delivery mail box who furnished
bail in the sum of 800.