The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-21
BENNINGTON BRIEFS.
News of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

Social dance at Foresters' hall sat
urday night
Mrs. Clement Cone left this morning
for visit in Troy.
Good floor, good music, good time,
tonight; Forester's hall.
Miss Fanny Fillmore spent Tuesday
in Troy and Albany.
Fred Green of Dewey street was in
North Adams Wednesday.
Miss Louise Buffum has returned af-
ter visit with friends in Rutland
Thomas Murphy of Beech street is
confined TO the house by the grip.
John Mcmahon of Williamstown
spent Tuesday with friends in town.
John Flynn of River street has re-
signed his position at Bottum & Tor
rance's.
Augustine Bridgnan has returned
to Williamstown after a visit with
friends here.
Remington & Wood are stating the
two double tenements of !, h. Gibson
OH Grandyiew street.
Miss Boughton of Easton, n. Y. is
the guest for few days of Miss Tillie
Manley at the Center.
Czarina Petticoats In Taffeta,
Heatherbloom and Mercerized cloth
roc to $500 at Noyecks 1872
Mrs. Charles Mccarthy expects to
spend two weeks vacation in Burling
ton with her brother Joseph.
Superintendent A. w. Varney has re.
turned from Bristol where he was call
ed by the illness of his father.
Miss Lucy Cutting has accepted
position as table girl at Miss Mary
Lundergan's boarding house on North
street.
The Misses Hart of Pittsfield have
| returned home after spending few
days with their uncle, Lewis Hart OF
Depot street.
Mrs. Lestina Wheeler and son, Ed
WI. of Nottingham, Vt, are visiting
her son, +. T. Wheeler of East hain
street for few days.
Mrs. ]. l.. Fort and children of AL
bany are here TO spend thanksgiving
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
| Townsend OF Gage street
Miss Mary Lundergan's boarding
house and restaurant opened We'd
| nesday, Nov. 90, 1907. in the house re-
Gently vacated by }, II. Livingston. 9t6
| Miss Mabel Wood of the New Eng
land Telephone Exchange who has
been off duty for few days on ac-
count of Illness resumed her duties
| Wednesday.
Three carloads OF hay We're taken
up Main street today by trolly consign-
ed to /, Il. Gibson. The hay was from
J H. Frazier's near North Bennington
and was all baled
Examinations for the certification of
| teachers will be held in Room 10 of
! the graded school building Friday and
Saturday. November % and %, begin
ming at I! O'Clock each morning
The first load of Christmas trees
| this season passed over the Chatham
division this morning on its way to
| New York This is a reminder that
the feast of peace and good will Is
near.
Gladys Champagne was in the mum.
icipal coufS yesterday charged with
truancy. She was sentenced to II
months in the state industrial school
but later her sentence was committed
and she was let out on probation.
Miss Agnes QIinlan who recently
passed successfully the examination OF
the state board Of pharmacy for the
state of Massachusetts received her
diploma Wednesday from that board
Miss Quinlah may now not only put
UP prescriptions In this state but also
anywhere in Massachusetts,.
A force Of men are at work raising
the roof on the boiler house of the 4
f. Bradford g. Co, mill. The whole
west end of this building has also
been taken down This work had tt
be done in order to make ii possible tt
put the new boilers in. The work o
putting in the boilers Is expected to b.
gin next week and will be rushed a.
fast as possible.
Early last evening lad of apparent
ly less than Is years of age and wear
ing knickerbockers was seen on one o
the side streets of the village in
thoroughly intoxicated condition. TIL
little fellow could hardly reach q man
waist in height but he had dram
enough so that 1t was impossible TO
him to keep to his feet. AS none G
the license holders would furnish
lad of his years with liquor the DO
must have secured what he dram
from some older person.
The Hooker-Howe company of Ha'
erhill Mass. the most prominent CO
tuners in New England have arrange
to send representative here with tn
finest and most complete line of CO
tunes ever shown in Bennington
This is for the benefit of those WI
wish to attend the masquerade to |
given by the high school students
Foresters' hall next week Friday ev
ming with assurances that their gal
will be practically new, clean, CORE
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