The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-11-07
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
News Of the Town and Village Told
Briefly for Busy Readers.

Miss Elizabeth ID. Bennett is Wis
iting In Brooklyn.
James Burns and Charles Knapp
are In Albany today.
William Harrington OF North Shafts
bury is in town today.
Watch out for the auction at St
Peters parish hall tonight.
There will be matinee at 1880
every afternoon at the Bijou. 81
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Lindloff left
yesterday for a visit In Brandon, VT.
County Game Warden Harry Chase
went to Burlington this morning ON a
business trip.
Mrs. Geo. Keeseman and Mrs. ii.
II. Fonda spent the day I'm North
Adams recently.
Dutch supper at St. Peters parish
house tonight. Sandwiches and DO.
tato salad, coffee, ice cream and cake.
j. Elmer Ayres, who was one of
the ushers at the Sibley-Thatcher
wedding, returned yesterday to One.
ida.
Miss Dorothy Norton, who has been
in town to attend the Sibley- Thatcher
wedding, has returned to Smith col.
lege.
Burt Morse. who went recently to
Cleveland, has been called home by
the serious Illness of his brother.
Fred.
Joseph ODonnell assistant travelling
passenger agent for the Rutland rail.
road left yesterday for Burlington
after spending couple of days in
town.
William Johnson of Springfield. one
OF the constructing engineers during
the building of the Bennington and
North Adams electric road. was in
town yesterday.
lockwood & Howe. real estate
dealers, have sold the Charles Rock
wood farm located about three
fourths of mile south of the village.
to William West who will take posses.
sion April LIST.
Mrs. S. Huling Blackmer of Benn-
ington Center underwent an operation
in the Samaritan hospital In Troy
"Wednesday morning The operation
was successful and she came out of
the ether nicely.
Mrs. James Ryan of South street
has returned from New York where
q nv hn -
sister Mrs. Thomas Graham. Mrs.
Graham Is getting along as well as
could be expected.
Charles Thompson, who has been
employed during the past week at
Hyde's drug store while the proprie-
tor was in New York, left this morn
ing to resume his studies at the AL
bany college of pharmacy.
DIR. c. s. Buchanan went last night
to the Samaritan hospital at Troy
to undergo an operation for hernia,
which resulted from his recent oper-
alton for appendicitis. He will prob
ably be confined at the hospital for
two or three weeks.
In spite of the bad weather the
'Kaffee Klatsch" and sale at st.
Peters parish house opened success.
fully yesterday afternoon and even
ing. 1t Is being continued this after
noon and evening and will close with
IN auction this evening.
The Miriam Rebekah Lodge will
hold a nine cent sale Friday, Novem-
Der s, 1907 afternoon and evening at
Odd Fellows hall. Admission nine
cents; also refreshments will be
served for nine cents and various
articles for nine cents. In the eve
ling the couch cover will be drawn
or which tickets have been sold for
line cents. Come and bring your
)ocket-book. 99t3
Edith Mowrey, a small child living
n Pownal was taken to a physicians
)fiice in North Adams Wednesday
With a large open safety pin lodged
n her throat She had the pin In her
mouth and swallowed it. After the
parents of the child found that they
we're unable to dislodge the object she
vas taken there. The doctor sue
,eeded in dislodging the pin and the
he little one was sent home.
A certain young lady got on the
Session train instead of the train for
his town the other night at Troy.
rhe conductor told her that the best
hing she could do was to get Off at
ioosick Falls where she could remain
,ver night. She arrived in that town
about O'Clock and tried to get &C.
at the hotels, but they
we're all closed. She was obliged to
stay around the streets all night as
here was no place where she could
get lodging